This week’s Text is a lesson plan on the Latin word root arbor. It means, of course, tree. This is a productive root in English, yielding such words as arboreal, arboretum, and Arbor Day. These are not exactly high frequency words in English. However, if the author of the book from which this material is drawn is correct, they are likely to appear on the S.A.T.
This lesson begins with this context clues worksheet on the noun copse. A copse is “a thicket, grove, or growth of small trees,” and is also called a coppice. Either way, it points students toward the meaning of arbor. You’ll need this scaffolded worksheet, complete with cognates from the Romance languages, to deal with the principal work of this lesson.
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