OK, very quickly this morning, here are a pair of context clues worksheets on the verb censor and the noun censorship. The verb, incidentally, is only used transitively–you need a direct object, i.e. you need to censor something or someone.
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Regular readers of Mark’s Text Terminal know this isn’t a political blog. Still, after I read this nonsense yesterday, I went looking for something to post like this context clues worksheet on the noun bombast.
Don’t forget the adjective bombastic.
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Here is a pair of context clues worksheets on the noun synopsis and the verb synopsize. The verb is only used transitively, so don’t forget your direct object: what are you synopsizing?
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Here is a lesson plan on the Latin word root lingu-, which means language and tongue. You no doubt recognize it as the basis of the word linguist, which is a noun I like to throw around freely in my classroom.
I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun tongue in its sense as a synonym for the word language, as in “Fatima’s native tongue is Urdu.” Finally, here is the worksheet that is the center of this lesson.
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Here are two context clues worksheets on the noun dominion and the verb dominate. The verb is used both intransitively and transitively. I assume I needn’t belabor the relationship between these two words, but I will mention that dom in the languages I have studied generally means, among other things, home (i.e. domicile).
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When I co-taught global studies classes in New York City, the fact that the deeper conceptual processes of history were ignored in favor of a pedagogy of discrete, decontextualized facts greatly troubled me. This was a particular problem–and I am confident it remains so, particularly in the classroom in which I served during the final two years of my tenure in New York–in teaching the French Revolution and its animating intellectual ideology, the Enlightenment. Students in the classroom I shared could walk away from the unit on this period with absolutely no sense of the enormity of its epochal influence. Therefore, they could not understand that in many respects, the world, especially the Western world, continues to argue over and contest the legacy of the Enlightenment.
In an attempt to convey the significance of the Enlightenment in my own classroom, I started with these two context clues worksheets on the verb enlighten and the noun enlightenment. The verb, incidentally, is only used transitively.
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Alright, let’s get started on this bright, sunny morning with two context clues worksheets on the verb engage–used both intransitively and transitively–and the noun engagement. These are a couple of heavily used words in English, and these documents presented as a a pair will help students, in addition to developing their own understanding of these words, differentiate between verbs and nouns.
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While this lesson plan on class hierarchies and their origins isn’t exactly the most distinguished work I have ever posted here, it may be of some use in you classroom. In any case, as always, the documents here are in Microsoft Word, so you can modify them to suit your and your students’ needs and circumstances. I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun civilization; if the lesson goes into a second day (and if the questioning and discussion of this material in your classroom expand to the extent they generally did in mine, you will be on this material for two days) , here is another on the noun civilian. If nothing else, by the end of this lesson students will have a fair grasp of the Latin word root civilis and its conceptual significance. Finally, here is the reading and comprehension worksheet that is the work of this lesson.
Parenthetically, as I review the social studies material I prepared over the years, I find it is at best a mishmosh. Less charitably, it is a mess. The social studies units I wrote over the years reflect more than anything my attempts to teach global studies in a way that would give the struggling students I served their best chance at passing the high-stakes New York State Global History and Geography Regents Examination. To put it a succinctly as possible, I was always, in my curriculum design in social studies, racing to keep up with that infernal test.
Rather than try to sort through this material, which has delayed my publishing it, I have decided to post it as is. It won’t always be the best and the brightest, but it will be manipulable so that you, dear reader, can make it better. If you ever consider leaving comments on this site, I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on these global history lessons.
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I’m not sure why I found more than one of them in my files, but if you can use one or the other of them, here are two context clues worksheets on the verb encroach. It is apparently used only intransitively.
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At week’s end, here are two context clues worksheets on the adjective eloquent and the noun eloquence. These are commonly used words in educated discourse, so our students probably ought to know them.
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