Today I’m trying to clean up some folders and put up a few new posts, trying to catch up to my usual pace of work. Here’s a context clues worksheet on the adjective crucial. I hope it’s useful–it’s another commonly used word in English.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“There are many objectionable passages and references. I am sorry not to be able to recommend this book for the subject is an important one.”
L.R. Etzkorn, on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, in Library Journal
Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
For some reason, Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate gives both transitive and intransitive definitions for ravage in its use as a verb. I can’t imagine using it without a direct object. In any case, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb ravage. It’s in common enough usage in the English language that high school students ought to know it.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
I’d hoped to begin the New Year with something splashy, but circumstances require that I focus on getting my ducks in a row in my classroom. So, here is a worksheet on the Latin roots viv, vivi. and vit. It means, of course, life, living, and live.
That’s it for this week; I’ll do my best to have something a little better for next week. February and March are Black History Month and Women’s History Month respectively, and I’ve already begun to line up a series of readings and comprehension worksheets in observation of those months.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.”
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
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