This week’s Text is a lesson plan on the Greek word roots gen/o, -gene, and -genesis. These, as you have probably inferred, carry several meanings: “production,” “formation,” “generation,” “origin,” “cause,” “birth,” “kind,” and “race.” These roots grow into such high-frequency English words as carcinogen, congenital, and genocide, all of which are included in this scaffolded worksheet.
I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the adjective prenatal, which I hoped, perhaps vainly and foolishly, would point the way toward the meanings of these word roots.
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