Unit 2

How Can Someone Make a Difference?

Vocabulary Word Wall

Making Waves or My Granpda: Vocabulary Word Wall

Before beginning the selection, Making Waves or My Grandpa, add the following new words that you will encounter in one of the reading selections:


  1. donations
  2. ambassador
  3. optimist
  4. water well
  5.  immigrant
  6.  head tax
  7.  betrothed
  8.  exclusion
  9.  symbolic

For these words, search for an image/picture and write a definition.

Websites and Skill Builder

Click each coloured tab to view instructions to Open Your File and to view information about the Websites and Skill Builder for this activity.

Open

Open Your File

Go to your Documents folder and open your Unit 2 Vocabulary Word Wall that you have saved there.
Websites

Websites

You may use the Online Dictionary to look up the words.
Skill Builder

Skill Builder

To find images for your Vocabulary Word Wall, click Skill Builder, then view Searches - How To Search the Internet for Images.

Save

How to save the file:

  1. Have the file open and select Save from the File menu.
  2. Save your work, when done, again to your Documents folder.
Go to either Making Waves or My Grandpa.