Here’s an English usage worksheet on using more and most properly in the various grammatical constructions where they are needed.
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It was Merriam-Webster’s word of the day yesterday (today’s is yokel, which I thought I’d pass on, since it has always struck me as an epithet, which we don’t need to teach our students), so here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective omnipotent.
Not to put too fine a point on this, but now strikes me as a pretty good time for people of all ages to know and understand this word, and to be skeptical of leaders who aspire to omnipotence.
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It was Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day yesterday, to here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective masterful–a nice sold modifier.
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Given that June 6 was the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this reading on Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet are a day late and a dollar short.
Better late than never, I guess.
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It’s Merriam-Webster’s word of the day today, so here is context clues worksheet on the noun crux. The crux of this to me is that it seems like a word–and a concept represented by the word–that graduating high school seniors ought to have in their linguistic toolboxes.
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Now seems like a perfect time to post this reading on the draft riots in New York City in 1863 and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. These events were, among other things, an outbreak of racist violence that included the arson against the Colored Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan–a stunningly shameful attack in an epoch of shameful acts.
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This week’s Text, is a lesson plan on the simple past tense of verbs. I begin this lesson after a class change with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the famous proverb “Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned” (I’ve often heard this expression attributed to Shakespeare, but it actually comes from a play by Restoration dramatist William Congreve, “The Mourning Bride“). If circumstances necessitate a second day for this lesson, then here is another do-now exercise, this one a homophones worksheet on the worksheet on the adjectives veracious and voracious. You’ll need this scaffolded worksheet which is the primary work of this lesson; you and your students might also find useful this learning support and word bank. Finally, here is teacher’s copy of the worksheet.
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“agent provocateur (fr) A person placed in the ranks of the enemy during social, political, or industrial conflicts, to damage or compromise the enemy, provoking actions that might not otherwise have taken place. Agents provocateurs have been employed to provoke armed clashes between police and strikers or to induce strikers to act illegally. They have also been used by government agencies against revolutionary groups and in international politics to create disorder or ‘incidents’ as an excuse for war or intervention in others’ affairs.”
Excerpted from: Cook, Chris. Dictionary of Historical Terms. New York: Gramercy, 1998.
Posted in Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge, term of art
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on radioactive waste if you have any use for it. It seems to me if we are going to generate garbage like this and not find a way to store it safely, then we have an obligation to make sure our students understand what it is and how it might affect their future.
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Finally, on this fine summer day, here is a reading on the origins and development of television as a technology and a cultural force along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
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