Rosa Parks -Vocabulary Activities

Common Core Standard:L.4c Consult reference materials to determine a word’s meaning or etymology.

Vocabulary in Context

Practice: Write the word that best completes each sentence.

  1. When boarding the bus, Rosa was busy preoccupied in a private ___ of memories and wishes.
  2. She had been laboring _____ all day because it was the holiday season.
  3. She had lunch with an attorney who was a ___ of a well-known civil rights attorney.
  4. She remembered her grandfather’s ____ to act.
  5. Her firm conviction in her right of refusal made tranquil and ____.
  6. She was aware that if she lost her dignity now, she may never ___ it.
/ Word List
exhortation
frenetically
protégé
retrieve
reverie
serene

Speaking with Academic Vocabulary

complex -device - evaluate -interact -perspective

With a classmate, evaluate the narrative techniques used in the biography. In your opinion, which technique is used most effectively – dialogue, suspense, description of conflict, or development of character? You must support your evaluation with at least three examples and use at least two of the Academic Vocabulary words when you speak.

Vocabulary: Etymologies

Common Core Standard:L.4c Consult reference materials to determine a word’s meaning or etymology.

A word’s etymology is its history and origin. When researching a word’s etymology, you can find information that gives you a better understanding of the word’s meaning. One simple and easy way to learn a word’s etymology is to look the word up in a dictionary. Information about the word’s history and origin will appear near the start of end of the dictionary entry. See the example below found at Dictionary.com:

se·rene [suh-reen] adjective
1. calm, peaceful, or tranquil; unruffled: a serene landscape; serene old age.
2. clear; fair: serene weather.
3. (usually initial capital letter) most high or august (used as a royal epithet, usually preceded by his, your, etc.): His Serene Highness.
Origin:1495–1505; < Latin serēnus (of the sky, weather) clear, unclouded
- se·rene·ly, adverb
se·rene·ness, noun

Practice: Use a dictionary to answer questions 1-4.

  1. Through what languages can the history of frenetic be traced?
  2. Does the Old French verb that gave ascent to reverie mean “to be happy” or “to dream”?
  3. From what Latin word does the exhort derive, and what is its definition?
  4. What language is the source of protégé?