“Rotten Rejections: “Poem” by Sara Haardt (1923)
“The poem I can’t take. We have 200 or 300 bales of poetry stored in Hoboken, in the old Norddeutscher-Lloyd pier. There are 300,000 poets in America.”
Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
OK parents and teachers, if you have headbangers in the house, literally and metaphorically in your respective cases, then you might have use for this reading on Led Zeppelin and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I just wrote this yesterday. That said, I suspect that for the right kind of learner, this will be high-interest material, so I’ve tagged it as such.
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.
“International Style: An aspect of Gothic art of the late 14th and early 15th centuries characterized by a lyrical, naturalistic treatment of subject matter, gently flowing lines, and pretty, delicate coloration. Also called international gothic style. In architecture, the clean-surfaced glass-enclosed style formulated by the Bauhaus in the 1920s which has dominated commercial architecture since the 1950s. Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, and Richard Neutra have been leading architects in the International Style. Le Corbusier’s machines a habiter (machines to live in), as he called the private homes commissioned early in his career, was a term meant to emphasize clean, precise, machine-like forms rather than a desire for mechanized living. But it also underlined modern architecture’s obsession with functionalist forms.”
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
Here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “The Night of the Crabs.”
This Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of survivor’s guilt opens the lesson. You’ll need the PDF of the illustration and questions to investigate this crime. Finally, here is the typescript of the answer key to close the case and bring a culprit to justice.
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.
Here is a learning support on topics for research that I wrote to support students in a college writing course I co-taught several years ago. I’m all but certain I’ve posted this elsewhere, probably in combination with some other materials on synthetic research papers. Here it is as a stand-alone post.
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.
“Adjectival Modifier: A word, phrase, or clause that acts as an adjective in qualifying the meaning of a noun or pronoun. Your country; a turn-of-the-century style; people who are always late.”
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
Alright, let’s get started on this bright, sunny morning with two context clues worksheets on the verb engage–used both intransitively and transitively–and the noun engagement. These are a couple of heavily used words in English, and these documents presented as a a pair will help students, in addition to developing their own understanding of these words, differentiate between verbs and nouns.
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.
“Tricolons are a rhetorical flourish—a sonorous list of three concepts, often escalating in significance. The most famous is Julius Caesar’s proud dispatch to the Senate of Rome following his expedition to the near-mythical, mist-clouded Isle of Britain: Veni, Vidi, Vinci’ (‘I came, I saw, I conquered’). But Caesar’s tricolon is run close by those great orators Lincoln and Churchill, while in recent years Barack Obama has revived the form, sometimes going for the double tricolon, as in this speech echoing the Declaration of Independence:
‘Our generation’s task is to make these words, these rights, these values—of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—real.’
Here are some all-time classics:
‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people.’
The threefold manifestation of a fully functioning democracy as defined by Lincoln. He also, apparently in casual conversation, made a masterly analysis of the limits of the dark arts of political life:
‘You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.’
Churchill was an enthusiast for the tricolon, most famously in his praise for that handful of gallant nights or the air who defended the shores of Britain:
‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.’
Perhaps the most glorious of all is the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, taken from a sonnet by Emma Lazarus:
‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’
On a rather more crass level, there is the real estate agents’ mantra, ‘Location, location, location,’ which Tony Blair turned into his slogan “Education, education, education.’ Or the nicely bungled Homer Simpson appeal: ‘I can’t let that happen, I won’t let that happen, and I can’t let that happen.’”
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.
Although I prepared this reading on the cerebral cortex and wrote its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet for a specific student and purpose, I cannot remember who and what they were. I don’t know if this has any use in a high school classroom, but there it is if you need it. This might be a set of documents, properly revised, for a professional development workshop.
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.
“Mastaba: An Egyptian burial chamber built of stone in the form of a low, truncated pyramid.”
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
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