Acting Out a Vocabulary Word and MAKING MEANING of the text

What IS and WHAT does the Shah's crier do and sound like?
The text says, "At the market one day, the Shah's crier made an announcement:  Find the great Kaha for our eminent Shah and receive a reward of fifty bags of gold!"
(text from folktale: The Fisherman and the Kaha Bird) 
 

 

Students' Learning from this text....

crier....kinda like Mrs. Farver everyday when she makes announcements over the intercom

....the crier has to keep saying the same thing over and over in different parts of the village

....the crier has to SHOUT the words really loud 

announcement...gives you information

....tells facts that are important

....important stuff

eminent.... powerful and demands respect

....the guy in charge

.....really important and can have you thrown in the dungeon

..... kind of like our president (we have to do what he says)