"Big Ideas, Little Packages" Vocabulary Notebook

Vocabulary Notebook

Submission to Canvas is due by Monday, February 13th at 6:30 pm

Overview

Now that you have read "Big Ideas, Little Packages" on pp. 32-33 in Pathways, you will type a vocabulary notebook. Using new vocabulary is key to understanding new words and remembering them. If you just memorize words and definitions, you will remember them for a while, but you have to use the new words in logical sentences to keep them firmly in your memory. 

Objectives

One of the objectives (goals) in this course is to:

•  Integrate academic vocabulary into paragraphs and essays

The objectives of writing the vocabulary notebook are to:

• Identify unfamiliar words in the reading passage
• Find the correct definitions for the new words in the context of the reading
• Define the words and use them in your own sentences

Directions

For Google Drive: Vocabulary Notebook: Google Doc (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site.

1. Click on the link and make a copy. 
2. Add your name to the top right. 
3. Save the Google Doc to your Google Drive class folder. 

In the appropriate spaces you will type:

•  the vocabulary word
•  the part of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition . . .
•  a sentence from the textbook (see my example for "quotation marks" and page number. )
•  your guess at the meaning of the word
•  the word's definition from the dictionary,
•  your own sentence, using the word in the correct context
• See my example at the top of the page to guide you as you work

4. When you are finished entering all the information in number 3, you will:

For Google Docs:

• Save the Google Doc to your Google Drive class folder.
• Share the Google Doc with me by making me a commentor and copying the link.
• Or, use the Google Drive LTI tab; find your Google Doc in Google Drive and click on the file to upload it to the assignment. 

Extra Help

Watch the video for directions on how to submit your Vocabulary Notebook to Canvas. 

How to Upload an Assignment to Canvas Links to an external site.

You can study the vocabulary words for Unit 2 in the Quizlet app.  Click on the link to find Quizlet.

Quizlet for Pat's 371/781 class. Links to an external site.