Understanding and Using Context Clues with the Help of Patrick Henry

Learn how to identify explicit evidence and understand implicit meaning in a text.

In this tutorial, you will be working with excerpts from Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention.”  You should also be able to use dictionary entries to discover additional word meanings and confirm your predictions of what words mean. Finally, you should be able to examine a passage and use all of these strategies to determine the meanings of the words so that you can understand what Patrick Henry was trying to say to his fellow revolutionaries and statesmen.
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Subject(s): English Language Arts
Grade Level(s): 9, 10
Intended Audience: Students
Keywords: Patrick Henry, English Language Arts, Grades 9-10, context clues, dictionary, dictionary skills, vocabulary strategies, vocabulary
Instructional Component Type(s): Original Student Tutorial
Resource Collection: Original Student Tutorials for Language Arts - Grades 6-12

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