Family Bonding Diction

After vocab experts, we spent our time with diction! On the floor! Bonding like a family to create the perfect thesis statements with the perfect adjectives and the perfect verbs! Total redundancy, yes, but it does keep us focusing on how important words are to creating a sophisticated voice!

Here are the quotes from today & a bit from yesterday too:

"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered." - Marilyn Monroe

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. Money is the gravy." - Bette Davis

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson

Here are some thesis highlights: 

MM expresses cumbersome, relatable diction to portray what it's like to be a paradigm of the female gender. 
MM dramatizes exploited, defeated diction to magnify the struggles concerning her public image. 
MM expresses burdensome, oppressive diction to expose the realistic nature of fame. 
MM reveals damaged, resigned diction to expose the hardships of being a sex symbol. 

AC employs passionate yet conflicting diction to illuminate life's pendulum of emotions.
AC stresses appreciative, troubled diction to juxtapose the prosperity and adversity of life. 
AC expresses distraught, replenishing diction to juxtapose the conflicting perceptions pertaining to life. 
AC demonstrates solemn, empirical diction to reflect her appreciate on life through strife. 

BD exemplifies driven, motivational diction to inspire a true passion for a craft. 
BD manifests metaphoric, insightful diction to inspire life's true aspirations.

Tommy J illustrates forthright, revolutionary diction to aggrandize the sacrificial costs of liberty.
Tommy J encourages patriotic, brutally honest diction to foment feelings of nationalism. 
Tommy J foments nationalistic, liberating diction to propagate the fighting for liberty. 

All the above samples recognize the necessity of mature, specific, engaging, and clever word choice in your thesis and throughout your writing! We are starting to gravitate towards different active verbs, purposes, and diction adjectives, which can only benefit your own writing and analysis on forthcoming assignments. 

7: Since we were so successful with our thesis statements from yesterday, we jumped right into our group diction quotes, analyzing the words and purpose to create the perfect thesis statements. If absent, you have a quote under the other hours to prepare with close reading and thesis. Meanwhile, we, in theory, in hope, in projected planning, started with more poems to analyze for diction, such as Thomas Gray's "Cat" poem, which can be found here: "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat".

1,3,4: At the end of class, you had your group diction quote to read, paraphrase, circle key words, and formulate a thesis statement. You will be teaching the class about your quote and all of the above next time. If absent, never fear, you will have something to contribute. Here is your quote to prepare: 

“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”  -  Ray Bradbury