The cold finally caught up to me…
Your jobs for today are the following, please and thank you:
JOB #1:
The feedback from the green sheets is about 1/2 the class still has some ‘yellow’ or even ‘red’ about their understanding of ENDP, the 4 Styles of Nonfiction.
First off, congratulations to you for having the courage to be honest about your understanding of these concepts. It’s not easy to do.
If you have some yellow areas in your understanding, you can clarify by either talking to a friend, looking on Google, or you could go to the top of this site and look under the NONFICTION tab and hunt around for the 4 Styles subtab for a brief explanation of the concept you need to get. If you are still feeling yellow, we can clarify it when I get back.
JOB #2:
Think of the story you told a neighbour at the end of yesterday’s class (the story of something that happened to you). Now think of the language that you used when you told that story to a fellow classmate who is the same age as you and is possibly a friend of yours. (For, example: “Dude, I totally slammed into the guy and then we wiped out…”)
Your challenge is to now please write that same story you told in class yesterday in about 5 lines but this time, you must pretend that you are telling that story to a police officer or to your parents or an insurance agent or a judge = someone with authority over us who has the power to impose a penalty or to let us go with a warning. As you are writing this, please experiment with the language you use and be mindful of how formal it is versus how informal your first version was.
JOB #3:
Please find and write down the definition of DICTION using the tabs at the top of the page. Once I am back, we will write down that definition in our 3D Triangle / Pyramid foldable.
JOB #4:
Please underline 5 words that you DELIBERATELY CHOSE in the 2nd more formal version of your story.
JOB #5:
Diction is often influenced by PURPOSE. Thinking of the audience (authority figure), what do you think was the PURPOSE of your 2nd story? What were you trying to achieve? How might this have influenced your diction?
JOB #6:
Diction is often influenced by AUDIENCE. We will roughly divide society into 4 rather large AGE CATEGORIES. Please guess what those 4 age categories would be.
