Because it’s Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day today, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb exhort, which is used both intransitively and transitively. Like many of the words Merriam-Webster’s has posted lately, exhort comes from solid Latin stock.
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This week’s Text is a lesson plan on the Latin word roots man, mani and manu, all three of which mean hand. Even a cursory glance at these three words divulge their productivity in the English language: manicure, manufacture, and manual all come immediately to mind.
I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun digit in its meaning as “any of the divisions in which the limbs of most vertebrates terminate, which are typically five in number but may be reduced (as in the horse), and which typically have a series of phalanges bearing a nail, claw, or hoof at the tip — compare FINGER 1, TOE.” I wanted this do-now exercise to hint for students what the word roots in this lesson might mean.
And, at last, here is the worksheet that is the primary work of this lesson.
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It’s another Word of the Day from Merriam-Webster that I originally thought I’d let pass; but while I was at the laundromat this morning with my notebook, I figured well, why not? So here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective dulcet. It carries a trio a meanings which are loosely related by connotation: 1. sweet to the taste; 2. pleasing to the ear <~ tones>; 3. generally pleasing or agreeable.
The word arrives in English from the Latin dulcis, which isn’t particularly productive in English. But it does show up in Spanish, and if you teach students whose first language is Spanish they will recognize this word fairly quickly–one of the meanings of dulce in Spanish is candy, and a dulceria is a candy store. Teaching Latin roots to students whose first tongue is one of the Romance Languages offers students a bridge between their native languages and English.
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As this pandemic drags on, and I wonder what will happen with our public schools, my mind, like many I suppose, wanders. One way I try to snap it into focus is by writing a context clues worksheet every day, or nearly every day. I let Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day guide my choices. I pass only on words that are far outside routine educated discourse (yesterday was cognizable, an adjective which means “capable of being judicially heard and determined”–so I let it go by).
Inevitably, I suppose, some words end up here that might not be immediately recognizable as routine vocabulary words, One might say that about this context clues worksheet on the noun braggadocio. Maybe, but it’s a word that has a stout Middle English verb behind it–brag–and is the creation of Edmund Spenser, one of the great English poets.
In any case, where verbal acuity is concerned, we ought to aim high for our students. Braggadocio doesn’t necessarily arise in polite conversation, but it shows up in academic prose and fiction often enough to be worth knowing.
Finally, though, it is a word for our time–today, August 18, 2020. There is a disturbing amount of braggadocio in our midst.
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It was Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day yesterday, and while it’s a little off the beaten track of everyday conversation, it does show up in academic prose frequently enough to at least write this context clues worksheet on the verb inveigh. Interestingly, it is only used transitively, and doesn’t really appear without the preposition before the noun or noun phrase being inveighed against, e.g. “Mr. Feltskog inveighed against putting mayonnaise on corned beef.”
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Here is a DBQ lesson on The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, a text whose fame has endured the centuries. This is the eighth lesson on a ten-lesson global studies unit on reading and interpreting primary historical documents.
Because the word appears in the text, I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun self-satisfaction, a fairly strong compound. If you move into a second day with this lesson–given the historical importance of the text, as well as the numerous concepts it contains, it might be appropriate–then here is another context clues worksheet on the adjective hateful, which also appears in the text.
And of course you’ll need the worksheet with the reading passage and comprehension questions to conduct this lesson.
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As above and below, this DBQ lesson plan on the Qur’an which is number seven of ten in global studies unit on document-based questioning.
This lesson opens, especially if you need to get students settled after a class change, with this context clues worksheet on the noun compassion. If you take the lesson into a second day, or have a use for it in general, her is another context clues worksheet on the related noun mercy.
And here, at last, is the worksheet with reading and comprehension questions on a passage from the holy book of Islam, The Qur’an.
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As above and below, here is a DBQ lesson on Psalm 23, taken from the King James Bible.
This lesson opens with this context clues worksheet on the noun psalm to assist students in developing their own understanding of this poetic–and musical–form. If you take the lesson into a second day (or if your students do!), here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a motif. Finally, here is the reading and comprehension worksheet that is the primary work of this lesson.
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This context clues worksheet on the strong abstract noun subterfuge. It’s Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day today, but as I want to reiterate, this is a very strong abstract noun and commonly used in educated discourse. It also stems from the Latin word root sub, which is incredibly productive in English.
If you search sub–just sub–on this site (the search bar is in the upper-right-hand corner), you will find all kinds of material to complement this worksheet.
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It’s Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day today, and I initially let it pass. But it is a nice Latinate word, so here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective quiescent. Not a particularly common word, but, as I say, editorially, a good word. It means, as it looks, “marked by inactivity or repose.” “tranquilly at rest,” and “causing no trouble or symptoms.”
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