Carl the Complainer Vocabulary

Ideally used for a fourth grade class

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Tier One:

Internet: A way to talk to others all around the world and find information through computer connections.

Meeting: When a group of people come together to talk about topics they all have interest in.

Town: An area where people live, smaller than a city, but larger than a village.

Tier Two:

Audience: A group that listens or watches a performance, meeting, or other event where one person is the focus.

Brainstorming: A way to come up with solutions to problems or to gather ideas about a topic.

Complain: A way to express unhappiness about something.

Convince: To get a person to agree with you by showing them your point of view with facts or strong opinion.

Favor: To agree with.

Informing: To let a person know or to give them information- facts- about a topic.

Neighbors: A human who lives either next door or near another human.

Persuading: To change someones belief or mind about a topic through fact or strong opinion.

Petition: A form that is written to ask for something usually toward authority. 

Signatures: When a person writes (or signs) their name to paper.

Tier Three:

Council Meeting: A gathering to discuss topics for that area's government.

Council Members: The people who make up the main authority for that area.

Authority: The people who have the power in government, those who have the right to change certain parts of what they look over.

Government: The process and agency that controls the laws and changes in our day to day life.

Licenses: Given to people to show they have permission to either be doing something or to have something that not everyone is given. You have to apply to get these.

Network: Computers that are hooked together through wires or other lines.

Reference:

Merriam-Webster Inc. (2011). Merriam-webster word central. Retrieved from http://www.wordcentral.com/

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