Finally–and again, after the abject horror of yesterday in the United States–I’ll post this reading on reading on The Generation of ’68 and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet without further comment.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
“Margot Asquith, an English countess, published an autobiography which filled four large volumes, a literary endeavor that Dorothy Parker found tedious and over-personalized. Mrs. Parker predicted: ‘The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.’”
Excerpted from: Drennan, Robert E., ed. The Algonquin Wits. New York: Kensington, 1985.
Posted in English Language Arts, New York City, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged humor, literary oddities, poetry
Regular readers of Mark’s Text Terminal know this isn’t a political blog. Still, after I read this nonsense yesterday, I went looking for something to post like this context clues worksheet on the noun bombast.
Don’t forget the adjective bombastic.
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“White Noise: A comic novel (1985) by the US writer Don DeLillo (b. 1936), centering on an ‘airborne toxic event’ and the manufacture of an experimental drug to cure the fear of death. White noise is the term for either electronic signals or sound in which all frequencies are present at equal intensity, and thus have no meaning. It is also used to mean a background noise of which one is generally unaware until it changes or stops.”
Excerpted from: Crofton, Ian, ed. Brewer’s Curious Titles. London: Cassell, 2002.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged fiction/literature
Today seems like a perfect time to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom beyond the pale. This one is, beyond this general introduction, a very tricky item, etymologically speaking.
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.
“Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: A concept introduced into sociology by Robert Merton (see his Social Theory and Social Structure, 1957), and allied to William Isaac Thomas’s earlier and famous theorem that ‘when people define situations as real, they become real in their consequences.’ Merton suggests the self-fulfilling prophecy is an important and basic process in society, arguing that ‘in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true. [It] perpetuates a reign of error.’”
Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
This reading on the Lend-Lease Act guides students through this relatively complicated synthesis of diplomacy and trade during World War II. Here is the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies it.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
Rotten Rejections, Theodore Dreiser I: Sister Carrie
“…I cannot conceive of the book arousing the interest or inviting the attention…of the feminine readers who control the destinies of so many novels.”
“…immoral and badly written…the choice of our characters has been unfortunate….not the best kind of book for a young author to make his first book.”
Rotten Rejections, Theodore Dreiser II: The Titan
“If it is too strong for Harper then it would surely be too rich for us.”
Excerpted from: Barnard, 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, humor, united states history
I notice I haven’t posted one in some time, so here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Foxy Grandpa.”
To open this lesson and get students settled after a class change, I used this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of the taboo. To conduct your investigation of the Foxy Grandpa, you will need this scan of the illustration and questions that drive the case. Finally, to get to the bottom of this crime and bring the offenders to justice, here is the typescript of the answer key.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
“Interrogative: Indicating a question, e.g., ‘What’s the word for that?’”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
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