Here is a a context clues worksheet on the verb submit, which is used both transitively and intransitively.
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“Any second rate English society novelist could have written this story better than F. Scott Fitzgerald though no one could have touched his best chapters. Is it laziness, indifference, a lack of standards, or imperfect education that results in this constant botching of the first rate by American novelists?”
Saturday Review of Literature
“…none of the characters in this book is made sufficiently measurable at the beginning to give to his later downhill course anything more than mildly pathetic interest.
William Troy, The Nation
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
Tagged fiction/literature, literary oddities
This context clues on the noun mayhem probably describes more schools in this country than any teacher or administrator would care to acknowledge. It certainly most accurately designates the school in which I currently serve.
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“Virtue has never been as respectable as money.”
Mark Twain
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
High school students probably should know the transitive verb invoke, so here’s a context clues worksheet on it to aid you in teaching students this word.
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Here’s a context clues worksheet on the noun proviso. This one might be particularly useful to you if you teach United States history and deal with the Wilmot Proviso.
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OK: It has been some time since I posted an entire lesson plan, so for this week’s Text I offer a complete lesson that introduces students to prepositions. This lesson begins with two (the second one in the event that the lesson runs to two days) do-now exercises, namely Everyday Edits worksheets, the first one on the Surrender at Appomattox and the the second one on the Modern Olympic Games. (Incidentally, if you like these Everyday Edit Worksheets, the good people at Education World give them away at their site, and you will find the answer keys to them there as well.)
The mainstay of this lesson is this scaffolded proofreading and cloze exercise worksheet that introduces students to prepositions and their uses. Here is a learning support on prepositions that accompanies this lesson (and all six lessons in this unit, which I will post over time, I suppose). Finally, here is a teacher’s copy and answer key to assist you as you deliver this lesson.
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When I was teaching a unit on Rome, this context clues worksheet on the noun magistrate seemed like something I needed to have. In any case, it is a word in common enough use today to be worth teaching.
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Just below this post, you’ll find a context clues worksheet on the noun and adjective plebeian. Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun and adjective patrician to accompany it. Once again, I’ve combined two parts of speech in this worksheet, again because they are the same word with the same basic meanings. Maybe the two parts of speech require separate worksheet, but I haven’t found that to be the case so far in using this. This worksheet might present teachers with an opportunity to help students gain an understanding of basic English usage.
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This context clues worksheet on the noun and adjective plebeian might take your students part of the way to understanding social class. I’ve set it up as both a noun and an adjective because the words are the same, and because they mean the same thing. Perhaps these two words in their two parts of speech require separate worksheets, but so far I haven’t thought so. If nothing else, you could use this to assist students in developing their own understanding of how the parts of speech function in sentences.
The next context clues worksheet I post will be patrician to complement this worksheet.
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