Journal #25: Post on your own blog: “My Vocabulary History”
What are your strong points; what are your weak points when it comes to the trait of Word Choice in your writing and reading?
My strong points when it comes to the trait of word choice are that I can use simple words and still get my opinion and point out to the readers. Also, I can use long, complicated vocabulary without making the writing piece sound boring and difficult to understand. My weak points in the trait of word choice are that I sometimes use the wrong word in an incorrect manner when I try to find a synonym for the word I'm trying to replace. When I read articles, books, etc. there are some words that I do not know the meaning of.
Describe how you have studied vocabulary in the past. What kinds of class activities and assignments have you experienced to work on your word choice?
In the past, I had workbooks that helped me expand my vocabulary.
Describe how you, personally, learn new words. Give a specific example of how you have learned a new word recently.
I personally learn new words by reading. When I read and come across a word that I have never seen or heard of before, I go straight to a dictionary to see what it means because I lose track on where the story is going. For example, eversince we started reading To Kill a Mockingbird, I have stubled across some difficult words like assuaged. I learned that assuage means to to make milder or less severe.
What are your specific vocabulary/word choice goals? How many new words would you like to learn this semester?
Overall, i would just like to learn more and new vocabulary and use them in my daily life. I would like to learn a lot of words that would help me throughout my high-school career.
What will be your evidence that you “own them” and can use them in your speaking and writing?
My evidence is that I improved more on my essays.
Hi Sharmaine,
ReplyDeleteI agree that you do a pretty good job in your word choice and in your essays. And I also agree that reading is an excellent way to learn new words. Besides using a dictionary to figure out words you come across in your reading, another way is context...that involves making and "educated guess" about the word meaning from the way it is used in the story.
mrs s