“Aryans: The people of the Rigveda, who invaded Iran and India from the northwest in the later 2nd millenium BC, By one theory they were responsible for the downfall of Indus Civilization. Their language was an early form of Sanskrit, the most easterly of the Indo-European tongues, but the use of their name to describe other Indo-European speakers is to be strongly deprecated.”
Excerpted from: Bray, Warwick, and David Trump. The Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology. New York: Penguin, 1984.
Here is a word root worksheet on the Latin word roots terr, terra, and terri. These three roots, which mean both earth and land, are very productive in English–you may even have a terrarium in your home or classroom.
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If there is a better time to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Latin phrase quid pro quo, I cannot imagine when that would be.
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I’ll spare you the details other than to say I just wrote this context clues worksheet on the adjective de rigueur. I don’t know how often this modifier shows up in speech, but it certainly is in common enough usage in prose to teach it to high school students.
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This week’s Text is a lesson plan on the Latin word root bene. It means good and well, and as you have probably already figured out, it turns up as the root of such common words in English as benefit and benevolent. This context clues worksheet on the noun welfare with which I intended deploy a hint to point students in the right direction (and also to hint at the idea that government welfare benefits, which so many families in our nation now receive, are meant to keep us, as individuals and as a society, good and well). Finally, here is the word root worksheet that is the mainstay of this lesson.
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I have to assume that people somewhere in the nation–even with its rapidly declining and increasingly unsophisticated literacy–are still teaching The Iliad and The Odyssey. That means someone, somewhere, unless I very much miss my guess, might need this short reading on Homer as well as its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
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Moving right along this morning, here is a worksheet on the Greek roots pter/o, pteryg, and pteryx. They mean wing and fin. You can probably see pterodactyl arising from these; you’ll have to open the worksheet to see the rest.
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This worksheet on the Greek word root psych/o–which means mind, soul, and mental process–takes students through a series of words that grow from this very productive root in English.
Do I need to say that anyone considering a career in mental health services in particular, and healthcare in general, should know this root? They’ll need it to understand fully the meanings of psychologist and psychiatrist.
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This worksheet on the Greek Word roots pan and panto–they mean all–guides students through an extremely productive root in English. You’ll find this root at the basis of words like panorama and pantheism–relatively commonly used words.
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“Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Propertius, Elegies bk. 2, elegy 33, 1. 43
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
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