Choose a word from Vocabulary Lesson 12. In at least one paragraph, define the word in your own words and explain where you encountered it. Describe how understanding this word helps improve your communication or writing skills.

  Prompt: A maelstrom is violent and turbulent like a storm or whirlwind. I heard of the term for the first time while I was reading a novel where there was this maelstrom of problems for one of the characters and he was stuck in it. It makes me describe dramatic events of things better. I can now use maelstrom to give more variety to my work. It makes for better communication because it makes me communicate things better and descriptively.

Summary: Today we did sentences for all the vocabulary lesson 12 words and did some exercise on them.

Reflection: I learned a lot of new words and this will help expand my vocabulary. I liked the exercises because they worked to test my knowledge