Breaking Down Vocabulary

1. Breaking Down Vocabulary Day 2: Roots

2. What is a root? Examples?

3. Root: • A word part that comes from another language • Indicates a word family

4. How did English Evolve? (video) The roots of the roots…

5. Video contemplations… • Consider some of these words from our list of roots: • To do, to act, low, to hold, to go, to believe, to run, to say, to lead, equal, even, to bring, to make, to write, to bend, to write, to follow, to appear, to touch, to hold, to stretch, to draw • If you had to come up with a collective category for these words, what would it be? (an adjective) • All of the translation of these Greek and Latin roots are simple yet vital • In other words, they are not the peasant-derived vocabulary words that we use on a familiar level

6. Roots do several things… • Supply a context for the history of our language • Provide commonalities between familiar words • Give you clues to unlock SAT words you don’t know

7. Take out a blank page and a pencil.Label the paper 1-10. • You will see a pair or group of words on the screen • Figure out what ROOT the words have in common • Then write what you think the root MEANS

8. 1.) Subscription, Transcript Common root? What does the root mean?

9. 2.) Dictionary, Indicate, Predict Common root? What does the root mean?

10. 3.) Sequence, Consecutive, Consequence Common root? What does the root mean?

11. 4.) Transmit, Admit, Emit Common root? What does the root mean?

12. 5.) Deduce, Conduct, Induce Common root? What does the root mean?

13. 6.) Contact, Tactile, Intangible Common root? What does the root mean?

14. 7.) Convene, Venue, Event Common root? What does the root mean?

15. 8.) Extend, Tension, Tendon, Contain Common root? What does the root mean?

16. 9.) Reverse, Convert, Divert, Versatile Common root? What does the root mean?

17. 10.) Stationary, Constant, Static, Stagnant Common root? What does the root mean?

18. Root: Scrib, Script (to write) 1.) Subscription, Transcript Common root? What does the root mean?

19. 2.) Root: Dic, Dict (to say) Dictionary, Indicate, Predict Common root? What does the root mean?

20. Root: Sequ, Secu (to follow) 3.) Sequence, Consecutive, Consequence Common root? What does the root mean?

21. 4.) Root: Mit, Mis (to send) Transmit, Admit, Emit Common root? What does the root mean?

22. 5.) Root: Duc, Duct (to lead) Deduce, Conduct, Induce Common root? What does the root mean?

23. 6.) Root: Tact (to touch) Contact, Tactile, Intangible Common root? What does the root mean?

24. 7.) Root: Ven, Vent (to come) Convene, Venue, Event Common root? What does the root mean?

25. 8.) Root: Ten, Tent, Tain (to hold) Extend, Tension, Tendon, Contain Common root? What does the root mean?

26. 9.) Root: Ver, Vert, Vers (to turn) Reverse, Convert, Divert, Versatile Common root? What does the root mean?

27. 10.) Root: Sta, Stat, Sist, Stit, Sisto (to stand or make stand) Stationary, Constant, Static, Stagnant Common root? What does the root mean?

28. On your list of 27 roots… • Next to the root(s) write a single word that helps YOU remember the meaning of that root Action

29. Heads Up:Root, Prefix, and Suffix Quiz Cycle 19, Meeting 4

30. Vocabulary Presentations

31. Vocabulary Presentations • In a group of three, you will create • A visual presentation (with Google Presentation, Prezi, PowerPoint, etc.) • A worksheet for your classmates to do to practice these new words • Then, down the road, your group will present your vocabulary words as an introduction each cycle