Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Thursday, Week 15

This week's theme is: Story Vocab

Word List 15

1. protagonist: The main character in a story.
2. narrator: A person who tells a story.
3. antagonist: An opponent in a conflict.
4. character: traits and qualities distinguishing an individual; a person represented in a book or play.
5. commentary: Explanations of events or text.
6. dialogue: A conversation between two or more people.
7. genre: A category of literary work.

Thursday Activities

1. Create your own vocabulary book for review. Use this site to make your own book. Type in your words and definitions. You can make up to 10 pages. Print it out and carry it around with you to practice in your spare time.
2. 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.
3. Connectors - Click on the link and type in your vocabulary words and their definitions in the three columns. Your definitions will be typed in column 2 and continue in column 3. Print out the sheet and cut it into the individual blocks. Keep the pieces in a Ziploc bag and try to put the connectors together during your travel time or free time at home.

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:

This book features an honorable and tragic protagonist.
The story has a female protagonist who looked totally harmless but could do amazing things.

I was not sure if the narrator was retelling an event that had really happened or was making it up as he went along.
The a narrator seemed to be affected by insanity.

Some writers give the antagonist superhuman powers.
The old woman has become a more potent antagonist than he had imagined.

He declined to comment on his future job.
The actor did not respond to a request for comment.

It is important to continue a dialogue, despite differences.
Her mother wanted to engage in a serious and confidential dialogue with her daughter.

The classic films were neatly organized by genre.
You can search by author, genre, or title.

 
 

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