Tag Archives: building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge

Cultural Literacy: Mixed Economy

Posted on June 29, 2020 | Leave a comment

I’m not sure if high-school economics classes get to the point of discussing them (when I worked and at an economics and finance themed high school, the topic never came up, which may mean something), but if one somewhere does, than here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a mixed economy.

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The Weekly Text, June 26, 2020: A Lesson Plan on the Latin Word Roots Magn, Magna, and Magni

Posted on June 26, 2020 | Leave a comment

This week’s Text is a lesson plan on the Latin word roots magn, magna, and magni. They mean great and large and are very productive in English. Social studies teachers know they need not look much further than Charlemagne to see this root in action.

I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the adjective voluminous. Voluminous, as you most likely understand, means (among other things) “having or marked by great volume or bulk.” I chose this word for this lesson to offer both a hint about what the three roots here under study mean, but also to supply a near synonym. Finally, here is the scaffolded worksheet at the center of this lesson’s work.

Happy Friday! Wash your hands, wear a mask, stay safe.

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The Catcher in the Rye

Posted on June 26, 2020 | Leave a comment

Alright, moving right along on this fine Vermont morning, here is a reading on The Catcher in the Rye along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. This is really more in the way of an introduction to the novel–and maybe a way of motivating reluctant or alienated learners to take a chance on the book.

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Common Errors in English Usage: More and Most

Posted on June 26, 2020 | Leave a comment

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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Omnipotent (adj)

Posted on June 26, 2020 | Leave a comment

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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Masterful (adj)

Posted on June 23, 2020 | Leave a comment

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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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Posted on June 23, 2020 | Leave a comment

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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Crux (n)

Posted on June 22, 2020 | Leave a comment

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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Draft Riots

Posted on June 19, 2020 | Leave a comment

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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The Weekly Text, June 19, 2019: A Lesson on the Simple Past Tense of Verbs

Posted on June 19, 2020 | Leave a comment

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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