ACADEMIC+VOCABULARY

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1. What did you learn about academic vocabulary from watching the video clip? Academic vocabulary is more specific and it gets to the point and street vocabulary takes time to decode and understand. 2. How would you define academic vocabulary? Academic vocabulalry is more sophisticated and and formal. it also makes a person look smarter. Academic vocabulary is language that is mostly used in academic classes. 3. Predict how academic vocabulary can help you be successful in your social studies classes as well as other academic classes? I think academic vocabulary can help you be successful in your social studies classes as well as other academic classes because they make you writing and speaking more effective. academic vocabulary helps you make your work better because they make it more sophisticated and more interesting.
 * ACTIVITY 2.1 OPENER**


 * ACTIVITY 2.2**


 * ACTIVITY 2.3 WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT ACADEMIC TERMS**

Imply/Infer: impling something is different from infering because infering is to guess what the other person is trying to imply. but impling and inferring are similiar because they are abstract words that are said and understood but they aren't said straight forward Bias/Point of View: y Evaluate/Assess: evaluating is different from assessing because when you assess something you are find the importance and value of someting. when you evaluate you arae judging from what you see. evaluating and assessing are because you are trying to find the importance of a thing. justify/correlate: justifying and correlate ar similiar because they can be used to explain the action's of a person. but correlating is different from justifing because justifing an action is a fact you know it happened but someone explains differently. correlating is connecting two facts to see if they can make another fact.



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tone, color || * I don't really understand the meaning of nuance- ﻿--can one of those find the difference pictures be considered a nuance because the second image is different from the first one because something is always missing. ||
 * ACTIVITY 2.4 NEW VOCABULARY **
 * Word || Definition || Connections ||
 * validity || truthful, prove-able || Are people exaggerating? is the source credible? ||
 * nuance || slight difference in meaning
 * expertise || written by an expert, || top neurosurgeon in Mass. General writing a book about the brain. ||
 * Authentic || original || coins from Ancient Rome ||

I liked the Free Rice vocabulary tool because it questions you about vocabulary, and the more definitions you get correct the more grains of rice you help poeple in need.
 * ACTIVITY 2.5 EVALUATE OTHER VOCABULARY TOOLS**