Here, on a muggy and warm (49 degrees at 5:00 a.m.) Thursday morning in The Bronx, is a context clues worksheet on the noun envoy.
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Here’s another context clues worksheet, this one on the verb discern.
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Here’s a context clues worksheet on the noun impetus, which is a word I think high school students ought to know by the time they graduate.
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Today I’m trying to clean up some folders and put up a few new posts, trying to catch up to my usual pace of work. Here’s a context clues worksheet on the adjective crucial. I hope it’s useful–it’s another commonly used word in English.
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For some reason, Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate gives both transitive and intransitive definitions for ravage in its use as a verb. I can’t imagine using it without a direct object. In any case, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb ravage. It’s in common enough usage in the English language that high school students ought to know it.
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I’d hoped to begin the New Year with something splashy, but circumstances require that I focus on getting my ducks in a row in my classroom. So, here is a worksheet on the Latin roots viv, vivi. and vit. It means, of course, life, living, and live.
That’s it for this week; I’ll do my best to have something a little better for next week. February and March are Black History Month and Women’s History Month respectively, and I’ve already begun to line up a series of readings and comprehension worksheets in observation of those months.
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Our schools here in New York are closed for the holidays next week, so I plan to spend as little time as possible in front of this computer. That means this is the final Weekly Text for 2016. I offer this context clues worksheet on the transitive verb juxtapose and this one on the noun juxtaposition for this week’s Text.
Happy Holidays! I’ll see you in 2017.
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I’m working on some new freshman global studies lessons that will use primary documents, so here’s a context clues worksheet on the adjective primary.
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Here’s a context clues worksheet on the preposition amid.
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This week, I fell under whatever it is that has afflicted most of the faculty at my school. My doctor, when I finally made it to him, diagnosed bronchitis, something I contract with irritating regularity working in a windowless building with almost 800 adolescents.
So, the Text for this week is nothing special, just this word root worksheet on the Greek roots the and theo. It means, as you probably already know, God. It is surely useful in social studies classes where words like polytheism and monotheism crop up regularly. Given the results of the presidential election, kids might need to know the word theocracy as well.
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