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Vocabulary Practice

“Maya Lin: Architect of Memory”. Vocabulary Practice. Some tools are _____ from a time when they are useful to people. artifacts dedicated equality exhibits. "Oh Boy Is This Great". artifacts – plural noun – things left over from an earlier time. Try, Try, Again.

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Vocabulary Practice

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  1. “Maya Lin: Architect of Memory” Vocabulary Practice

  2. Some tools are _____ from a time when they are useful to people. • artifacts • dedicated • equality • exhibits

  3. "Oh Boy Is This Great" artifacts – plural noun – things left over from an earlier time

  4. Try, Try, Again If at First You Do Not Succeed...

  5. The mayor ______ a new museum to the memory of the founders of the city. • site • equality • exhibits • dedicated

  6. "Oh Boy Is This Great" dedicated – verb– set apart from a special purpose or use

  7. The Constitution of the United States provides for the _____ of all Americans under the law. • exhibits • site • equality • artifacts

  8. "Oh Boy Is This Great" equality – noun – the quality or condition of being equal

  9. We went to see the _________of fossils at the museum • exhibits • site • artifacts • dedicated

  10. "Oh Boy Is This Great" exhibits – plural noun – things shown on display

  11. Our house is at a mountain ____ with a beautiful view. • site • artifacts • dedicated • equality

  12. "Oh Boy Is This Great" site – noun – the position or location of something

  13. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was designed by architect Maya Ying Lin 1981 who said her idea was that “The names would become the memorial”.

  14. Civil Rights Memorial • In Montgomery, Alabama is a memorial to 40 people who died in the struggle for equal and integrated treatment of people of European and African descent. • The concept of Maya Lin's design is based on the soothing and healing effect of water. • 1989

  15. The Wave Fieldat the University of Michigan • A pure earth sculpture, made entirely of soil covered with grass, collapses the boundaries between nature and art, earth and  water, object and pedestal. The sculpture, which took over two years to complete, is approximately 90 feet by 90 feet square. Maya Lin 1996

  16. Has stood as a symbolic landmark for the "World's Most Famous Beach" since 1938. Its four, one-of-a-kind, clock dials [which are actually transparent] feature the twelve letters of the city (D-A-Y-T-O-N-A-B-E-A-C-H) instead of the traditional one through twelve numerals. The architect, Allen J. McDonough, used beautiful native Florida coquina rock, which was quarried locally, to build this impressive Clock Tower structure The Coquina Clock Tower Daytona Beach's Oceanfront Park

  17. Words are Fun See you next week

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