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The Weekly Text, April 14, 2017: Four Context Clues Stemming from the Noun Character

Posted on April 7, 2017 | Leave a comment

(Today is April 7th, and tomorrow begins spring break here in New York City. Because I don’t want to be anywhere near this or any other computer next week–I plan to spend some time in actual nature instead in front of screens–I’m posting next week’s Text this morning. Happy Spring!)

This week’s Text is four context clues starting from the noun character. In addition to the noun character, that document contains characteristic as both a noun and an adjective, as well as the verb characterize.

That’s it. If you’re a teacher on spring break, I hope it is and was a restful time. You have, I feel confident saying, earned it.

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Legitimate (adj)

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If ever there was a time when citizens of this republic ought to understand the concept of political legitimacy it is now. So you might consider this context clues worksheet on the adjective legitimate useful.

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Militarism (n)

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Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun militarism. Given the budget that the executive branch of our government has proposed, I submit that this is a timely word for students to understand.

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The Weekly Text, April 7, 2017: A Lesson Plan on Descriptive and Limiting Adjectives

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After posting nine weeks of readings for Black History Month and Women’s History Month, I’m pleased to offer, as this week’s Text, a complete lesson plan on descriptive and limiting adjectives. As with most of the lessons I write, there are two short do-now exercises to begin this lesson: the first is a parsing sentences worksheet for verbs and the second is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on idiom. The mainstay of this lesson is a scaffolded worksheet on descriptive and limiting adjectives. If your students are anything like those I serve, then you will very likely find useful this learning support which you might want to edit or otherwise rearrange. Finally, to help you guide your students through this lesson, here is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet.

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Oligarchy (n)

Posted on April 6, 2017 | Leave a comment

If there is a better time in United States history for students to understand the concept of oligarchy, I can’t imagine when that would be. For that reason, I offer this context clues worksheet on the noun oligarchy.

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Prominent (adj)

Posted on April 5, 2017 | Leave a comment

After a couple sick days owing to yet another case of bronchitis (probably due to the bad air in the windowless building in which I work), I return to offer this context clues worksheet on the adjective prominent.

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The Weekly Text, March 31, 2017, Women’s History Month Week V: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Murasaki Shikibu

Posted on March 31, 2017 | Leave a comment

The last day of March is also the last day of Women’s History Month. This week’s Text is a reading on Murasaki Shikibu. Lady Shikibu wrote what is arguably history’s first novel, The Tale of Genji. Here is a comprehension worksheet to accompany the relatively short reading.

And that is the last Weekly Text for Women’s History Month. I hope they’ve been useful. Next week I’ll return to posting less theme oriented material; I think I have a grammar lesson queued up.

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A Learning Support for Pronominal Contractions

Posted on March 30, 2017 | Leave a comment

Because several of my students asked for it, here is a learning support on using pronoun contractions with the present tense of the verb to be.

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Isolate (vt), Isolation (n), Isolationism (n)

Posted on March 30, 2017 | Leave a comment

It’s the time of year that the global studies class in which I am co-teacher studies the succession of Chinese dynasties. This unit necessitates a discussion of isolationism. My co-teacher asked me to prepare a context clues worksheet on the term, so I did. I think it’s necessary when teaching this word to begin with the verb isolate. This is one of those tricky polysemous words that has a different general meaning than say, in biology, chemistry, or even linguistics.

If you want your students to understand isolationism as a political and diplomatic term, then you might find useful these three context clues worksheets that begin with the verb isolate (and include the nouns isolation and isolationism). Also, here is a lexicon for these words for your class linguist.

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Meager (adj)

Posted on March 29, 2017 | Leave a comment

Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective meager.

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