6A Connotation and Denotation

Connotation vs Denotation

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index

1. Learning Intentions

7. Shades of Meaning

2. Notes

8. Positive or Negative

9. Personal Interpretation

3. Denotation Definition

10. Example

4. Connotation Definition

11. Guided Practice

5. Video

12. Independent Analysis

6. 3 Types of Connotation

13. Questions

Learning IntentionsWe Will learn:

Success Criteria I can :

to define connotation and denotation and recognize how it is used to create tone in reading and writing.

Define Denotation and Connotation and use those definitions to identify positive and negative connotations in text.

Complete the Notes as you work through the lesson.

Denotation

The Dictionary DefintionThere may be several words with the same denotation.

Connotation

The feeling, emotion, cultural implication or tone associated with a word.If Denotation is the paint, the Connotation is what we create with it. How we interpret the art.

Khan Academy

Watch this video for a short overview of these concepts

Types of Connotation

Shades of Meaning How can you say it is hot outside without saying hot? What about cold?

Positive or Negative Associations insect/pest weed/wildflower refreshing/chilly

Personal Interpretation What do you think of when I say: Strong Dark

Shades of Meaning

Sad:Unhappy Upset SomberCheerlessGloomy SOrrowful Miserable DejectedDepressed

postive or Negative

Difficulty vs Challenge

POsitiveor Negative?

Mature vs Elderly

• Ocean
• School
• Hiking
• Summer

Personal Interpretation

What do you think of when I say:

Read the paragraph from The Road, "Two Thousand Stiffs" Part 2. But we never bothered with the commissary. Our hustlers drew better rations from the farmers. Our new captain, however, doubted us. He never knew when he'd see the ten of us again, once we got under way in the morning, so he called in a blacksmith to clinch his captaincy. In the stern of our boat, one on each side, were driven two heavy eyebolts of iron. Correspondingly, on the bow of his boat, were fastened two huge iron hooks. The boats were brought together, end on, the hooks dropped into the eyebolts, and there we were, hard and fast. We couldn't lose that captain. But we were irrepressible. Out of our very manacles we wrought a device that enabled us to put it all over every other boat in the fleet.

Review the questions in the notes

Answer the questions in the Guided Practice of your Notes and come back to check your answers.

Read the passage from "Rome: An Empire for the Ages."

As Rome spread its power in distant lands, unrest grew at home. Several generals of the Roman army fought against each other for power over the government. By the year 45 BCE, a general named Julius Caesar emerged triumphant. Caesar's rule did not last long, though. His enemies killed him the following year.

Read the passage from The Road "Road-Kids and Gay Cats" Part 3

Answer the questions in the Independent Analysis of your Notes. You will submit your answers in the last question of the quiz.

Road-kids are nice little chaps—when you get them alone and they are telling you "how it happened"; but take my word for it, watch out for them when they run in pack. Then they are wolves, and like wolves they are capable of dragging down the strongest man. At such times they are not cowardly. They will fling themselves upon a man and hold on with every ounce of strength in their wiry bodies, till he is thrown and helpless.

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