Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Lima, Peru. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and three comprehension questions. In other words, the sparest of introductions to the capital of Peru and a world capital as well.
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“Of what” is it the center?
seems like a very awkward way to ask the question you are asking.
I think of South Africa and how it has an economic capital and a cultural capital [Pretoria and Johannesburg and Bloemfontein… respectively – anyway the place whose name means Blooming Fountain in Afrikaans] and a judicial capital.
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I’m still hung up, Adelaide, on not ending sentences in prepositions. But you’re right: the way the question is posed broadens the scope of the inquiry way beyond the intentions of this short exercise.
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Or beginning them there for that matter [with the preposition].
[For me prepositions could be in the middle and maybe invisible – but it is using its intended purpose in “going before”].
And I like not starting a question with a question word.
That whole “different capitals for different purposes” – it might have the students thinking and imagining a country.
Or what if the classroom would be a country/kingdom/realm/empire!
Also – the less that is there or given – the more you are able to think and connect and associate.
[and thus unlock higher-level thinking].
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