Category Archives: Independent Practice

This is material either specifically designed for or appropriate to use for what is more commonly known as “homework.”

Cultural Literacy: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Posted on March 28, 2025 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences, the first a bit long, and three comprehension questions.

Incidentally, the reading on this document terminates with the imperative to “See Seneca Falls Convention” in parentheses.  You’ll find a Cultural Literacy worksheet on that event here.

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The Weekly Text, 28 March 2025, Women’s History Month Week IV: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Edith Wharton

Posted on March 28, 2025 | Leave a comment

For the fourth and final Friday of Women’s History Month 2025, here is a reading on Edith Wharton with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

And that is it for Women’s History Month for 2025.

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Cultural Literacy: Eleanor Roosevelt

Posted on March 21, 2025 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Eleanor Roosevelt. This a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences–all of them elegantly simple, single-clause sentences–and three comprehension questions. Just the basics, and if you need more, search “Eleanor Roosevelt” from the home page.

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Cultural Literacy: Ayn Rand

Posted on March 21, 2025 | Leave a comment

Here, against my better judgment, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Ayn Rand. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences–beware the first of them, a doozy of a compound that I am convinced would best be revised and shortened for struggling and emergent readers–and four comprehension questions.

Why “against my better judgment”? I suppose because I find Ayn Rand’s (born in Russia as Alisa Zinoyevna Rosenbaum) “objectivist” philosophy to be little more than a simple minded rationale, dressed up in the most tawdry, yet soaring, rhetoric, for the worst kind of selfishness.

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The Weekly Text, 21 March 2025, Women’s History Month Week III: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Dorothea Lange

Posted on March 21, 2025 | Leave a comment

For the third week of Women’s History Month 2025, here is a reading on Dorothea Lange along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. If you have any students interested in photography, particularly the history of the medium, this material on Dorothea Lange, who was a contemporary and friend of Ansel Adams, should do the trick.

If you want to dig deeper–or your student does–here is a series of eleven worksheets on famous photographers, along with a twelfth on Gordon Parks that is anything but an afterthought–indeed, it was the first of these I prepared.

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Cultural Literacy: Ginger Rogers

Posted on March 14, 2025 | Leave a comment

Finally, for today’s document posts, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Ginger Rogers. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and two comprehension questions on this estimable American thespian and terpsichorean.

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Cultural Literacy: Helen Keller

Posted on March 14, 2025 | Leave a comment

OK, moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Helen Keller. This is a full-page worksheet (which could be pared down to a half-page very easily) with a reading of four sentences and four comprehension questions. This is a basic biography of an important American woman.

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The Weekly Text, 14 March 2025, Women’s History Month Week II: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Benazir Bhutto

Posted on March 14, 2025 | Leave a comment

For the second Friday of Women’s History Month 2025, the Weekly Text from Mark’s Text Terminal is this reading on Benazir Bhutto along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. You may recall, if you are of a certain age, that she served twice as Prime Minister of Pakistan, from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996.

She was, alas, assassinated in 2007.

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Cultural Literacy: Gloria Steinem

Posted on March 7, 2025 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Gloria Steinem. This is a half-page worksheet with a long, compound, one-sentence reading and one comprehension question. A spare, and I do mean spare, introduction to this important 20th century figure.

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Cultural Literacy: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Posted on March 7, 2025 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who authored the famous, if insipid, saying “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.” Her biography is quite rich, and she was apparently prolific.

This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. A spare, but effective, introduction to a poet who, I’ll hazard a guess, is largely forgotten–which arouses the question: is any poet remembered today?

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