“Who is Scheherazade? She is the narrator or the Arabian Nights (c. 1450), who tells stories night after night to keep her husband, the Sultan Schahriah, from strangling her at dawn. Scheherazade tells her stories to her sister Dinarzade in the Sultan’s hearing.”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
“Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum): Which was to be demonstrated: used to indicate that something has just been showed or proved. ‘By making this call—which reduces both characters to still more tears—Vito miraculously learns to “stop hating himself.” He then decides, Q.E.D., that the time has come to quit his ad-agency job and settle down with Theda to collaborate on hit plays.’ Frank Rich, The New York Times”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Alright, moving right along, here is a lesson plan on the Latin word root circum; it means around. It is, as this worksheet that is the mainstay of the lesson fairly quickly exposes, a very productive root in English. Moreover, these are words that are in very heavy use in educated discourse in this country, which is why your student or child should know them as well as the root at the base of them.
I open this lesson with the context clues on the adverb and adjective abroad. It is a conceptual antonym to words formed from circum-, and to the extent possible, the worksheet itself aims to hint at these words and their meanings–as well as the idea of an antonym.
That’s it for today. I hope you are at home and safe, and all young minds are engaged, wherever you are.
Godspeed.
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Here is a worksheet on the Greek word roots the and theo. They mean god. You can find them in many key conceptual words in the high school curriculum, particularly pantheism and monotheism.
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It’s a term that students really ought to know in an age where there are a number of true authoritarians running nation-states, so here is a context clues worksheet on the noun coup d’etat. It means “a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics; especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.”
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Here is a worksheet on the Latin word root nat, which means both birth and born. You will recognize it instantly as the basis of the word native, among many others. It is an extremely productive root in English.
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Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root zyg/o. It means pair. It forms the basis of the noun zygote, among many other scientific words. This is yet another word students should know if they are interested in a career in the healthcare professions.
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“The Seventh Seal: A highly regarded film (1957) directed by the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007). A vision of a medieval land ravaged by the Black Death, the film impressed and mystified audiences around the world. The title refers to a verse in the Bible:
‘And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in
heaven about the space of half an hour.’
Excerpted from: Crofton, Ian, ed. Brewer’s Curious Titles. London: Cassell, 2002.
OK, before I go out for a walk on this beautiful early spring afternoon, here is a lesson plan on the Greek word root bio, which means life. I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the adjective vital, which hints for students at the meaning of word root at the base of of this lesson. Finally, here is the worksheet that is the primary work of this lesson.
I’ll assume, particularly of you science teachers, that I need not belabor the point of this root’s productivity in English, or its place at the base of so many words related to the life sciences.
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Alright, I’ve run out of steam for today. I’ll return here tomorrow with another raft of documents that will, I fervently hope, keep young, homebound minds engaged in something other than anxiety about our current dystopian state. So here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept tour de force.
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