10/15 - Formal Language

At the beginning of class today, everyone responded to the following prompt in their writer's journal:

Identify and define some slang terms that are currently used by high school students (all terms must be rated no more than PG 13).

Examples (from the 90s):
word - an affirmative used by itself like "yeah" or "that's good"
wack - something that is dumb or doesn't make sense
poser - someone who imitates other people and isn't really authentic

We then went around and shared out the slang terms that people had written down.

Next, we started working with a formal diction packet. In introducing this, we talked about how formal written language is often different than our spoken language. The intention is to make what we are saying more clear and easy for our audience to understand (especially where they may be reading the writing in a different time or place or from a background where they are not familiar with our informal language).

We worked on the first two pages of the packet and then shared out responses. The work we completed and discussed is below.

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At the end of class, I handed out extra copies of the set 3 roots and prefixes. We will be having a quiz over this material on Friday.

Homework:

If you did not finish the work we were doing today with slang and colloquialisms, do so for homework.

Complete the set 3 roots and prefixes sheet. Our quiz for these words will be next Tuesday.