1. Bell Ringer #8: Latin Suffixes
Directions:
Open up to page 70 of your Collections textbook and read the information on Latin Suffixes
Complete practice and apply questions 1-5.
Use the chart (green suffix box and yellow example words) to help you answer the questions.

2. Housekeeping Home Learning: Complete weekly A3Ks by Sunday
Announcements:
Make-Up Monday

3. The Fine Print Standards I can…
(L.3.4) Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
Essential Question
How can knowledge of word families assist you when determining the meaning of an unknown word?

4. Root Word Investigations
Cornell Notes

5. Affixes Affixes are added to a word to change its meaning. Examples:
prefixes
suffixes

6. Prefixes
A prefix is an element placed at the beginning of a word to adjust or qualify its meaning.
Examples:
de- meaning “off; from; fall”
non- meaning “not”
re- meaning “back; again”

7. Suffixes
A suffix is an element placed at the end of a word to form a derivative, such as -ation, 
-fy, -ing, frequently one that converts the stem into another part of speech.
Examples:
Perforate  Perforation; navigate  navigation
liquid  liquefy; satisfaction  satisfy
Floor  flooring; wed  wedding

8. Bases vs. Roots -ject -JUDGE- Bases are words that can stand alone.
Roots are word parts that cannot stand alone.
-ject
-JUDGE-

9. Breaking apart an example
Prefixes
“before”
Roots ?
Suffixes
“to do/act”
(denotes an action)
pre-
-SCRIP-
-tion

10. We Do
On a separate piece of paper, draw a moderate-sized circle and write the word scrib/scrip in the middle.
Leave enough room to add to this circle later
Also, leave room to add other circles.
-scrib-/
-scrip-

11. We Do
Write as many words as you can think of that use the root –scrib--scrip—and write them down. Leave enough room for part of speech and definitions before, drawing your circle.
Take turns using the dictionary to look-up the meaning of each word.
Everyone must look-up and define at least one word.
scribe
-scrib-/
-scrip-

12. We Do
Write as many words as you can think of that use the root –scrib--scrip—and write them down. Leave enough room for part of speech and definitions before, drawing your circle.
Take turns using the dictionary to look-up the meaning of each word.
Everyone must look-up and define at least one word.
scribe
-scrib-/
-scrip-

13. Work Period Look to see what words the definitions share in common.
Based on the common words found in these definitions, what can you infer –scrib-/
-scrip- means?
Scribe
a person
who writes
Manuscript
handwritten
document
Scribble
To write
quickly &
is difficult
to read
-scrib-, -scrip-
“to write”
Transcribe
Put thoughts
Into written form
Scripture
Sacred writings

14. Example
Break the word s o m n a m b u l i s t up into different parts.
Determine what each means.
Then, put it all together for the word’s meaning.
One who sleep walks
Insomniac
One who doesn’t sleep
Ambulator
Someone who goes from place to place;
A walker
Insomnia
Inability to sleep
Ambulance
Emergency vehicle
Somn
ambul
sleep
walk
Ambulative
Going forward on
foot
Ambulatory
Capable of walking

15. Group #1 Break the word synchronize up into different parts.
Determine what each means.
Then, put it all together for the word’s meaning.
Syn = same;
Chron = time
Definition = to occur at the same time

16. Group #2 Break the word retrospect up into different parts.
Determine what each means.
Then, put it all together for the word’s meaning.
Retro = back
Spect = to look
Definitions = review of the past; period of time

17. Group #3 Break the word logophile up into different parts.
Determine what each means.
Then, put it all together for the word’s meaning.
Logo = words
Phile = love
Definition = a lover of words

18. Group #4 Break the word hypnophobia up into different parts.
Determine what each means.
Then, put it all together for the word’s meaning.
Hypno = sleep
Phobia = fear
Definition = irrational fear of being hypnotized or falling asleep

19. Group #5 Break the word patricide up into different parts.
Determine what each means.
Then, put it all together for the word’s meaning.
Patri = father
Cide = to kill
Definition = the killing of one’s father

20. Group #6 Break the word diarchy up into different parts.
Determine what each means.
Then, put it all together for the word’s meaning.
Di = two
Cracy = government
Definition = government by two independent authorities

21. Work Period 1) Technology 2) Early Finisher Conversation Level 1
Materials Needed:
Pencil
Computer
Article Analysis Sheet
Conversation Level 1
Navigate to Achieve 3000.
Complete the assigned article: “Freedom: How We Got It” (BR poll – AR poll)
Due at the start of next class.
Conversation Level 0
Items MUST be completed in the following order:
Check over today’s work before submitting.
Check the No Name Paper Wall.
Check your grades in Focus and work on any absent/late work you still can.
Work on weekly A3K articles.
Work on work for another class or read silently.

22. Packing Up Checklist HOMEWORK:
Weekly A3Ks due 11:59 P.M on Feb. 5
DO THE FOLLOWING:
Return comp. book to the bin and submit article analysis sheets. Get clickers for the closing.
Plug in your computers
Return teacher’s supplies you borrowed where they belong
Throw away trash
Pack-up personal belongings
Sit silently and wait for teacher to dismiss you

23. Closing
Get your assigned clicker. For those assigned clicker #27, take out a piece of paper and number it 1-4.

24. Word Family Closing: Ocean Nation Hesitation
Word family: ethnicity, ethnic, ethnographer
Root: ethn
What is the meaning?
Ocean
Nation
Hesitation

25. Word Family Closing: Education Sanitation Madness
Word family: maniac, maniacal
Root: mania
What is the meaning?
Education
Sanitation
Madness

26. Word Family Closing: Skin Body Mind
Word family: epidermis, dermatology
Root: derm
What is the meaning?
Skin
Body
Mind

27. Word Family Closing: Work Good Weak Word Family: laboratory, labor
Root: lab
What is the meaning?
Work
Good
Weak