After reading The Lightning Thief Chapter 18 and the paired reading from commonlit.org, Welcome to the Underworld, students will create their own storyboard. Using a storyboard template with six scenes, the students will try to incorporate six different vocabulary terms from the "before activity." Students will use the vocabulary in the correct context in their own creative storyboard.
This resource was created in partnership with Dothan City Schools.
Students will show comprehension of key vocabulary by playing a digital learning game on Gimkit. This is a review of the 11 vocabulary terms from Welcome to the Underworld in a paired reading with Chapter 18 of The Lightning Thief.
Students will locate new academic vocabulary terms in the paired reading Welcome to The Underworld after reading chapter 18 from The Lightning Thief. They will create a digital Frayer Model or handwrite the model in their composition notebooks for their selected top 3 most difficult vocabulary words from the list after they read the short story. As the students find the new vocabulary words, they will add them to the “Word Wall” for the week and write the words so all students can make sure they have the same vocabulary list.
This activity is completed using Google Jamboard. The purpose of this assignment is to allow students to discover the affixes that affect the part of speech of a word. This would be a great opening lesson for a morphology lesson.
This activity was created as part of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This learning activity includes a prefix, root word, and suffix randomizer wheel created on Flippity. The teacher will share this resource with the students. Students will spin the wheel to create new words. Each word will have a prefix and suffix added to the root word. Many of the words will not make sense and that is why this activity is so fun!
This resource was created as part of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.
This activity is intended to be completed individually using Edpuzzle. Edpuzzle requires the teacher to set up an account but it is free. Students will watch a short video montage of The Princess Bride. Students are asked to define the word and to write a story using the word.
