My goal with Word of the Day/Weekly Vocabulary is that I’ll try to find usable words and then give ways to tie them together. That’s the idea anyway…
(Week One repeats previous WOTD entries)
(click words for links to definitions)
epitome
I love this word. This word is the epitome of how difficult the English language is to learn. [...]
I really am working on TKAM. I read it for hours in the car. I’m up to where Aunt Alexandra moves in and Dill appears. I admit the book is better on a second reading. My goal is to start putting up lessons next week.
Yep, give me an assignment that I’m not in love with and I procrastinate just like the students do.
I finally sat and read the first three chapters this weekend. Just read. Didn’t focus on curriculum or vocabulary or anything but getting the gist of the book.
I think this was a good point to carry in [...]
Yahoo Education has the Cliff Notes - it’s definitely worth a look -
Click here to link to Yahoo Education.
I am two pages in and I am DYING here. I have 16 vocab words and phrases. Things that I understand through connotation and context and experience with the words - things that an average high schooler [...]
Confession:
I don’t love To Kill a Mockingbird.
I know. Gasps of shock, surprise and disbelief that a teacher doesn’t like TKAM. I get that it’s a great book with an important story, it’s just that when people list it in their top five favorite books my reaction is always more of, “Really? Mockingbird?”
This is the reason [...]
portfolio
click above for link to definition
I’ve been reading the financial pages, which is where volatile and portfolio came from.
This is a LOT of work to go into a book cover - but I know some schools require students to make them, and this might be a decent starting point for instructions. If any FACS classes teach sewing it can be an immediate, practical project.
Click here for book cover project
volatile
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