Here is a worksheet on the verb urge when used with an object and an infinitive.
The teacher urged her students to buy a good Russian-English/English-Russian dictionary.
The political organizer urges young people to run for office.
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Lately, I’ve been reading The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow (New York: Grove Press, 2010), so now seems like a good time to publish this Cultural Literacy worksheet on stock options. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. Even at the standards of cogency and clarity I have come to expect from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, this is a remarkably clear and concise explanation of this financial instrument.
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Alright, this is the fourth of four posts with, I am confident, all the templates one would need to develop units and lessons using the framework Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler erected with their book The Writing Revolution (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2017). These are the stragglers that don’t quite fit in with the groups of documents I posted in the previous three Weekly Texts. There are only six documents here, as listed in the table of contents:
IV-A*Listening Evaluation Checklist
IV-B*Revise and Edit Checklist
IV-C*Research Plan Time Sequence Sheet
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.
Here is a worksheet on the verb tell when used with an object and an infinitive.
Every day, the professor tells his students to take notes during the lecture.
Doctors tell their patients to take their medications on time.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on status; as you know, and as this worksheet will help your students understand, “status” is the “relative position of an individual within a group, or of a group within a society.” It strikes me as a timely topic in a democracy under threat.
This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and three comprehension questions.
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Here is a worksheet on the verb teach when used with an object and an infinitive.
Carlos teaches his dog Sidney to fetch the ball.
The boy taught his mother to speak English more fluently.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a status quo. This Latinism–which means “the state in which”–is a high frequency term in English, especially among educated people. In any event, this is a half-page worksheet with a two sentences and three comprehension questions.
The first sentence is a compound with a colon in the middle of it. If that’s too much for emergent readers or users of English as a second language, simply remove the colon, replace it with a period, and write “For example” in front of the quote that follows.
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“Ashcan School: (Also called The Eight and The New York Realists) A term applied, loosely and belatedly, to a group of American realist painters. Although they never actually formed a school, eight painters—Robert Henri (1865-1929), John Sloan (1871-1951), Maurice Prendergast (1859-1927), George Luks (1897-1933), Everett Shinn (1876-1953), William Glackens (1870-1938), Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), and Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928)—held an independent exhibition at The Macbeth Gallery in New York in February 1908. Their paintings, which featured prizefights, bars, and city street scenes, departed from the artistic conventions of the turn of the century and were greeted with a storm of critical disapproval. These depictions of the working-class milieu—romantic and vital, but also squalid and brutal—shocked viewers used to genteel and fashionable pictures. The exhibition and the work of the artists, however, exerted an enormous influence on the development of American realistic painting.
The original eight came to be associated with other painters, including Walt Kuhn (1880-1949), one of the organizers of the Armory Show, and George Bellows (1882-1925), whose work, of all of the painters of the school, has perhaps retained the most critical interest.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
As we slide into the holidays (there will be no Weekly Texts for the next two Fridays), this week’s Text is a list of worksheet templates developed from Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler’s excellent framework for writing instuction, The Writing Revolution (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2017). First of all, here is the worksheets templates table of contents. And here are the worksheet templates themselves:
II-A*What Makes a Sentence a Sentence; Fragments, Scrambled Sentences, and Run-Ons
II-B*Piece It Together; Unscrambling Scrambled Sentences
II-C*Put the Brakes On; Correcting Run-On Sentences
II-E*What Do You Know? Developing Questions
II-F*Let’s Play Jeopardy; Giving Students the Answers and Asking for Questions
II-G*The Power of Basic Conjunctions Because, But, So
II-I*Another Name for a Noun; Appositive and Matching Appositives (Two Templates in One Document)
II-J*Put Them Together; Sentence Combining
II-L*The Power of Note-Taking–To Note-Taking Formats Distributed Over Two Worksheet Templates
II-M*Sentence with a Semicolon Stop
II-N*Sentence with a Colon Stop
II-O*Sentence Stem with a Coordinating Conjunction
II-P*Sentence Stem with an Elision for Parentheses
II-Q*Sentence Stem with Like or As to Produce an Analogy or a Simile
II-S*Which One Doesn’t Belong? Eliminating the Lease Relevant Sentence
II-T*Summary Sentence Worksheet
II-U*Select Appropriate Details from the List to Support Each Topic Sentence
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Here is a worksheet on the verb require when used with an object and an infinitive.
Good manners require us to wash our hands before sitting down to dinner.
Speed limits require motorists to drive at a given rate of speed.
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