Do Now!!! (10 minutes)  Take out a sheet of paper  In complete sentences, answer the following  What does the word “ghetto” mean to you? Do you think that you live in a “ghetto?” How do you explain the fact that the word “neighborhood” has a more positive connotation (emotional meaning) but “ghetto” or “barrio” has a negative connotation? (5 sentence minimum)

Share (Group 3) and Volunteers  (5 to 6 minutes)

Prepare Notes (2 minutes)  Second half of paper set up Cornell Notes Key words or Questions Definitions, answers and/or examples

Denotation is the dictionary definition of a word. Connotation the ideas, feelings, and images associated with a word. (5 min)

Denotation and Connotation What’s the denotation of the word pig?

Denotation and Connotation What’s the connotation of the word pig?

Denotation and Connotation What’s the denotation and the connotation?

Denotation and Connotation What’s the denotation and the connotation?

Denotation and Connotation What’s the denotation and the connotation?

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Connotation Practice The author uses the word frazzled in the sentence to suggest Sheri is feeling- A.bored B.stressed C.outraged D.embarrassed Running to catch the bus and trying to gather everything she needed for school had left her feeling very frazzled.

Connotation Practice What does the word delicate mean as used in the following sentence? A.thin B.fragile C.creative D.old Now more than 100 years old, many of Anderson’s delicate paper cuttings still exist in a museum in Denmark devoted to his work.

Gallery Walk  DIRECTIONS: Read the statements. Write a response to these statements (Do you think it’s true? Do you think it’s false? Why?)  Use complete sentences. Remember use part of the sentence and the statement in the answer. Pretend as if I do not know the question or the statement!!!!!

Stereotypes  Define  A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing  Connotations of Stations  List stereotypes with positive and negative connotations

Introduction to Our America

Homework (Posted on Webpage  Watch Ghetto 101 video  Complete Our America cloze notes

Exit Slip  What emotions do you feel when u read or hear a stereotype about you? Does it matter if the stereotype has a positive or negative connotation?