I introduced new vocabulary words to my freshmen today. I go back and forth between two sets of words. One has fairly easy, recognizable words; the other is SAT words that are pretty hard. Today's were SAT words.
One of our words was truculent (eager to fight, easily angered). I was explaining the word, reading sample sentences, when one of my kids spoke up:
"Ms. Flower, you know we're never going to use these words outside of this class."
"Kid," I replied calmly, "I get truculent when you say things like that."
Ms. Mei Flower
- Mei
- I'm a spinster schoolmarm with a degree in English; I watch artsy movies about British people; I knit while watching the History Channel; I listen to NPR in the car; I eat frozen dinners on the couch. Is that stereotypical enough for you? No? Well, then ... and I have a cat.
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