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: J.R.R. Tolkien

On my way out the door on this pleasant afternoon, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on J.R.R. Tolkien if you have students interested in The Lord of the Rings trilogy in print or onscreen.

If you find typos in this document, 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.

Everyday Edit: Martha Washington

Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Martha Washington for Women’s History Month 2020. And if you want more of these, to give credit where it is always and abundantly due, the good people at Education World will supply you with a year’s worth of these documents.

And if you find typos on this document, they are there because they need to be fixed….

A Short Comprehension Worksheet on Gravity

OK, on my way out the door this afternoon, here is a short comprehension worksheet on gravity I wrote this morning. As its instructions indicate, it follows the “What Is Gravity ” page at the NASA Space Place Site.

If you find typos in this document, 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.

Plato

Finally this morning, here is a reading on Plato and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet if you teach him in the context of global studies, English language arts, or even a philosophy class. This is a short but solid general introduction to ancient Greek thought in general and Plato in particular.

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.

Word Root Exercise: Kilo-

Here is a word root worksheet on the Greek word root kilo, which means thousand. This turns up all over the place in English, particularly in metric measurements like kilometer and kiloton. I expect this is a word root students should know for work in the hard sciences–even in a high school classroom.

If you find typos in this document, 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.

Everyday Edit: Jacqueline Kennedy

Cleaning out the Women’s History Month warehouse, I came upon this Everyday Edit worksheet on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. As always, and in the interest of giving credit where it is richly due, let me remind you that the good people at Education World give away a year’s supply of these documents, many of them on high interest topics.

Aesop’s Fables: “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”

Here is a lesson plan on Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” along with its reading and comprehension worksheet if you can use them.

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.

The Weekly Text, March 5, 2020, Women’s History Month Week I: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Helen Hunt Jackson

For the first Friday of Women’s History Month 2020, here is a reading on indigenous rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Her work, which resulted in the disastrously inappropriate Dawes Severalty Act, was nonetheless the first real real attempt–via her book A Century of Dishonor–to bring this country to a reckoning with its genocidal policies against the original inhabitants of this continent.

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.

Everyday Edit: Sarah Childress Polk

Here, in continuing observation of Women’s History Month 2020, is an Everyday Edit worksheet on first lady Sarah Childress Polk. She was wed, of course, to President James K. Polk. As I always say when posting these materials, in order to give credit where credit is due, the good people at Education World give away a year’s supply of these worksheets if you find them useful in your practice.

Obesity

Health teachers, here is a reading on obesity along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Do I need to belabor the importance of this material in a nation as fat as the United States?

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.