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Activity Overview


Starting a unit or lesson with the key vocabulary that students will see in their readings or presentations aids in overall comprehension and retention. In this activity, students will create a storyboard that defines and illustrates key vocabulary related to The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo. Students will create a spider map of 3-5 terms at the teachers discretion. Each cell will contain a word, its definition or description, and an appropriate illustration. When students define and illustrate each term, they master the application of it and retain it as part of their lexicon.


Example Vocabulary from The Tiger Rising

  • Abiding
  • Billow
  • Buoyed
  • Contagious
  • Defiantly
  • Dismayed
  • Emancipators
  • Fervently
  • Gratitude
  • Gravelly
  • Leprosy
  • Lurch
  • Mocking
  • Oblivious
  • Prophetess
  • Reproachful
  • Sneer
  • Straining
  • Sullen
  • Swagger
  • Tattered
  • Wittle


Template and Class Instructions

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Due Date:

Objective: Create a spider map that illustrates and defines new vocabulary in The Tiger Rising.

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 finished.

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

Lesson Plan Reference

Common Core Standards
  • [ELA-Literacy/RL/6/4] Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone
  • [ELA-Literacy/RL/7/4] Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama
  • [ELA-Literacy/RL/8/4] Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts

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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