Vocabulary HOMEWORK Requirements You will choose YOUR BEST 4 WORDS (rating 10¢ or higher) per week from your independent reading or our class reading. At least 3 of those words must come from your current class reading or your current reading book. • You should keep track of interesting words on your bookmark. You will work on the Vocabulary Requirements during 4 th period class and as homework, if needed. In your ISN Vocabulary section- each of YOUR BEST 4 WORDS should include the following ALL on ONE PAGE! 1. Vocabulary words are written clearly 2. Label the part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) 3. Word definition- You will look up the definition in the dictionary (or online) and then write it in your own words. Student friendly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 4. Identify where you read the word-include the page number 5. Complete a “Meaningful Writing Activity” See slide for Vocabulary HOMEWORK Requirement Due Dates!
YOU are responsible for completing YOUR BEST 4 WORDS Vocabulary HOMEWORK Requirements EACH WEEK by your 4 th Period ELA Academic lab. REQUIREMENTS DUE WEEKLY Example of Vocabulary DUE DATES DURING ACADEMIC LAB Period 1 ELA- START Collecting & Completing Requirements on Monday, August 8th Vocabulary HW Requirements DUE Monday, August 15 th Due Monday Academic Lab START Collecting & Completing Requirements on Monday, August 8th Period 2 ELA- Vocabulary HW Requirements DUE Tuesday, August 16th DUE Tuesday Academic Lab START Collecting & Completing Requirements on Monday, August 8th Period 5 ELA- Vocabulary HW Requirements DUE Thursday, August 18th DUE Thursday Academic Lab START Collecting & Completing Requirements on Monday, August 8th Period 6 ELA- Vocabulary HW Requirements DUE Friday, August 19 th DUE Friday Academic Lab
Vocabulary Collector Bookmark Fr From you our Boo ookmark, you will ill se sele lect YOUR BEST 4 4 WORDS. • Spell the words correctly on your bookmark and record the page number . Green handout with • Focus in on words that — when you look FOUR bookmarks them up — have interesting meanings and lasting FOUR weeks have additional forms of the word and are rated 10¢ -50¢ in worth. • Y ou shouldn’t be able to tell the word’s meaning without re-reading the sentence or using the dictionary. • AVOID collecting words that aren’t in the dictionary; this means they are either foreign words or they are too old fashioned to be in the modern dictionary. Salao is an example. • AVOID collecting words that are specialized words for certain trades or situations. Harpoon is an example.
What kind of words to collect… The older you grow, the more sophisticated your vocabulary should become. Discuss with a partner the rationale for placing the following words in the different columns of this “word classification system.” 1¢ words 5¢ words 10¢ words 25¢ words 50¢ words The big delicate idealistic graupel a/an fun useless perplexed hypermetropia I nice violet convivial crepescular is walk blame banter nunatak of run dislike circumscribe ombrophobia in hit polish daunt philatelist me dog teen-ager exuberance autotroph was tree doctor despot acrolith she cup unicorn whimsy quidnunc Partner Rating of Collected Words Before you select your BEST 4 WORDS, a peer will rate the worth of your words has either 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 25¢ and 50¢. YOUR BEST 4 WORDS need a rating of 10¢ OR HIGHER!
This Week’s Designated Meaningful Writing Activity SHOWING SENTENCES A creative "showing" sentence that makes use of the word in such a context that someone could guess the word's meaning. A showing sentence has an action verb, not a telling verb, like was, is, are, am, were, be, been.
Name: ___________________________ Voc ocabulary ry HOMEWORK Req equir irement ELA Period: ______________ Completion Poin ints Date: ____________________________ =_____/4 Vocabulary words are written clearly =_____/4 Part of speech is included for each word =_____/4 Student-friendly definition included for each word =_____/4 Where the word was found is included for each word =_____/4 Meaningful Writing Activity is complete =_____/4 Work is neatly done =__________________ / 24 Total points (Add all the points earned) Peer Review Comment, Compliment, and/or Concern: __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ Reviewed by: ______________________________________________________________________
Vocabulary Collectors Like Selig, YOU will always be in search of new words this school year. While reading for class, you’ll write down several vocabulary words every week on a bookmark. Once a week, you’ll select YOUR BEST 4 WORDS and add them to your ISN Vocabulary section and complete several activities. Your words for your collection may come from other sources, but 3 words every week need to come from the book you’re currently reading or what we’re reading as a class.
What kind of words to collect… The older you grow, the more sophisticated your vocabulary should become. Discuss with a partner the rationale for placing the following words in the different columns of this “word classification system.” 1¢ words 5¢ words 10¢ words 25¢ words 50¢ words The big delicate idealistic graupel a/an fun useless perplexed hypermetropia I nice violet convivial crepescular is walk blame banter nunatak of run dislike circumscribe ombrophobia in hit polish daunt philatelist me dog teen-ager exuberance autotroph was tree doctor despot acrolith she cup unicorn whimsy quidnunc Partner Rating of Collected Words Before you select your BEST 4 WORDS, a peer will rate the worth of your words has either 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 25¢ and 50¢. YOUR BEST 4 WORDS need a rating of 10¢ OR HIGHER!
Looking for 25-cent words 25- cent words are those words you don’t know unless you look in the dictionary or reread the sentence to decipher meaning from context clues. At least three of your four 25-cent words each week must come from our reading. 25¢ words If we read something in class together, you may collect 25-cent words from it. idealistic perplexed If you find it in a whole class novel, you convivial may collect 25-cent words from it. banter If you find it in a book you’re reading for circumscribe fun, you may collect 25-cent words from it. daunt exuberance If you hear it or see it written somewhere, despot you may collect it. whimsy
25-cent words He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Focus in on words Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In that — when you look the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days them up — have without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was interesting meanings now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky and have additional and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught forms of the word. three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to Chances are with one help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the of these three words sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour you can’t tell me its sacks and, furled; it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. meaning without re- The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the reading the sentence back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer or using the the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. dictionary. Which The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the one do you like best? deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. (Click here to open a printable version of this text.)
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