Yesterday’s rain gave way to a bright, crisp and windy Wednesday morning here in Manhattan. I wish I weren’t in a windowless building at this hour.
Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective ruthless. It’s a timely word, I think.
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“Aesopian Language Political double-talk or euphemism that has a special meaning to its advocates or initiates; a vocabulary of stock phrases, code words, and value judgments; dissembling or propagandistic jargon (from the early language of fables, in which chiefly slaves were conversant).
‘Soviet writers occasionally use Aesopian language, as writers did under the Czar, to convey hidden thoughts in disguise. Defenders of the regime, while attacking those writers for the use of Aesopian language, are now couching their attacks in Aesopian language.’ Leon Lipson, quite in Israel Shenker, Words and Their Masters.”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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Here, on a rainy, warm Tuesday morning, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Puritans, the zealots who settled this country, and whose intellectual and spiritual descendants are still trying to tell the rest of us how to live our lives.
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Here is a short worksheet on the Greek word root hepat/o. It means liver. This is another word root from which many words used in the health care professions: you want to avoid hepatitis, and pay attention when your doctor orders a hepatic panel.
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It’s Regents testing week here in New York City, so I am on a “C” schedule; I’m not required at work until almost noon. If I could work a schedule like this all the time, I would be a perpetually happy camper.
Here are two context clues worksheets on the noun squalor and the adjective squalid. These are good words to use when discussing, say, the Nazis.
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OK, it’s Friday again, and like everybody else, I guess, I anticipate the weekend with relief.
This week’s Text is a complete lesson plan on using coordinating conjunctions. I begin this lesson with this homophone worksheet on the the noun council and counsel used as both noun and a verb. If this lesson runs into a second day (I always plan for a variety of contingencies in a class period), here is–courtesy of the generous folks at Education World, where you can get a year-long supply of these exercises–an Everyday Edit exercise on Banned Books Week. The mainstay of this lesson is this scaffolded worksheet that guides students through the use of coordinating conjunctions. Finally, you’ll probably find helpful the teacher’s copy of the worksheet.
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Here, on a chilly Thursday morning in Manhattan, is a Cultural Literacy Worksheet on the Nuremberg Trials. I can think of a number of places and subjects in which a high school teacher could use this short worksheet.
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I’m enjoying one of those rare mornings where nothing is pressing, so I have some time to dub around, and organize materials. I’m always surprised by what I find–one of the joys, I guess, of being a packrat. Anyway, there is a context clues worksheet on the adjective amicable. I can’t remember now why I wrote this, but I suspect it was to accompany a unit on a novel, probably either Lord of the Flies or The Catcher in the Rye.
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Here, for a Wednesday morning, are two context clues worksheets on the verb evoke and the adjective evocative. These are a couple of very strong words with considerable utility in discussions and inquiry in the arts and humanities.
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Here is a short exercise on the Greek word root erythr/o; it means red. This is another of those roots that grows a lot of words used in the health professions.
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