Classical Roots Lessons 3 and 4

DIRECTIONS Take out a sheet of lined paper. Title this “Classical Roots-Lesson 3” Write the root word. List the words within that root word underneath. These are your notes. Keep in the VOCAB section of your binder.

EX = “from,” “out of” Excerpt (carpere <L. “to pick,” “to pluck,” “to seize”) Exhilarate (hilaris <L. “cheerful,” “happy”) (hilaros <G. “cheerful,” “happy”) Exonerate (onus <L. “burden,” “load”) Exorbitant (orbita <L. “route”)

PONO, PONERE, POSUI, POSITUM= “to place,” “to put” Compound (con = cum <L. “with,” “together”) Exposition (ex <L. “from,” “out of”) Expound (ex <L. “from,” “out of”) Impose (im = in <L. “in”) Impostor (im = in <L. “in”) Proponent (pro <G. “before”)

HOMEWORK Complete each activity from the book: 3A, 3B, and 3C. (Pages 20-22) ALSO, this is EXTRA! It is NOT in the book: Write YOUR OWN SENTENCES for EACH word! “3A-C & Sentences” is the homework! The homework is due on FRIDAY!

DIRECTIONS Take out a sheet of lined paper. Title this “Classical Roots-Lesson 4” Write the root word. List the words within that root word underneath. These are your notes. Keep in the “Vocab” section of your binder.

EXTRA = “on the outside” Extraneous Extraterrestrial (terra <L. “earth”) Extrovert (vertere <L. “to turn”)

MEDIUS = “middle” Mediate Mediocrity Medium

SEQUOR, SEQUI, SECUTUM = “to follow” Non sequitur Obsequious (ob <L. “to”) Subsequent (sub <L. “under”) Sequester

HOMEWORK Complete each activity from the book: 4A, 4B, and 4C. (Pages 25-27) ALSO, this is EXTRA! It is NOT in the book: Write YOUR OWN SENTENCES for EACH word! “4A-C & Sentences” is the homework! The homework is due on FRIDAY!

Words to Study: Lessons 3 & 4 Compound * Extraneous Excerpt * Extraterrestrial Exhilarate * Extrovert Exonerate * Mediate Exorbitant * Mediocrity Exposition * Non sequitur Expound * Obsequious Impose * Subsequent Impostor Proponent 1. What is difficult about these tests? 2. What were you successful with? 3. What advice do you have? 4. How should we study for these tests? HOMEWORK: Review Exercises 1-3 on Page 28

Test Time Here we go, folks! Take a deep breath.  The test is YOUR COPY. Write your name on it. In addition to bubbling your answers, please write the LETTER (A, B, C, or D) next to the question number. When finished, KEEP YOUR TEST, but turn it over. Work on school work or read. Test Corrections will be allowed on this test!

TEST CORRECTIONS #’s 1-7, 15-20 Write the CORRECT WORD in a sentence. You will only receive points IF the word is used in a context. #’s 8-11 Give a 2 sentence explanation WHY the word is the correct answer. Be specific, yet concise. #’s 12-14 Write a SYNONYM and ANTONYM for the example word pair AND the correct word pair. {Disregard the root words – no S&A for them.}