| Picture yourself a teenager, at home one night with a | | | | friends, and I’ve done a bunch of stuff. |
| ton of homework to do. It’s late you just had | | | | I’ve never seen this word before so how |
| dinner, you’re feeling tired, you’ve had | | | | important could it possibly be? Again, I function well in |
| a rough afternoon, and now you’ve got a | | | | society, this is a word that is probably some remote |
| bunch of homework to do. You grab your history | | | | obscure history word that I’m never going to |
| book and you start reading and you got like five | | | | hear again for the rest of my life anyway; I’m |
| pages to read, you’re blowing through the | | | | not going to bother stopping to look this word up |
| text, and you come across a word that | | | | and even if I did have the time, it doesn’t |
| you’ve never seen before. What do you do? | | | | make any kind of sense. |
| What you’re supposed to do and what | | | | Let me tell you something, on a certain level I agree |
| you’ve been taught to do since childhood is | | | | with you 100% because I used to do the same thing. |
| put your book down, pick up your dictionary and look | | | | At times when you truly are under a lot of time |
| up that word, maybe write a little note for yourself | | | | pressure, it may not actually make sense to stop and |
| after you’ve learned the definition, understand | | | | look up a word. You’re going to slow yourself |
| the word and context, understand the passage a | | | | down and you’re not going to get to all your |
| little bit better as a whole, and cruise on through your | | | | homework. If you fall into that thinking of often |
| homework that night. | | | | skipping words because you don’t feel like |
| Let me guess that that’s probably not what | | | | taking the time because you feel like you’re |
| you would really do if put in that situation. If | | | | smart enough and you’ve never seen this |
| you’re anything like I was when I was a kid, | | | | word and it’s not that important, |
| what you do is you would just skip the word and | | | | you’re like me but do me a favor – |
| keep moving. I think the reasoning that you might | | | | ultimately you’re going to struggle on a test |
| use to justify that is this: | | | | like the SAT without a really good vocabulary. |
| You say to yourself I’m seventeen years old, | | | | You’re going to struggle like I did when I was |
| I’m a pretty well functioning young adult, I | | | | younger. If you fall into this category, do me a favor |
| have a driver’s license, I’ve been out, | | | | – watch part 2 on this series of vocabulary |
| I’ve traveled, I’ve gone to dinner with | | | | and I want to slowly start to change your mind. |