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Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
Despite its popularity among teens, you're not going to find class sets of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series in the English department book rooms across the country. Even if most teachers don't incorporate trendy literature into their class syllabus, it doesn't mean that they can't take advantage of the excitement of the fad and harness it to teach some valuable lessons about writing, editing, and word choice.
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Vocabulary Shout-Out: Peter Schjeldahl for "Apposite"
He threw in "phlegmatic" and "marmoreal" to boot!
Apposite's a word you don't hear every day. Meaning "fitting and relevant," it is derived from the Latin terms "appositus" and "apponere." "Ponere" means to place, and thus "apponere" is "well-placed or well-put."
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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - Mar. 6, 2013
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - Mar. 6, 2013
Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - Mar. 6, 2013.
Then see "Vocabulary Begets Vocabulary: The More You Know, the More You Learn" to understand why learning these words will help you absorb even more as you read.
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How Are You Celebrating National Grammar Day?
Happy National Grammar Day, all you grammar-heads! To celebrate, you might enjoy reading through the contributions to the annual Grammar Haiku Contest. (Congratulations to the winners — full results are here). And check out Jen Doll's piece for The Atlantic Wire about how best to celebrate the day (featuring an interview with our own Ben Zimmer) here.
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New American Literature Vocabulary Lists
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It's easy to make literature-based Vocabulary Lists on Vocabulary.com, but it's even easier to let us make them for you. Check out latest additions in American literature here.
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Books
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Correia Middle Tops School Leaderboard for February
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Last month, eighth graders at Correia Middle School in San Diego, CA answered more than 25,000 questions on Vocabulary.com, earning 5,325,175 points, mastering 1,632 words, and topping our school leaderboard for February 2013. Here, English teacher Deborah Ryles talks to Vocabulary.com about Correia's use of the site.
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National Grammar Day is just around the corner — it falls on Monday, March 4th (march forth, get it?). Among the festivities is the annual Grammar Haiku Contest, overseen by editor Mark Allen. In the contest, verbivores vie for glory by submitting grammar- or usage-based haikus on Twitter. This year, I've been asked to be a judge.
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