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: Multiculturalism

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

For reasons I never understood (and still don’t, frankly), it was anathema to academic conservatives about the time I began to think about going to college in the late 1980s, but I think this Cultural Literacy worksheet on multiculturalism is something to which students ought to be exposed.

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Everyday Edit: Sapporo Snow Festival

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

April is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, so for the next 30 days I’ll post a plethora of materials related to the history of Asia and Asians in global history. To that end, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on the Sapporo Snow Festival. If you find typos in this document, fix them! That’s the point of the exercise.

Because I always feel remiss anytime I fail to give credit where credit is due, let me remind you (as I will every time I post an Everyday Edit) that the good people at Education World post on their website, free for the taking, a yearlong supply of Everyday Edits. If we want students to write well–and I’m hard pressed to imagine why we wouldn’t–they need to learn to copyedit.

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Independent Practice: Byzantium

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here are two independent practice worksheets on Byzantium. These are basically short reading comprehension worksheets; however, in New York City, and therefore the state, I assume, Byzantium was part of the global studies curriculum at one point, which is why I wrote this; whether that remains the case, I don’t know.

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Origami I

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

Today is also the beginning of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020. To begin this month, I’m going to push limits a bit here and post a series (the first of four or five, if this causes me no trouble) of PDFs of origami instructions; this stuff is under copyright–therefore not mine to give away.

Challenging times call for bold moves, though. If you have young or youngish kids at home–but please be aware that origami is an art and craft for all ages–during this COVID19 crisis, these are perfect activities for them.

So, here are: origami 1 dog; origami 2 cat; origami 3 rabbit; origami 4 horse; origami 5 fish; origami 6 penguin; origami 7 tulip; origami 8 stem; origami 9 cup; origami 10 hat.

Here is a PDF of folding terms and directions for origami. You might also find useful this article from Wikipedia on origami as well as this reading on origami paper itself and how to make it. Finally, like everything else in the world, YouTube carries a plethora of videos on origami.

That’s it. If you’re using this material and want more, be on the lookout for the next four of five posts on origami at Mark’s Text Terminal.

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Super Bowl III

Posted on March 31, 2020 | Leave a comment

Finally, today, here is a high-interest reading on Super Bowl III along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

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A Lesson Plan on the Crime and Puzzlement Case “Incident at the Ferry”

Posted on March 31, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Incident at the Ferry.”

I use this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the American idiom “Every dog has his day” to open this lesson. You’ll need this PDF of the illustration and questions surrounding the case so that your students may conduct their investigation. Finally, here is the typescript of the answer key to solve this heinous crime.

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Three Long Division Worksheets and Their Answer Keys

Posted on March 31, 2020 | Leave a comment

I started working on these three long division worksheets and their respective answer keys several months ago as part of a large remedial unit on basic operations in arithmetic. I just finished them this morning.

Let me say again that I am not a math teacher–and was not exactly a stellar math student–and leave it at that. OK, come to think of it, I will point you toward this article on “interleaving” in math instruction from the American Educator. When circumstances (which I hope never to confront again) compel me to teach math, I tend to use articles like that one to guide my planning.

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Word Root Exercise: Thermo

Posted on March 31, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is a worksheet on the Greek word root thermo. It means heat and temperature. Science teachers, you won’t be surprised to hear that this worksheet contains some important vocabulary words used in your domain.

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Cultural Literacy: Dogma

Posted on March 31, 2020 | Leave a comment

Moving right along, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of dogma. I can’t imagine a more important concept for students to understand clearly at this moment in history.

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Lesbianism

Posted on March 31, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is a reading on lesbianism and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. This has tended to be a high-interest item in my classroom, so I’ve tagged it as such; it is also material written to address personal identity, so I’ve tagged it as social-emotional learning as well.

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