“stovepipe organization: An organization whose different functions are separated so that each department has a narrow, rigid set of responsibilities and there is little discussion or collaboration among the various sectors.”
Excerpted from: Ravitch, Diane. EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2007.
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OK, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the incident at Kent State University on 4 May 1970. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences (the final sentence is a complicated compound that might benefit, particularly for struggling or emergent readers, from simplification) and three comprehension questions.
This document seems a bit crowded to me, and may well cause struggling students some problems. It might be better as a full-page worksheet; and depending how deeply your class is studying this event (if at all), a closer analysis may be de rigueur.
Then again, are we teaching the concepts of resistance and civil strife in our social studies classes? If not, this document is surely superfluous.
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“Lost Generation: Group of U.S. writers who came of age during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s; more broadly, the entire post-World War I generation. The term was coined by Gertrude Stein in a remark to Ernest Hemingway. The writers considered themselves ‘lost’ because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world and they felt spiritually alienated from a country they considered hopelessly provincial and emotionally barren, The term embraces Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald Macleish, and Hart Crane, among others.”
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
From Barbara Ann Kipfer’s fascinating reference book The Order of Things, this week’s Text is a lesson plan on birthday flowers by month. This is a relatively simple reading and writing lesson designed expressly for struggling and emergent readers as well as students of English as a new language. You’ll need this worksheet with the reading and comprehension questions that drive the work of this short lesson.
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