Can you keep it down in the back?

Posted at 12:23 PM on January 8, 2007 by Hans Eisenbeis (1 Comments)

Last week, we learned that the best-selling album of 2006 was something called "High School Musical." (Wha?)

This isn't a sequel per se, but it could be: It's called "Rock the SAT," and it's an album designed to help kids improve their vocabulary in preparation for taking the SAT.

That's 268 new words, 20 per song. For example, here is the first verse of a song called "Silence, Reticence:"

"You're so impertinent
You're so impudent
You talk back all of the time
Stupefied
It dulls my senses
It numbs my state of mind
Where does that get me now
A weak, futile voice in the crowd"

Your assignment: (1) Using context and syntax, see if you can pick out the SAT-approved vocabulary in the lyrics above. (2) Which legitimate rock 'n' roll band would you listen to if your job was to pass the verbal portion of the SAT? You may pick up your pencils and turn the page NOW...

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Comments (1)

Hey, it worked with Schoolhouse Rock. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here. . . . Conjunction-junction, what's your function. . . . How a bill becomes law. . . .

How 'bout INXS for that legitimate band? Didn't they do some song that was a list of words - Alleviate, mediate, conjugate, something-ate, something-ate, something-ate? lol

Posted by Mary WArner | January 9, 2007 8:22 PM

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