Here is a worksheet on the verb learn when it is used with an infinitive. The teacher learned to think more carefully about what constitutes rigorous, cogent, curricular materials.
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While I can’t imagine there could be much call for it, I must have produced this Cultural Literacy worksheet on John Dos Passos for some reason, though now I don’t remember why. Perhaps an independent study on Jazz-Age authors? Your guess is as good as mine. In any case this is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one sentence–which at 34 words might require some paring or judiciously placed punctuation for emergent readers and English language learners.
Incidentally, does anyone read Dos Passos any more? I took a crack at Manhattan Transfer about 30 years ago and found it relatively tough sledding. I’ve been meaning to return to it, and perhaps The U.S.A. Trilogy as well. His books remain in print, and he has been designated, by virtue of his inclusion in The Library of America, as one of this nation’s great authors. So someone must still be reading him. His books, I would think, are solidly midlist titles.
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This week’s Text offers the seventh lesson plan in the Styling Sentences unit (and as I look at these lessons, one after another, as I post them, I am once again skeptical of their worth, as I was before I undertook a major revision and expansion of this unit during the COVID pandemic), this one, as heralded above, on a sentence form with an emphatic appositive at the end, after a colon.
This lesson opens with this worksheet on parsing sentences for nouns. The primary work of this lesson is this worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts. I want to point out, again, that this worksheet contains no sentence stems or cloze exercises, or really any kind of supportive apparatus. There are mentor texts for students to emulate. I think I could write some supported material for this worksheet, but I don’t know how useful it would be.
But what do you think?
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If I have flogged this material too much, please advise. Here, nonetheless, is a worksheet on the verb intend when used as an infinitive. I intend to persist in publishing this group of documents on a weekly basis until they are gone.
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I’d like to think this is a timely post, what with country-and-western stars extolling their small towns with frankly racist music videos. Either way, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on jingoism. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one longish sentence that reads like a dictionary definition and two comprehension questions. While we’re on the subject of dictionary definition, Merriam-Webster’s defines jingoism as “extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.” The definition on the worksheet is a bit more expansive, but the “extreme chauvinism” aspect of this noun is what I would emphasize if I were using this.
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.
This week’s Text is the sixth lesson plan of the Styling Sentences unit. This one deals, as headlined above, with the rhetorical device of the repetition of a key term.
This lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on understatement. It’s a half-page worksheet with a reading of one-sentence reading–a longish compound with a colon separating the explanation of understatement with an example of its use. Finally, here is the worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts that stands as the principal work of this lesson. Nota bene, please, that as with most of the documents in this unit, this worksheet contains no sentence stems, cloze exercises, or other supporting apparatus. Students review mentor texts then set out to reproduce their structure by composing several sentences.
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 hurry when it is used with an infinitive. The blogger hurried to publish a series of grammar worksheets he believed were of subpar in quality.
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.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a cartel. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and three comprehension questions. The reading does mention Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which I think students should know about and understand.
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.
It’s Friday again, and the school year starts soon. Let’s continue with fifth lesson plan in the Styling Sentences unit, this one on dealing with dependent clauses in a pair or a series at the beginning or end of a sentence.
This lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the direct object of the verb. You know, that thing that a transitive verb requires to complete its meaning: Omar buys a cup of coffee at the bodega every morning. And here is the worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts to guide students through developing their understanding of this relatively complicated sentence form.
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.
Last but not least this morning, here is a worksheet on the verb grow when used with an infinitive. Perhaps if I used them more, and developed them further, I would grow to like these lackluster documents.
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