This vocab book looks a whole lot different then last years. Last year, the vocab was pretty easy. This year, the first section is harder than some of the sections towards the end of last year's book. Maybe that's just because we are older now, I don't know. But, I do know that those vocab squares were very time consuming. I really don't understand why we need to know that much about the vocab word. I know the SATs are coming up but do I really need to know the etymology of a word? How is knowing that convene came from latin going to help me? And furthermore, I don't think I need a symbol to remeber a word. I just remember things.
I wonder how the tests are going to be set up. I hope they are going to be normal vocab quizzes where there is matching and writing sentences. I don't want to write a story using all of the vocab words. That would take too much time. Also, I would rather fill in blanks than have to draw pictures illustrating the wordsl.
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The tests will be varied. What's a "normal" quiz anyway? The idea is to learn the word, not learn how to crack a test.
That's the same answer for why do all of the squares thing- knowing as much as you can about a word helps cement it in your memory. Also, seeing word families and etymology can help you decipher words you don't know on tests such as the ACT or SAT.
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