Here’s a first on Mark’s Text Terminal: on the same day it is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, I offer you this context clues worksheet on the noun behest.
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“Copulative: Indicating linking or predication of words, phrases or clauses, e.g., the verb ‘is.’”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
OK, here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “End of a Villain.”
I use this cultural literacy worksheet on the American idiom “Once in a Blue Moon” to begin this lesson after the class change that brings students into my classroom. Here, from a Crime and Puzzlement book itself, are the illustration, text, and questions that drive this lesson. Finally, here is the answer key for the case.
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“In The Red and the Black, what do the colors stand for? In Stendahl’s 1830 novel, the red refers to Napoleon’s colors or the military life, the black to the clergy or religious life.”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged fiction/literature
This seems like as good (or the best) a time as any to post this short reading on the problem of evil and vocabulary building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies it. This has tended to be high-interest material for the students I’ve served in my career, particularly high school juniors and seniors.
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“His fame is gone out like a candle in a snuff and his memory will always stink.”
William Winstanley, diary 1687
Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged literary oddities, poetry
Somewhere, and I’ll post it in the future, I have an entire lesson that attends this brief timeline of world history. For now, I think this document has merit per se.
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“The first novel (1963) by Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937), an author of such reclusive habits that the only known photograph of him was taken in 1955. The title initial is the name under which a mysterious woman manifests herself at key moments of disaster that have contributed to the formation of modern Europe and America. V appears in various guises, including Victoria Wren, Victoria Meroving, Venus, Virgin, and Void. (The shape of the letter V many also symbolize the collision course between two otherwise unrelated chains of events.) The two protagonists, amont 200 named characters, are Herbert Stencil, obsessed with finding V, which he never does, and Benny Profane, an accident-prone realist. As Stencil’s father notes in his journal: ‘There is more behind and inside V than any of us had suspected. Not who, but what: what is she.’
V is also the title of a long poem (1985) by Tony Harrison (b. 1937), representing a kind of updating of the miners’ strike in Gray’s Elegy. The V of the title is a symbol of conflict (‘versus’). Harrison’s television broadcast of the poem in 1987 was controversial for its unflinching use of ‘four-letter words.'”
Excerpted from: Crofton, Ian, ed. Brewer’s Curious Titles. London: Cassell, 2002.
Here’s a context clues worksheet on the verb gratify, which is apparently only used transitively. This is a word students should know–it’s that simple.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy exercise on Wounded Knee and the tragic events that occurred there. It is short, so it serves only as an introduction to the subject, which absolutely warrants greater scrutiny and analysis.
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