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Activity Overview
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Activity Overview


Starting a unit or lesson with the key vocabulary aids in overall comprehension and retention. In this activity, students will create a storyboard that defines and illustrates key vocabulary found in the book A Mango-Shaped Space. Students will create a spider map of 3-5 terms at the teachers discretion. Each cell will contain a term or allusion, its definition or description, and an appropriate illustration.


Example Vocabulary from A Mango-Shaped Space

  • Absurd
  • Acupuncture
  • Bombarded
  • Breakneck
  • Continuum
  • Deflated
  • Destructive
  • Elaborate
  • Fidgeting
  • Gape
  • Grudgingly
  • Hallucinate
  • Hazy
  • Mottled
  • Posterity
  • Pruned
  • Reluctantly
  • Scrutinizes
  • Solemnly
  • Sophistication
  • Synesthesia
  • Torrent
  • Unbidden
  • Uncanny
  • Ushers
  • Vaguely

Template and Class Instructions

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Due Date:

Objective: Create a spider map that illustrates and defines new vocabulary in A Mango-Shaped Space.

Student Instructions:

  1. Click "Start Assignment".
  2. In the title boxes, identify the key terms you have chosen.
  3. In the description boxes, write the definition of the term.
  4. Create an illustration for each term using appropriate scenes, characters, and items.
  5. Save and exit when you're done.

Requirements: Must have 3 terms, correct definitions, and appropriate illustrations for each that demonstrate your understanding of the words.

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Rubric

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Visual Vocabulary Assignment
Define, illustrate, and give an example sentence for any five vocabulary words.
Proficient Emerging Beginning
Definition
The definition is correct.
The definition is partially correct.
The definition is incorrect.
Visualizations
The storyboard cells clearly illustrate the meaning of the vocabulary words.
The storyboard cells relate to the meaning of the vocabulary words, but are difficult to understand.
The storyboard cells do not clearly relate to the meaning of the vocabulary words.





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