OK, moving right along this morning, here is a worksheet on the Latin word root mort, which means dead and death. This is an extremely productive root in English and includes many words, alas, in use at this very sad and trying moment in human history.
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“When was the Gutenberg Bible published? Circa 1456, at Mainz, Germany. It was the first printed Bible and the first book set on movable metal type. German printer Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of movable type, is believed to have printed it, though Johann Fust and Peter Schoffer are also candidates.”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
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“Vocationalism: An educational philosophy or pedagogy, claiming that the content of the curriculum should be governed by its occupational or industrial utility, and marketability as human capital.”
Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
OK, moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of the “knee-jerk reflex.” This squib that drives this worksheet does a nice, succinct job of showing the relationship between the literal and the metaphorical in this expression–so that’s a concept you might be able to explore in greater depth consequent to this document.
Just sayin’.
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“Coordinate: Indicating connection involving parallel thoughts or equivalence in importance, emphasis, rank, etc., e.g., ‘We’ll do it by hard work and by sheer persistence.’”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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Here’s a context clues worksheet on the verb convince; it is only used transitively. I’m sure I don’t need to nag teachers on the importance of students fully understanding the meaning and use of this word.
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Here, on a Friday morning, is a reading on Jesse James along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Somewhere along the line (for me it was probably consequent to seeing, when I was 12 years old, Philip Kaufman’s film “The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid“) Jesse James attained status as something of a folk hero. As this reading discloses, he was a nasty piece of work–a Confederate sympathizer, klansman, and cold-blooded murderer. In today’s Republican party, he could be a congressional candidate.
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Here is a lesson plan on the Aesop’s Fable “The Milkmaid and Her Pail.” Of course you’ll need the reading with its comprehension questions to teach this short passage on hopes and reality.
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“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
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Tagged humor, literary oddities, philosophy/religion, readings/research
OK, last but not least this morning, before I head out to the grocery store (aside: don’t forget to thank the brave workers staffing our grocery stores–if there is any justice in this world, they will emerge from this pandemic among–to use another word deriving from. the Latin root pan–among the pantheon of heroes), here is a lesson plan on the Latin word roots graph and graphy. These mean writing, written, recording, drawing and science; you will recognize immediately, even before looking at the scaffolded worksheet at the center of this lesson, that these are two very productive roots in English.
I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the verb record, which is used both intransitively and transitively.
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