Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 3

This week's theme is: Culture

Word List 3

1. implied: understood without being openly or direct
2. propaganda: promotion of particular idea to persuade people to think a certain way
3. justify: to give a reason for an action
4. bias: a judgement formed before the facts are known
5. immigrant: a person who moves to another country to live
6. exploit: take advantage of
7. diversity: differences among people in race and/or religion

Thursday Activities

1. Flashcardstash- Flashcard Stash allows you to create and customize your own digital flashcards. You can create flashcards with anything. Such as dates for History class, vocabulary for French class, or words for the SAT.
2. Go to the Spelling City website. Type in your list of vocabulary words. Click on the button that says Play A Game. Select Which Word. Play the game and write down the fill-in-the-blank sentences in your notebook.
3. Read the Words - Type in your story or type in a sentence using each word and listen to the avatar read it back to you. We suggest that you create a free user account and save these files to playback at a later time.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

He implied that she was different.
The teacher implied that there was a test tomorrow.

The pamphlet was spreading propaganda about the group of people.
Propaganda cartoon strips were prominent during the war.

Some people use religion for justifying hatred.
He tried to justify why he was late for class.

Biased people will not listen to anyone else's opinions.
Referees should not show bias toward one of the teams playing.

The children were not polite to the immigrant children at school.
The newly arrived immigrant did not speak the language of the country.

Some people exploit immigrants.
The high school exploited the boy's athletic ablility.

The students of this school come from a diversity of backgrounds.
America celebrates the the diversity of its country

 
 

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