Languages of the Old World: More Breaking Down Word Parts
Objective: SWBAT explain the function of nouns, verbs, and adjectives and determine how words change to different parts of speech when a known affix is added to word.
Big Idea: In this lesson, students take a closer look at Latin suffixes and learn about how adding these suffixes can change a word’s meaning and part of speech.
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Experience Learning
Today, for the majority of our lesson, we’re going to be working on taking some notes in our mini books on a variety of Latin suffixes. Before we begin though, I flip back to our Latin Suffixes Chart on our easel to take a look together as a class at which suffixes we’ve learned about so far and which we’re going to work on learning about today!
Label New Learning
Again today, I let the students know that they are learning some super information here about our language, and about how other languages have influenced our language! I ask if anyone told their families about how they’re learning about the Latin language yesterday! One student says yes, she did, and her mom said she didn’t learn about Latin until college! (I had to chuckle there!)
Demonstrate Skills
It’s time to get started taking notes in our books again today. Today, we’re working on Pages 5-7. I lead the students through setting up their books on the SmartBoard as they do the same in their books at their seats! You can see the pictures here in the Resource section to see what each page looks like after we’ve entered our notes for each page. Here’s a breakdown of what we enter onto each page for today:
Page 5: Suffix: -ify; Means: to make or cause to become; Example: humid – humidify
Page 6: Suffix: -ment; Changes a verb to a noun; Example: amaze – amazement
Page 7: Suffixes: -ty & -ity; Changes adjectives into nouns; Examples: royal – royalty & electric – electricity
