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Activity 1
Click here for a review of Denotation versus Connotation:
(Citation: Nordquist, Richard. “Exercises for Connotative Word Usage.” ThoughtCo, Apr. 15, 2025, thoughtco.com/denotation-and-connotation-exercise-1692649).
Activity 2
Read the denotative definition “Glitter” by Kaity Weaver.
Activity 3
Click the following links for exercises on negative, positive, and neutral connotation of words.
Activity 4
Brainstorm on the connotative meanings of “glitter.”
Activity 5
CC0 3.0
In-class writing: diamente poem
This must be submitted by midnight, Tuesday (April 14)
To submit, navigate to your Brightspace page, Click on In-Class Writing and then
select In-class Writing 3.
Click here for Directions.
Activity 6
Click here to read “On Being a Man” by Paul Theroux.
Click here to read “The Definition of a Gentleman” by John Henry Newman.
(Citation: Nordquist, Richard. “Definition of a Gentleman.” ThoughtCo, Apr. 12, 2025, thoughtco.com/definition-of-a-gentleman-by-newman-1689960).
Click here to read an excerpt from Act 1, Scene 3 from Hamletby William Shakespeare (Lines 60 – 87).
Click here to read “A Definition of a Jerk” by Sydney J. Harris.
Click here for another article “The Literal Meaning of the Term ‘Jerk'” from Psychology Today.
Click here to read “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston
Click here to read “To the Slave, What Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass
Click here to read “To the Slave, What Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass.
“To the Slave, What Is the Fourth of July?”
Excerpt from “To the Slave, What Is the Fourth of July?”
Reading of excerpt from the above speech by Frederick Douglass.
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Activity 7
Exercise 1 for inserting quotation marks
Exercise 2 for inserting quotation marks
Activity 8
Mechanics Mini-lesson: Capitalization
Read pp. 19-22
Complete Exercise 4 p 20
Exercise 5 p. 22
Activity 9
CC By NC-SA2.0
Introduction to the Extended Definition essay.
(CC-by-NC-SA 4.0)
Structure of Extended Definition essay.
Activity 10
Read and analyze this student sample extended definition essay.
Activity 11
Quiz 3
Please complete the 10-question quiz on essay structure. The quiz will be available from 9:00 a.m., Monday, April 13 through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, April 19, Students have 90 minutes to complete the quiz. You must complete the quiz in one sitting. Problems occur when students leave and attempt to return to the test. Once the quiz has closed, it will not be reopened and will no longer be visible to students. Please do not request a reopening of a missed quiz.
To access the quiz, navigate to your Brightspace course. On the Quizzes module, click on Quiz 3.
