Reading Log
Three or more vocabulary words:
The words you choose should be chosen because they fit in one or both of the following categories:
The word is tricky because it is unfamiliar.
Example: moniker- p. 18- a nickname.
The word is used in an unusual way, and you need to remember how it is used in order to understand the book.
Example: Divergent, p. 5- If a person in divergent, he/she does not fit into any of the other factions and is more of a free thinker. It is dangerous to be divergent.
Vocabulary.com is an excellent resource both for understandable definitions and for checking out new words.
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Connotation- Vocab book- An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or
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Rapacious- Vocab book- excessively grasping or covetous.
Directions for Weekly Reading Journal Entries - The expectation is that you read for 20 minutes, five nights per week.
Weekly journal entries are due on Thursday of the school week.
Weekly journal entries are basic summaries of what you have read that week. They should include a description of the setting, the main characters, and important events in the plot. Each entry should be between five and ten sentences. They should use correct grammar and punctuation, and they should include the page numbers you have read that week.
If you are having trouble thinking of what to write, remember somebody wanted, but so and when, where, who, what , how.
Day 1 5-9
Day 2
5-10
Day 3 5-11
Day 4 5-14
Day 5
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The knicks bring the ball up and Frank Ntilikina “ The Knicks point guard” blows by our point guard. My friends save our teams life with a monster block. He jumped probable 50 inches to get that ball. My friend pushes he ball up the floor after his amazing block and he throws a half court lod to me. The lob was right in my hands and I did a under the legs tomo hawk slam dunk. The knicks take the ball out of bounds and they bring the ball up quickly. Frank passes it into the post. Enes Kanter “ The knicks Center” jumps right our our teams center. But once again my friend comes out of nowhere and stuffed Enes. The ball lands right in my hands and I look up right when I received the pass. I lobbed it to my team mate and he got a easy lay up. This is how the rest of the game went and we won 90-40. My friend finished with 25 points, 15 rebounds, 25 assists, 7 steals and 20 blocks. I finished with a stat line of 40 points, 10 rebounds, 20 assists, 10 steals and 5 blocks. After this game both of our draft stocks went up dramatically but our teammates draft stock went down. None of our teammates were going to get drafted anyway before this game, but after this game they have a even lower chance of getting drafted. The draft is coming is about three days and me and my friend is
Landau, Sidney I., ed. The New International Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Naples: Trident International, 2002. Print.
2) I think the author chose to utilize this term to give an example of a book where the narrator explained his life.
Simpson, J. A., and E. S. C. Weiner. The Oxford English dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1989.Print.
Merriam Webster. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary of English. Ed. Frederick Mish. 11 th.
It is easier to grasp a meaning of this line further along in the book.
Webster’s Desk Dictionary of the English Language. New York: Portland House. 1990. Dictionary. Page 602
With such foul language the reader comes to the state of mind that the book is under estimated with such grammar. But in this case the novel presents a serious amount of foul vocabulary
Connotative language: Words that relate to deeper, symbolic levels of meaning. It includes social meanings acquired through use and emotional associations. It can also reflect social, racial, political, or religious stereotypes. For example, a writer who refers to liberals as “bleeding hearts” communicates not only her or his own bias, but an expectation that the audience shares this bias.
The story of my history as a writer is a very long one. My writing has come full circle. I have changed very much throughout the years, both as I grew older and as I discovered more aspects of my own personality. The growth that I see when I look back is incredible, and it all seems to revolve around my emotions. I have always been a very emotional girl who feels things keenly. All of my truly memorable writing, looking back, has come from experiences that struck a chord with my developing self. This assignment has opened my eyes, despite my initial difficulty in writing it. When I was asked to write down my earliest memory of writing, at first I drew a blank. All of a sudden, it became very clear to me, probably because it had some childhood trauma associated with it.
The New International Webster's Pocket Dictionary of the English Language. Naples, FL: Trident International, 2002. Print
Vocabulary is an important building tool of a child’s reading skills. Students have to understand what the words mean in order to comprehend the story as it is presented to them in the classroom.
Pearsall J (1999) The Concise Oxford Dictionary Tenth Edition page 286 by Oxford University Press in Oxford New York, America
For instance, mouse has a literal meaning as in mouse-rodent, where the literal meaning of mouse is the rodent. And it has derived or figurative meaning as in computer-mouse. For example, the literal meaning of mouse is the rodent; a derived meaning is the computer mouse. Another example is the word bed can be used literally as a piece of furniture that you lie on, it is also something flat at the bottom of something else, like a river bed, or a place where something can be found in abundance, like a shellfish bed, or a bed of roses in a figurative way.. According to this point of view, words do possess a literal meaning; all other meanings are merely derived and figurative (Cruse,
Extension has played an important part in semantic change. Extension of meaning, also known as generalization, is a process in which a word achieves a more general meaning.
The denotative meaning of a word is certainly much easier to understand than the connotative. Yet, the difficulty arises in being able to distinguish when someone is using the denotative or the connotative meaning. Words can also be misunderstood or misconstrued based on the context in which they are used, the person to whom the words are directed, or potential language or culture barriers. With all that can get in the way of understanding just by happenstance, I never gave much thought to the way people use connotation in deliberately calculating, or even misleading,