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H12. Conceptual Meanings/War/Thesaurus/Inductive

Description:
This lesson will help students develop a deeper understanding of war. Students are provided a synonym, asked to select 3 cases that illustrate each synonym, and then asked to explain how the cases are sort of different from each other.

To Teachers:

• Read the Roget Thesaurus entry of "War". (Whole class activity)
• Create groups of 3 to 4 students.
• Give each group a worksheet. Each group will be given four synonyms to work with. There are four different worksheets. More than one group can work on the same set of four.

Materials:
Worksheet Word document | PDF

Worksheet Instructions:

• Go to EASE History -- http://www.easehistory.org/
• Search on "War" in EASE History. [Search: EASE History Historical Events>War>All War]
• Column 1: Select three cases that will be a good match for each synonym.
• Column 2: A synonym for war has been provided.
• Column 3: The first two columns reveal how the cases are sort of similar to each other. In Column 3 briefly explain in 2 to 3 sentences how the three matching cases in Column 1 are sort of different from each other.
  
  After completing the task, groups will share their findings with the whole class.

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