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  • Common Core alignment to a Interactive Puzzle is to 4 key phrases:
    "Grade Level", "Greek and Latin Roots", "Precise Meaning" and "Context".
    CCSS Alignment Strand numbers for Specific Grades:
    Grade Level: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4
    Greek & Latin Roots: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4b+c, 3.4b+c, 4.4b, 5.b, 6.4b, 7.4b, 8.4b, 9-10.4b, 11-12.4b
    Precise Meaning: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4e, 3.4d, 4.4c, 5.4c, 6.4c, 7.4c, 8.4c, 9-10.4c, 11-12.4c
    Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a
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    1) Word Roots 10: Intermediate-roots JECT, PEND, LECT, all 12 words -- myVocabulary.com

    Directions:
    This lesson plan features the Latin roots JECT = throw, cast; PEND = hang, weigh; and LECT-LEG = choose, gather.
    To solve the puzzle, use the definition clues given in the word boxes to determine the key words. Put your answers INSIDE the 12 word boxes. Click "SUBMIT" to get all the correct answers, the use of each word in a sentence, a comment and your score.
    Clue:
    Study the vocabulary word story-reading passage below the puzzle to see the words in context. Having trouble with unfamiliar words? Click the submit button for answers. Redo the puzzle as often as needed.
    Vocabulary Word List:
    Latin roots JECT-JAC = throw, cast; PEND = hang, weigh; LEG-LIG = gather, choose.
    Intermediate:
    adjacent, appendage, conjecture, diligently, illegible, intelligensia, legacy, objective, pendant, pendulum, perpendicular, projection

    Word Roots 10: Intermediate-roots JECT, PEND, LECT, all 12 words -- myVocabulary.com

    1)  Something that thrusts outward; act of planning, devising or scheming a course of an object (noun)

    2)  Persons of superior intellect considered as a group, especially as a cultural, social or political elite (noun)

    3)  Vertical; straight up and down; upright; meeting a surface at right angles (adjective)

    4)  Adjoining just before, after or facing; lying near, close or contiguous (adjective)

    5)  Impossible or hard to read; incapable or being deciphered with ease as writing or printing (adjective)

    6)  A limb or other subsidiary part that diverges from the central or principle structure (noun)

    7)  Act of forming an opinion from incomplete or inconclusive evidence; guesswork (noun)

    8)  Being constant and earnest in an effort and application; being attentive and persistent in doing something (adverb)

    9)  A swinging level, weighted at the lower end, for regulating the speed of a clock (noun)

    10)  Hanging ornament, as a jewel from a necklace; something suspended (noun)

    11)  Purpose; goal; something where efforts are intended to accomplish a goal (noun)

    12)  Anything handed down from the past; a gift of property in a will; a bequest (noun)

    Additional Information:


    Reading passage:
    During the Enlightenment one OBJECTIVE of the INTELLIGENTSIA was to DILIGENTLY assemble in a salon. Often a clock with a PENDULUM would strike in an ADJACENT room. One attendee wore a PENDANT, a LEGACY from her dear grand-mama. A poet with ILLEGIBLE writing titled his letters at a PERPENDICULAR angle. A music room was an APPENDAGE of the main salon. The intellectuals made a PROJECTION that these soirees would be revolutionary. The CONJECTURE from the masses was that they would not want to attend any of these types of gatherings.

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    2) Word Roots 10: Ject-Pend-Lect Beginner Puzzle 2 - myVocabulary.com

    Directions:
    In the first vocabulary root word puzzle, use the Latin root JECT = throw, cast ;
    In the second vocabulary root word puzzle use the Latin word root PEND = hang, weigh;;
    In the third vocabulary root word puzzle use the Latin word root LECT-LEG = choose, gather.
    Move down to the bottom of the third word puzzle and click SUBMIT to get correct answers, the use of each vocabulary word in a sentence and score.
    Clue:
    Study the vocabulary word list and the reading passage to solve the root word puzzle. Having trouble with unfamiliar words? Click the submit button for answers. Then, redo the puzzle.
    Vocabulary Word List:
    Latin roots JECT-JAC = throw, cast; PEND = hang, weigh; LEG-LIG = gather, choose.
    Intermediate:
    adjacent, appendage, conjecture, diligently, illegible, intelligensia, legacy, objective, pendant, pendulum, perpendicular, projection

    Word Roots 10: Ject-Pend-Lect Beginner Puzzle 2 - myVocabulary.com

    1)  Pertaining to a non-historical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from the past (adjective)

    2)  To remember; to recall a mental impression; to gather or assemble again (verb)

    3)  The quality, fact, or result of being careless and indifferent, or being remiss in the care or treatment of (noun)

    4)  Appealing to or engaging the mind for thinking or acquiring knowledge; placing high value on brain power (adjective)

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