Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Atlanta

Here is a reading on Atlanta and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. It’s a short history of the city if you have students interested.

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A Lesson Plan on the Fall of Rome

OK! This lesson plan on the Fall of Rome, as below, is the tenth of ten lessons, logically and chronologically, from a global studies unit on ancient Rome.

This lesson opens, if you are so inclined, with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on, unsurprisingly, the fall of Rome. If the lesson continues into a second day, then you might want this context clues worksheet on the verb submit, which is used both intransitively and transitively.

And, lastly for this, the tenth of ten posts (see below), here is the short reading and comprehension questions that are the principal work of this lesson.

That’s it. I hope this material is useful.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Term of Art: Contraction

“Contraction: A shortened form of a word or group of words: can’t for cannot; they’re for they are.”

Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.

A Lesson Plan on Constantine I

Moving along to number nine in a global studies unit of ten lessons on ancient Rome, here is a lesson plan on Constantine I, the first Christian emperor of Rome.

I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun wrath; if the lesson goes into a second day as you use it (and as I intended for my own use), then here is another context clues worksheet on the noun legacy.

This is the reading on Constantine I and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that are the work of this lesson.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

A Lesson Plan on Rome and Christianity

As above and below, this lesson plan on Rome and Christianity is number eight of a ten-lesson global studies unit on ancient Rome.

This lesson opens with this context clues worksheet on the noun treaty as well as a on the verb unite (it’s used both intransitively and transitively) if the lesson, as I intended for my own use, continues into a second day. And here is the reading and comprehension questions that are at the center of this lesson.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

A Lesson Plan on the Pax Romana

This lesson plan on the Pax Romana is the seventh of a ten-lesson global studies unit on ancient Rome (as above and below–a run, all told, of twenty posts, ten of them documents posts).

Here’s a context clues worksheet on the noun orator and a second on the noun truce for opening this lesson. And here is the short reading with comprehension questions that is the primary work of this lesson.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

A Lesson Plan on Roman Law

Alright, moving right along, as above and below, here is a lesson plan on Roman Law, the sixth of ten in a global studies unit on ancient Rome in this run of posts.

I set up two context clues worksheets on two commonly used Latinisms in English for this lesson, both used as adjectives and adverbs, the first on de facto and the second on de jure. Finally, here is the worksheet with a short reading and several comprehension questions that constitutes the work of this lesson.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

A Lesson Plan on the Roman Empire

This lesson plan on the Roman Empire, as above and below, is the fifth part of a ten-lesson unit on ancient Rome.

This context clues worksheet on the noun patriarch opens this lesson, and here is another on the adjective supreme for this lesson’s second day, should you choose to take it beyond one day of instruction, which I basically recommend. The primary work of this guided-reading lesson (as all ten of them are, incidentally) is this worksheet with its  reading and comprehension questions.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

A Lesson Plan on Roman Religion

OK, let’s move along to this lesson plan on Roman religion, part four of a ten-lesson unit, as above and below, on ancient Rome and its role in shaping, and therefore shaping our understanding of, the world in which we live today.

This lesson opens with this context clues worksheet on the noun justice; here is another worksheet on the noun magistrate to complement the first, as the lesson continues into a second day. Finally, here is the worksheet with reading and comprehension questions that is at the center of this lesson.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Book of Answers: Aristotle on Drama

“According to Aristotle, what elements are necessary to a play? There are six: plot, thought, character, diction, music, and spectacle.”

Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.