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Review the Biggest Buzzwords of the Week! When you follow national and worldwide affairs, you get access to natural disasters, alleged crimes, social media controversies and more. Each week, we’ll highlight the top buzzwords or terms that your students might not have known or even heard until now. All these words are featured in the most recent edition of The Week in Rap. And once students beef up their vocab, the news will make a lot more sense. THIS WEEK radioactive (adjective)-- emitting or relating to the emission of ionizing radiation or particles. Why it matters: After last year's destructive earthquake and subsequent…

Commonly Confused Words Have you ever mixed up "two," "too" and "to"; "than" and "then"; or "their," "there" and "they're"? You're not alone. In our Commonly Confused Words story, Flocabulary highlights all these homonyms and more. Homonyms are words that are spelled or sound the same, but have different meanings. There are two subsets in the category of homonyms, homographs and homophones. Homographs are two words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. Some examples: live (v) / live (n) bear (n) / bear (v.) rebel (n) / rebel (v.) bow (n) / bow (v) bat (baseball, n) /…

A noun is the name for any word that is a person, place, thing or idea. Person, place and thing nouns are concrete. That means you can experience them with your five senses. The only type of noun that you can't experience with your five senses is an idea noun. Idea nouns are also known as abstract nouns. These are nouns that you can't see or touch or feel or smell or taste, but they still exist. In this lesson plan, you'll review common abstract nouns with your student's favorite music and artwork.

The 1920s were a fantastic decade of new music, new fashion and new ideas. Learn all about it in Flocabulary's Jazz Age rap song. Also known as the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties popularized jazz, flapper fashion and new dances like the Charleston, where people moved their whole bodies, not just legs and shoulders. The radio helped spur these musical trends, allowing Americans to enjoy this new style of music without physically visiting a jazz club. It was not all music and dance, however. The Jazz Age was also the time of Prohibition and organized crime. Many Americans thought that…

Our brand new Ancient Egypt video includes rapping (and unwrapping) mummies, hieroglyphic-decoding explorers and a tour of the pyramids. And behind the beat on the hook, we included an actual relic from Ancient Egypt. The sound you hear at the end of the song comes from King Tut's trumpet. While unearthing King Tut's tomb in 1922, archaeologists found a lot of cool stuff that belonged to King Tut: the first-ever sofa bed, 30 boomerangs used for hunting, and two beautiful trumpets. One trumpet was silver, the other was copper. Both were decorated with ornate carvings. In 1939, someone decided they…