Here is an English usage worksheet on differentiating the nouns Islam and Muslim. Don’t forget that May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020 (and that I began posting materials for it a month early because, like–increasingly–the days of the week, I lost track of the month).
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Here are two context clues worksheets on the noun congress if you can use them. Incidentally, these present an opportunity to help students further differentiate between proper and common nouns–congress is used both ways in these documents. A simple question like “Why is this noun capitalized in some sentences and not in others?” would push the conversation in the direction you need it to go to develop understanding of this area of usage.
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Here is a lesson plan on the division of labor within academic historical disciplines. I start this lesson off with this context clues worksheet on the adjective scarce. If the lesson goes into a second day on account of classroom conditions, I keep this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of class struggle nearby. As I think about it, I think I made a point of either teaching this with the lesson, or perhaps assigning it as independent practice (i.e. homework). This scaffolded worksheet is at the center of the unit; here is the teacher’s copy of it to get you through the lesson with something resembling ease.
Incidentally, I wrote this lesson because there were, for the several years I taught the subject in New York City, a couple of questions at the beginning of the New York State Global Studies and Geography Regents Examinations on who might perform a specific task in a historical inquiry. I took this a step further because I wanted to build a literacy lesson as well as give students a preview of potential college areas of study and majors.
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Last but not least this morning, here is a lesson plan on the Greek word root hetero. It means different and other. This is a relatively productive root in English, giving us words like heterogenous and heterosexual. The first of those adjectives, science teachers, is something you probably want students to know; more broadly, you certainly want them to understand the concepts of otherness and difference. That said, these concepts traverse the entire curriculum in primary and secondary schooling.
I open this lesson, hinting at the meaning of hetero, with this context clues worksheet on the adjective diverse. Lastly, here is the the scaffolded worksheet that is the primary work of this lesson.
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OK, health teachers, here is a reading on the human uterus along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
I guess there’s not much to say other than that.
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Here is a lesson plan on using linking verbs, which is the first part of two lessons on using these kinds of verbs with predicate adjectives. This is a very common syntactical structure in English, so I have a number of lessons, using a number of strategies and parts of speech, that aim to help students develop their own mastery over this kind of sentence.
I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on intransitive verbs; in the event that the lesson goes into a second day, I keep this homophones worksheet on the adjectives hardy and hearty nearby. This learning support is a word bank of predicate adjectives to use with this scaffolded worksheet that is the center of the lesson. Finally, here is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on italics that introduces this typeface to students. Given that MLA style in now calls for titles of books and journals to be placed in italics, this is a quick way to help students develop their own understanding of the use of italic fonts.
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Last but not least this morning, here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “The $40,000 Raffle.” You’ll need this PDF of the illustration and questions to conduct your investigation of this case. To solve it, in the final analysis, you’ll want the typescript of the answer key.
I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “Carry a Torch for.” Older people will recognize this as an expression meaning, in today’s parlance, “having a crush on,” or more succinctly, “crushing on.” I’ll let the great Louis Jordan (lyrics by the equally great Jon Hendricks) explain it:
“I’m the man for you and so you better start to face it
If you ever lose my love you know you never can replace it
I think it’s time for you to start to givin’ me some lovin’
‘Cause I’m carryin’ a torch for you that’s hotter than a oven
It’s time for you and me to do a little turtle-dovin'”
Enough said!
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb convey. It is used only transitively. This is, incidentally, for those teachers working with English language learners, one of those polysemous words that may require more than one run through for students. It can mean to move an object from one place to another, but also to communicate ideas and feelings. Helping students sort this out may require finesse; it’s easy enough to duplicate this document and use two worksheets to convey (if you will!) the two meanings of this word more carefully and completely.
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Over the years there has been very little demand for this reading on Erwin Schrodinger and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. In fact, only one student in 17 years of teaching, who had somehow come across the concept of “Schrodinger’s Cat,” asked for it, which is why it exists. I wrote this for one particularly bright (and ineptly misplaced in a self-contained special needs classroom) and inquisitive student about 15 years ago, then forgot about it.
If you can use it, there it is.
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