Red Scarf Girl Vocabulary Practice

Red Scarf Girl Vocabulary Practice

We can use our vocabulary words fluently in our writing! We know what they mean, and how to use them in a sentence! We can create beautiful language art using academic words!

Multiple Select

Why are we practicing our vocabulary words today?

• So we know how to use them in a sentence!

• So we know what they mean!

• So we can create language art!

• All of the above!

Excel

• To get better at something

• to move forward

• She excelled in her vocabulary use.

• I was able to excel in math, after doing my homework regularly.

Open Ended

Can you write a sentence about what you would like to excel in this year?

I would like to excel in ________ this year.

Communist Party

• Government in China during the cultural revolution

• Believed that everyone should be equal in what they own, how they dress, and how they obey the government

• believed in violence, torture, and humiliation for all that opposed the government.

Poll

Would you like to live in a communist country?

• yes

• no

Emblem

A symbol for something else.

Her red scarf was an emblem of her love for the Communist Party.

Liberation (N) OR Liberate(V)

• It means freedom!!! OR To free something!

• The liberation of detention students was the highlight of his afternoon!

• The teacher finally liberated the students, after they were held after class for 20 minutes.

Jostling

• bumpy or crashing

• Her mind was filled with jostling thoughts about the pandemic.

• Everything in the car flew and jostled about as it crashed into the fence.

Oppression OR Oppress

• To take away someone's freedom

• To silence someone

• Chairman Mao oppressed his people by punishing them for speaking up.

Paradox

• opposites that go together, odd

• I have to be cruel to be nice.

• He is a wise fool!

• Do not enter the water until you learn to swim.

• There has to be some truth to it though!

Open Ended

Can you think of an example of a paradox?