When I worked at an economics-and-finance-themed high school in Lower Manhattan, this context clues worksheet on the noun conglomerate was de rigueur. I’m hard pressed to imagine it isn’t a word high school students ought to know.
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“Antagonist: In drama or fiction, the antagonist opposes the hero or protagonist (q.v.). In Othello, Iago is the antagonist to the Moor. In The Mayor of Casterbridge, Farfrae is antagonist to Henchard.”
Excerpted from: Cuddon, J.A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. New York: Penguin, 1992.
Here, on a snowy Tuesday morning, is a lesson plan on personality disorders. The work for this lesson consists of this short reading along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
And here are slightly longer versions of these documents if you want them.
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Last but not least on this fine afternoon, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Langston Hughes if you need it. He is another figure in Black History who bears extended scrutiny, so this worksheet really serves as the sparest of introductions to him.
If you find typos in this document, 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.
Can you use this worksheet on the Latin word root ego? It means, you probably won’t be surprised to hear, self. It’s a good word–and a better concept–for adolescents to understand.
If you find typos in this document, 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.
Here’s a reading on Edwin Hubble and its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. He is the scientist for whom the Hubble Space Telescope was named–and not, if this reading is believable, well respected by his colleagues.
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OK, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on abolitionism if you can use it. It’s a topic that in my not especially humble opinion bears great scrutiny, so this short exercise really can only properly serve as an introduction to the word and concept.
If you find typos in this document, 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.
Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb condone, which is only used transitively–a direct object must follow it. You must condone something. I cannot think of single reason why students, upon their high school graduation, shouldn’t know this oft-used English word.
If you find typos in this document, 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.
OK, last but not least this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Fugitive Slave Act, another law designed to dehumanize and keep in bondage Americans of African descent. Not your proudest hour, United States.
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At the end of Week II of Black History Month 2020, here is a short reading on Oprah Winfrey along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
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