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11th - 12th Grade Language

For eleventh and twelfth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the rules for using the English language, including vocabulary use and language conventions, in order to improve their skills as writers and readers. Among the complete standards for this grade, eleventh and twelfth graders will be asked to: demonstrate that they understand standard English usage in writing and speaking by showing that they can properly punctuate and spell, apply the understanding that usage is a matter of convention, can change over time, and is sometimes contested, and resolve issues of complex or contested usage by consulting references like Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, Garner's Modern American Usage, vary syntax for effect, consult references like Tufte's Artful Sentences for guidance as needed be able to use digital and print glossaries, dictionaries, and thesauruses to find meanings and etymology of words, interpret figures of speech like hyperbole and paradox in context, gather vocabulary knowledge sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level, understand and to assist in word choice and comprehension.

Circle It! Correct Punctuation

Circle It! Correct Punctuation

Students will practice identifying correctly used punctuation in this printable activity. They will be asked to read through the given sentences and circle the number of the sentences that have correct punctuation. Ideal for 6th – 12th grade, but can be used where needed.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, 9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.6.2, L.7.2, L.8.2, L.9-10.2, L.11-12.2

Figurative Language: What Is It?

Figurative Language: What Is It?

This multiple choice worksheet asks your student to identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence or phrase.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.11-12.5.A

Working with Figurative Language

Working with Figurative Language

In this worksheet your student will match up the figures of speech with the phrase or sentence.

Grade Levels:
6th - 8th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.11-12.5.A

Context Clues for Meaning

Context Clues for Meaning

Here’s a high school drill for using context clues for finding word meanings.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.4a, L.11-12.4a

Context Clues in Julius Caesar

Context Clues in Julius Caesar

“Julius Caesar” is the text for this context clue worksheet.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.4a, L.11-12.4a

Context Clues: Reading for Meaning

Context Clues: Reading for Meaning

A passage from “A Tale of Two Cities” is the focus for this context clues worksheet.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.4a, L.11-12.4a

Correct Spelling: Right or Wrong

Correct Spelling: Right or Wrong

In this “Right or Wrong” classroom activity, your students will correct spelling mistakes while proofreading the sentences on this worksheet.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.2, L.11-12.2

Discuss the Paradox

Discuss the Paradox

This worksheet asks your student to explain the paradox in each situation.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.11-12.5.A

Explain the Hyperbole

Explain the Hyperbole

We think you’ll flip over this hyperbole worksheet!

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.11-12.5

Finding Meaning In Context

Finding Meaning In Context

This worksheet uses a passage from “Jane Eyre” to develop your student’s skills with context clues.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.4a, L.11-12.4a

Gettysburg Address Context Clues

Gettysburg Address Context Clues

In this worksheet, your student will use context clues as a way to discover the meaning of words.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.4a, L.11-12.4a

Halloween and Figurative Language Worksheet Activty

Halloween and Figurative Language Worksheet Activty

Help your students better understand figurative language with this classroom activity on similes and idioms. Students will practice interpreting different phrases, such as ‘web of lies’ and ‘ghosts of a chance’, with this printable worksheet.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.5, L.11-12.5

Hamlet: Using Context for Word Meaning

Hamlet: Using Context for Word Meaning

Hamlet’s encounter with his father’s ghost is the scene for this context clue worksheet.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.4a, L.11-12.4a

High School Spelling Words List – General Spelling Rules

High School Spelling Words List – General Spelling Rules

Here is a general spelling rules handout for students

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.2, L.11-12.2

High School Spelling Words List Week 1 – Words Ending in -ant and -ent

High School Spelling Words List Week 1 – Words Ending in -ant and -ent

Week one high school spelling list includes these 10 words: argument, convenient, equipment, excellent, excitement, experiment, permanent, pleasant, servant, temperament.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.2, L.11-12.2

High School Spelling Words List Week 10 – Words Ending in -ant, -ent, -ence, -ance, -ary, and -ery

High School Spelling Words List Week 10 – Words Ending in  -ant, -ent, -ence, -ance, -ary, and -ery

Week ten high school spelling list includes these ten words: appearance, attendance, cemetery, existence, experience, independence, parents, secretary, sentence, sergeant.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.2, L.11-12.2

High School Spelling Words List Week 11 – Vowel Concerns: A

High School Spelling Words List Week 11 – Vowel Concerns: A

Spelling activities for the week ten high school spelling list contains these words: acquaint, embarrass, library, magazine, many, obstacle, preparation, separate, similar, village.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.2, L.11-12.2

High School Spelling Words List Week 12 – Words Ending in -ous

High School Spelling Words List Week 12 – Words Ending in -ous

Here are the spelling activities for high school list twelve: conscientious, conscious, continuous, courageous, courteous, fictitious, humorous, jealous, mischievous, nervous.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.2, L.11-12.2

High School Spelling Words List Week 13 – Consonants: Double Trouble

High School Spelling Words List Week 13 – Consonants: Double Trouble

The week thirteen spelling list focuses on consonants, including the words: across, challenge, control, discuss, happen, intelligent, interrupt, narrative, pretty, suppose.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.2, L.11-12.2

High School Spelling Words List Week 14 – Homophones: Sounding the Same

High School Spelling Words List Week 14 – Homophones: Sounding the Same

The following words are found in week fourteen’s spelling list for high school students: its, it’s, lead, led, their there they’re, to, too, two.

Grade Levels:
9th - 12th Grade, Grades K-12
CCSS Code(s):
L.9-10.2, L.11-12.2
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