Vocabulary Project
Over the last few weeks, you were responsible to keep a personal dictionary. Well, now it is time to complete your project. Choose one word from your dictionary that you really like, a word you think your peers should learn and would enjoy using. Your task is to write a poem, teaching/showing the meaning of this word. Your poem should vividly express the essence of the word you choose. Once you are done writing your poem, create a podcast of you reading the poem. The first word in your poem should be the vocabulary word you are showing. See the examples below.
By a group of FCPS teachers:
“Obsolete”
Obsolete is so yesterday . . .
Outdated, discarded, unused, unavailable.
rotary phones,
record players,
VCR’s,
chalk boards,
letters by mail,
floppy disks.
Excuse me while I update my Facebook page!
From Michael Salinger’s Well Defined Vocabulary in Rhyme
“Fiasco”
Fiasco is an utter disaster
If something could go wrong it has
A train off its track
A dam that has burst
A play in which every actor
Has forgotten his lines
You would assume that things
Couldn’t get worse
Except the train was carrying poisonous snakes
There was lava behind the dam
And once those actors turn into werewolves
Well, you’ve got a fiasco on your hands