I'm going to be off all week. I have a hard enough time knowing what actual day it is, but since this week starts on a Tuesday, I might as well not even try. I know today was a red day, so I guess in the SHS world that is about all that matters.
In Read 180, the students took a vocab quiz and we discussed the answers. Fairly mundane. In English 12, we discussed word choice and how use more descriptive words instead of good, bad, nice, fine, like, etc. I showed a couple Ted Ed videos, discussed some real life examples of slang and cliches and how they can be misinterpreted, and put the students in groups to come up with a list of words they could substitute for good or bad. An example I gave them was a guy and a girl go on a date where they order pizza. The guy says that the pizza was good. His date asks how she looks, and he replies she looks good. I told the girls their date just used the same word to describe them that he used to describe his pizza. The girls didn't really appreciate being compared to a pizza, so I think the point was made. The students came up with very descriptive lists for both vague words. I ended the classes with an exercise where they had to made sentences more concise, eliminate cliches, and remove slang. Hopefully, in their writing I will see less informal language and more vivid, descriptive language.
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