Frankenstein vocabulary
6I’m experimenting with new ways to take vocabulary notes. I don’t mind giving them a list, but that puts all the work on me. I love the idea of creating picture dictionaries; however, I have some students that are not fond of trying to be an artist. So I’ve tried letting them cut out pictures or use clip art. Then I saw “Frankenstein” when I was observing my fabulous KTIP teacher Kim!
The students make a PG-rated (yes, you need to remind them of this) Frankenstein by cutting out different body parts from magazines and put them together. Then they label the parts using a picture dictionary or the vocab page in the textbook. I actually left this as a sub plan and the students were so proud of them. The sub said she enjoyed the day too. 
99% completed the sub work that day.
Now I’m thinking, what else can they “Frankenstein”? An ugly outfit? What’s in Frankenstein’s backpack? Or Beyonce’s purse? What activities would Justin Bieber do? What does Jack Black’s room look like? What stores and fun things would your own personal island have on it? Could this be tied into a quick lesson on Picasso and cubism?
Hmmm…
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I LOVE this idea and cannot wait to do it with my highschool class! I will bea teaching grade 10 spanish, this is an introductory class with no native speakers in it! This will be a great activity and cannot wait!
I love the idea of vocabulary boards for any kind of vocabulary.
Some ways that I have used similar activities: composite “people” such as these, with a presentation and autobiography to go with it. They can also post on each others’ walls (literally if you put them on the wall).
I have also used food vocabulary to review body parts. The students create a person from pictures of the vocab (i.e. bread=head). They then create a key of (body part=food). They then do the other interactive presentations.
I do this as well, but with a twist. They have to create a Monstro with different numbered body parts. For example, the Monstro might have three heads and four eyes, etc. The students have to use numbers 1-10 and can not repeat the number once used. I then save the monster in a file folder with the monster pasted on the left. After that they can now add writing as an ongoing assignment. How would their monster greet people? What does the monster like to do, where is the monster from, etc.
I did it in my class and it worked wonderfully! Here are the results:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.424993870891477.99028.390756184315246&type=1
Love your pics! Thanks for sharing!
Cool idea! I did something similar once with pages of different body parts (from a conference). One page had different heads, another different eye shapes…etc. When I find the time to scan the pages (I only have a hard copy), I’ll post them somewhere.