English 9 · Week 6 · Identity and Story
Words with Weight
Students analyze nuances in word meanings, including connotation, and use context clues to determine meaning.
- Students will
- Students analyze nuances in word meanings, including connotation, and use context clues to determine meaning.
- SEL skill
- Choose words by noticing their emotional weight on others
- What it looks like
- Students expand their emotional vocabulary and notice how words affect people.
- Content focus
- Connotation and nuance in word meanings
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is knowing your own emotions, strengths, and values and how they steer your behavior. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- L.9-10.5: Language, Grades 9 to 10, Standard 5
- L.9-10.4: Language, Grades 9 to 10, Standard 4
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.9-10.8 Analyzing language choices; ELD.PI.9-10.12 Selecting language resources
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Language Development
- Works with: Any text
Fits these textbook chapters
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More self-awareness activities for English 9
- Who Tells My Story? Self-awarenessStudents choose a meaningful moment and draft the opening of a personal narrative with a clear point of view.
- What Lies Under the Surface Self-awarenessStudents cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support inferences about characters' emotions.
- Slowing Down a Moment Self-awarenessStudents use pacing and precise sensory details to slow down the most important moment of a narrative.
- What the Story Teaches Self-awarenessStudents determine a theme and analyze how it develops over the course of a text.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.