1. SpringBoard Unit 2 – Cultural Conversations
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

2. Slide #1
The act of combining ideas from different sources to create, express, or support a new idea…

3. Slide #2
These are employed by dramatists and directors to tell a story on stage. They include costumes, makeup, props, set, and acting choices…

4. Slide #3
The voice assumed by a writer to express ideas or beliefs that may not be his or her own…

5. Slide #4
A struggle that occurs when people with different cultural expectations or attitudes interact…

6. Slide #5
The arrangement of two or more things for the purpose of comparison…

7. Slide #6
A form of writing that presents a particular opinion or idea and supports it with evidence…

8. Slide #7
The quality of being amusing…

9. Slide #8
A manner of writing that mixes a critical attitude with wit and humor in an effort to improve mankind and human institutions…

10. Do you think you got 100%?
Use the next slides to check your understanding of the Academic Vocabulary for Unit 2.

11. SYNTHESIS
The act of combining ideas from different sources to create, express, or support a new idea…

12. THEATRICAL ELEMENTS
These are employed by dramatists and directors to tell a story on stage. They include costumes, makeup, props, set, and acting choices…

13. PERSONA
The voice assumed by a writer to express ideas or beliefs that may not be his or her own…

14. CULTURAL CONFLICT
A struggle that occurs when people with different cultural expectations or attitudes interact…

15. JUXTAPOSITION
The arrangement of two or more things for the purpose of comparison…

16. ARGUMENT
A form of writing that presents a particular opinion or idea and supports it with evidence…

17. HUMOR
The quality of being amusing…

18. SATIRE
A manner of writing that mixes a critical attitude with wit and humor in an effort to improve mankind and human institutions…

19. Your Homework is…
Take one of the words you labeled incorrectly from this PowerPoint presentation and create an illustration of the word and define it! For example…
Synthesis is the act of combining ideas from different sources to create, express, or support a new idea.