{"id":173,"date":"2016-05-12T14:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/?post_type=chapter&p=173"},"modified":"2016-08-08T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T18:37:47","slug":"outcome-vocabulary-1-4","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-level2-english\/chapter\/outcome-vocabulary-1-4\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Vocabulary","rendered":"Outcome: Vocabulary"},"content":{"raw":"

Analyze vocabulary usage<\/h2>\r\nYou may be familiar with the poem \"Jabberwocky,\" by Lewis Carroll, written in 1871. Take a look at it here. As you read, or listen to the audio version, consider: how do you know what it means?\r\n
\"Jabberwocky<\/b>\"\r\n\r\n'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves\r\nDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;\r\nAll mimsy were the borogoves,\r\nAnd the mome raths outgrabe.\r\n\r\n\"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!\r\nThe jaws that bite, the claws that catch!\r\nBeware the Jubjub bird, and shun\r\nThe frumious Bandersnatch!\"\r\n\r\nHe took his vorpal sword in hand:\r\nLong time the manxome foe he sought\u2014\r\nSo rested he by the Tumtum tree,\r\nAnd stood awhile in thought.\r\n\r\nAnd as in uffish thought he stood,\r\nThe Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,\r\nCame whiffling through the tulgey wood,\r\nAnd burbled as it came!\r\n\r\nOne, two! One, two! and through and through\r\nThe vorpal blade went snicker-snack!\r\nHe left it dead, and with its head\r\nHe went galumphing back.\r\n\r\n\"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?\r\nCome to my arms, my beamish boy!\r\nO frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!\"\r\nHe chortled in his joy.\r\n\r\n'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves\r\nDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;\r\nAll mimsy were the borogoves,\r\nAnd the mome raths outgrabe.<\/blockquote>\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/Q_Um3787fSY\r\n\r\nMaybe we share the experience with Alice (of Alice in Wonderland<\/em> fame) after she reads it:\r\n
\"It seems very pretty,\" she said when she had finished it, \"but it's rather hard to understand!\" (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) \"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas\u2014only I don't exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate.\"<\/blockquote>\r\nEven though Lewis Carroll invented many of the words of the poem, we still are able to get a clear sense of the action and adventure in it. There are enough clues around the words, an in the words themselves, for us to envision meaning.\r\n\r\nApproaching any new set of vocabulary can be something like reading \"Jabberwocky\" for the first time. By using context clues, analyzing the structure of the word, and breaking out the trusty dictionary, you'll soon be master of a whole new range of thoughts, and words appropriate to express them.\r\n

What You Will Learn to Do<\/h2>\r\n
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  • analyze strategies for defining words from context<\/li>\r\n \t
  • analyze additional tools for defining words (i.e. dictionaries and reference works)<\/li>\r\n \t
  • analyze strategies for retaining and using new words in a working vocabulary<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n

    The Learning Activities for This Outcome Include<\/h3>\r\n
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    • Text: Context Clues<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Text: Structural Analysis<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Video: Using Reference Tools<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Video: How to Increase Your Vocabulary<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Self Check: Vocabulary<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Try It: Vocabulary<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"

      Analyze vocabulary usage<\/h2>\n

      You may be familiar with the poem “Jabberwocky,” by Lewis Carroll, written in 1871. Take a look at it here. As you read, or listen to the audio version, consider: how do you know what it means?<\/p>\n

      “Jabberwocky<\/b>”<\/p>\n

      ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
      \nDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;
      \nAll mimsy were the borogoves,
      \nAnd the mome raths outgrabe.<\/p>\n

      “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
      \nThe jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
      \nBeware the Jubjub bird, and shun
      \nThe frumious Bandersnatch!”<\/p>\n

      He took his vorpal sword in hand:
      \nLong time the manxome foe he sought\u2014
      \nSo rested he by the Tumtum tree,
      \nAnd stood awhile in thought.<\/p>\n

      And as in uffish thought he stood,
      \nThe Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
      \nCame whiffling through the tulgey wood,
      \nAnd burbled as it came!<\/p>\n

      One, two! One, two! and through and through
      \nThe vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
      \nHe left it dead, and with its head
      \nHe went galumphing back.<\/p>\n

      “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
      \nCome to my arms, my beamish boy!
      \nO frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
      \nHe chortled in his joy.<\/p>\n

      ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
      \nDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;
      \nAll mimsy were the borogoves,
      \nAnd the mome raths outgrabe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n