Vocabulary
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If you choose the vocabulary topic, you are responsible for finding and defining (in context) at least fifteen words that are relevant to our text or are present in our text.
Focus Questions to consider:
Specific Research Sites and Resources:
- If you choose this option, you need to make a multimedia glossary and include a picture and definition for each term. You may want to do this in a printable fashion so it can be posted in the classroom, but digital verisons are also fine.
Focus Questions to consider:
- Which words are most important for the reader to know and understand in order to understand the text?
- Which words are most important for the reader to understand the context of the text?
- Which words are transferable (can be used in more than one area or subject) that might help the reader in a broader sense?
- Which words will be the most helpful when go to answer our Essential Question: How do attitude and mindset impact an individual's ability to overcome hardship?
Specific Research Sites and Resources:
- This is a teacher-website that has some key-terms for the Pacific Theater of World War II. It also has examples of one way to create a multi-media glossary.
- You can also scan the first two or three chapters of the book and choose words that way. Below is a list of some words in chapter one that may be of interest. Do not simply take this list and make your glossary. Consider the focus questions and make meaningful selections:
- Pg. 3 insurgency
- Pg. 4 circumnavigation
- Pg. 4 tethers
- Pg. 4 touting
- Pg. 4 transfixed
- Pg. 6 impaled
- Pg. 6 absconded
- Pg. 6 inebriated
- Pg. 7 avuncular
- Pg. 8 galling
- Pg. 8 mortified
- Pg. 8 ethnicity
- Pg. 9 obstreperous
- Pg. 10 surreptitious
- Pg. 11 eugenics