From the pages of The Order of Things, here is a lesson plan on climatic zones and they way they are organized, as well as the worksheet with list and comprehension questions that constitutes the work of this lesson.
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“Would-be. ‘The would-be assassin was arrested.’ The word doubtless supplies a want, but we can better endure the want than the word. In the instance of the assassin, it is needless, for he who attempts to murder is an assassin, whether he succeeds or not.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
Even though they start with the same Latinate word root, cred, which means belief and believe, the adjectives credible and credulous have two very different meanings. Here is a worksheet on the adjectives credible and credulous to help your students develop their understanding of the difference between these two words and how to use them properly.
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“Happening: Happenings developed from a combination of assemblage and environment art as artists sought to free art further from the constraints of the wall and the frame. Resembling performance, these events often involved sculpture, sound, time, motion, and living persons. While participants began with a plan, there was no rehearsal and no repeat performance. Spontaneous audience participation was sometimes encouraged. Allen Kaprow is credited with inventing happenings, which took place in New York City in the 1960s.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged art/architecture/design, drama/theater, music, readings/research
Last but not least this morning, on a lovely spring morning, what’s more appropriate than a reading on Walt Whitman along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet?
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“Determinative: Indicating the pointing forward to a subsequent phrase or clause that explains or completes, e.g., ‘such words as…,’ ‘the one that….’”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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Here is a lesson plan on the Greek word roots homo, homoiao, and homeo. They mean same, similar, and equal. These are extremely productive roots in English; I assume science teachers will recognize the root of two important words in their domain, homeostasis and homeothermic.
I begin this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the adjective similar in order to provide students a hint of the meaning of these roots. Here, finally, is the worksheet at the center of this lesson.
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“Society: Generally, a group of people who share a common culture, occupy a particular territorial area, and feel themselves to constitute a unified and distinct entity—but there are many different sociological conceptions (see D. Frisby and D. Sayer, Society, 1986).
In everyday life the term society is used as if it referred in an unproblematic way to something that exists ‘out there’ and beyond the individual subject: we speak of ‘French society,’ and ‘capitalist society,’ and of ‘society’ being responsible for some observed social phenomenon. On reflection, however, such a usage clearly has its problems: for example, is British society a clear unity, or can we talk also of Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish societies? And, even within England, are there not wide cultural differences between (say) north and south? Is there one capitalist society—or many? Nor is a society the same thing as a nation-state. The former Yugoslavia clearly contained several societies: Croat, Slovenian, Serbian, and so on.
While many sociologists use the term in a commonsense way others question this use. Some symbolic interactionists, for example, argue that there is no such thing as society: it is simply a useful covering term for things we don’t know about or understand properly (see P. Rock, The Making of Symbolic Interactionism, 1979). Others, such as Emile Durkheim, treat society as a reality in its own right (see The Rules of Sociological Method, 1895).”
Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun edict. If memory serves (and it generally does, happily), I wrote this for use in a freshman global studies class in New York City, where the word appeared repeatedly in lessons ranging from ancient Rome and Greece to the rise of the Catholic Church as a world power.
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Virginia Woolf, Part I: To the Lighthouse
“Her work is poetry; it must be judged as poetry, and all the weaknesses of poetry are inherent in it.”
New York Evening Post
Virginia Woolf Part II: The Waves
“This chamber music, this closet fiction, is executed behind too firmly closed windows…the book is dull.”
H.C. Harwood, Saturday Review of Literature
Excerpted from: Barnard, 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
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