Here, for what I assume are obvious reasons besides a complement to the worksheet on the Greek word root xen/o (foreign) I posted a couple of days ago, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on xenophobia.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“Most readers will find Journey to The End of The Night a revolting book; its vision of human life will seem to them a hideous nightmare. It does not carry within itself adequate compensation for the bruising and battering of the spirit with which one reads it: there is no purgative effect from all these disgusts. If this is life, then it is better not to live.”
J.D. Adams, New York Times Book Review
Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
Here is a short worksheet on the Greek word root arthr/o, which means joint. Now you know the origin of the word arthritis. This is a word root for students interested in the health care professions, if nobody else.
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“What better or greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
I use this context clues worksheet on the noun chronology in the first week of school in any social studies class I teach. For reasons I don’t fully understand, we have too many students in my high school who don’t know this fundamental word.
It’s an important word and concept to know and use when discussing just about anything that occurs across a span of time.
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“The style is unattractive if apt, being the oblique and stilted flow of a man working his way around to asking for a loan. There is a good deal of jaded Bohemian rot about the bourgeoisie being worse than professional criminals (are we not all guilty, etc.) and outbursts of cynical anguish about platitudes. e.g. ‘don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be sincere with them.’ One might define stupidity as the state of needing to be told this.”
Anthony Quinton, New Statesman
Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged fiction/literature, literary oddities
If you can use a Cultural Literacy worksheet on totalitarianism, click on that hyperlink and one, in Microsoft Word format, will download onto your desktop.
If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
“His versification is so destitute of sustained harmony, many of his thoughts are so strained, his sentiments so unamiable, his misanthropy so gloomy, his libertinism so shameless, his merriment such a grinning of a ghastly smile, that I have always believed his verses would soon rank with forgotten things.”
John Quincy Adams, Memoirs 1830
Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged literary oddities, poetry, readings/research
A couple of years ago, while working with a small group on a final exam in global studies, I noticed students stuck on a question about the Maya exceeding the “carrying capacity” of their environment. A couple of questions later, I had determined that students either didn’t understand the noun capacity in that context, or they didn’t know the word at tall. So, I whipped up this context clues worksheet on the noun capacity.
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