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Unit Title: Immigration TEACHER RESOURCES IMMIGRATION UNIT, Fuccillo, Della Paolera et al.
Key Vocabulary
alien - a person who is not a citizen of the country he is living in; an unnaturalized foreign resident of a country allegiance - loyalty to a government, country, or ruler application - a written form used in making such a request anarchist - any person who promotes disorder or stirs up revolt anarchy - political disorder and confusion; absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose anti-Semitism - hatred and persecution of Jews assimilate - to be absorbed into the main culture group bribe - money or gifts given or offered to a person in a position of trust or responsibility to persuade him to do something illegal or dishonest citizenship - the status of being a citizen, including its rights, duties, and privileges contagious- spread by direct or indirect contact deport - to expel from a country deportation - expulsion from a country destination - the place to which one is going or directed detainment - to keep from proceeding; delay or hold back disembark - to go ashore from a ship or airplane emigrate - to leave one country or region to settle in another emigrants - person who leaves his place or country to live in another country entry - the act or instance of entering ethnic - sharing the same language and culture examination - a checking and testing of the body or part of the body, as by a dentist or physician exclude - to prevent from entering; keep out; bar extortion - an obtaining of money or another valuable thing by threat or force famine - a drastic, wide-reaching food shortage genealogy - a record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; a family tree immigrate - to enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native. immigrant - a person who enters a new country to live in another indenture - a contract that binds a person, such as an apprentice, to work for another person for a stated period of time indentured -to bind a person by such a contract: an indentured servant inspection - a formal or official examination, to look especially for errors, faults, or flaws labor - persons who do manual work for a living, as a group literacy - the ability to read and write nationality - a group of people sharing the same language, culture, and history native - a person who was born in a particular place or country; an original inhabitant of a region or country origin - the source from which something begins or comes; parentage; ancestry: country of origin passage - the right, permission, or freedom to pass, go, or travel; a journey or voyage, especially by sea or air permit - a written order or license granting permission to perform some action prejudice - hatred or intolerance of a particular group, such as members of a particular race or religion pogrom - the organized persecution or massacre of a minority group, especially of Jews polygamy - the practice, custom, or condition of having more than one spouse or mate at a time roundtrippers - people who planned to return to their homelands screening - to examine carefully or systematically, especially so as to make a selection and determination steerage - formerly, the portion of a passenger ship occupied by those passengers paying the cheapest fare. sterilization - the act or process of sterilizing; not able to reproduce undesirables - persons thought to be undesirable; objectionable
Drama/Radio Drama Vocabulary (excerpted from Live on Stage! and Theater of the Mind)
ad lib - an unplanned speech or effect audition - to tryout for a part in a play background - (in radio) music or sound effects played at the same time as dialogue to establish a location, create mood, or create effect of realism crossfade - (in radio) as one segment fades out, another fades in, overlapping cue - a pre-arranged signal to enter or exit the stage, or to begin or end an action, . stage business, dialogue, light, sound or set changes. In radio, the signal for an actor or technician to do his/her part. The cue may be: the last few words of an actor's line, a sound effect or music, or a director's hand signal cut- stop the performance, or delete a portion of the script dialogue - two or more speaking actors fade - (in radio) a decrease in volume fade in - (in radio) an increase in volume from zero to a specified level fade to black - (in radio) when one segment fades completely out, there is a period of silence before the next fades in flashback - a scene depicting events that happened earlier improvisation - a spontaneous creative process in which the performer simultaneously originates and performs his material; an immediate response with no preparation; an exercise in "thinking on your feet" monologue - a single speaking/vocalizing actor narrator - the voice that fills inthe details of the story by introducing scenes and revealing points of the story that cannot be made clear in other ways plot - action of story that moves from opening situation through resolution protagonist - the main character about which the story's action revolves script - the written form of a stage play, screenplay or broadcast segue - (in radio) an abrupt transition--one segment ends, another begins tableau - a technique whereby a dramatic pose is struck by members of the cast to convey a mood or underscore a dramatic moment; commonly used to convey entire scenes as if they were living pictures. text - the script that the actor performs |