Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root zyg/o. It means pair. It forms the basis of the noun zygote, among many other scientific words. This is yet another word students should know if they are interested in a career in the healthcare professions.
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If you have by any chance showed “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to your homebound students, or plan to, then you might find that this reading on the Temple and the Holy Ark and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet complements that exciting film.
I’ve tagged this as high-interest material because when I have offered it to students while making its connection to the Indiana Jones movie referred to above, their interest was piqued.
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It’s not exactly a word in common use, but here, nonetheless, is a context clues worksheet on the noun copse. It’s worth remembering, I think, that the purpose of these context clues worksheets are to assist students in developing their own understanding of this reading comprehension strategy–i.e. inferring the meaning of a word from the context in which it is embedded.
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Moving right along, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Hapsburgs.
Incidentally, if you are interested in turning this into high-interest material, you might note for students the infamous “Habsburg Jaw” (the dynasty’s name, I discover in researching this post, is spelled with both a p and a b), a visual metaphor for the inbreeding that occurred in this family. In fact, this family’s incestuous relationships are so well known that even the brilliant hit comedy series “30 Rock” wrote them into an episode starring, as Gerhardt Hapsburg, the great Paul Reubens (a.k.a. “Peewee Herman“).
I’ve never announced this fact about the Hapsburgs and have this material fall flat. Once students get beyond the obvious gross-out dimension of this story, there is a lot of room for a discussion of both literal and figurative incest in ruling-class families and how this affected and continues to affect sovereignty and power in nation-states.
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Here is a lesson plan on understanding and differentiating historical dates which I have actually previously posted on Mark’s Text Terminal. While this is a social studies lesson on understanding how we use numbers to count and describe historical time, it has an ulterior literacy motive in that it seeks to help students, particularly the many English language learners I have served over the years.
We use two types of numbers when we talk about historical dates, ordinal and cardinal. Ordinal numbers are adjectives that, as their name indicates, place things in order. So, when we use terms like fourteenth century, fifteenth century, and so on, we are using ordinal numbers. Similarly, when we say, respectively, the 1300s, the 1400s, and so on, we are using cardinal numbers, which are nouns and which we use to count things. These two types of numbers are different in English just as they are different in other languages. Because I didn’t initially understand the difference between these kinds of numbers, I struggled to understand the numbering system in Russian when I studied that language.
For that reason, I wrote this context clues worksheet on the adjective ordinal and this on the noun phrase cardinal number. These worksheets aim to help students understand the difference between these two types of numbers and their use in English prose. This is knowledge that transfers across the curriculum–to foreign languages, English language arts, mathematics itself, and, yes, social studies.
Finally, here is the combined learning support and worksheet that is the gravamen of this lesson.
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Here is a reading on the supernova as the death of stars along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. For the right student (and I’ve only taught a few of them, including the young man who requested these documents), this is high-interest material.
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“Heuristic Device: Any procedure which involves the use of an artificial construct to assist in the exploration of social phenomena. It usually involves assumptions derived from extant empirical research. For example, ideal types have been used as a way of setting out the defining characteristics of a social phenomenon, so that its salient features might be states as clearly and explicitly as possible. A heuristic device is, then, a form of preliminary analysis. Such devices have proved especially useful in studies of social change, by defining bench-marks, around which variation and differences can then be situated. In this context, a heuristic device is usually employed for analytical clarity, although it can also have explanatory value as a model.”
Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Let’s start out today with this lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Missy Takes a Walk.”
I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of “The Ugly American” which is common enough locution in English, and worth knowing if students are planning to travel abroad. This PDF of the illustration and questions that drive this investigation. And here, finally, is the typescript of the answers to the investigative questions of this case.
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“Adversative: Indicating opposition or contrasting of two things, e.g., the conjunctions ‘yet.’ ‘still,’ the phrase “all the same.’”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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To close out working for the day, here are five worksheets on the homophones (or near homophones, depending on where you live) hardy and hearty. They’re close in meaning, and they’re both adjectives.
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