Fun+Stuff

Here's some fun things that have worked well in the ACT Prep class at McLain. So far, they've been focused on vocabulary but could be adapted for grammar, etc. - Laura

1) Rap Song about roots, prefixes, and suffixes from http://www.educationalrap.com/song/prefixes-suffixes-roots.html. If you want the pdf of the lyrics and the mp3 of the song, email me (leeml@nsuok.edu).

Words are power, and that's the truth Preﬁxes, sufﬁxes, and they all got roots Words are power, they run this town So letʼs run the track back, and break ʻem on down (×2) Let me break this down, we start with root words the truest Not a full word, just a linguistic unit You get a lot of room here to improvise Visualize words of small size as I summarize “aqua” means water, “ami” means love “bio” means life, “hemo” means blood “geo” means earth, and “vita” means life Let's hit the next topic so yʼall can get it right You want to know whatʼs next, it's the preﬁx step The initial portion of a term or object Look at the word itself, itʼs a two-part patch "pre" means before, and "ﬁx" is to attach “anti-” means against, “inter-” means between “poly-” means many, while “homo-” means the same “pseudo-” means false, and “trans-” mean across Preﬁxes start words, you should never take a loss If preﬁxes come before, then whatʼs the next chapter Sufﬁxes follows root words, so they must come after And while this may sound absurd A sufﬁx can also change the grammar function of a whole word “Wait, from adjectives to adverbs?” Like clear into clearly “But then child into childish?” Itʼs semantics, can you hear me? “-ology” means study of, “-ism” is belief in “-cide” means killing, and “-or” and “-er” mean demonstration “-phobia” means fear of, “-kenisis” means movement And thatʼs what it is, now youʼre getting some improvement.
 * Preﬁxes, Sufﬁxes, and Roots**
 * Chorus**
 * Verse I**
 * Verse II**
 * Verse III**

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2) A hangman (or stickman) game using the vocab from Book Club. We did this the old-fashioned way - drawing on the SmartBoard. But I know there are web versions available.

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3) A Jeopardy game designed at www.jeopardylabs.com. Smart Exchange (the site for SmartBoard stuff) has some available, too. Be sure and work out rules of how teams will signal, how questions will be selected, etc.