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Activity Overview
Template and Class Instructions
Rubric
Activity Overview
Another great way to engage your students is through the creation of storyboards that use vocabulary from “Speech in the Virginia Convention”. Here is a list of a few vocabulary words commonly taught with the speech, and an example of a visual vocabulary board.
Example Vocabulary Words
- arduous
- petition
- subjugation
- supplication
- remonstrated
- spurned
- interposition
- prostrated
- magnitude
Template and Class Instructions
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Student Instructions
Demonstrate your understanding of the vocabulary words in Speech in the Virginia Convention by creating visualizations.
- Choose three vocabulary words from the text and type them in the title boxes.
- Find the definition in a print or online dictionary.
- Write a sentence that uses the vocabulary word.
- Illustrate the meaning of the word in the cell using a combination of scenes, characters, and items.
- Alternatively, use Photos for Class to show the meaning of the words with the search bar.
Lesson Plan Reference
Rubric
(You can also create your own on Quick Rubric.)
Visual Vocabulary Assignment
Define, illustrate, and give an example sentence for any three vocabulary words.
| Proficient | Emerging | Beginning | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Word 1 - Sentence | Vocabulary word is used correctly in the example sentence in both meaning and context. | The meaning of the sentence can be understood, but the vocabulary word is used awkwardly or in the wrong context. | The vocabulary word is not used correctly in the example sentence. |
| Word 1 - Visualization | The storyboard cell clearly illustrates the meaning of the vocabulary word. | The storyboard cell relates to the meaning of the vocabulary word, but is difficult to understand. | The storyboard cell does not clearly relate to the meaning of the vocabulary word. |
| Word 2 - Sentence | Vocabulary word is used correctly in the example sentence in both meaning and context. | The meaning of the sentence can be understood, but the vocabulary word is used awkwardly or in the wrong context. | The vocabulary word is not used correctly in the example sentence. |
| Word 2 - Visualization | The storyboard cell clearly illustrates the meaning of the vocabulary word. | The storyboard cell relates to the meaning of the vocabulary word, but is difficult to understand. | The storyboard cell does not clearly relate to the meaning of the vocabulary word. |
| Word 3 - Sentence | Vocabulary word is used correctly in the example sentence in both meaning and context. | The meaning of the sentence can be understood, but the vocabulary word is used awkwardly or in the wrong context. | The vocabulary word is not used correctly in the example sentence. |
| Word 3 - Visualization | The storyboard cell clearly illustrates the meaning of the vocabulary word. | The storyboard cell relates to the meaning of the vocabulary word, but is difficult to understand. | The storyboard cell does not clearly relate to the meaning of the vocabulary word. |
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Image Attributions
- 0002_zoriah_child_labor_children_working_20120814_0276 • Zoriah • License Attribution, Non Commercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)
- Advertisement of slave sale: Leon County, Florida • State Library and Archives of Florida • License No known copyright restrictions (http://flickr.com/commons/usage/)
- Kicking • lindaaslund • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
- Pleading goat • Foxcroft Academy • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
- Protest rally • RaeAllen • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
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