Monthly Archives: August 2024

Cyril Connolly on the Civilized and the Uncivilized

Posted on August 30, 2024 | Leave a comment

“The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the uncivilized have never forgiven them.”

Cyril Connolly

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

Cyril Connolly

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Common English Verbs Followed by an Infinitive or a Gerund: Stop

Posted on August 30, 2024 | Leave a comment

Finally this morning, here is a worksheet on the verb stop when used with an infinitive or a gerund.

I stop to feed a stray cat every morning.

I stopped feeding the stray cat because someone adopted it.

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.

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Baptism

Posted on August 30, 2024 | Leave a comment

“Baptism: The rite of Christian initiation. Baptism is performed by pouring or sprinkling water on a person or by immersing him briefly in water, accompanied usually with the formula ‘I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.’ The rite is held to wash away the stain of original sin and to make the recipient a member of the Christian Church. Much controversy has surrounded the mode of administration and the age and which baptism should be administered.”

Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

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Cultural Literacy: Julius Caesar

Posted on August 30, 2024 | Leave a comment

Alright, moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Julius Caesar. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of five sentences and three comprehension questions. The document seems a bit crowded to me, and may be better formatted as a full-page worksheet. I suppose that will depend on how deep an examination of Julius Caesar your world history or global studies curriculum calls for (or if you are dealing with Shakespeare’s play, which is based on Plutarch’s account of events following Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon).

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Monograph

Posted on August 30, 2024 | Leave a comment

“Monograph: A catalogue of artworks comprising one artist’s production. Compare catalogue raisonne.”

Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.

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The Weekly Text, 30 August 2024: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on the Great Depression

Posted on August 30, 2024 | Leave a comment

This week’s end-of-the-summer-break Text is this reading on the Great Depression with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. You probably won’t be surprised to hear that this is another set from the Intellectual Devotional series; I still have over two hundred of these in a drafts folder for future use. Some are more relevant than others. Yet I think it can’t hurt to be fully prepared to meet student interest when it arises.

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.

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Lord Salibury on Experts

Posted on August 23, 2024 | Leave a comment

“If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.”

Lord Salisbury

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.

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Common English Verbs Followed by an Infinitive or a Gerund: Start

Posted on August 23, 2024 | Leave a comment

Here is a worksheet on the verb start when used with an infinitive or a gerund.

He started to understand the importance of good writing.

She started working on her research paper for her United States history course.

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Term of Art: Semantic Cueing

Posted on August 23, 2024 | Leave a comment

“semantic cueing: A strategy used to help an individual retrieve or read a word by giving hints with words of similar meaning. For example, it an individual is trying to remember the word compliment, giving the semantic cue praise may help make a meaningful connection to the word in question.

Similarly, cueing can be used to help an individual read an individual word. For example, if a reader stumbles on the word psychologist, an instructor may give the semantic cue a therapist or a doctor for your mind rather than providing a phonetic or decoding cue, such as ‘psych is pronounced sike.’”

Excerpted from: Turkington, Carol, and Joseph R. Harris, PhD. The Encyclopedia of Learning Disabilities. New York: Facts on File, 2006.

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Cultural Literacy: Nero

Posted on August 23, 2024 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Roman emperor Nero. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of six relatively simple sentences and six comprehension questions. It’s a surprisingly thorough account of the life of this legendarily cruel, self-serving figure, but, once again, I suppose I have come to expect that from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.

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