Identify one word from your word list that you were unsure of the connotation. Explain why you think you did not know its connotation? How did discussing the difference with your teacher and or/peer help you better understand the connotation? How do you think your understanding of a word’s connotation might be different if English was your second language?

Even the insistent cough of the woman next to him wasn't enough to draw his eyes away from the tiny type of the ancient book its pages were brittle and felt like they could crumble at the slightest disturbance he noticed the musty odor if each page as he carefully it over.

The tone of this speech could best be described as expressing a feeling of read the excerpt from president ronald reagan's speech on the night before the 1980 presidential election, i believe we can embark on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal an era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government, that will make government again responsive to people, that will revitalize the values of family, work, and neighborhood and that will testore our private and independent social fear hope anger pride

Read this excerpt from the declaration of independence