Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on The Last of the Mohicans, the novel by James Fenimore Cooper. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences (the first a compound separated by a semicolon with three comprehension questions.
I’ve never read Cooper; he was one of my father’s scholarly specialties, so I suppose I was aware of Cooper from an early age. Although I have never read it, I am familiar, through reading Edmund Wilson, with Mark Twain’s essay “James Fenimore Cooper’s Literacy Offenses.” I have also not seen the 1992 filmed version of Cooper’s book. I was, however, at age eleven or twelve, quite taken with the BBC series of The Last of the Mohicans, which arrived on these shores as one of the early Masterpiece Theater presentations.
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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