Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Henry VIII, which seems timely. Can your students think of any other selfish, gluttonous, tyrannical rulers with multiple divorces to their, uh, credit?
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It’s a term that students really ought to know in an age where there are a number of true authoritarians running nation-states, so here is a context clues worksheet on the noun coup d’etat. It means “a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics; especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.”
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Here is a worksheet on the Latin word root nat, which means both birth and born. You will recognize it instantly as the basis of the word native, among many others. It is an extremely productive root in English.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun coup, which means “a brilliant, sudden, and usually highly successful stroke or act.”
In the next couple of hours, I’ll post two more context clues worksheets that are related to this one.
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Over the years, I have produced a number of documents based on the interest of one student. This reading on the prisoner’s dilemma and its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet are one such set of documents.
My own first exposure to the prisoner’s dilemma came from a friend who encountered it as an undergraduate in what, if memory serves, was a history course. This same friend went on to law school, so he may have encountered it there. In any case, the prisoner’s dilemma is part of a broader study of mathematical models of human cognition and resultant conduct called game theory. I actually started to develop a unit on game theory when I realized two things: the first was that the student for whom I prepared the material offered in this blog post wasn’t as interested in it as he thought; the second was that I was woefully unqualified to teach a single lesson on game theory, let alone a whole unit.
If you have the time–I didn’t–a unit on game theory might be just the thing for a certain kind of student. However, it is a complicated field, and even adapting it for struggling or alienated high school students is no small task.
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OK, finally today, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on feudalism. It’s a convenient introduction to a complicated subject.
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“Afraid. Do not say ‘I am afraid it will rain.’ Say, I fear that it will rain.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged diction/grammar/style/usage
Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb couch, which is used both intransitively and transitively. Given how much bigotry is couched in social media posts and elsewhere, this seems like a good word to know right now.
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“Doctrinaire (adjective): Characterized by impractical, abstract doctrine or speculative opinion and thus narrow in point of view; rigidly theoretical or parochial, without flexibility or regard to circumstances; stubbornly doctrinal. Adverb: doctrinarily; noun: doctrinairism, doctrinaire, doctrinairian.
‘But there is, for me, a certain softness in her argument, based as it is on a diagnosis of psychology that is both excessively doctrinaire in its remedy and equivocal.’ Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation“
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
OK, folks, here is the big post of the day, to wit, a lesson plan on nouns as the indirect objects of verbs. I open this lesson with this worksheet on homophones worksheet on the verbs (and nouns) compliment and complement. Here is the scaffolded worksheet at the center of this lesson; here too is teacher’s copy of the worksheet.
Now a few quick words of explanation. The verb and noun complement is often used in grammar manuals to describe predicates consisting of direct and indirect objects (and by the way, I posted a lesson plan on nouns as the direct objects of verbs a few days back that works well with this lesson), so I want students to recognize that meaning of this polysemous word when they see it. As I mentioned in the post on direct objects, this point of grammar will help students when they undertake to study a foreign language. Direct and indirect objects, particularly in inflected languages, require different case endings. For example, in Russian the direct object takes the accusative case ending, but indirect objects are in the dative case.
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