Monthly Archives: June 2025

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on conciseness. This is a full-page worksheet, although it could certainly be made more, uh, concise by turning it into a half-page worksheet by removing a question or two–there are four, total. Especially because the reading is only two sentences.

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.

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on caricature. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and two comprehension questions. This is a word and concept that would be useful in certain kinds of reviews, either as a noun (a caricature of) or a transitive verb (The critic caricatured the intentions of the author).

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.

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of the archetype, should you find it helpful in teaching about writing reviews. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and three comprehension questions.  As I have come to expect from the editors of The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, this is both cogent and thorough.

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.

OK, as promised in last week’s Text regarding additional do-now exercises to accompany this unit on writing reviews, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on allusion, should it be helpful to your conception or interpretation of these lessons. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. This material introduces the concept of allusion with both brevity and thoroughness.

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.