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=Link to Index and Resources Page = =Activity 1 - What is a synonym? =
 * How many synonyms can you find in Rudyard Kipling's poem If?
 * You can use Language Tools or a dictionary and thesaurus to help you find synonyms correlating to words, phrases and idiomatic expressions in each verse, stanza or line.
 * For example, verse 1, line 1, " If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ..." SELF-CONTROL would serve as an appropriate synonym.

 IF you can keep your head when all about you - (SELF-CONTROL, CALM, COMPOSURE...) Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">And treat those two impostors just the same;

<span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

<span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If you can make one heap of all your winnings <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">And lose, and start again at your beginnings <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">And never breathe a word about your loss;

<span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">To serve your turn long after they are gone, <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">And so hold on when there is nothing in you <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

<span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If all men count with you, but none too much;

<span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If you can fill the unforgiving minute <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, <span style="color: #000566; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">__Resources:__ **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Merriam Webster Dictionary **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary] **


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Synonym.com **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[] **

= **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22px;">Extension Activities: ** = <span style="display: block; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> =<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #008080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">**REMINDER:** =
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">This task is also to help you prepare a comprehensive list of synonyms to use in the interactive whiteboard game, Synonym Tennis. **
 * **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">You will be creating your own Synonym wordsearch. You will need to know the definitions of at least 20 synonyms to Create Your Own Wordsearch. **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">** Any Synonym, Antonym , Metephor or Idiomatic Expression Tennis Games or Wordsearch Puzzles **** you create **** will be included in the WebQuest. **
 * <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">** They will be included in your overall grade by a maximum of 5% **** for students who have completed all extension task. **
 * <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: justify;">** Remember your WebQuest grade is out of 95% - **** YOU can increase your final score by 5% **** by doing TWO Extension Activities. **
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;">**To score 100% you need to complete both Extension Activities.**