Vikings Vocabulary

Unmemorable
Unmemorable
Hiccup was on the small side and had the kind of
face that was almost entirely unmemorable.

He was so boring and unexciting that his face
was almost not worth remembering.

Unmemorable easily forgotten

Use it in another sentence
Another sentence
I went to the dentist last week, it was an
unmemorable appointment.

Taunting

But Fishlegs was fed up of Snotlouts
taunting.
Taunting- is insulting someone. Can result in
that person making an impulsive decision thatd
does not consider the consequences


Fishlegs was so sick of the taunting he thought
he would show up the mean Viking and get
himself a super powerful dragon without
thinking of the consequences if something went
wrong.

Exile




If you fail the test you will be banished to exile!!!

Exile: Is when you are banned from returning to
your home. You are made leave your home town
and defend for yourself
Annihilate
At the tender age off ten and a half he does
his best to annihilate himself and the rest of
you.

Annihilate means to destroy yourself or
something


The footy team got absolutely Annihilated
during the footy match


A noun is the name of people
places or things
NOUN GROUPS
Noun groups give us more information about a
noun.

It is a group of words describing a noun in MORE
detail

Lets turn the word dragon into a noun group

Lets turn the word dragon into a noun
group
dragon



Add more information to
my name so I am more
exciting to the reader.to a
They usually consist of an article
The or An

Example

Article Noun
The Dragon
Noun groups also use one or more adjectives or
adverbs to make them more descriptive

Article Descriptor Noun

The purple Dragon
Noun groups also might use a classifier which
tells us what type of noun we are describing
Example

Article Adjective Classifier Noun
The purple adult Dragon
Can you make another noun group for
the dragon below?
Charismatic used in the novel
Oh, pshaw, this ridiculous Tribe, fumed Old
Wrinkly. OK so you are not what we call a born
Hero. Youre not big and tough and charismatic
like Snotlout.

Show the beast who is Master by the sheer
charismatic force of your personality. That sort
of thing. I have about as much personality as a
stranded jellyfish.
Being charismatic means being confident,
positive and intelligent.

People who are charismatic often have a lot of
people who are immediately drawn to them and
interested in them because they are cheerful
and bubbly people.
Look at Snotlout VS Hiccup
Do we think Prince William and Princess Kate are
charismatic people?
Are people drawn to them?
What about this little boy? Does he
look confident and positive?
Lets put it in a sentence..
It is going to take a lot of courage for Hiccup to
face the Dragon Initiation Programme.

Eventually he built up the courage to unfurl his
wings and flap up onto Hiccups arm.
Courage is.
the ability to do something that frightens you
or that you know is danger. Being brave.
Has Hiccup done anything that has
taken courage in the book yet?


YES!!!!!!!!!
Giving his Dragon to Fishlegs and turning back
to go into the cave even though he knew there
was thousands of dragons coming after him
was a act of courage.

When have you showed courage and done
something you were scared of?


Write courage into your own sentence
Hypnotic
In the text
Hiccup had to blink a lot because the gaze of a
Dragon is hypnotic and gives the unnerving
feeling that it is sucking your soul away.
Meaning
If something is Hypnotic when you look at it, it
means it can put you to sleep.


In the story it says to stare into a dragons eyes is
almost hypnotic.

This could be one of their special abilities when
under attack to get their opponent to look them
in the eyes
Vanity


Remember there are two types of vanity
In the text

Fear, Vanity, Revenge and Silly Jokes

Youre such a clever, quick dragon Toothless, Hiccup
flattered Toothless. I bet you could catch twice as
many fish as any other dragon on Thorsday Thursday.
Toothless opened his eye to consider the matter.
Twice as many? he said modestly. But I dont want
to.
This was unanswerable. Hiccup crossed vanity off the
list.
What do we think it means?
It is to be obsessed with how you look. To love
yourself too much.


His vanity caught up on him to the point where
he had no friends left.

A lot of the girls actions were nothing but vanity,
therefore no one wanted to really be around
her.

Vanity?
Vanity?
Vanity?
Gratitude
Gratitude used in the text
In the story, Hiccup uses a variety of methods to try
and get Toothless to respond to his commands. One
of these is using gratitude.

When he crosses it off the list, he writes
dragons are never grateful

He tried to make Toothless feel special by feeding
him with lots of special treats. Toothless had no
gratitude (appreciation) for what Hiccup was doing.
What is gratitude?
A feeling or emotion of gratefulness and
appreciation for what you have.

Seeing the positives of your life rather than the
negatives
What is something you can
express gratitude for?

What are you grateful for?
Is this gratitude?
Is this gratitude?
Is this gratitude?
Put gratitude in a sentence?
Guffawing
In the text
Vast Viking men sat uncomfortably on rocks
guffawing loudly like gigantic sea lions in
holiday mood.
Guffawing means
A very loud, unrestrained, over the top burst of
laughter.


Imagine Gobber the Belchs and Stoick the Vasts
loud Viking voice and imagine them bursting out
with laughter.

Is this guffawing?
Is this baby guffawing?
Is this child guffawing?
Lets Guffaw!!





Lets put it in a sentence
Solemn
If Hiccup had been able to look at his father,
he would have seen that Stoick was not his
normal self. He looked very solemn indeed
Solemn can mean
Not cheerful
Very serious
In a sentence
Tim looked very solemn

Are these people acting solemnly?
Do these people look solemn?
Put it in a sentence
The solemn expression on his face gave away
nothing.


vast

The second dragon was gobsmackingly vast.

Stoick the Vast
Vast means massive, enormous,
of great size!!
There was a vast amount of money

The dog ran across the vast paddock.

There is a vast amount of differences in the
Indigenous culture.
Is this a vast city?
Is this a vast amount of animals?
Vast??
ravenous

In the text
Dragons are very cruel, very intelligent,
ravenous appetite
Extremely hungry and starved

After several days without food, the tortoise
will become ravenous

By lunchtime we had masses of paper to hand
and were all ravenous

The ravenous beast had quite the appetite
Imagine you hadnt eaten in two
days
You would be feelingRAVENOUS



sinister
There was something faintly sinister about
their disappearance.

It means.
giving the impression that something harmful
or evil is happening or will happen.
Does this place look sinister?

amoral

Dragons are vain, cruel and amoral
creatures as I have said.

lacking a moral sense; doesnt care or
understandright from wrong.

No morals or standards. Will do whatever they
like without considering how it may impact
others.
The world is becoming an amoral place.

The boy was very amoral when he threw his
rubbish into the ocean.

It is nice when your friends arent amoral.
peril

The big drums are only used in times of
ghastly deadly peril, said Mogadon in
amazement.
Peril means serious and immediate danger. To
be under threat
Are they under peril?
Is this peril?
The mans life was in peril because he hadnt
been able to access food in three days.

There are many perils being a police officer.
Malevolent

In the text
You should never ever look into the eyes of a
large Malevolent dragon!!!
It means
Showing or wishing to do evil to others!!!!

The dragon had a malevolent look in its eyes. A
look so frightening it gave me shivers down my
spine.
Does this creature have a malevolant
look in its eyes?
Does this baby have a malevolent look
in its eyes?
Fiendishly

In the text
Discussing Hiccups plan
It was fiendishly clever- if a bit desperate.

dignity

Disdainfully
W
If someone makes you a dish of food that you
think looks gross and you refuse to eat it, this is
an example of when you regard the food
disdainfully.
Do you think in the events in Chapter 10 create
tension in the plot? Why is that?
What is tension
Authors put events in stories that are going to
create tension.
When tension is created your emotions are
increased.
Pivotal points in the chapter
Remember ...
an author builds a series of significant events in the
plot of fiction
books
these events help to build plot tension and contribute
to character
development
some events are more important than others because
they show us
how the character reacts, changes or develops in a
particular way
Ever watched a movie or read a book and you
felt sad, maybe even had a tear in your eye?
Ever read a book or watched a movie and felt
very scared or nervous?

If the events in a book did not create tension for
the reader then the book was most likely boring
and you probably were not too interested in
reading it.
One way authors create tension is
One way tension is created

Cohesion,
Display sheet Section of text 1
Refer to sheet Section of text 1 Modelled annotation.
Direct students to add input to identify the cohesive devices used in this section of the text.
Highlight each cohesive device in text with student input.
Analyse cohesive devices using focus questions:

Focus questions
Who/what do the pronouns her, it and she refer to? (Jiller, the cut, Jiller)
How do these referring pronouns help us understand the text? (Instead of repeating the nouns,
which would make the text clumsy to read, the pronouns stand for the nouns and make it easier to
read.)
How does the text connective, however add more information to the first sentence? (It tells us
that Jiller inspected the cut, however, she simply smiled and shrugged meaning that she didnt
think it was very serious)
How does this cohesive device help us understand the text? (It links ideas in and between the
sentences.)
How many clauses does each sentence contain? (Two).
Why would Emily Rodda use sentences with more than one clause? (She uses a variety of sentence
structures to add information to sentences and to make the text more interesting.)

Verb Groups

Are a group of words that describe action in
more detail.
They explain what is happening in the text
They are made up of verbs, verb helpers and
adverbs

He [was happy],
She [is working] at home,
I [have seen] him before

You [must be] mad,
He [will have arrived] by now,
She [may know] them