There is definitely a theme of some kind emerging in the pattern of my last several posts here. I’m confident this Cultural Literacy worksheet on William Vanderbilt’s remarks–see above–about business and the public good will extend it.
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“Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
Henry Peter Brougham in a Speech to the House of Commons (1828)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
Here is another worksheet that deals with timely topics, this one a short exercise on the Greek word root xen/o. It means foreign. It is at the root of the word xenophobia, “fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.” You know, that affliction to which we in the United States occasionally fall ill.
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“An oxymoronic combination of the tough and tender, Of Mice and Men will appeal to sentimental cynics, cynical sentimentalists…. Readers less easily thrown off their trolley will still prefer Hans Christian Andersen.”
Time
Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun caucus; don’t forget that it also has use as a verb.
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“His reasoning is so false, his disregard of human nature so naive, his statement of facts so biased, his conclusions so perverted, that the effect can be only to disgust many honest, sensible folk with the very terms he uses so glibly.”
The Bookman
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
This Cultural Literacy worksheet on Social Darwinism is meant to complement the one on sociopath three posts below.
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“History repeats itself; that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged humor, philosophy/religion
Since it’s a word in relatively common use these days, perhaps this context clues worksheet on the noun boon will be useful in your classroom. This word is also used as an adjective, but it means basically the same thing.
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“As a humorist, Mr. Lewis makes valiant attempts to be funny; he merely succeeds in being silly. In fact, it is as yellow a novel as novel can be.”
Boston Evening Transcript
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
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