My goal with Word of the Day/Weekly Vocabulary is that I’ll try to find usable words and then give ways to tie them together. That’s the idea anyway…
(Week One repeats previous WOTD entries)
(click words for links to definitions)
I love this word. This word is the epitome of how difficult the English language is to learn. There is no way without a dictionary or hearing it that you would ever guess “epuh-tohm” would be pronounced “eepit-oh-me”.
What a great concept for back to school. Can spark conversation about goal setting for the class/day/week/quarter/trimester/semester/year. What kind of incentive is there to focusing in your class and trying to achieve a grade of their/your/their parents’ choosing? Maybe there’s not any kind of incentive – maybe that’s a whole other conversation….
What do you need to provide you with the incentive to acquire your goals? What goal represents the epitome of what you want to accomplish?
A tool that may be helpful in organizing goals is the “pocket mod” which can allow your students a way to see goals written out in a concrete fashion with some real world application (depending on the type of goal it is).
The dictionary definition leads toward many references to real estate and such, when I ran across it and decided to include it for WOTD it was in the context of “include” in the question “What do the requirements for the job entail?”
This works with the previous WOTDs when discussing points such as “What will acquiring your goal entail.”
What is essential to acquiring goals? What goals are essential? Are all the goals realistic? (For those of you who have classes called “Essentials of (subject)” I still think our students should know how to pronounce and spell the names of their classes 🙂 )
The Tardy Teacher 