“Mezzotint: A process of intaglio engraving commonly practiced in the 18th century to reproduce the tonal effects of painting. A metal plate, usually copper or steel, is roughened with a rocking tool which makes indentations and raises a burr. The burr is scraped away where lighter tones in the design are desired.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
If I have flogged this material too much, please advise. Here, nonetheless, is a worksheet on the verb intend when used as an infinitive. I intend to persist in publishing this group of documents on a weekly basis until they are gone.
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“Propaganda: The means by which the thousands of organizations in a corporatist society communicate with each other and with the general public.
From its origins in the Vatican Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Congregati de propaganda fide), a body devoted to spreading the Christian doctrine in foreign lands, the idea of substituting propagation for explanation was seized upon by the heroic national leaders of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Propaganda married romanticism with facts, which seemed to replace any need for understanding. With the invention of marketing tools such as the press release, advertisements, sound bites, PR firms and press officers, this rather exclusive way of influencing people was quickly available to anyone with a budget.
Where once a government minister had a press officer, now every section in a ministry has one. Private corporations have whole communications departments. The American army alone has a corps of some 5,000 press officers.
The purpose of these several hundred thousand communications experts is to prevent communication or any generalized grasp of reality. Their job is to propagate the faith.”
Excerpted from: Saul, John Ralston. The Doubter’s Companion. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
I’d like to think this is a timely post, what with country-and-western stars extolling their small towns with frankly racist music videos. Either way, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on jingoism. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one longish sentence that reads like a dictionary definition and two comprehension questions. While we’re on the subject of dictionary definition, Merriam-Webster’s defines jingoism as “extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.” The definition on the worksheet is a bit more expansive, but the “extreme chauvinism” aspect of this noun is what I would emphasize if I were using this.
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“Colloquial (adjective): Describing words or expressions common to language as it is spoken or to writing intended to be naturally conversational in effect; informal, rather than elevated; involving or characteristic of conversation. Adverb: colloquially; Noun: colloquiality, colloquialness, colloquialist; Verb: colloquialize.”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
This week’s Text is the sixth lesson plan of the Styling Sentences unit. This one deals, as headlined above, with the rhetorical device of the repetition of a key term.
This lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on understatement. It’s a half-page worksheet with a reading of one-sentence reading–a longish compound with a colon separating the explanation of understatement with an example of its use. Finally, here is the worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts that stands as the principal work of this lesson. Nota bene, please, that as with most of the documents in this unit, this worksheet contains no sentence stems, cloze exercises, or other supporting apparatus. Students review mentor texts then set out to reproduce their structure by composing several sentences.
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“systematic instruction: A teaching approach that identifies the specific steps needed to teach a given lesson. Systematic instruction includes clear objectives describing the content to be learned, detailed strategies to teach that content, and diagnostic assessments to determine whether students have mastered the content. See also Direct Instruction (DI).”
Excerpted from: Ravitch, Diane. EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2007.
Here is a worksheet on the verb hurry when it is used with an infinitive. The blogger hurried to publish a series of grammar worksheets he believed were of subpar in quality.
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“Teacher-Centered: The emphasis of the school should be on the intellect—on academic learning. This does not mean that motivation and affect are ignored; it means that the major focus of schools should be on academic learning, and that motivation and affect are important only as they influence academic learning.
Student-Centered: The emphasis is on affect and motivation, with less emphasis on what is learned. In order for students to learn math and science, certain programs may be preferred because students find them more interesting and exciting.”
Excerpted from: Chall, Jeanne S. The Academic Achievement Challenge: What Really Works in the Classroom? New York: The Guilford Press, 2002.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a cartel. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and three comprehension questions. The reading does mention Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which I think students should know about and understand.
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