Word of the Day Bell Ringers w/ Science Fiction Narrative Assignment

Boost your middle and high school students' vocabulary skills with this educational tool that encourages them to master and utilize 35 sophisticated and distinctive words (sourced from previous SAT Writing & Language exams). This is achieved through engaging bell ringer tasks and a comprehensive science fiction writing task to summarize their learning.

Teaching this resource is simple! Start it by presenting a new word at the start of each class period with the included slideshow while students use note-paper or the accompanying Google Form to digitally submit their own sentence using the day's word. When you have exhausted the 35 words, hand out the Science Fiction writing assignment, which includes planning and drafting activities, a peer edit, and Common Core rubric!

Your download is crafted to kick off a class session within the timeframe required for attendance recording and includes:

• - A PowerPoint presentation with 35 slides. Each slide presents a word, its part of speech, meaning, a sample sentence, its origin language, and a prompt for students to pen down a unique sentence in their "word journal".

• - A link to a cloneable Google Slide Word Journal. This can be shared with students to let them note down the word of the day and their personalized sentence in a secure location. This also helps in creating a collection of responses that can simplify the assessment process.

• - An alternative, printable version of the Word Journal with instructions, entries for weekly words, and a "completion" rubric.

• - A summative assessment in the form of a science-fiction narrative essay that encourages students to embed their newly-acquired vocabulary words into an original composition.

• The assignment brief for the narrative includes writing guidance, a checklist for peer reviews, and an ELA Common Core compliant rubric (CCRA.W.3, CCRA.L.1, CCRA.L2, CCRA.L.4).

SAT WORDS IN BOOK 1:

inept, fecund, timorous, chimerical, acrophobia, clamor, anomaly, tedious, hedonist, tactile, ambivalence, congeal, redundant, wispy, adamant, fortuitous, gustatory, antiquated, anthropocentrism, blithe, hypochondriac, apathy, taciturn, dotard, referendum, contumacious, ascetic, disapprobation, flout, infamous, mellow, paucity, somnambulist, voluble

Although this resource can be fitted for any secondary Language Arts classroom, it has been carefully designed to work best in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. The included activities and rubric are subtly but specifically tied to Common Core ELA Standard for Language (1, 2, and 4) and Writing (3). This resource is provided in a print-ready, bookmarked, and adjustable PDFs, Google Form, and PowerPoint Show files.

This resource contains: 5 pages; 36 slides; 1 Google Form.