Go Animate vocabulary Assignment!

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Today You will...

1. Read assignment directions and watch examples.

2. Choose a vocabulary word from the list to teach to your class.

3. Create a video that teaches your word.

4. Have a teacher or classmate watch your video for feedback. 

5. Make revisions and publish your video!

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Directions

You will choose a word from the list below. You will create a "Template" video that teaches the word. Here are some rules:

a. Your video title must be your vocabulary word.

b. Your audience should be able to infer the word meaning if you don't give a definition.

c. A classmate or teacher must watch your video before you publish.

Vocabulary List

Abolish
absurd
abuse
access
accomplish
achievement
aggressive
alternate
altitude
antagonist
antonym
anxious
apparent
approximate
aroma
assume
astound
available
avalanche

Banquet
beverage
bland
budge
bungle

Cautiously
character
combine
companion
crave
compassion
compensate
comply
compose
concept
confident
convert
course
courteous

Debate
decline
dedicate
deprive
detect
dictate
document
duplicate

Edible
endanger
escalate
evade
exasperate
excavate
exert
exhibit
exult

Feeble
frigid

Gigantic
gorge
guardian

Hazy
hearty
homonym

Identical
illuminate
immense
impressive
independent
industrious
intense
intercept

Jubilation

Kin

Luxurious

miniature
mischief
monarch
moral
myth

Narrator
navigate
negative
nonchalant
numerous

Oasis
obsolete
occasion
overthrow

Pardon
pasture
pedestrian
perish
petrify
portable
prefix
preserve
protagonist
provide
purchase

Realistic
reassure
reign
reliable
require
resemble
retain
retire
revert
route

Saunter
seldom
senseless
sever
slither
sluggish
soar
solitary
solo
sparse
strategy
suffix
suffocate
summit
suspend
synonym

Talon
taunt
thrifty
translate
tropical

Visible
visual
vivid

withdraw

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Define Your Word!

When I am reading and I find a word I don't know, I try to infer what it means by looking for text clues. When I can't do that, I use Google or a dictionary. Click on the links below to investigate your word. 

Examples to Help you!

Below you'll find example videos. You will have two class periods to finish this assignment.

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MN SL.5.8.8.8 : Create an individual or shared multimedia work or digital text for a specific purpose (e.g., to create or integrate knowledge, to share experiences or information, to persuade, to entertain, or as artistic expression).

MN SL.5.8.8.8.b : Publish the work and share it with an audience.

CCSS CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.6 : With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.5 : With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.4 : Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.