Category Archives: Independent Practice

I offer this reading on President Richard M. Nixon and its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet with the reminder that democratic processes dispensed with this criminal, bigoted president. I don’t know that those same democratic processes are as robust as they were in 1974, but they don’t look as though they are. I’d say let’s hope they are, but we need something less ephemeral than hope.

Get out and vote!

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.

As I write this, the United States approaches one of the most consequential elections in its history. This is not a political blog, but I cannot help but reflect on the growth of cynicism in my lifetime. This reading on the Watergate scandal and its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet narrate and record a scandal that, when I was a high school student myself, brought down a presidency. Compared to some of the conduct of the current administration, Watergate appears in retrospect a triviality.

And that is not a good thing.

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.