Academic+Vocabulary

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**Activity # 2.1: Let's Get Started ﻿(Comments written in read were written after finishing 2.3) ** **1. What did you learn about academic vocabulary from watching the video clip?** I learned that academic vocabulary is a lot different than street vocabulary. If you just know street vocabulary, it will be hard to understand academic vocabulary. **2. How would you define academic vocabulary?** Academic vocabulary are the words and phrases that are more respectful to be used when at school, or when you are with those older and wiser than you. You would use academic vocabulary when trying to make a good impression. Academic vocabulary is harder to learn because it has to be used in the right context. You have to know the definition and the part of speech. **3. Predict how academic vocabulary can help you be successful in your social studies classes as well as other academic classes?** The textbooks we use in our classes use academic vocabulary, so in order to fully understand them, we must know our academic vocabulary as well. Also, our teachers use academic vocabulary, so it would be disrespectful to talk to them with street language. The more academic vocabulary you learn, the easier it is to understand your textbooks, your teachers, your tests, etc.

**Activity # 2.2: What you know about academic terms** List of academic terms and what I associate them with if I am familiar with them:

Analyze - I am familiar with this word and associate it with science because I first learned when learning it as part of the scientific method, "analyze your data and draw a conclusion." Assess - I am familiar with this word and associate it with tests and quizes because those are both assessments. Bias - I am familiar with this word and associate it with arguments and opinions because in an argument someone might have a biased opinion towards something. Context - I am familiar of this word and associate it english class because sometimes instead of looking up a new vocabulary word from a book, we look for context clues to figure out its meaning. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Correlate - I am not familiar with this word but have heard it before. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Criteria - I am familiar with this word and associate it with when you are writing an essay and are given criteria to follow. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Debate - I am familiar with this word and associate it with english class because in my 8th grade english class we would write an essay and then have a debate on the topic of the essay. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Evaluate - I am familiar with this word and associociate it with gymnastics because every year we are given evaluations on how we have improved and what skills we have. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Inference - I am familiar with this word and associate it with science because sometimes you have to make an inference from the result of an experiment. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Imply - I am familiar with this word and associate it with oral communication because sometimes you may not say exactly what you mean, but the words are implied. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Interpret - I am familiar with this word and associate it with foreign languages because sometimes someone who speaks a different language than you may have to have someone interpret what you are saying for them so they can communicate with you. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Justify - I am familiar with this word and associate it with court and law because people will justify that something is the truth. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Thesis - I am familiar with this word and associate it with writing because when writing about something, you need to inclue a thesis statement. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Perspective - I am familiar with this word and associate it with understanding someone because to better understand what someone is saying, you need to see things from their perspective. I also associate it with an opinion. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Point of View - I am familiar with this phrase and associate it with perspective because it also a way of seeing things and has to do with opinion.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Academic Terms Vocabulary Template: (Comments written in red were added after using [|www.vocabulary.com])

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Activity # 2.3: What you know about Academic Terms** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Given words to compare:** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I**mply/Infer:** Implying something is the opposite of inferring something, therefore they are very different but have to do with each other. When you imply something, you aren't directly stating it, so in order for someone to understand what you are implying, they must infer. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Bias/Point of View:** Bias and point of view are very similar, they both have to do with your opinion. Point of view is the way you see something and bias is how you feel about it. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Evaluate/Assess:** Evaluate and assess are similar in that they both have to do with finding out somethings value. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**My pair of words to compare:** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Interpret/Analysis:** To interpret something and to analyze something are similar. Interpreting something is making sense of it and finding out its meaning, whiling analyzing something helps you study the nature of that thing. Both lead you to find out something you didn't know.

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**2.4 New Vocabulary** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Three column chart for new vocabulary: ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Includes vocabulary from today) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Activity 2.5: Evaluate other vocabulary tools** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I think that [|www.visualthesaurus.com] and [|www.freerice.com] will be the most helpful to me. Visual Thesaurus is good because it goes beyond just the definition of the word. Sometimes when I look up a word in the dictionary I still don't fully understand the word, Visual Thesaurus helps me do so. Free Rice will be helpful to me because when I test myself, I always end up learning new things. If I'm quizzing myself on new words, I will learn those that I do not know.