“Sacra (Santa) Conversazione: A type of representation of the Madonna and Child with saints, developed by 15th-century Italian painters (Domenico Veneziano, Fra Filippo Lippi, and Fra Angelico), in which the persons represented occupy a unified space instead of separate panels and are made to appear related to each other by gesture and attitude.”
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
This may not–but it may be–the best time to publish this Cultural Literacy worksheet on survivor’s guilt. Since I had it already prepared, there it is.
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“absolutism (deriv. Lat. legibus absolutus, absolved from the laws.) System of unlimited government in which the governed possess no representation, right to vote or part in the administration and in which there are no legal or constitutional restraints on the ruler.”
Excerpted from: Cook, Chris. Dictionary of Historical Terms. New York: Gramercy, 1998.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged philosophy/religion, term of art
Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb disparage, which is only used transitively. Don’t forget your direct object! You must disparage someone or something. If you need help deciding, drop a comment–I’m happy to help!
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“What about adults? Would the process of reading Billy Bathgate have been different if I had read it on paper rather than my Kindle? Experiments investigating this question have mostly examined the types of texts students would encounter in school—an expository text describing the function of the heart, for example—but have in some cases included narratives as well. Most studies have shown that reading from paper holds a small edge over reading from a screen either in reading comprehension or reading speed. People often report that reading from a screen feels more effortful, although at least one study shows not difference when more objective measures of effort were used.
Why would reading on a screen be different? Small changes in design can prompt small changes in comprehension. For example, comprehension is better if you navigate a book by flipping virtual pages, compared to scrolling. And clickable links (hyperlinks) incur a cost to comprehension, even if you don’t click them. Because you can see that they are clickable, you still need to make a decision about whether or not to click. That draws on your attention, and so carries a cost to comprehension. Although it has not been fully investigated yet, researchers suspect that the three-dimensionality of paper books may be important—it’s easier to remember an event as occurring at the end of a book with the spatial cue that it happened on a page near the back of the book. These small effects often add up to slight knock to comprehension when reading from a screen.”
Excerpted from: Willingham, Daniel T. The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2017.
Here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “In All That Rain.”
I use this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the noun phrase and idiom “Rank and File” to open this lesson. Here is a scan of the illustration and questions that is the work of this lesson, as well as a typescript of the answer key.
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“polysemy: The property of a single word which has two or more distinct but related senses. Thus the noun screen is polysemous, since it is used variously of a fire screen, a cinema screen, a television screen, and so on.
Compare homonymy. The difference, in principle, is that in cases of homonymy the senses are quite unconnected; therefore they are not treated as belonging to the same word. But in many cases, it is hard to decide, and in theories of meaning the distinction is not always seen as valid.”
Excerpted from: Matthews, P.H., ed. The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Here are a reading on Richard III and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that has a number of uses in both social studies and English language arts classes, I would think.
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.
“Who wrote The Bell Jar? The novel of attempted suicide and recovery was written by Sylvia Plath, but was published under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas in 1963. It did not appear under the author’s name until 1966.”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged fiction/literature, readings/research, women's history
This Everyday Edit worksheet on Mother Teresa is the last of these documents I have to post for Women’s History Month 2020. Let me point out one more time (until next month, when I will have a half-dozen or so to post in observation of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020) that you can find a yearlong supply of Everyday Edit worksheets at Education World, where they are free for the taking.
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