I don’t know what place he occupies in your world history or global studies curriculum, or whatever your district or school calls it, but if you can use it, here is an independent practice worksheet on Philip II of Spain.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective macabre. If you teach Poe, or anyone like him (Stephen King definitely comes to mind here), or gothic novels, it’s hard to imagine that students wouldn’t need to know this word.
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“common noun: One whose application is not restricted to arbitrarily distinguished members of a class. E.g. girl is a common noun that may be used in reference to any individual characterizable in general as a girl. Distinguished from a proper noun.
Excerpted from: Marshall, P.H., ed. The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
I don’t know how much currency they may or may not have with the students in your classroom, but in my experience this reading on The Rolling Stones is of relatively high interest to high school students. Here is the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies it.
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George Santayana famously said–and this is one of those quotes that is often repeated erroneously or misattributed–“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” To my mind, this is one of the most cogent aphorisms (and I wrote my MA thesis on the Zeus of aphorists, Nietzsche) ever uttered, to it deserves verbatim repetition and proper attribution.
So I hope this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Santayana’s famous quote aids that modest cause. When I co-taught freshman global studies classes in Manhattan, my excellent co-teacher always started the year with a discussion of the implications of Santayana’s maxim.
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In the last year, I published a thousand blog posts; that’s as many as I published in the preceding three years. As a result, I have basically emptied my English Language Arts Learning Supports folder, which comes as a bit of a surprise to me. I don’t for a minute doubt that I will continue to create new supports, but for now, besides this learning support on transition words, I only have one more to post–a glossary of poetic terms that really is a differently designed version of something I already posted here.
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On a rainy summer morning in Western Massachusetts, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun largesse. It seems like a word high school students should know by the time they graduate.
But what do you think?
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Rounding out this morning’s labors will make this the tenth post I’ve published on this Monday in late July. So, here is a reading on gender identity and the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies it.
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Here’s an independent practice worksheet on the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I if you happen to teach world history, global studies, or whatever your district calls this subdomain of social studies.
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Here is a worksheet on the worksheet on the Greek word root macro. It means large and long. It shows up, as this exercise will demonstrate for your students, in a number of important nouns in English (many of which also morph into adjectives) representing concepts.
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