It was a masterful treatise that we use in AP to study persuasion. The vocabulary of that wizard of words was overwhelming. Just yesterday, I was listening to Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” in the car. This will be used to identify your test if you wish to come back and take it later, or if you wish to share it with your friends.
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No computer program is necessary for this. So you want to Create a Quiz with our Free Quiz Maker Lets start by creating a username and test name. The best way to understand and admire the beauty of the English language is to use the English language. And colleges like Swarthmore and Columbia, and many others, no longer require the SAT for admittance. And now she has graduated from that same “high-performing school” and never once wrote a comprehensive research paper, or a poem, or a story, or creative nonfiction. The vocabulary test was a Herculean task. It took pages and hours of work, and her teacher just brushed by to “check” her work. This new upgraded system will include the ability to save and share activities and scores. We will automatically convert any wordlist you have created in the old quiz makers, and make it available in our new system. I saw my daughter copy definition after definition, needing to define every synonym and antonym. As part of the evolution of our site, the old activity makers will be removed during the summer. Why then, does vocabulary, with such a tiny fraction, weigh so heavily in students’ grades? Why should any student fail English because of a vocabulary quiz? And just who made Sadlier-Oxford the arbiter of all the essential words?Ī supervisor at my daughter’s school, Cherry Hill East, told me that vocabulary drill was essential for high SAT scores. For 12 years of schooling, that’s only 4,800 words, or a tiny fraction of all the words in English. Most vocabulary books have 20 units of 20 words each. There are 1,035,877 words in the English language. As a parent, I would place such work in a “file to save.” Such work shows one’s personality and creativity I would rather have this, and so much more, than a single Scantron with a fuzzy number in Item Correct.
My students were required to write a new chapter of a novel for each vocab unit.Īs a parent, I would rather have my child show me pages of creative, written work. And so at the beginning of 2015, I trashed the traditional quiz and elevated the pleasure: no more Scantron Fridays.
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