These pictures were taken of students during a vocabulary lesson.  Students were given the assignment of using symbols to "illustrate" the meaning of assigned vocabulary words.  This provided the opportunity to use creativity and personal experience in making vocabulary words meaningful, in contrast to traditional assignments of copying definitions from a dictionary.  Students were allowed to work in groups if they desired, and later shared their work by having the class attempt to determine which vocabulary word was illustrated in their picture.  Students showed a great deal of enthusiasm and creativity in this project, and demonstrated mastery of their vocabulary words during class discussion and subsequent testing. 

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