Context Clues Activity with Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Increasing your vocabulary not only helps you to better understand what you read, it also allows you to write using better diction. For these reasons, we will complete an activity based on your reading of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” As you read, you were to highlight/circle words you did not know. This activity will help expand your vocabulary and work on your skills of using context clues to interpret what unknown words mean.
Choose ten of the words that you marked. For each new word, record the context of your encounter. Copy the sentence including the word and include the proper citation (Irving #). Write your guess(es) of what you think the word means. How did you guess its meaning? What context clues did you use within the sentence or within the paragraph that helped you make that hypothesis? Then write the proper definition and part of speech, and two sentences using the word correctly with context clues. These must be your own sentences, not any that you found online. You will submit this assignment to Turnitin.com
Sample:
Querulous
· “There was the honest cock robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds…” (Irving 8)
· I think the word means high-pitch.
· Since it’s some type of loud note the bird sings, I think it would be a high-pitch sound.
· Dictionary.com: Adjective: complaining; expressing a complaint or grievance
1. I can’t stand it when my students talk to me in a querulous tone when they’re upset if they have homework for the night.
2. The customer gave querulous comments about the price of her products.
Context Clues Activity with Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Increasing your vocabulary not only helps you to better understand what you read, it also allows you to write using better diction. For these reasons, we will complete an activity based on your reading of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” As you read, you were to highlight/circle words you did not know. This activity will help expand your vocabulary and work on your skills of using context clues to interpret what unknown words mean.
Choose ten of the words that you marked. For each new word, record the context of your encounter. Copy the sentence including the word and include the proper citation (Irving #). Write your guess(es) of what you think the word means. How did you guess its meaning? What context clues did you use within the sentence or within the paragraph that helped you make that hypothesis? Then write the proper definition and part of speech, and two sentences using the word correctly with context clues. These must be your own sentences, not any that you found online. You will submit this assignment to Turnitin.com
Sample:
Querulous
· “There was the honest cock robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds…” (Irving 8)
· I think the word means high-pitch.
· Since it’s some type of loud note the bird sings, I think it would be a high-pitch sound.
· Dictionary.com: Adjective: complaining; expressing a complaint or grievance
1. I can’t stand it when my students talk to me in a querulous tone when they’re upset if they have homework for the night.
2. The customer gave querulous comments about the price of her products.