Chatper 9 (The right chapter 9)

When I was in high school I HATED, DESPISED, AND LOATHED vocabulary. I thought it was a total waste of time to learn words that I most likely was not going to pick up and use later in life. And continuing to my freshman year of college, I was write. Yes, I feel that having an extensive vocabulary is important, but I feel it is more important of how one takes those newly learned words and works them into their writing. For me, my new vocab words seemed so foreign in my writing that it just felt unnatural in the piece, and teachers commented on it; "You're trying to hard." they would say. When I stopped trying to add in words that teachers shoved down our throats in high school I feel that I slowly became a better, more fluent writer. I think of good portion of why I didn't like the vocabulary part of school is that not one teacher I had made it interesting. It was just 20 extra points to memorize in homeroom and get by the end of the day. Going back to the book, I really like that the vocabulary tree gave a student a sense of creativity towards the words. It also could help the slowly progress to learning how to input these words into their writing.