Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Demonize (vt)

I don’t know if there is much call for it in schools, but here, in any case, is a Context Clues worksheet on the verb demonize. Apparently it is only used transtively.

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Abraham Lincoln

Maybe you can use this reading on Abraham Lincoln. If so, then here is the reading comprehension worksheet that accompanies it. I can think of a lot of uses for these documents.

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Cultural Literacy: Megalomania

If there was any time better both in the United States and internationally to consider politicians and power, not is it. Perhaps this Cultural Literacy worksheet on megalomania would serve as an appropriate introduction to the concept/

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The Weekly Text, August 31, 2018: Five Worksheets on Using the Homophones Plain and Plane

Sigh. Today is August 31st, and the summer is effectively over for this teacher. For the first time since I started working at my current posting in Lower Manhattan, I am dreading returning to work.

This week’s Text is five worksheets on the homophones plain and plane, both nouns.

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.

Word Root Exercise: Derma, Derm, and Dermat/o

It probably won’t take your students long, using this worksheet on the Greek word roots derma, derm, and dermat/o, to figure out that those roots mean skin. That’s why the doctor who deals with the organ of skin is called a dermatologist.

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.

Independent Practice: The Crusades

Here is a independent practice worksheet on the Crusades, which is probably useful for social studies teachers.

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Hagia Sophia

Here is a reading on the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and the comprehension worksheet that accompanies it. This is a key piece of Late Antique architecture in one of the crossroads of the world. It’s hard to imagine why students shouldn’t know about this building and this history it represents.

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.

Parsing Sentences Worksheets: Prepositions

If you can use them–I must admit I haven’t yet found an entirely appropriate place for them in my classroom–here are four parsing sentences worksheets for prepositions.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Mass Extinction

The horrendous heat here yesterday moved me to cull from my files and post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on mass extinction. It’s hard to see a time when, well, henceforth, this will not be timely material.

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.

Debate (vi/vt)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb debate, which is used both intransitively and transitively. I wrote this originally to attend a unit I wrote on Denzel Washington’s film The Great Debaters. Needless to say, this is really a word high-schoolers ought to know and be able to use–fluently.

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.