It probably won’t take your students long, using this worksheet on the Greek word roots derma, derm, and dermat/o, to figure out that those roots mean skin. That’s why the doctor who deals with the organ of skin is called a dermatologist.
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Here is a independent practice worksheet on the Crusades, which is probably useful for social studies teachers.
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“One of the best known and most popular works of the US artist Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009). Painted in 1948, it depicts an eerily lit, sharply delineated but featureless farm landscape, with two farm buildings on the high horizon, while in the foreground is the mysterious figure of Christina, a thin-limbed girl propping herself up on the grass. Christina, whose view of the landscape we share, was a crippled neighbor of Wyeth’s in the Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania.”
Excerpted from: Crofton, Ian, ed. Brewer’s Curious Titles. London: Cassell, 2002.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Here is a reading on the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and the comprehension worksheet that accompanies it. This is a key piece of Late Antique architecture in one of the crossroads of the world. It’s hard to imagine why students shouldn’t know about this building and this history it represents.
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[It’s worth mentioning here, I think, that Thomas Mann was the Nobel Laureate in Literature for 1929. These Rotten Reviews refer, as above, to Buddenbrooks, published in 1901]
“Very few Americans will take the trouble to read this book ot the end. It contains no climaxes, no vivid surprise…. Interesting as the story may be it is too loosely constructed, and for many readers that will prove a barrier.”
Boston Evening Transcript, 1921
“Nothing but two thick tomes in which the author describes the worthless story of worthless people in worthless chatter.”
Edward Engel, in The Art of Folly 1961
Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
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Tagged fiction/literature, literary oddities
If you can use them–I must admit I haven’t yet found an entirely appropriate place for them in my classroom–here are four parsing sentences worksheets for prepositions.
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“Significant 11s punctuate modern history. The First World War, after consuming some twenty million lives, ended with an armistice on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Eleven is also strongly associated with American and rocket power, for it was Apollo 11 from which Neil Armstrong made the first landing on the moon, The attack on the World Trade Centre was made by American Airlines flight 11, on 11 September 2001, an event now chronicled throughout the world as 9/11. Eleven also has strong numerological connotations as the union of 5 and 6 in the works of Pythagoras and his many followers.”
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 literary oddities, numeracy
The horrendous heat here yesterday moved me to cull from my files and post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on mass extinction. It’s hard to see a time when, well, henceforth, this will not be timely material.
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“The complexity of minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year…. Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase.
Electronics, 19 Apr. 1965. This statement became known as ‘Moore’s Law‘ of integrated circuits and computers, predicting that the number of transistors the computer industry would be able to place on a chip would double every couple of years.”
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged numeracy, science literacy
Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb debate, which is used both intransitively and transitively. I wrote this originally to attend a unit I wrote on Denzel Washington’s film The Great Debaters. Needless to say, this is really a word high-schoolers ought to know and be able to use–fluently.
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