Vocabulary Collectors

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1 Welcome! Vocabulary Collectors This slide presentation will teach you how to create and explain a symbolic representation based one of your vocabulary words. It will also provide the criteria for you to be able to receive full credit for your symbolic representation.

2 symbolism (noun) the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. symbol (noun) a thing that represents something else, esp. a material object representing something abstract. How can we merge these two definitions and end up with a better definition for symbolism? Try in partners. Don t do this! When you look up a word and the definition includes a form of the same word, don t copy that definition. Always put the definition in your own words so it can be easily understood by others. What should this word collector have done instead of used the word symbol in the definition? If you answered, Look up symbol in the dictionary, you are right.

3 symbolism (noun) the use of objects (often material) to represent ideas or qualities (often abstract). What might these 4 material objects (touchable) represent that can t be physically touched? Click to start.

4 We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar ( ) We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! Poets use symbolism as seen here. From your own perspective, what does the mask here represent symbolically? How about the vile (unpleasant) clay beneath our feet? Re-read the poem knowing this: Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American poet. This poem was published in 1896 in a volume of poems called Lyrics of a Lowly Life. Thinking from his perspective, what do you think the mask symbolizes?

5 We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar ( ) We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! Time to collect some vocabulary words! guile (noun) sly or crafty intelligence; skillful trickery. - from Showing Sentence PowerPoint If you were to symbolically represent this abstract noun (guile can t be touched, after all) with a concrete noun (which can be touched, like a mask), what noun would you choose? Come up with three different ideas by talking with a partner.

6 We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar ( ) We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! What do you think of my explanation? guile (noun) sly or crafty intelligence; skillful trickery. My Symbolic Representation: I chose a magician's hat for this word because a magician has to use all of his guile to entertain the audience. Magicians are definitely sly and crafty.

7 We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar ( ) We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask! Let s try another vocabulary word! myriad (adjective) describing something countless or extremely great in number. noun form: also myriad, as in a myriad of stars in the sky. If you were to represent this abstract adjective/noun with something concrete, what would you choose? Come up with your most original idea (not stars!) by talking with a partner. Then create a smart two- or threesentence explanation of your choice.

8 symbolism (noun) the use of objects (often material) to represent ideas or qualities (often abstract). One of your weekly vocabulary options is to visualize/create a symbolic representation you for your vocabulary word. You may draw, or use clipart, stickers, images, etc.

9 Symbolic Representation Vocabulary Rubric: 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point does all of these: at is does three of these: at is does two of these: at is does one of these: at is

10 Symbolic Representation Rubric: 4 points 3 points does all of these: at is does three of these: at is Did Jolie earn a 4 or a 3 or? What should she do, if anything, to improve?

11 Symbolic Representation Rubric: 4 points 3 points does all of these: at is does three of these: at is Did Kevin earn a 4 or a 3 or? What should he do, if anything, to improve?

12 Symbolic Representation Rubric: 4 points 3 points does all of these: at is does three of these: at is Did Ethan earn a 4 or a 3 or? What should he do, if anything, to improve?

13 Symbolic Representation Rubric: 4 points 3 points does all of these: at is does three of these: at is Did Hunter earn a 4 or a 3 or? What should he do, if anything, to improve?

14 Symbolic Representation Rubric: 4 points 3 points does all of these: at is does three of these: at is Did Jordan earn a 4 or a 3 or? What should he do, if anything, to improve?

15 In the poem, a raven a symbol for death lands on a statue (bust) of Athena the Greek symbol for wisdom. In Edgar Allan Poe s poem, The Raven, symbolism is used cleverly. The poem, which is ripe with vocabulary words, is about a man trying to gain wisdom about why the love of his life has died. The raven and the statue stand for something beyond themselves. That s symbolism. This is an optional, extra poem and thinking task for teachers using this PowerPoint lesson. You can actually summarize & discuss this difficult poem and read only a few of its stanzas, challenging your students to explore it on their own, if you feel it s too difficult. Image found at:

16 The first two stanzas from Edgar Allan Poe s The Raven (Click link for PDF of entire poem) Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.' Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore - Nameless here for evermore. With a partner, chose one of the underlined vocabulary words, look it up, and create a symbolic representation with explanation.