Thursday, Sept. 24

Periods 1-5

2. Play Vocabulary pyramid

Here is how it works:

--Split the class into two groups (if there is an odd number of students in class, then have the odd person keep score)
---Have the groups sit on separate sides of the room.
--Nominate a captain for each team (or ask for volunteers to be the captain)
--Take a coin and ask one of the captains to call it in the air. The team that wins goes first.
--Take two desks and push them against the front white board, with the desks facing each other. The desk for the person trying to figure out the word should have its back to the white board.
--The captain for the team that won the toss would then choose which two students to go first. Ask one of the students whether he/she wants to give or receive the clue.
--Once the students are seated (with one student looking at the whiteboard and the other student with his/her back to the whiteboard), go ahead and choose a word from the wall and write it on the board.
--Once you have finished writing the word on the wall, go ahead and start the timer. Each team has 30 SECONDS to figure out the word being described. If the team can’t figure out the word in 30 seconds, then that team loses its turn and the other team is now up.
--The student looking at the board should now be giving clues as to the word on the board. Allow the student giving clues to use his/her VIS sheet. However, the student trying to figure out the vocab word IS NOT ALLOWED to use a VIS sheet.
--If you hear a team shouting out the word or clues to the word then disqualify that team and give the other team the right to sit in the ‘hot seat.’
--If the team keeps getting the word right, then they would keep their turn and continue racking up points.