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Words and Language

Language Arts Begins with Words

  • May I have a word…with YOU**
  • Joan Bauer “Words” PDF
  • Main ideas from “Words” by Joan Bauer
  • Gather for Peace PDF article
  • Response to Gather for Peace PDF
  • Anne Curzan TED talk What makes a word “real”
  • “Tri-english” This is a cool, somewhat angry rap (a TED talk) but it’s a real discussion starter about “proper English”
  • Word Classification PDF charts to fill in
  • Susan Wooldridge PDF excerpts from poem crazy to enjoy and try for yourself (see Box of Words items in Projects… Fun and Educational Activities.)
  • History of English Language in 10 Minutes
  • Hobo Words Lesson**
  • Hobo Signs
  • Wikipedia Entry on Hobos

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

― Pablo Picasso

And GUMS (Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, Spelling)

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  • My students had yearly Grammar Funerals. Click to open for guides, samples, and a Vimeo.
  • GrammarBytes
  • Grammar Links
  • FREE RICE is a super link, and not only for grammar, but also for vocabulary. Use it often as a default quiz site.
  • Save the Words information
  • Homophones PDF from an old Games magazine
  • Refining Word Meaning PDF
  • Let dead verbs rest in peace PDF
  • English as the Official Language PDF
  • Semantics: Connotation and Denotation
  • Student Connotation Poems
  • Talking Types
  • Words with Multiple Meanings
  • What’s Really Wrong with this Story, Clichés
  • Gobbledegook…Pedantry Prevails
  • Say What

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

― Mark Twain

Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

― Henry Hazlitt

Some vocabulary items may be fun and useful

  • vocabulary.com
  • Cheese or Font
  • Quack SAT vocab (This is Vol 1.  There are 4 more I’m hoping to find.)
  • Quack SAT word list
  • Our Polyglot Citizenry PDF
  • Loanwords PDF
  • PDF Foreign Phrases to Know and Use
  • Foreign Words and Phrases (link)
  • Assignments for Presenting Foreign Words and Phrases Used in English
  • 3 Foreign Phrases Quizlet 1
  • 3 Foreign Phrases Quizlet 2
  • 3 Foreign Phrases Quizlet 3
  • Vocabulary from Myth and History (powerpoint)**
  • Vocabulary from Myth and History (word list)
  • Word Play DVD links

**For powerpoint documents, click to download/save to your computer. Then open with a powerpoint viewer.

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words and language

A word after a word after a word is power.

- Margaret Atwood

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

- Hunter Thompson

A word is dead when it is said some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

- Emily Dickinson

Without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

- Melina Marchetta

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