| Documentary | \ I Doctrine Doctor | . PNlnney ni eia) | ‘ Docile | | Monitor || | Premonition Breech | } Growing Your Vocabulary: eee wooopocatal | Chapter tO: Chapter 102: teaching and ee is + Teaching and Learning So far; you have learned more than twenty Latin and Greek roots, Now youl learn about how you learned them! This chapter includes words we use to talk about teaching and learning Roots to Learn: Words to Learn: doc mon documentary admonish doctor monitor doctrine premonition docile demonstrate The Latin word that means "to teach” has two parts that are important to us: DOCERE and DOCTUM From these two parts we get the root DOC. Many English words contain the root DOC. A DOCUMENTARY js a flim that gives facts about a person or thing You may have watched @ DOCUMENTARY in schoo! or at home. What cid the documentary teact you? Did You Know? The Academy Awards have a category for best documentary film. Documentaries have been made about many: different topics, from wars to nature to fast food to crossword puzzies to spelling bees. They are supposed to explain the truth about the subject they cover, but many times, fiction reps into the flim, and the facts are lost Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin anc Greek Roots‘Feaching and Learning | | A DOCTOR is someone who cares for your health. | You might be wondering how DOCTOR relat back to the | nearing of the Latin root—"to teach’"It connects in two WAYS \\\ Frat a doctor has to be highly educated. Doctors attend eight | more years of school and training before they can care for people | by themselves. Second, a doctor can “teach” his or her patients | ow to be healthy, Doctors teach and are taught just a5 the Latin | | root suggests. Luonn's dream was to be o doctor. Hit A DOCTRINE is set of beliefs that is taught t0 others Poltical leaders sometimes use DOCTRINES | to express an important policy The Monroe Doctrine QS ‘Americans in the 1820s wanted to be sure that Europeans would not try to make any more colonies in North or South America, President James Monroe introduced the Monroe Doctrine as a political compromise. It said that ‘Americans would stay out of European business if Europeans stayed out of the Americas, Ifa person oF animal is DOCILE, he, she, or its easly manage: | You may have heard the phrase “dumb as an ‘ox"” but oxen are ex- H tremely smart animals! These DOCILE creatures can learn to fol- | Tow spoken commands eas: hey can naul farming cquier™eTE clear | ‘len trees or pul cartfuls of people. roxen werent so easy to Was colonial farmers would have had a hard time plowing ther fields! One coe most dificult tasks for oxen to learn is how to back up because } they like to see where they are ZONE i Philip's new cat, Echo, was much rm« docile than his other cot, Bumpe! j @ Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin and Greek Roots