If you can use them, here are two context clues worksheets on the noun barbarism and the noun and adjective barbarian. I know these terms, in some instances, are considered impolitic. Nonetheless, these are words and concepts students should understand.
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Here is a reading on Colonial New York City with its accompanying comprehension worksheet. This might be more edifying for students if its used in tandem with the reading and comprehension on reading on Colonial Boston I posted a couple of days ago.
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.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on one of the most commonly used Latinisms in the English language, Caveat Emptor. It means, of course, “let the buyer beware.”
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“Anachronism (noun): A chronological error; a person, thing, word, or idiom inappropriate to the time of a literary work, especially something placed or assumed too early; specific temporal or historical error. Adj. anachronistic, anachronic, anachronous, anachronical; adv. Anachronistically, anachronically, anachronously. Also: METACHRONISM.
‘Of course, the deep south holds on by main strength to it regional expressions, just as it holds and treasures some other anachronisms, but no region can hold out for long against the highway, the high-tension line, and the national television.” John Steinbeck Travels with Charley'”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Before I walk out the door this morning, here is an independent practice worksheet on the Phoenicians, those consistently amazing (there’s evidence now that Phoenician ships circumnavigated Africa) explorers and traders. I’ve used this with freshman global studies classes here in New York City.
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Because I hear the students I work with using it regularly, which use is all but certainly in the context of playing video games, I whipped up context clues worksheet on the noun avatar.
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As Mark’s Text Terminal prepares its move away from New York City, things have gotten a bit hectic around the warehouse. More news on this will follow (not that it’s especially interesting).
In the meantime, this week’s Text is five worksheets on the homophones rein, rain, and reign.
Over the years, I have noticed students struggling with the intransitive verb reign. This verb, which doesn’t morph at all in its transition to a noun, comes from the Latin regnum, which means kingdom. Keen observers will detect regnum as the basis of all kinds of words relating to ruling, not the least of which is regent. At the root of these words is the Latin reg, which means rule. This root shows up all around the Romance languages, and it shouldn’t be hard for native Spanish speakers–I work with many and pull this parlor trick all the time with them–to recognize their word Rey in this, i.e. king. Long story short? This little Latin root–reg–is at the core of a startling number of words across the Romance languages and English and can therefore be used profitably at some length for building vocabulary and developing understanding of the concepts the words represent.
Homophone worksheets as I conceive them are simply a slightly different approach to vocabulary building that a simple context clues worksheet with a focus on a single word. Also, it seems to me that kids in high school ought to know the use of the word rein, particularly as a transitive verb.
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If you teach United States History, I’ll venture that somewhere along the line this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Suffragists might find a place in your practice.
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Here, on an autumnal Thursday afternoon, is a reading on Colonial Boston with a comprehension worksheet to use with it. I suppose there is no need to belabor the usefulness of these documents in a class on United States history.
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In spite of spending a couple of frustrating hours dealing with telecommunications companies, I’ll take a quick minute to post this context clues worksheet on the verb assent. It’s apparently used only intransitively.
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