Moving along, here is a reading on nuclear fission with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Science teachers take note (I guess): This is a good general introduction to a complicated topic.
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“text-to-self connection: A learning strategy applied by elementary students while reading a text. Prompted by the teacher, students ask themselves whether the text they are reading reminds them of something that happened in their own lives, Advocates claim that making these connections helps students think about and understand what they are learning. Critics contend that the approach is artificial, makes reading a technical process, and does not help students appreciate literature that does not relate to their own lives.”
Excerpted from: Ravitch, Diane. EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2007.
Here is a worksheet on the Latin word root vor, which means to eat. You’ll find this productive root, unsurprisingly, at the base of words like carnivore, herbivore, and insectivore and voracious (all included in this document) as well as omnivore, not included here but a nice example of a pair of Latin roots–omni means all–combining to give us a useful word–someone or something that eats everything.
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“Zeno: Father of the paradox. Philosopher of the fifth century BC, A source of Socrates’ technique and of humor as a weapon against power and pedantry. The other Zeno, also a philosopher and father of the Stoic movement, committed suicide.”
Excerpted from: Saul, John Ralston. The Doubter’s Companion. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Attila the Hun. This is a half-page worksheet with a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions. This is a good general introduction to Attila, but to appreciate fully the wide swath he cut through history, and the consequences of it, you will probably need to dig a little deeper than this document does.
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“Kinetic Art: Art that moves, driven by atmospheric forces (e.g. Alexander Calder’s mobiles) or by motors, magnets, etc. Retrospectively applied to sculpture in motion created since the 1920s, recent kinetic art includes machine ‘sculptures’ by the art collective Survival Research Laboratory.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb envisage, which is only used transitively–so don’t forget your direct object. The word itself means “to view or regard in a certain way,” and “to have a mental picture of especially in advance of realization,” which are the definitions this worksheet’s context clues aim to elicit from students.
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“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
H.G. Wells
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
Here is a worksheet on the verb keep as it is used with a gerund. I keep denigrating these documents; should I?
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“Bowdlerization (noun): The altering, rewording, or striking out of parts of a literary work out of a sense of propriety or prudery, often with euphemistic paraphrases; moralistic censorship; prudishly modified version of a book. N. bowdlerism; v. bowdlerize. Also EXPURGATION
‘It now develops that even before it was submitted to the publisher, Dreiser’s work was greatly censored—indeed, bowdlerized—by his wife, “Jug,” and a good friend, newspaperman Arthur Henry.’ Ray Walters, The New York Times”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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