“Red-Figure Vase Painting: Technique and style of Greek vase painting developed bout 525 BC (after Black-Figure Vase Painting) and dominating the art of the 5th century B.C. Black glaze is painted around the forms and figures of the reddish-brown clay, with inner details painted in. The finest Greek wares are in the red-figure style.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
“Auxiliary Verb: A verb that combines with the main verb to show differences in tense, person and voice. The most common auxiliaries are forms of be, do, and have. I am going; we did not go; they have gone.”
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
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Moving right along, here is a lesson plan on Periclean Athens. Because, like many of the lessons in this run of posts, I anticipated this going into a second day, I included two context clues worksheets with this lesson, the first on the noun architecture and the second on the noun legacy. Here is the worksheet with a reading and comprehension questions that stands as the work central to this lesson.
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.
“Geology, n. The science of the earth’s crust—to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones of mired mules, gaspipes, miners’ tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railroad tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. David E. Schultz and S.J. Joshi, eds. The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2000.
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Tagged humor, literary oddities, science literacy
“When did the Vulgate Bible first appear? The Latin translation of the Bible was written mostly by Saint Jerome in 382-384 A.D. The term comes from Latin edition vulgate, ‘spread among the people.’”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Another day, back at it. Here is a lesson plan on the Phoenicians those (vanished) traders and explorers par excellence.
I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the verb accumulate, and N.B. that it is used both intransitively and transitively. In the event the lesson spills into a second day, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Carthage, the city of the Phoenicians, for round 2.
As in many of these global studies lesson, I accumulated at least a secondary worksheet for the lesson. So, here is the primary version of the worksheet and here is the secondary version, edited for length and complexity.
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.
“Iconography: The area of study dealing with the description of visual images and symbols. Art historian Erwin Panofsky first made the distinction between the identification of images (iconography) and the interpretation of their meaning (iconology). See ALLEGORY and REPRESENTATION.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged art/architecture/design
“Diaspora: Exile or dispersion used with reference to the exile of the Jewish people from the land of Israel, though also now by analogy to other groups. Diaspora may also be used to refer not only to the state of being in exile, but also to the place of exile, the communities in exile, and to a state of mind that results from living in exile. The Hebrew term galut (also golus, galuth) expresses the feeling of living as a member of a relatively defenseless minority, subject to injustice if not to outright persecution in an unredeemed—though not unredeemable—world.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
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Tagged philosophy/religion
OK, here is a lesson plan on Hammurabi’s Code. It looks like every version of this lesson I wrote is in this folder, so here are all the documents I’ve used to teach this material over time.
First the do-now exercises: here is a context clues worksheet on the verb censure and another on the noun chaos.
Next, the primary documents. Here is first reading on Hammurabi’s Code along with its accompanying worksheet. This is same reading in a second, edited and simpler version of the same reading with its similarly simplified worksheet. Finally, here is a third and even shorter reading and worksheet.
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.
“Daura * Zaria * Biram * Kano * Katsina * Rano * Gobir
These are the seven cities of the Hausa people of Central West Africa whose historic territory extends across Nigeria, Niger, and several other modern nations.”
Excerpted from: Rogerson, Barnaby. Rogerson’s Book of Numbers: The Culture of Numbers–from 1,001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World. New York: Picador, 2013.
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Tagged black history, readings/research
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