The Iguana/Vocabulary/ Getting to Know the Everyday Writer

First of all, you look over Dinesen's "The Iguana." Form groups and annotate her use of the techniques for writing about observation.

Now we discuss the vocabulary section of your journal. From now on you need to add one vocabulary word for each day that class meets. For each entry:

1. List the word.
2. Quote a chunk of the context so we can tell how it was used.
3. Write your guess for what it means.
4. Copy the definition from a dictionary that matches that context.

For example:

1. impetuous
2. "the live impetuous blood pulsating"
3. not controlled?
4. forcibly rushing (OED)

Now do the handout that gets you in to The Everyday Writer.

Homework:

1. Finish the Everyday Writer worksheet and continue working on the first draft of your observation/description paper. Email any questions you have for me.