Word game

is an intricate piece combining the world of high art and the low art of advertisement using word play. It is a work containing one hundred words, fifty with “live” following them and fifty with “die,” in neon lights that light up individually, in rows, and then all together, creating visual patterns. The word combinations include actions, emotions, and colors. One Hundred Live and Die uses the game of language to leave the meaning of the work open for interpretation from the viewers and allows room for conversation. One Hundred Live and Die is a large wall installation that is 118 x 132 1/4 x 21 inches, consisting of neon tubing mounted on four metal monoliths. The intense neon words make it…

Stephen Decatur High School/Ninth Grade/General English Class/15 students/90-minute lesson This lesson is part of a larger unit that focuses on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. This lesson would come after the students had read the entire book. During the time of the reading we would have determined major themes, plot points, etc. I would have assisted students with confusing language and started a conversation about interpreting Shakespeare’s works by explaining his play on words and the…

at the games. O’Neill uses an exciting tone to arouse his audience to be as mentally involved with the sort as the spectators were at the time. The audience of this excerpt is sports fans; O’Neill uses the diction he does to reach out to these audience members and, in turn, they are the ones that are the most intrigued by the excerpt. This also shows that O’Neill’s purpose in writing this excerpt is to excite the audience of sports fans with the game Cricket. Because of the exciting tone of the…

surprising was the fill-in, “And he gave ___ written word ‘skunk’…” The correct answer was “the.” Even though 77 students gave the correct response, there were still several who used random words such as “garbage,” “things,” and “fishy.” These words do not even come close to fitting the sentence being that they are all form class words. A second point of interest is the fact that no one was able to come up with the correct word for “prolific.” That is the only entry that no one was able to…

(Add Excel File Here) Introduction of target words During the introduction to the big idea, the students would participate in an actual survey about their own waste consumption during the lunch hour. While discussing the results…

two students during whole class instruction I have drawn various conclusions on both the students strengths and weaknesses. Student A excels at being able to tap out sounds within a three sound word, as student B is able to tap out the individual sounds of words with 4-5 sounds in them. These activities however acted as review for the students being as they were exposed to these concepts in kindergarten. During whole class instruction I have noticed that student A lacks in properly matching…

no one ever muttered a word. No one talked during breakfast, getting ready for school, after school, at dinner, or even before bed. There were no books around to read or a television set around blaring cartoons or educational shows. How would one’s vocabulary develop or increase if that were the case? Now imagine a household where talking amongst family members was always occurring. Parents were waking up asking their children “How did they sleep last night?”, stressing to them the importance of…

The answer to this question would be our first word. Just think about it. A child learning their first word has several hoops that the child must jump over in order to say the word. The first hoop would be understanding what word(s) is trying to be communicated to them. There auditory lobe must be very active in order to process what word(s) are being said to the child. After the first hoop is jumped the second hoop for the child would be learning how to make there vocal cords and lips work…

understand and learn the material. The second idea that I learned during the course, was the importance of vocabulary and its relationship to understanding and enjoying reading. Through reading and discussion board I seen the importance of learning vocabulary so that students are able to read to understand information in content areas and become literate in the content. In my prospective classroom I would like to implement effective vocabulary instruction using strategies beyond lists of…

In the class, I started out by grasping at glamorous words to throw on a paper, as one would catch fireflies in a night sky. Feeling unsure of what was going on and doing what i thought was expected, I knew I was not meeting the challenges on my own. During the process, our class shared papers with the one other, including our teacher, for an editing process to find where our paper needed more flexing in order to improve its weaknesses. Through reading aloud joined with personal readings of my…