Category Archives: Independent Practice

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

A Learning Support on Forming the Degrees of Adjectives

Here, very early on a Wednesday morning, are a pair of learning supports on the degrees of adjectives.

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Independent Practice: The Counter-Reformation

If anyone can use it, here is an independent practice worksheet on the Counter-Reformation.

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.

Boarder (n) and Border (n)

Here are five worksheets on the homophones boarder and border, both presented here as nouns. Border also serves as both an adjective and a verb.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Apartheid

Now seems as good a time as any to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on apartheid, a horrorshow that many of us are old enough to remember and to have joined campaigns to abolish.

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.

The Weekly Text, September 28, 2018, Hispanic Heritage Month 2018 Week II: A Lesson Plan on the Latin Word Roots Mal and Male

This week’s Text is a complete lesson plan on the Latin word roots mal and male. They mean, of course, bad, evil, ill, and wrong. This post, like all the material published here between September 15 and October 15, is in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. This material may stretch the boundaries of the letter of the month’s intent; on the other hand, the Latin language is, like it or not, a key part of Hispanic Heritage.

Over the years I’ve worked with many native Spanish speakers. My original impulse in writing word root worksheets, particularly those dealing with Latin roots, arose from the idea that helping students develop their own understanding of the Latin language as a bridge to English would hasten their journey to bilingualism. Ideally, students will retain their Spanish language skills while building their English vocabularies and understand the way these roots show up across the spectrum of Romance languages–often in the exact same words.

Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective sinister to hint at the meaning of the roots mal and male, thereby pointing them in the right direction. This scaffolded worksheet is the mainstay of the lesson.

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 Mexican War

Here is a reading on the Mexican War with a comprehension worksheet to attend it. This post continues the observation of Hispanic Heritage Month at Mark’s Text Terminal. However, this is a key piece of United States history, so social studies teachers take note.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Spanish Civil War

Continuing with this blog’s observation of Hispanic Heritage Month, here is a  Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Spanish-American War.

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.

Cultural Literacy: The Spanish Armada

While I do understand that this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Spanish Armada stretches, both in letter and spirit, the bounds of Hispanic Heritage Month, I confess its inclusion here reflects a well that I will very soon run dry. In any case, it is certainly a document that could find a place in a global studies class–here in New York it would be a freshman class.

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.

The Weekly Text, September 21, 2018, Hispanic Heritage Month 2018 Week I: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on the Spanish American War

As I sit down to post this Text, I realize that I’ve run through, in the past week, just about all the short materials I have to offer for Hispanic Heritage Month 2018 (if you encounter problems with that link, please advise; it might be the longest URL I’ve ever copied and pasted into WordPress’s link generating module).

This week’s Text is a reading on the Spanish-American War and this comprehension worksheet to accompany it. Both, as with almost all of the documents you find here, are in Microsoft Word and can be adapted for a variety of reading levels and attention spans.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Developing Nations

I think if you combine this Cultural Literacy worksheet on developing nations or use it to preface an opening lesson on colonialism, students would make a connection and move toward an understanding of history as a process. I’ve had a few classes make the connection, but it requires some careful Socratic questioning.

In any case, I’ve tagged this as Hispanic History and posted in observation of Hispanic Heritage Month. It wouldn’t take much in the say of questioning to lead students to an understanding of how and why–i.e. imperialism and colonialism–developing nations remain under development.

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.