I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of a better time in the history of our republic to introduce the social studies concept of totalitarianism. To that end, you may find this context clues worksheet on the adjective totalitarian useful.
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.
“The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
(Today is April 7th, and tomorrow begins spring break here in New York City. Because I don’t want to be anywhere near this or any other computer next week–I plan to spend some time in actual nature instead in front of screens–I’m posting next week’s Text this morning. Happy Spring!)
This week’s Text is four context clues starting from the noun character. In addition to the noun character, that document contains characteristic as both a noun and an adjective, as well as the verb characterize.
That’s it. If you’re a teacher on spring break, I hope it is and was a restful time. You have, I feel confident saying, earned it.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
If ever there was a time when citizens of this republic ought to understand the concept of political legitimacy it is now. So you might consider this context clues worksheet on the adjective legitimate useful.
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 is no effort toward decency–many of the conversations that come back to Herzog are foul-mouthed, and his own sexual actions and reminiscences are unrestrained.”
America
Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged fiction/literature, literary oddities
Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun militarism. Given the budget that the executive branch of our government has proposed, I submit that this is a timely word for students to understand.
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.
“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.”
Sir Richard Steele (1675-1729)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
After posting nine weeks of readings for Black History Month and Women’s History Month, I’m pleased to offer, as this week’s Text, a complete lesson plan on descriptive and limiting adjectives. As with most of the lessons I write, there are two short do-now exercises to begin this lesson: the first is a parsing sentences worksheet for verbs and the second is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on idiom. The mainstay of this lesson is a scaffolded worksheet on descriptive and limiting adjectives. If your students are anything like those I serve, then you will very likely find useful this learning support which you might want to edit or otherwise rearrange. Finally, to help you guide your students through this lesson, here is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
If there is a better time in United States history for students to understand the concept of oligarchy, I can’t imagine when that would be. For that reason, I offer this context clues worksheet on the noun oligarchy.
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.
When high school students, working at their school’s paper, do a better job of scrutinizing an administrator’s credentials than the people charged with hiring him or her, then you know there is a teacher doing something right.
Which is why this article about a group of student journalists in Pittsburg, Kansas, who did exactly that, is cool as hell.
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