Author Archives: Marcie Jessee

Here are the steps to doing a word study followed by a sample word study on PEACEMAKER: 1 – Select a word to focus on. 2 – Look it up in the Webster 1828 dictionary. It can be found online, here. Select the definition for your focus (sometimes there is more than one definition) 3 […]

Research the author and take a few notes on important aspects of their lives, including: when and where they lived, how they were raised, what their education was like, what belief system they professed and taught, what their awards and accomplishments were and what others said about them. This doesn’t need to be time-consuming. It […]