I Don't Like Green Eggs and VAM

Actually, I did like the "Vocabulary Acquisition Model", because I've always loved words (and word games-btw...I'm a beast at speed scrabble, upwords and boggle). In fact I'm aspiring to be more like Gordon, in that way! I loved his manipulation of words and their root! I also loved Jak's presentation of this model. He sparked a desire in me to become more familiar with ASL.
But enough about what I love...the reason that I would be least likely to use VAM is because it seems least applicable to the Social Studies. I would spend a few minutes break apart a word in order to discuss it's mean and/or history but I don't think I would invest in the time and preparation to use the model in full.
PS...Will you ask us to blog about what we did in August, so I can keep caught up with everyone???