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Lesson 4: Identifying main idea and themeRebellion | Vocabulary
Let’s explore the meaning and origin of the word “rebellion”. Created by David Rheinstrom.
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- David: Brainstorm as many words that have the parts Bel or Re
Me: Belgium!(21 votes) - At '2:43' it was to funny(12 votes)
- brooooooo that cackle thooooo! XD(9 votes)
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Naw, that cackle was something else(8 votes) - “Man, I’m a great influence!😌”
Got me laughing 😝(8 votes) - Dude I loved the cackle!(7 votes)
- me at3:01
XD🤣🤣🐟🐟🐠🐠(6 votes) - man had a master plan(6 votes)
- Do I have permission to use the laugh as my ringtone by anychance?(3 votes)
- at2:39it just cracked me up(3 votes)
Video transcript
- [Presenter] Sound the
drums of war, wordsmiths, because today I teach you about rebellion. Man, I'm a great influence. Rebellion. It's a noun. It means war or pushback
against a government or an authority, right? The American Revolutionary War began as a rebellion
against the British Crown. Now, this word has Latin origins. The root bel comes from the
Latin bellum, meaning war, and the prefix re means
again, against, or back. So rebels stand up and maybe go to war
against something, right? They're seeking change. So two countries going
to war with each other is not a rebellion, but in uprising within a country, protesting a tyrannical
ruler, that's a rebellion. So re and bel, those are our word parts
I wanna focus on today. I'm gonna put on some
music for about 10 seconds, and while I do that, come up
with as many words as you can that contain those elements. Okay Let's go. (upbeat music) Okay, here are three that
I came up with. Remake. Like there's an old movie and you're making a new
version of it, right? You're making it again. Remake. Belligerent. One of my favorite adjectives.
It means hostile or warlike. A belligerent person
starts a lot of arguments, a lot of fights. And this last one, rebel, right? Also contained within rebellion. This word can be a noun or a verb. I wanted to flag it because pronunciations are different depending on how you use it. When it's a person, they're a rebel. But the thing that a rebel
does is rebel, fights back. The emphasis changes from the
first syllable to the second. First syllable. Second syllable. The nouns verbed. The rebels rebelled in their rebellion. Let's use rebellion in a sentence or two. To the mind of a dictator, something as innocent as
a sidewalk chalk drawing could be seen as an act of rebellion. So it's seen as an act of war or of open resistance to the dictator. Look at a mouth open. He looks so scandalized by little house. Marta rebelled quietly. She
pulled doors marked push. She rode her bike through
the drive-through. She microwaved fish in the office. I feel like I'm contributing to kind of an anti-fish narrative
here, and that's unfair. I microwave fish in the Khan
Academy lunchroom, whatever. I'm not too proud to admit it. Does that make me a hero? Maybe. Does it make me a rebel? Oh, you betcha. Now, if you excuse me,
your boy's got a serving of tuna casserole in the refrigerator, and I can't eat it cold,
if you know what I mean. So you can learn anything. Dig it out. (microwave door opens) (microwave beeps) (microwave door opens)
(presenter laughs)