Exploring Tone, Diction, Connotation, and Denotation in Lord of the Flies - ELA 10.R.1.1, ELA.10.R.1.2, ELA.10.C.1.4 - We explored key vocabulary including tone, diction, connotation, and denotation. For diction, author's use words or phrases that are indicative of their backgrounds. For connotation and denotation, we discuss pig, home, and beast along with their denotations from the dictionary and the connotations and whether they were negative, positive, or neutral. For tone, we discussed that it is the author's attitude about the subject. Cameron was able to identify tone and diction from excerpts from the text. He was also able to identify connotation and denotation with words from the text. Lastly, Cameron was able to give examples from his own life and was able to give a negative or positive label to each.