Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Deteriorate (vt/vi)

It seems to me that this context clues worksheet for the verb deteriorate, which is used both transitively and intransitively, would be of some use in just about any classroom, contingent on the students it contains.

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Independent Practice: The Magna Carta

Here is an independent practice assignment on the Magna Carta which is a key event in world history, as well as a key concept in social studies, i.e. limiting the power of leaders.

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Cultural Literacy: Socialization

It seems to me that this Cultural Literacy worksheet on socialization might be a step in the right direction toward raising students’ awareness of a key concept in human affairs.

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Term of Art: Gerund

A nominal form of verbs in Latin: e.g. pugnando (“fight-gerund-abl.sg”) “by fighting.” Hence a term available for verb forms with a noun-like role in other languages: e.g. English fighting is traditionally a gerund in Fighting used to be fun, as opposed to the participle, also in –ing but with a different syntactic role, in people fighting.”

Excerpted from: Matthews, P.H. The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Cosmology (n)

Here, to accompany the quote below it, is a context clues worksheet on the noun cosmology. If memory serves, I wrote this to use with a lesson on Galileo. But it could serve a number of purposes.

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Ibn al-Nafis

Here is a reading on the Muslim physician Ibn al-Nafis who was the first doctor to map the human pulmonary system. This vocabulary-building and  comprehension worksheet accompanies it.

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Diffusion (n)

You might find this context clues worksheet on the noun diffusion useful, particularly if you teach science.

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The Weekly Text, August 3, 2018: A Lesson Plan on the Latin Word Root Ver-

This week’s Text is a complete lesson plan on the Latin word root ver–it means true. You know, it turns up in words like veracity, verify, and verdict. This do-now exercise on the noun integrity serves well to open the lesson and hint at the meaning of the word root. Finally, this word root worksheet is the mainstay of the lesson.

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Veracious (adj) and Voracious (adj)

Here are five worksheets on the homophones veracious and voracious, both of which are adjectives. Both of these words grow from Latin roots, to wit, respectively, ver (true) and vor (to eat). Let me put that another way: “I can verify that he ate voraciously.” Tomorrow morning, for this week’s Text, I’ll post a complete lesson plan on the Latin root ver; vor will appear eventually, but I haven’t finished fashioning it into a complete lesson plan.

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Cultural Literacy: The Nobel Prize

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Nobel Prize. I wonder if he’d lived longer, if James Baldwin might have received it.

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