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Latin roots and Greek myth

KS3 · 25 minutes · Decode English through classical roots.

Visual learning map for Latin roots and Greek myth: observe, try, then explain. Decode English through classical roots.
Visual learning map for Latin roots and Greek myth: observe, try, then explain. Decode English through classical roots.

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Decode English through classical roots.

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  1. Today: Latin roots and Greek myth. Our goal: Decode English through classical roots.
  2. Take one idea at a time. Pause after each sentence; ask for repetition whenever you need it.
  3. Around 60% of English vocabulary descends from Latin and Greek. Learn the pieces and you read words you have never met: aqua (water), port (carry), scrib (write), bio (life), graph (writing), phil (love), logos (word/study). Myth carries the other half of the inheritance — Prometheus stealing fire for humanity, Icarus flying too near the sun, Pandora opening the jar and leaving hope inside. These are the shorthand our literature still speaks in.
  4. Together: choose one example from the explanation and show how it works. What do you notice?
  5. Your turn: Take twenty long English words and split each into its classical roots.
  6. Reflect: what made sense, and what would you like explained differently?
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