Vocabulary Workshop Level C

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Vocabulary Workshop Level C

• Unit 1

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PowerPoint Presentation

• i. Define It
• ii. Compare It
• iii. Associate It
• iv. Use It
• v. Quote It

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PowerPoint Presentation

• For each vocabulary unit you will be assigned a
  word to use for this five-part assignment.
• Each week some students will be required to make
  their presentation to the class.

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• Even when you are not presenting, you have to
  hand in your presentation for credit.

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Five-part Powerpoint Presentation

• Now we will look at each of these five parts in
  turn.
• i. Define It
• ii. Compare It
• iii. Associate It
• iv. Use It
• v. Quote It

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Define It

• Write the word, the part of speech, and the
  definition.
• If you can include any information about the
  words origin or history, that would be great.

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Define It

• churlish chur-lish
• adjective
• Date before 12th century
• of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl
  VULGAR

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i. Define It (continued)

• 2 marked by a lack of civility or graciousness
  SURLY
• 3 difficult to work with or deal with
  INTRACTABLE ltchurlish soilgt

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Define It (continued)

• synonym see BOORISH
• churlishly adverb
• churlishness noun
• (author unknown, http//www.m-w.com/home.htm,
  viewed 13 June, 2002)

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ii. Compare It

• Write words or phrases that are similar or
  different to the meaning of the word.
• Mostly, these will be synonyms and antonyms.
• You should consult a thesauruseither online or a
  book.

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ii. Compare It

• Synonyms boorish, cloddish, rude, ill-mannered,
  clodhopping, clownish, coarse, loutish, lowbred,
  uncivilized, uncultured, unpolished.

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ii. Compare It (continued)

• Related Words crude, discourteous blunt,
  brusque, crusty, curt, gruff dour, surly naive,
  unschooled

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Compare It (continued)

• Contrasted Words bland, politic, smooth
  polished, sophisticated
• Antonym courtly

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iii. Associate It

• What does this word make you think of?

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iii. Associate It

• Churlish makes me think about someone whom it
  can be uncomfort-able to be around. Someone once
  told me that the purpose of good manners is to
  make other people feel comfortable. If someone is
  being churlish, then it makes you feel ill at
  ease to be around them.

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iii. Associate It (continued)

• The only other word I know that sounds like
  churl is churn, which means to stir up. This
  sort of goes along with what I just said about
  churlish people making you feel uncomfortable,
  i.e. churlish people stir up the atmosphere and
  disturb peoples comfort levels.

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iv. Use ItIn a Poem

• To add a more creative dimension to this
  assignment, I would you to write a poem using
  your word. The word could be used in the title of
  the poem or in the actual poem.

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iv. Use ItIn a Poem

• Dont feel intimidated because you have to write
  a poem. If you have an idea of your own for a
  poem, use it!
• If youre stuck for an idea, write a snapshot
  poem.

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Snapshot Poem

• A snapshot taken with a camera is a quick,
  informal picture. Similarly, a snapshot poem
  really tries to create an informal picture of a
  person, a place, or an event.
• Use images that your reader can picture in their
  minds.

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Snapshot Poem (continued)

• Your poem doesnt have to rhyme, but it can.
• Your poem can be all one stanza or several
  stanzas.

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Snapshot Poem (continued)

• Think about which words to put together on a line
  as this will affect how your reader takes in the
  words when he or she reads it.
• Use punctuation to help your reader understand
  the poem.

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iv. Use It (continued)

• You can use the actual part of speech in the
  vocabulary book (i.e. churlish) or a different
  form of the word, such as churl, churlishly, or
  churlishness.

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iv. Use It The Churlish Classmate

• Angry or ill-mannered? Why
• Is that boy talking so loudly?
• Does he even know
• That his volumes turned up too high?
• He spits racist comments
• at my best friend.

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• Is he ignorant or just insensitive?
• He wants to borrow a pen, like he does every day.
  
• Why does he never return them? Does he forget

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• Or doesnt he know youre Supposed to return
• Things you borrow?
• He leans on my desk and gets too close,
• invading my personal space.

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• Does he even know?
• Or care?

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v. Quote It

• Using an Internet search engine, find the word
  used in two different sources.
• Quote the word in its context.

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v. Quote It (continued)

• Present the word in the sentence in which it is
  used--and maybe you will need to present more
  than one sentence for the context to make sense.

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v. Quote It (continued)

• You also have to give bibliographic credit for
  the quote, i.e. mention the author and where you
  found the quote and when you saw it.

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v. Quote It (continued)

• You could look for a quote by going to a search
  engine, such as Google or Vivisimo. Type in your
  word and view the results.

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v. Quote It (continued)

• I typed churlish at Google and received 26,300
  citations. I had to look at several before I
  found a good context to quote. Notice that I have
  included bibliographic credit.

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v. Quote ItChurlish

• Equally, Russell Crowe's own rather churlish
  response to Steve Martin's early joke about how
  the actor had been ready to hit on Ellen Burstyn,
  made up to look older than her actual age, seemed
  consistent with the Australian actor's entire
  demeanor.

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Bibliographic Credit

• (David Thomson. http//www.salon.com/ent/movies/fe
  ature/2001/03/26/thomson_oscars/, viewed 13 June,
  2002)

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v. Quote It

• Another way to find Internet sites that use your
  word is to type the word into the Merriam-Webster
  Online Dictionary (http//www.m-w.com/home.htm ).
  

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• Underneath the entry there is a place to click
  that is labeled Get the Top 10 Most Popular Sites
  for Usually there are a lot more than ten sites.
  Heres a quote I found this way.

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v. Quote ItChurlish

• "You, sir, are a rude fellow. You are churlish
  and unkind. Your disposition is grating and
  self-centered. If I am to make any progress in
  finding you a bride, you must change, Mr. Ledger,
  and quickly. (Eileen Putnam. www.eileenputman.com/
  nkadexcerpt.html, viewed 13 June, 2002)