Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Friday, 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

Friday Activities

1. Click Flashcards - Time for Kids Create your own flash cards. When you're done you can copy the web address and use the flash cards again. Your flash cards will expire after two weeks.
2. What's Missing? - Mix up your flashcards so some cards show words and some show definitions. Lay them out in a row. Have a friend take one away and see if you remember which one is missing. State the word and the definition.
3. Click on the site link. Click on "wordlist" at the top of the page. Then click on "create new wordlist." Enter your word list for the week. When finished, click on "games" at the top of the page. Then click on "flashcards" and select your list. See if you can name the definition on each word before clicking on it to see the answer.

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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