[Imagine being the dimbulb publisher who said this about Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, by any standard a part of the American canon.]
“…far too gloomy for us.”
Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
It is a gorgeous day in Manhattan, so this context clues worksheet on the noun qualm in no way reflects my state of mind. As soon as I can get out of this grim, windowless building (about which I do have a serious qualm or two), I’m going for a walk through Hudson River Park.
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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
Here are five homophone worksheets on the adjective coarse and the noun course that may well have a place in your classroom.
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“(1605) A treatise on philosophy by Francis Bacon. Considered an excellent example of Renaissance thought, it extols the pursuit of learning and critically surveys the existing state of knowledge. Bacon later wrote a greatly expanded version, De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientarium (1623), to form the first part of his projected Instauratio Magna.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
You might be able to use, if you think your students should know this word (I think mine should, which is why I wrote it) this context clues worksheet on the verb spurn.
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“A public declaration of advocated opinion, intent, viewpoint, etc., especially a political exhortation or proclamation of aesthetic principles; avowal; credo. Plural: manifestos, manifestoes.
‘How often he had seen her, as they sat together in the evening lamplight, with a pad of it propped on her knee as she drafted a letter to her Congressman, or flaming manifesto for one or another of the ecological causes into which she threw herself, and sometimes him.’” Peter De Vries, Madder Music
Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Napoleon Bonaparte if you need something to introduce the little Corsican quickly.
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“Advertising is legalized lying.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992
This week’s Text is a quick one, after a week of testing. Here are two context clues worksheets on the nouns prologue and epilogue.
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