Ok, here’s one last post for Labor Day, to wit, this reading on King John and the comprehension worksheet that accompanies it. This is, of course, the King John whose barons forced him to sign the Magna Carta.
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“A narrative such as a story, song, verse, or ballad handed down from the past and often conveying the lore of a culture. It is distinguished from myth by its closer relation to historical fact than to the supernatural. The earliest legends recounted the lives of saints. The term also applies to the brief explanations of symbols used in pictures, maps, and charts.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged fiction/literature, poetry
Here is, in observation of Labor Day 2018, a context clues worksheet on the verb exploit. It is apparently only used transitively. This is one of those words with some subtle connotations, so this document alone will probably not suffice to fully flesh them out.
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“[Catchphrase of dummy ‘Charlie McCarthy‘:]
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Thing Anybody Ever Said (1984)
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Here is an independent practice worksheet on feudalism for you social studies teachers.
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“Clan communism * Autocratic Monarchy * Feudalism * Capitalism * Socialism * Communism
This is the Communist view of history, as set out by Marx and Engels, looking out over the wreck of the various social revolutions what were destroyed in the 1840s and dreaming of inevitable victory in the future. First we have the primitive clan communism of hunter-gatherer families; then once irrigated riverine agriculture is developed, the ancient autocratic monarchies, which endure as empires until they collapse from the weight of their own military-bureaucracy into the more enduring feudalism. With the growth of cities and maritime trading nations, feudalism matures into capitalism, which through the dictates of growth, decency, and efficiency evolves into industrialized socialism, which perfects as communism.
Excerpted from: Rogerson, Barnaby. Rogerson’s Book of Numbers: The Culture of Numbers–from 1,001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World. New York: Picador, 2013.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged philosophy/religion, readings/research
I’m hard pressed to think of a better document to post on this Labor Day to remind us why the holiday exists than this Cultural Literacy worksheet on sweatshops.
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“A play (1979) by the US dramatist Mark Medoff (b. 1940) about the efforts of a hearing therapist to develop a relationship with a profoundly deaf young woman who refuses all offers of help. Written especially for the deaf actress Phyllis Frelich, it was filmed with Marlee Matlin, also deaf, in 1986. The title refers to the tendency of people with good hearing to dismiss the hearing impaired as inferior beings.”
Excerpted from: Crofton, Ian, ed. Brewer’s Curious Titles. London: Cassell, 2002.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Here is a reading on Joseph Stalin for your sophomore global studies class if you’re in New York City, and maybe in the entire state; this comprehension worksheet accompanies it.
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[This review refers to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.]
“…as a treatment of Irish politics, society or religion, it is negligible.”
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, Social Sciences
Tagged fiction/literature, literary oddities
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