Vocabulary!
Some More Vocabulary!!
A Proper Paragraph
Behind the Speech
Fill-in-the-Blank
100
to lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
What is desolate?
100
of high moral or intellectual value
What is "exalted"?
100
The word that starts with "i" and means to start the first word of the first sentence of my paragraph 5 spaces further from the margin than the main part of the text.
What is "indent"?
100
Washington DC during the March on Washington
Where did he give the speech and during what event?
100
I have a dream that my four little chi1dren / will one day live in a nation / Where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the _______________________
What is the "content of their character"?
200
hamlet
What is "a community of people smaller than a village"?
200
a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary
What is "oasis"?
200
What is the sentence that states or suggests the main idea (or topic) of a paragraph and for these assignments in 7th grade needs to be the very first sentence of each paragraph?
What is a "topic sentence"?
200
The year he gave the speech
What is 1963?
200
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of ________________________
What is "dignity and discipline"?
300
so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
What is "prodigious"?
300
any system of principles or beliefs
What is "creed"?
300
Some sentences are too general and are difficult for a reader to fully understand what the writer is talking about. The other version of the same sentence uses specific details and makes the image the writer is presenting much more vivid and alive using words to help the reader use the senses to imagine what the writer wants to say.
What is a "showing sentence"?
300
The name of the very prestigious international honor he received in 1964 in Oslo, Norway
What is the Nobel Prize for Peace?
300
In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of _________________
What is "wrongful deeds"?
400
strife resulting from a lack of agreement
What is "discord"?
400
an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
What is "tribulation"?
400
The number of sentences each paragraph needs to have.
What is 5-8??
400
What part of the speech did he deliver extemporaneously?
What is the "I have a dream" part?
400
Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the ___________________
What is the "Emancipation Proclamation"?
500
make or shape as with an axe
What is "hew"?
500
an ardent follower and admirer
What is "devotee"?
500
The sentence that summarizes the paragraph and restates the topic in a new and memorable way without giving any new information.
What is the "concluding sentence"?
500
The night before when he was reviewing his speech, what did his closest, Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, suggest when Dr. King talked about wanting to include his "I have a dream" idea?
Not including it! Saying it was "hackneyed and trite"!
500
I say to you today, my friends, though, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I __________
What is "I still have a dream."