Chapter 7 Response

I think vocabulary is a very important thing to learn, no matter how old you are. I love learning new words every day and I always have. I guess that's why I wanted to become an English teacher. The different techniques described in the chapter seemed very well thought out to me and I would definitely try to implement them in my classroom. I'm not entirely sure how I would make learning new vocabulary fun for my students, but I would defintely try my hardest. Something my sophomore English teacher had us do was write the word in one corner of a piece of paper, write the definition you thought it was in another, the actual definition in another, and then use it in a sentence in the last corner. Then, in the middle, we had to draw a picture of the sentence we wrote. I know that really helped me in learning how to use the words in context, and I now actually do use some of the words in my everyday speech. (I wouldn't be able to tell you which ones I actually learned then, since I've been using them for so long, but I do know that that is what helped me to learn new words.)