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Aim: How is vocabulary an essential part of the Global History Regents Exam? Do Now: Answer the Aim question to the best of your abilities. (Think back.

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1 Aim: How is vocabulary an essential part of the Global History Regents Exam? Do Now: Answer the Aim question to the best of your abilities. (Think back to your experience with the Global History Regents)

2 Activity #1 Global History- Geography Unit Exam Look over your scantron and identify questions that you got wrong Together, we will go through selected questions and clarify the answers

3 Domain Specific Vocabulary vs. Academic Vocabulary Domain Specific Vocabulary: Words that students acquire when studying a specific subject (examples: oligarchy, communism, sharecropping) Academic Vocabulary: Words that are part of everyday speech (examples: walk, car, etc.) How are domain specific vocabulary terms different than academic vocabulary terms?

4 Activity #2 Geography Test Remediation Remediation: the action of correcting something Complete H5 Geography Exam- Vocabulary Remediation worksheet Directions: Choose 8 questions that you got wrong on the Geography Exam. For each incorrect question, identify the key vocabulary term and complete 1 box for each term.

5 Write the definition as found in your notes, dictionary, or textbook

6 Summary Create a paragraph that uses each of the 8 terms and summarizes the unit in which you were test on.


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