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interacting in Meaningful Ways: Analyzing Precise Words
Learning objectives
• Analyze and explain in conversation and writing how precise words produce effects on the reader.
• Express and justify opinions in conversation and writing by providing text evidence and using nuanced modal expressions and phrases.
Formal style: Precise Words
“The First Americans” is a letter written to the mayor of Chicago by an official of a Native American organization. Therefore the writer uses a formal style. style is how an author uses words and phrases to form his or her ideas. A formal style tends to have precise, or exact, words.
Skim through “The First Americans,” looking for sentences you like that have precise words. (Use the Precise Words chart if necessary.) Write three sentences in the chart, underlining the precise word or words in each. Then tell why you think the author used this word to make the letter to the mayor more effective. Use the Language Resources: Precise Words chart for support.
ACtiVitY 3.5
sentences with Precise Words
Why the Precise Words are effective
Why not teach schoolchildren more of the wholesome proverbs and legends of our people?
The precise words proverbs and legends are more precise than the words stories or tales and show the first Americans had a rich language tradition.
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Language
Resources
Precise Words
general Word
Precise Word
animals
buffalo
deals
treaties
homes
lodges
people
statesmen
property
hunting grounds
speech
oratory
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