Mat/pat word root

What do you think happens in a maternity ward?

• This is a hospital area for having babies

• This is a bank where people store money

• This is a computer lab full of expensive equipment

• This is the part of a government facility where secret information is kept

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

There is a Catholic Christian prayer called the Paternoster in Latin.

What do you think the first words of this prayer are?

• Our Father, who art in Heaven

• Hail Mary, Full of Grace

• I believe in one God

• Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy

If ex- means "out," what do you think is true of an expatriate?

• they are out of patience

• they live outside their home country

• they have been born (the baby is no longer inside the mother)

• they are experts on something

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Why might the word "matter" be connected to the "mat-" word root?

• Because all things are made out of it

• Because it's not important

• Because it needs to be combined with patter

• Because it is fabric material

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her (step)mother and her father.

Lizzie Borden was accused of ..... and ......

KEEP THE ORDER THE SAME!

• matricide, patricide

• patricide, matricide

• maternity, paternity

• paternalism, matriarchy

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A university is sometimes poetically called your "alma ______," the mother of your soul.

• mater

• pater

• patricide

• matrimony

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Stop talking down to me, as if you are superior to me!

Stop __________ me!

• matriculating

• patronizing

• materialism

• patriot

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

"-nym" means name.

Johann Petersohn is a ____ last name

• patronymic

• matronymic

• patriotic

• maternal

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Marriage can be referred to as "holy ___________"

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A person living outside of their home country is an....

• expatriate

• repatriate

• patriot

• matriarch

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A