Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Material (n) and Materiel (n)

Here, for the third day of 2018, are five homophone worksheets on the nouns material and materiel.

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Enigma (n)

Mark’s Text Terminal enters 2018 with the offer of a context clues worksheet on the noun enigma. This is a word high school students ought to know, I think.

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.

The Weekly Text, December 22, 2017: Five Worksheets on Using the Homophones There, Their, and They’re

Here are five worksheets on the homophones there, their, and they’re. I assume I needn’t belabor the point that these are some of the most commonly confused homophones out there.

That’s it:  See you on Friday, January 5, 2018, with a new Weekly Text–a full lesson on adverbs.

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: David Ricardo

We’ve been studying the Industrial Revolution and the birth of capitalism in my sophomore global studies class. That means we’ve been spending a lot of time with Adam Smith, but for the sake of expedience, I imagine, very little on David Ricardo. Certainly, Ricardo is one of the most important of the political economists.

But perhaps not for the high school curriculum. In the event you might need it (it might make a good short introduction to a lesson on Smith, Thomas Malthus, or James Mill, if you teach those thinkers), here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on David Ricardo.

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.

Grievance (n)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun grievance I recently wrote to attend a lesson on the French Revolution. I can’t imagine how students in high school can meaningfully participate in social studies classes–or come to think of it, how meaningful social studies classes can occur–without knowledge of this word and the concept 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.

Pair (n), Pare (vt), and Pear (n)

If you can use them, here are five homophone worksheets on the noun pair, the transitive verb pare, and the noun pear. I just wrote these, though at the moment I’m not sure why. They’re short exercises written to be used at the beginning of a class period.

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.

A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Ecto

Here is a short exercise on the Greek word root ecto; it means outside. This is one of those roots that show up in words in the sciences, so it and its words are important for literacy in science courses.

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.

The Weekly Text, December 15, 2017: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Hammurabi’s Code of Laws

For some reason, I thought I’d posted this reading on Hammurabi’s Code of Laws and the comprehension worksheet which complements it. This material, I would think, is a cornerstone of an introductory global studies class.

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: Social Class

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on social class, so when politicians whine about “class war,” your students will have some context for understanding that concept.

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.

Debt (n), Debtor (n)

Because I work in an economics and finance themed high school (which means, I have realized over time, next to nothing in terms of curriculum development in this institution), I’m not sure why it took me this long to develop these two context clues on the nouns debt and debtor. Anyway, here they are.

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.