Opening a Dictionary would become my first choice to discover new words. I also realized it would be a very good idea to teach myself better traits for my penmanship. I felt ridiculous—it was impossible for me to write in a straight line. Because of the two ideas I had surrounded myself with, it pushed me to grab a dictionary.
The process of getting started with the dictionary took me about two days. I had no idea that some of the words were real! I also had no idea what I needed to learn. I decided to start copying the dictionary.
Even though my handwriting took more time then I intended I made sure to copy everything I saw. This process took roughly one day to complete. After I finished, I then read what I had wrote to myself. I made sure to repeat this step; re-reading my own handwriting.
When the morning came I was relieved, and very proud of myself. I had learned many new words, and I was happy that I could remember the words’ meanings. If I couldn’t remember a meaning, I would go over it again until I could. Now that I’m thinking about the long process, I remember reading about a strange African mammal, the aardvark.
After starting this long project, I couldn’t stop. I went on to learn the B’s now. After this, I discovered that this would be the way that would copy the entire dictionary. Since I had enough practice with the process already, copying the rest of the dictionary went relatively quicker for me. Copying the dictionary, I wrote about a million words.
Posted by helen23 on December 5, 2008
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