Tableau Vocabulary.pptx

Gallery Walk: Pre-Reading Vocabulary Exploration

The words at each station are important to understanding the poem.

You’ll explore each word in groups, predicting what each might mean and how it could relate to the poem.

Gallery Walk: Pre-Reading Vocabulary Exploration

If you missed it in the classroom:

• Grab a prefilled 4 column chart from Mrs. Chavez (or create your own; an example will be shown on the next slide.)

This will be glued into your journal.

• Write down your responses to the questions in the “my response”

• Write the denotation and connotation for each word. You may find the denotations on the red box on each even numbered slide.

Fair

What does 'fair' usually mean to you?

Can it describe a person or group?

What images come to mind?

Fair

Denotation: having pale or light skin or hair

adjective

Indignant

When might someone feel indignant?

What situations cause this feeling?

Indignant

Denotation: showing or feeling anger about something that is wrong or unfair

adjective

oblivious

How would someone act if they were oblivious?

What might they ignore?

oblivious

Denotation: lacking mindfulness; unaware

adjective

splendor

What images come to mind when you hear ‘splendor’?

Is it connected to beauty, light, or something magnificent?

splendor

Denotation: magnificent and impressive appearance

noun

unison

What does it mean to act in unison?

How does it feel to work or move together?

unison

Denotation: a performance of actions done together and at the same time

noun

Gallery Walk: Pre-Reading Vocabulary Exploration

Make a prediction about our next story...

• What do you think the poem will be about based on the vocabulary?

• What themes might we encounter?