Daily Log

Thursday, December 10

"Write it up! Write it down!"

Students completed an in-class exercise in levels of diction. As yesterday's lesson established language use is less a matter of right and wrong than of appropriate and inappropriate to purpose, audience, and context.

Today's worksheet (see Documents page) required students to rewrite four passages in contemporary Standard English. In two cases this meant rephrasing them less formally and more simply; in the other two it meant rephrasing them more formally.