ESL 371/781 U3: Vocab NB #1

Vocabulary Notebook

submission due by Monday, March 27th @6:30pm

Overview

Now that you have read "The Power of Crowds" on pages 45-46 in Pathways, you will type your first vocabulary notebook for Unit 3. 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 a logical sentence to file them successfully in your memory. 

Objectives

One of the objectives (goals) of 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

1. Click on the Google Doc link.
2. Save the Google Doc to Google Drive.

3. In the appropriate spaces you will type:

•  the vocabulary word
•  the part of speech
•  a sentence from the textbook (see my example for "quotation marks" and the 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:

• Click on the blue Submit Assignment button on the top right of this page.
• Locate your vocabulary notebook in your Google Drive. 
• Click on your file to submit your vocabulary notebook to this assignment. 
• This is a file upload or a URL submission for a Google Doc. 

U3, Reading1 Vocabulary Notebook Google Doc Links to an external site.

Extra Help

You can study the vocabulary words for Unit 3 in the Quizlet app.  Click on the link to find Quizlet.

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

• If you cannot find any words in "The Power of Crowds" that are unfamiliar to you, choose other words in Unit 3.