This week’s Text is a lesson plan on the Latin word root pel. It means “drive” and can be found in such high-frequency English words as compel, dispel, expel, propel, and repel, all included, of course, on this scaffolded worksheet, which includes cognates from the Romance languages.
I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the verb animate. It’s used transitively, and in this document it means “to move to action.” I hope it points the way to the meaning of pel.
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