Finally this morning, here is a worksheet on the verb endure when used with a gerund. I cannot endure composing another series of instructional materials of dubious value.
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Here is a reading on the solar system along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. This is a short reading with the standard eight-by-eight (i.e. eight vocabulary words to define, eight comprehension questions ) worksheet that I composed for all these readings.
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Moving along this morning, here is a worksheet on the Greek word roots spor/o and spori. These mean spore and to sow. What does one sow? Why seeds, of course, and even though that doesn’t turn up so simply as the definition in the standard lexicon of Mark’s Text Terminal, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition, a spore is basically a seed.
Anyway, this root sprouts such scientific nouns as sporophyll, sporozoan, and zoospore.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb confabulate. It’s used only intransitively–so you don’t need a direct object here. For the purposes of the context the sentences in this document imply, this verb means “to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication.” However, it can also mean “to talk informally (chat),” and “to hold a discussion (confer).”
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“Au Contraire To the contrary, quite the opposite.
‘Nor can it be said that they produce canvases of any greater than those to be found along Washington Square, or in the cold-water flats of New York’s lower east side. There is, au contraire, more than a little truth to the contention that the east side has a certain edge over Montparnasse, and this in spite of the justly renowned Paris light.’ James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Here is a worksheet on the Latin word root tract. It means draw and pull. You will recognize this as a particularly productive root in English: attract, contract, detract, extract, and retract all grow from this root, and all are included in this document (and I haven’t mentioned distract–to pull attention away from–which is not on this worksheet).
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In keeping with this morning’s apparent theme of arcane and forbidden knowledge, here is a reading on Athanasius Kircher along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Do you know about Kircher? He is in many respects the representative Renaissance man; he wanted to know everything. This reading, in the “Additional Facts” section does observe that Kircher at one point was in possession of the Voynich Manuscript, one of European intellectual history’s great enigmas and the kind of thing that would have fascinated me in middle or high school.
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Here is a context clues on the verb collaborate. The context in the sentences in this half-page document seek to prompt students to understand that this verb–used only intransitively, apparently–means “to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor.”
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The Weekly Text from Mark’s Text Terminal for the first of July 2022 is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “The Great Diamond Heist.” I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on allusion (a half-page document with a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions–just the basics). To conduct your investigation into this act of larceny, you will need the PDF of the illustration and questions that serve as the evidence in this case. Finally, for your students to bring the culprit or culprits to the bar of justice, here is the typescript of the answer key.
And that’s it for another week. I hope you are enjoying a relaxing summer.
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Finally this morning, here is a worksheet on the use of the verb dislike as it is used with a gerund. I dislike working on things that might be useless.
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