“Anticipate for Expect. ‘I anticipate trouble.” To anticipate is to act on an expectation in a way to promote or forestall the event expected.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged diction/grammar/style/usage
Because it comes up consistently in social studies classes, I wrote this context clues worksheet on the noun combatant to help students master the meaning and use of this commonly used noun. This is a particularly good–and necessary–word for kids in social studies classes to know.
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“Black Consciousness: Movement in South Africa formed to reestablish black people’s confidence and pride. It was banned by the South African apartheid regime and its leader Steve Biko died under suspicious circumstances while in police detention on 12 September 1977 at the age of 30.”
Excerpted from: Cook, Chris. Dictionary of Historical Terms. New York: Gramercy, 1998.
On a rainy Monday morning, here is an independent practice worksheet on the Columbian Exchange.
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“It [the assassination of John F. Kennedy] was, as I saw it, a case of ‘the chickens coming home to roost.’ I said that the hate in white people had not stopped with the killing of defenseless black people, but that hate, allowed to spread unchecked, had finally struck down the nation’s Chief Magistrate.”
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged black history, united states history
Alright, it’s soon time for me to leave. Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Kwanzaa. If you like using Everyday Edits in your classroom then you are in luck: Education World will give you a yearlong supply of them on a broad range of topics.
If you find typos in this document, fix them! It’s an Everyday Edit!
“Who is the hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)? He has no name. He is a young man from the south who finds his way to a hidden existence in a coal cellar in New York.”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
His premature death robbed the world of a keen, compassionate intellect. Since reading The Fire Next Time in my early twenties, my eyes have been wide open to his genius. If you want to know more about James Baldwin, I cannot recommend highly or often enough Raoul Peck’s magisterial documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.”
So, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on James Baldwin does not do the man justice, but it might serve as an introduction to him for your students.
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OK, I’m trying to clear my desk before I leave for the weekend. Here is a worksheet on rounding numbers along with its answer key.
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“Bard: (Welsh, bardd; Irish, bard) Amont the ancient Celts a bard was a sort of official poet whose task it was to celebrate national events—particularly heroic actions and victories. The bardic poets of Gaul and Britain were a distinct social class with special privileges. The “caste” continued to exist in Ireland and Scotland, but nowadays are more or less confined to Wales, where the poetry contests and festivals, known as the Eisteddfodau, were revived in 1822 (after a lapse since Elizabethan times). In modern Welsh a bardd is a poet who has taken part in an Eisteddfod. In more common parlance the term may be half seriously applied to a distinguished poet—especially Shakespeare.”
Excerpted from: Cuddon, J.A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. New York: Penguin, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged poetry, readings/research, term of art
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