Vocabulary

Vocabulary Application
Select one of the activities below to practice applying your vocabulary words. Use a googledoc or other form that will enable you to share your assignment with me and others. Your response or assignment should clearly show you understand what the words mean and how they are used.

1. Art [[image:mykidsrock/the-scream-sells-for-record-busting-us120m.jpg width="240" height="240" align="left"]]Inspiration
Find a piece of artwork that could connect to your vocabulary words. Cut and paste the artwork. Include a little description and the link. Then use your vocabulary words to discuss the image or art.

Possible sites to explore include: NY Metropolitan Museum of Art A Listing of Art Museums in D.C.

This famous Expressionist painting, //The Scream,// was created Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. It shows a distraught figure against a blood red sky. In the background are two dark, distant figures. Although Munch attributes his inspiration for this piece to walking along a path with two friends as the sun was setting, many people like to try and analyze his work. Munch did suffer from depression, perhaps triggered by the loss of his mother and sister when he was young.

//Start of a Sample://I look at this picture and think it could also represent someone who has been __**ostracized.**__ Perhaps he has been sent away because of his mental **__anguish__**? Not to sound **__pretentious__**, but I sometimes think that I could probably create some of the pieces that are considered “great works.” Well, it would be fun trying! I don’t, however, want to be seen as **__omniscient__** in all things related to art.

**2. Create your own prompt**
Check out these links of different creative writing ideas. Select one of the prompts or ideas and respond by applying your vocabulary words. []# []

Hey, what's going on here. . . Find a photo and build a response or idea. Include a copy of the photo and the link. Develop a story to go with the photograph. Use this one or find a better one! [] or try @http://openphoto.net/ or this one @http://morguefile.com/
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//After the angry storm clouds had cleared, I looked out over our field. . .//

//Student ROUGH DRAFT Sample:// One afternoon on the back lawn of a house in the __**suburb**__, there was a severe storm. The storm was __**omnipotent**__ and destroyed almost everything in the area, but one __**omniscient**__ man was prepared for the storm. The man’s name was Bob and once he had knowledge of the storm, he started digging a hole in the ground so that when the storm came he could jump into it and be safe. Bob’s friends were in **__disapprobation__** of this idea. They thought it would not work because, other than being in a hole in the ground, he was not protected. They thought that the best policy was to stay in the house and completely out of the storm. Before the storm Bob was in a __**sullen**__ mood; the sky started to get dark and the world was quiet. Once Bob heard the storm coming, he jumped into the hole, but he was almost too late so he only had time to get his head and body into the hole and not his legs. The storm was horrible, and the winds pushed all the dirt the Bob had dug out of the hole back into it. When the storm cleared all that could be seen was Bob’s legs and feet sticking out of the ground. I guess that Bob’s friends were the __**omniscient**__ ones….