Here is a worksheet on the verb request when it is used with an infinitive. They requested to work on something more substantial than the worksheet on the verb request.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom vicious circle. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one longish compound containing a colon and a semicolon which might, obviously, be best revised for emergent readers and those working to acquire English as a new language. There is one simple comprehension question and one imperative to use vicious circle in a sentence.
In other words, a basic introduction to this very commonly used idiom in English.
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This week’s Text is a lesson on the Latin word root sept. Unlike many of the other lessons on word roots this blog published, sept is not at the root of a lot of high frequency words–except for September, of course. So the scaffolded worksheet that is the principle work of this lesson contains a lot of seldom-used words such as septet (unless of course you are a Wynton Marsalis fan surprised by his disbanding of his estimable septet), septillion, septuagint, and septuble, and includes a list of cognates from the Romance languages.
This do-now exercise on the adjective and adverb weekly doesn’t quite point the way toward the meaning of sept as I would have hoped it would. A week has seven days, of course, but weekly means as an adverb “every week,” “once a week,” and “by the week”; as an adjective, it means “occurring, appearing, or done weekly.” So nothing denoting or connoting seven, alas.
So this lesson leaves something to be desired in terms of coherence and priorities (i.e. is this the best word root to teach? Is there a root more productive of high-frequency English words that would be more useful to students?). But what do you think?
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It’s a remote professional development day here in my district. As I sit here waiting to join an online meeting, I have a minute to post this short analysis and argumentation worksheet on Steph Curry. My colleague Jason Zanitsch and I put this together a couple of weeks ago. Don’t let this document’s brevity mislead you: it packs a punch in terms of the thought it requires from the students to whom it is assigned. That credit goes to Jason.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Sumatra. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences–the second of them is a fairly long compound which might need editing for emergent or struggling readers.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Zen. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three longish sentences and three comprehension questions. When you open this, I wonder if you’ll find, like I did, that things are a bit crammed together and crowded in this document. It may need some work–perhaps like turning it into a one-page affair.
Of course I would be interested in hearing what you think.
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OK! For the final Friday of Asian American Pacific Island Heritage Month Week, here is a reading on Genghis Khan with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I think it’s safe to assume that I need not belabor the importance of this conqueror and empire builder.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Taipei. It is, of course, the capital of Taiwan. This is half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and two comprehension questions. Short and to the point, as the best of these documents tend to be.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Tajikistan. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences–and beware the first one, which is a doozy of a compound with with a series of geographical place names separated by commas. My guess? This will need to be modified for struggling and emergent readers.
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“Mesopotamia: Region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in western Asia, constituting the greater part of modern Iraq. The region’s location and fertility gave rise to settlements from c.10,000 BC, and it became the cradle of some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Its seat was the city of Mesopotamia, founded in the 4th millennium BC by the Sumerians. It was ruled by the third dynasty of Ur, and later by Babylon, which gave its name to the southern portion of Mesopotamia. The city declined under the Hurrians and the Kassites 1600-1450 BC. It was conquered by the army of Ashur. Mesopotamia was ruled by Seleucids from c.312 BC until the 2nd century BC, when it became part of the Parthian empire. In the 7th century AD the region was conquered by Muslim Arabs. The region’s importance declined after the Mongol Invasion of 1258. The Ottoman Turks ruled in the 16th-17th centuries. The area became a British mandate in 1920; the following year, Iraq was established there.”
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
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