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Monday, March 2, 2015

Slice #2 Enervation

I love words, my ears really perk up when I hear someone say a word I've never heard before.  I will hear the sentence over and over the word enunciating itself in the sentence. 

I remember a conversation with a former principal, who used the word 'usurp' in a conversation.  Once she said 'USURP', I didn't hear anything else in the conversation.  I'm pretty sure what she said was important, but I didn't hear it.  I remember jotting down the word on a sticky note, gathered my young students from their special and headed to the classroom. 

I remember looking around on the shelved for a dictionary. My eyes only found a Scholastic Children's Dictionary. I was beginning to feel desperate to know, but that wasn't going to happen. See this was before computers and Internet access were common place.  I had to wait until I get my hands on a dictionary.

This was the beginning of a ritual for me, I now write words down in a notebook.  I realized I love words. 

7 comments:

  1. And I had to look up enervation before I could post! Enervation sounds more like energetic than drained of energy. I need to remember to use it when I'm feeling drained to give myself a pick up. I wish I knew how to instill your love of knowledge and gaining new knowledge to my students--it would make my class so much more interesting for them. (And as the final two weeks of school before spring break, while buried under 12 inches of snow, and waist deep in two standardized tests, I am definitely enervated!)

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  2. And I had to look up enervation before I could post! Enervation sounds more like energetic than drained of energy. I need to remember to use it when I'm feeling drained to give myself a pick up. I wish I knew how to instill your love of knowledge and gaining new knowledge to my students--it would make my class so much more interesting for them. (And as the final two weeks of school before spring break, while buried under 12 inches of snow, and waist deep in two standardized tests, I am definitely enervated!)

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  3. I, too, love Words. My favorite game are word games. I particularly enjoy discovering the etymology of words. I enjoyed reading how about how you discovered your love for words. Thanks for sharing.

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  4. I, too, love Words. My favorite game are word games. I particularly enjoy discovering the etymology of words. I enjoyed reading how about how you discovered your love for words. Thanks for sharing.

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  5. Words are fun! I have a special place in my writer's notebook for my favorite words. Isn't it fun how some of them stand out and beg to be heard, remembered, used?

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  6. http://www.amazon.com/The-Boy-Who-Loved-Words/dp/0375836012
    My favorite read aloud at the start of the year, well one of them, when first introducing the 6 traits of writing. Word choice- what a difference the right word can make. they are truly delicious.

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  7. It's fun to see my students' reactions to new words in my biology classes. Sometimes they find the words funny (snurps), sometimes intimidating (sclerenchyma), sometimes simply overwhelming - usually when there are a lot of them. I may have a broken a few of their brains when I used chromatin, chromosome, centrosome, centromere, and chromatid all in the same class. Bio really should get language credit!

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