Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on one of the most commonly used Latinisms in the English language, Caveat Emptor. It means, of course, “let the buyer beware.”
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Because I hear the students I work with using it regularly, which use is all but certainly in the context of playing video games, I whipped up context clues worksheet on the noun avatar.
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As Mark’s Text Terminal prepares its move away from New York City, things have gotten a bit hectic around the warehouse. More news on this will follow (not that it’s especially interesting).
In the meantime, this week’s Text is five worksheets on the homophones rein, rain, and reign.
Over the years, I have noticed students struggling with the intransitive verb reign. This verb, which doesn’t morph at all in its transition to a noun, comes from the Latin regnum, which means kingdom. Keen observers will detect regnum as the basis of all kinds of words relating to ruling, not the least of which is regent. At the root of these words is the Latin reg, which means rule. This root shows up all around the Romance languages, and it shouldn’t be hard for native Spanish speakers–I work with many and pull this parlor trick all the time with them–to recognize their word Rey in this, i.e. king. Long story short? This little Latin root–reg–is at the core of a startling number of words across the Romance languages and English and can therefore be used profitably at some length for building vocabulary and developing understanding of the concepts the words represent.
Homophone worksheets as I conceive them are simply a slightly different approach to vocabulary building that a simple context clues worksheet with a focus on a single word. Also, it seems to me that kids in high school ought to know the use of the word rein, particularly as a transitive verb.
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If you teach United States History, I’ll venture that somewhere along the line this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Suffragists might find a place in your practice.
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Here, on an autumnal Thursday afternoon, is a reading on Colonial Boston with a comprehension worksheet to use with it. I suppose there is no need to belabor the usefulness of these documents in a class on United States history.
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In spite of spending a couple of frustrating hours dealing with telecommunications companies, I’ll take a quick minute to post this context clues worksheet on the verb assent. It’s apparently used only intransitively.
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Here’s one more thing on this Tuesday afternoon, to wit a Cultural Literacy worksheet on amortization. Nota bene the Latin root mort in this word: it means death and also shows up in words like mortal and mortuary. This noun, coming from the verb amortize, which Merriam-Webster’s defines as meaning both to pay off (as a mortgage) gradually usu. by periodic payments of principal and interest or by payments to a sinking fund and to gradually reduce or write off the cost or value of (as an asset) can mean, given the presence of mort in it, to kill off a debt. Students might find that interesting. In any case, amortize does show up in the word root worksheet I have for mort, which I will post at some point.
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Here is a short reading on the Louisiana Purchase and comprehension worksheet to accompany it. This is from the Intellectual Devotional series and can be easily modified for students along a broad continuum of literacy.
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Things have been very hectic at Mark’s Text Terminal lately as I prepare to move this entire operation to Massachusetts. Still, the Weekly Text is a mainstay here; even during this transition, I will at the very least post something every Friday.
For this week’s Text, I offer a complete lesson plan on commonly used prepositions. This is from the sixth of my units on the parts of speech; by this time, students have become relatively proficient users of language, so I begin increasingly using, as the do-now exercises with which I begin lessons, Everyday Edit worksheets, which the good people at Education World give away on their site. For this lesson I use this Everyday Edit on Anne Sullivan, the extraordinary pedagogue who educated Helen Keller. If this lesson goes into a second day, here is another Everyday Edit on James Forten, Free Black Man.
The mainstay of this lesson is this scaffolded worksheet on commonly used prepositions. The worksheet requires for its completion this learning support on commonly used prepositions. Finally, here is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet.
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I haven’t had occasion to use this context clues worksheet on the noun artifice. But I wrote it in anticipation, a few years ago, of teaching some advanced English Language Arts classes. They never materialized. Anyway, it seems to me a word high school students ought to know, particularly when reading drama, fiction, and poetry.
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