This is my first year with TOG, and I've read about having rhetoric students make vocabulary cards to study, but I'm just a bit confused over where they should get the terms/vocabulary. Do they choose words they don't know from their readings or is there a list somewhere? I'm feeling pretty dense just about now

This is my first year as well, and I have been wondering the same thing. Are the students supposed to find the words they don't understand out of their reading? Thank you!

Okay, this is just me answering here, but when I read that I felt it meant words they came across they didn't know. Also, I believe there is a suggestion to use SAT vocab prep so maybe words from there as well.

Yes, as Pat said, TOG suggests one way of learning SAT vocabulary is to make cards from whatever SAT prep program you are using. In TOG itself, the other place that has suggests cards is for the Rhetoric literature section. Every week, there are words given in the literature section of the SAP's and the student is instructed to make vocab. cards, study them weekly, and be ready for a quiz whenever Mom feels like giving one.

I bought a SAT vocabulary book from Borders and they have been working their way through that book for several years. I have them do 12 a week. The words are appearing in their conversations and writing, so they are retaining many of them. They aren't intimidated when they come across words that they don't know. The vocabulary sections on standardized tests (required yearly in our state) doesn't intimidate them.

Thanks, Jana, I found them. In Y1, they don't start "assigning" literary vocabulary until week 7, and I just hadn't read through that far.