“Donald Woods Winnicott: (1896-1971) A British pediatrician and psychoanalyst whose work on the mother-baby relationship directed attention to the infant’s environment and ‘good-enough mothering.’ Often discussed by modern feminist writers on parenting, his most accessible book is The Child, The Family, and the Outside World (1964).”
Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
OK, this lesson plan on on the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union during Reconstruction, as I look at the others like it I have posted, is most likely redundant in extremis. Nonetheless, here is the list and comprehension questions that drives this relatively short exercise.
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“Stencil: A simple graphic arts process in which the design is cut into a thin, flexible material (such as cardboard) and the color is brushed through the openings onto paper, fabric, wall surfaces, etc. Silk screen is a stencil process. See POCHOIR.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on italics that introduces this typeface to students. Given that MLA style in now calls for titles of books and journals to be placed in italics, this is a quick way to help students develop their own understanding of the use of italic fonts.
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“Harpo Marx once arrived at Woollcott’s Lake Bomoseen home in a broken-down Model-T Ford. ‘What do you call that?’ Woollcott exclaimed as he regarded the automobile.
‘This is my town car,’ Harpo explained.
‘What was the town?’ asked Woollcott. ‘Pompeii?’”
Excerpted from: Drennan, Robert E., ed. The Algonquin Wits. New York: Kensington, 1985.
Posted in English Language Arts, New York City, Quotes, Reference
Tagged humor, literary oddities, united states history
Last but not least this morning, here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “The $40,000 Raffle.” You’ll need this PDF of the illustration and questions to conduct your investigation of this case. To solve it, in the final analysis, you’ll want the typescript of the answer key.
I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “Carry a Torch for.” Older people will recognize this as an expression meaning, in today’s parlance, “having a crush on,” or more succinctly, “crushing on.” I’ll let the great Louis Jordan (lyrics by the equally great Jon Hendricks) explain it:
“I’m the man for you and so you better start to face it
If you ever lose my love you know you never can replace it
I think it’s time for you to start to givin’ me some lovin’
‘Cause I’m carryin’ a torch for you that’s hotter than a oven
It’s time for you and me to do a little turtle-dovin'”
Enough said!
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“Correlative: Indicating combined or reciprocal function but not adjacency in the sentence, e.g., the conjunctions ‘not only’ and ‘but,’ ‘neither’ and ‘nor,’ the phrases ‘on the one hand’ and ‘on the other hand.’”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb convey. It is used only transitively. This is, incidentally, for those teachers working with English language learners, one of those polysemous words that may require more than one run through for students. It can mean to move an object from one place to another, but also to communicate ideas and feelings. Helping students sort this out may require finesse; it’s easy enough to duplicate this document and use two worksheets to convey (if you will!) the two meanings of this word more carefully and completely.
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“Verification: In empiricist philosophy, knowledge-claims are accepted as scientific only if they are verifiable. To verify a statement is to provide evidence, generally of and empirical or observational kind, for believing it to be true. In logical empiricism the meaning of a statement was treated as equivalent to its method of verification, and only verifiable statements were accepted as meaningful. In non-empiricist philosophies of science, and in less extreme forms of empiricism, it is accepted that evidence may give good reasons for believing in the truth of a statement, whilst falling short in the sense of conclusive proof.”
Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Posted in Essays/Readings, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged philosophy/religion, professional development, term of art
Over the years there has been very little demand for this reading on Erwin Schrodinger and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. In fact, only one student in 17 years of teaching, who had somehow come across the concept of “Schrodinger’s Cat,” asked for it, which is why it exists. I wrote this for one particularly bright (and ineptly misplaced in a self-contained special needs classroom) and inquisitive student about 15 years ago, then forgot about it.
If you can use it, there it is.
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