“stem” A question or statement on a multiple-choice test that poses a choice for the test taker. See also distracter; foils; multiple-choice item.”
Excerpted from: Ravitch, Diane. EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2007.
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.
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.
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?
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
“There are three reasons for becoming a writer. The first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; and the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings.”
Excerpted from: Sherrin, Ned, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes
Tagged humor, lgbtq history, literary oddities
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.
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.
“On a withered branch
A crow has settled—
Autumn nightfall.”
Matsuo Basho, Poem (translation by Harold G. Henderson)
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
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.
“Tenzing Norgay: (1914-1986) Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer, born in Solo Khumbu, he served on numerous expeditions before joining Edmund Hillary as sirdar, or organizer of porters. In 1963, he and Hillary became the first two people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. A devout Buddhist, he left an offering of food at Everest’s summit.”
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
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