English, like most languages, is full of loan words. Few are as commonly used as faux pas. To help your students learn this word, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun faux pas.
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Here, on a Tuesday morning that feels like a harbinger of spring, is a context clues worksheet on the adjective factual. It follows yesterday’s quote from Bernard Baruch nicely, I think. I hope you find it useful.
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For the fourth and final week of Black History Month 2017, Mark’s Text Terminal offers this reading on sharecropping, which represents at best a particularly ugly moment in the economic history of the United States, and at worst (toward which I tend), slavery by another name. You’ll probably find this comprehension sheet to accompany it useful. This is probably more a social studies assignment than anything else. As I understand Black History Month, to some extent, as a celebration, I post this work with some circumspection. It is, after all, a story of the ongoing oppression of Americans of African descent, even after their ostensible emancipation from slavery.
In life, however, one takes the bad with the good. This is history that requires repeating, especially in these grim days when we in the United States have just elevated to the office of Attorney General a man known for racist remarks and for singing the praises of the Ku Klux Klan.
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You might find this context clues worksheet on the transitive verb placate useful. This verb is only used transitively, so don’t forget your direct object: you must placate something, or more likely, someone. In any case, this is another of those strong verbs students would do well to use in expository prose.
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Here’s a context clues worksheet on the verb obtain as a transitive verb; transitively it means “to gain or attain usually by planned action or effort.” Reading these clues, students will probably say this means “to get,” which is of course quite close. I suggest asking them what it takes to get something they want, or variations of that question, and you will eventually induce in them their understanding that to “get” things requires plans and effort.
Incidentally, obtain as an intransitive verb means “to be generally recognized or established: PREVAIL.” It’s seldom used intransitively these days, but a sample sentence (should you decide to develop a context clues worksheet for this usage) would be something like” “In mid-August, hot and humid conditions obtained in New York City.”
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Because I work in a economics- and finance-themed high school, I’m almost embarrassed to say that I just now wrote this context clues worksheet on the adjective fiscal. Anyway, here it is if you can use it.
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For the third week of Black History Month, Mark’s Text Terminal showcases Langston Hughes and his poem “I, too, sing America.” This week’s text is a reading which includes the poem itself with this comprehension and exegesis worksheet to analyze the poem. While this worksheet asks questions just slightly above the comprehension level of understanding, the reading does a nice job of presenting its exegesis of the poem in that way. Struggling learners and readers therefore have a chance to perform genuine exegetical work on this key literary monument of the Harlem Renaissance. Finally, because I believe in using every lesson as an opportunity to build students’ vocabularies, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun exegesis, another on the noun exegete, and a third on the adjective exegetical.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun circumstance. This word is used mostly in the plural, and I’ve written the context clues to reflect that. Nonetheless, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (the dictionary of record at Mark’s Text Terminal), lists it in the singular, which is how I too list it.
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John C. Calhoun has been in the news lately–to wit because of Yale University’s (Calhoun is an alumnus of Yale) decision to rename its residential college named after Calhoun. Normally, I would say that Calhoun was one of the most odious politicians ever to walk the American stage. However, now that November 8, 2016, has come and gone, I might need to revise my estimation of him, painful though it may be, upward–though by displacement rather than a rise in regard. In any case, because it is Black History Month, I am somewhat loathe to post this Intellectual Devotional reading on Calhoun along with this reading comprehension worksheet to accompany it for reasons that are obvious to you if you are familiar with him, or will quickly become so as you look into his egregious political career. It wouldn’t be unfair, owing to his adherence to the Constitutional theory of nullification, and his participation in the Nullification Crisis, which was one of this country’s first step down to road to the Civil War, to call him a key proponent of the issues that drove that conflict.
Have I mentioned that Calhoun was from South Carolina and represented that state in the federal legislature? It is no coincidence that South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union. Would you be surprised to hear that he was an ardent racist who played no small role in perpetuating slavery?
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For some reason, it took me a long time to get around to writing this context clues worksheet on the noun golden age. I guess I imagined there wouldn’t be a definition for it, per se, in the dictionary. However, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition, lists it simply (which is what you want, I think, if you are using the term as it applies to civilizations as taught in a standard global studies classroom) as “a period of great happiness, prosperity, and achievement.”
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