SAT Vocabulary Directions



Advanced English Language Arts 9 Vocabulary Directions

Before Wednesday of each vocabulary week

When you are assigned a vocabulary list, it will be on a Monday. Make sure the master list stays in the “vocabulary” section of your notebook to use throughout the semester. By Wednesday of that week, have the following completed for the assigned list: the definitions for each word and the part of speech for each definition, synonym(s) and antonym(s), and spellings of the different forms of the word (if given). Optional: Practice the words by writing sentences with the words about your life and the literature the class is reading. For visual learners, draw a picture to represent the word. It will help you remember it!

Beginning Wednesday

We will do periodic practice activities with some of the vocabulary words. This will be a graded or a “for credit” activity. During these activities, you may only use your own notes; therefore, make sure your above assignment is finished. These will also be days when you may ask questions about words you are struggling with.

Friday of the following week

You will take the quiz. You will need to have all of the words memorized. The complete word list will not be available to you during the test. On the test you will be asked to do any of the following: spell the word from my dictation, match a definition, write a definition, match a synonym or antonym, write a sentence using the word, or tell if a word is used correctly in a sentence. Each of the list words will be used only once on the quiz.

Semester Exams

There will be a section on each of your exams devoted to vocabulary words covered that semester.

Absences

Since you know exactly what is expected of you during vocabulary weeks, being absent is not an excuse to be unprepared. You are required to participate in whatever vocabulary work we are doing on the day you return from an absence. If you are absent on the day of a vocabulary quiz, you are required to make up the quiz on the day you return. It is your job to see me and get the quiz. If time does not allow us to complete the make-up quiz during class time, you must schedule a time to come in after school to make it up.

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