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Lesson 2: Citing text evidencePolicy | Vocabulary
let’s explore the meaning and origin of the word “policy”. Created by David Rheinstrom.
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- Is it Khan Academy's policy to watch all the vocab. videos? I already know all their definitions.(3 votes)
- yes it is needed(1 vote)
- What is that music that he played?
Its fire.(4 votes) - what is Washington d.c.(1 vote)
- Washington, DC, the U.S. capital, is a compact city on the Potomac River, bordering the states of Maryland and Virginia. It’s defined by imposing neoclassical monuments and buildings – including the iconic ones that house the federal government’s 3 branches: the Capitol, White House and Supreme Court. It's also home to iconic museums and performing-arts venues such as the Kennedy Center.
-A 5 second google search(3 votes)
- I have never seen a manetee and I shall never.(2 votes)
- is it really a state policy in florida that you have to give 10 dollars to a manatee in the wild?(1 vote)
- Hey! Why did he stop the music?!(1 vote)
- politics? =no good folks in charge.(1 vote)
- Me: bopping my head up and down and my head going blank and chanting poli, poli, poli while David's playing the music(1 vote)
- Bro my teachers making my whole class watch this before the end of the school year (in 2 weeks) we started 4 days ago...(0 votes)
- what does skibibiibibibibibibibibi mean(0 votes)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] Hello, wordsmiths. The word we're featuring
in this video is policy, which means an official
rule or set of rules. Policy. It's a noun. It comes from the Greek word polis, which means city. As a root, has to do with
cities and government. I live in Washington, DC so
when I think of this root, I think of the capitol building itself, a government building in
the middle of the city, where rules or policies are created. Can you think of words that
sound similar to policy that might have that same root, polis? Bear in mind that sometimes
we drop the S in polis when making new words. I'll give you 10 seconds to list some out. Cue the music wall. (light music) Here are three related words I thought of. Police, the people who enforce the law, politics, or how people
make decisions together in a society and metropolis, a huge city. So you can see how all of
those words are related to governments or cities. Let's use policy in a sentence
so you can get a sense of it. It's a state policy in Florida that if you encounter
a manatee in the wild, you have to give her $10. The connotation, the feeling of policy is that it's an official rule. So something that a business or a government might come up with. A restaurant might have a strict
policy against bringing in some other restaurant's food. Our policy: no outside food or drink. Oh no, this manatee went into a restaurant with food from another establishment. The D stands for Dugong, which
is another kind of sea cow. That's all the time
we've got for this one. Tip your server, support
your local manatee, and you can learn anything. David out.