Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

The Weekly Text, September 29, 2017, Hispanic Heritage Month 2017 Week III: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Miguel De Cervantes

For the third Friday of Hispanic Heritage Month, 2017, Mark’s Text Terminal offers a reading on Miguel de Cervantes and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

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Coalition (n)

You might find this context clues worksheet on the noun coalition helpful in assisting your social studies students in understanding this noun.

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Cultural Literacy: Primogeniture

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on primogeniture, a concept that almost certainly recurs in most high school social studies classes.

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The Weekly Text, September 22, 2017, Hispanic Heritage Month Week II: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Simon Bolivar

It’s the end of the first week of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Here is a reading on Simon Bolivar from the Intellectual Devotional series. To accompany it, here is a comprehension worksheet.

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Accumulate (vt/vi)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb accumulate, which Merriam-Webster’s observes is used both transitively and intransitively.

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Counsel (vt/vi) and Council (n)

You might find these five homophone worksheets on the nouns counsel and council useful. As the header indicates, counsel can also be used as both a transitive and an intransitive verb; indeed, these worksheets to call upon students to use counsel as a verb.

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The Weekly Text, September 8, 2017: Two Context Clues Worksheets on Wholesale and Retail as Adjectives

School started this week, and I’d hoped to get something big and splashy up for this Friday. Indeed, I’m working on a revision this Weekly Text, from August 28, 2015, on Daniel Willingham’s First Demonstration of Memory, but I’m not quite done with it. However, circumstances intruded, so I have very little to offer this week. Next Friday begins National Hispanic Heritage Month for 2017, so I’ll be posting, as last year, four readings and comprehension worksheets in observance of its four week span.

Because I work in a business-themed high school in the Financial District in New York City, I found it necessary to develop these two context clues worksheets on the words wholesale and retail relatively early on in my tenure here. They’re used as adjectives and adverbs in these exercises. Should you choose to engineer these worksheets further, these words can be used as verbs and nouns as well.

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Rhin/o

Here is a short exercise on the Greek word root rhin/o. For those of you who don’t watch “South Park” (home of “Tom’s Rhinoplasty”!), this root means nose. This is another root that shows up in words used extensively in the healthcare professions. If you have students expressing interest in working in healthcare, this is a root they ought to know.

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Cultural Literacy: Police State

Now seems like an apt time to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a police state. Republics are in constant danger of lapsing into police states–something to keep in mind.

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Constitution (n)

For a variety of reasons, now seems like as good a time as any to post a context clues worksheet on the noun constitution. This worksheet places the word in contexts meant to show its meaning as “the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it”  and “a written instrument embodying the rules of a political or social organization.”

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