Category Archives: Independent Practice

This week’s Text, in observance of the fourth Friday of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2025, is this reading on Yasir Arafat along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

I’m hard pressed to imagine there is much, if any, demand for these documents; moreover, I understand that Yasir Arafat is a controversial figure. But I also understand that however one perceives Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), he is an important figure in the the history of part of the world we, after the ancient Greeks and Romans, call Asia.

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.

For the second week of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2025, Mark’s Text Terminal offers as its Weekly Text this reading on Deng Xiaoping along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

I cannot imagine that there will be much, if any, demand for these materials; but when I taught at a school near Chinatown in New York City, there were enough kids interested in the topic of Chinese Communist Party succession (and therefore Deng Xiaoping) that I prepared this worksheet to accompany the reading from The Intellectual Devotional series.

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.