Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root dactyl/o. It means finger, toe, and digit (which may require some explaining, or perhaps a context clues worksheet to explain what digit means in this context).
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Here is a a context clues worksheet on the noun bellwether. It’s a commonly used word, and high school students, I imagine most people would agree, ought to know it.
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Over the summer vacation, I’ll be away from my computer for three Fridays. I’ve decided to post those missing Weekly Texts over the next couple of weeks.
Here, on the Fourth of July, is an Intellectual Devotional Reading on the Declaration of Indepedence and a comprehension worksheet to complement it.
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One of the salient characteristics of most of the struggling learners I’ve dealt with over the years has been their lack of confidence in dealing with abstract issues in their schools’ curricula. Most of the big concepts, e.g. democracy, virtue, diplomacy, and even thought that we seek to teach are abstractions. In any case, we need students to understand the difference between concrete thinking and abstract thinking for a variety of reasons, just as we need them to understand the difference between concrete and abstract nouns (a full lesson plan on this is forthcoming from Mark’s Text Terminal).
I developed this context clues worksheet on the adjective abstract as an attempt to help students understand the basic concept of abstraction as something that exists in the mind, but not really in concrete reality.
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Unlike other short exercises on word roots I’ve composed, this worksheet on the Greek word root chrys/o may be one of the toughest from which to infer a meaning. It means gold or yellow, but that isn’t as readily apparent from the patterns of language in the definitions as some of the other worksheets of this type you’ll find on Mark’s Text Terminal.
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If your students don’t already know the word (or perhaps need their memories refreshed), you might find this context clues worksheet on the noun architecture useful.
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Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root cyan/o. It means blue. It’s one of those roots found in scientific terms, particularly in medicine.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb annotate, which is used both intransitively and transitively. I worked in a school in which students were regularly assigned annotation work without understanding what this act is.
Needless to say, it never went well.
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This worksheet on the Greek word root pseud/o seems to me de rigeur for the high school classroom. It is a very productive root which means, of course, false. This root is easily appended to many nouns, which makes it possible for us to call someone like the presidential advisor “Dr.” Sebastian Gorka a pseudointellectual.
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Several years ago, a couple of my colleagues analyzed the results of the New York State Regents Exam in Global Studies. They wanted to understand why an entire cohort of juniors missed the same question on Neville Chamberlain, et al, and the Munich Pact. They didn’t need to look far at all: students reported that they didn’t understand the word appeasement.
Here then is a context clues worksheet on the verb appease, which is only used transitively. The sheet itself would be relatively simple to change to appeasement, if you prefer to teach the noun.
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