Thursday, August 4, 2016

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - Vocabulary Lesson

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The “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” is a youtube channel by John Keonig that shares short videos that define and express very particular sorrows that people might feel on occasion.
For the word “lutalica” which identifies the part of your identity that doesn’t fit into categories, Keonig writes,
You tell the world who you are in a million different ways. Some are subtle. Some are not...When you were born they put you in a little box and slapped a label on it. But if we begin to notice these categories no longer fit us, maybe it’ll mean that we’ve finally arrived—just unpacking the boxes, making ourselves at home.

Task


  1. Choose a word from our list of important words and create a script for a video that would fully define the word in the style of the “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows”.
  2. Use the attached worksheet for your script.
  3. Find or describe images for your video.
  4. Ensure that your script demonstrates the success criteria we will describe together for a video of this type (see next page).

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