Word Choice & Connotation

Mrs. Allen & Mrs. Stine

Team H LA

Study Guide

Begin taking notes on Part I of your Study Guide.

Study Guide

•For informational, unbiased writing, you want to use words with neutral meanings.

•For persuasive writing, you must carefully consider your word choice to evoke an emotional response from your audience.

•The emotional association we assign to a word is called its “connotation.”

Study Guide

Continue taking notes on Part II of your Study Guide.

Study Guide & Practice

•Visit The Literary Apprentice’s website to read a more in-depth explanation of connotation. Add any additional information and examples to your Study Guide.

•While on the website, complete Exercise 1.

•Complete Exercise 2 on your Study Guide.

Practice1. Packet: Complete Academic Workouts #55 and

#19.2. Packet: Complete AW #19 Review and Quiz on

“Connotation and Denotation.” 3. Online: Complete a Word Matrix.

▫ Enter your name and select “Organize words by Connotation and Register” (informal to formal language).

▫ Select a pre-generated list, or create your own list of synonyms.

▫ Explain your reasoning for the placement of each word by adding comments.

▫ Print your Word Matrix and attach to your packet.

Assessment1. Review all materials for a quiz on word choice and

connotation.2. On the day of the quiz, you will submit your

completed work for assessment.

Works Utilized

Burke, Jim. Academic Workout: Reading and Language Arts.

Waltham, MA: First Choice Education Group, 2006. Print.

“Connotations and Denotations." The Literary Apprentice. College of

DuPage, n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2013.

<www.cod.edu/people/faculty/fitchf/readlit/conodeno.htm>.

“Word Matrix.” ReadWriteThink. NCTE, 2009. Web. 19 Jan 2013

<http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/word_

matrix/ˆ>