Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on yoga. This is a half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading and one comprehension question. The sparest, which is not to say ineffective, introduction to this regimen of physical culture.
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 worksheet on differentiating and using the adjectives later and latter. This full-page worksheet (adapted, as always with documents under the header above, from Paul Brians’ book Common Errors in English Usage, to which he generously allows open, free-of-charge access at his Washington State University web page) presents a four-sentence reading from Professor Brians’ book followed by ten modified cloze exercises.
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.
Finally, this morning, here is a worksheet on the verb fail when used with an infinitive. He fails to see the merit in this particular document.
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.
Moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Zeno’s paradox. This is a half-page document with a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions. The first sentence of the reading does a nice job of defining paradox; however, beware the third sentence, which in forty-nine words (!) explains Zeno’s paradox of the arrow.
If I were a betting man, I would wager that emergent readers and learners of English of a new language will experience some challenges with either the turgid length of this sentence, or the relatively complicated ideas within it. In other words, caveat emptor, and get your editing pencil ready to prepare a shorter and more comprehensible version of this final sentence. I think you will probably end up with at least two, and possibly three sentences.
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 a the first lesson of fifteen in the Styling Sentences unit, this one on a series without a conjunction with an excursus on the colon, lists, and the serial comma. This lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the grammatical concept of subordination, something, I think it’s fair to say, that anyone who needs to write well should know. Finally, here is the worksheet with comprehensive examples of the sentence structure under study.
Unlike most of the materials related to writing instruction you will find on this blog, this material is relatively unsupported. There are no modified cloze exercises (though, in reviewing this material, I understood how to go about preparing some, a maneuver that stymied me when I first contrived this unit), simply mentor sentences from the text from which I derived much of the material in this unit to guide students in composing sentences of their own.
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.
OK, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on zoning. This is a half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading and one comprehension question. A short introduction to a big and controversial subject that ultimately involved the Supreme Court in 1926 in the Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty decision. It’s easy to see how sensible zoning might have prevented this horror show in West, Texas (yes, the town is called West, and I don’t refer here to the larger geographical region of West Texas), or this one in Northwest Houston seven years later.
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 lead story from Mark’s Text Terminal on this already hot day concerns the operation’s recent move. I didn’t go far–just a ten-minute walk from where I have lived for the past two years. I am now in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, about two blocks from Brooklyn College. This is a very nice area adjacent to the sublime precincts, from south to north, of Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park, Ditmas Park, and Prospect Park South. Since I’m an old guy now, this, I expect, will be the last place I live.
So it struck me as a fine synchrony when I found the second worksheet of a series of 69 general conceptual documents for a sociology class last year was this worksheet on the concept of ageism. It’s a full page worksheet with a reading of four longish sentences and three comprehension questions. If it looks like it was put together on the fly, believe me, it was. However, this could be edited down to a half-page do-now exercise, or expanded with some critical questions. Because this worksheet is formatted in Microsoft Word, you can adapt it to your classroom’s needs. More than enough said.
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 worksheet on the verb expect as it is used with an infinitive. In the future, I expect to use better judgment when producing curricular material.
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.
There has been a lot of talk about civics education in my corner of the world of public education, but virtually no action. At a time when democracy around the world is under clear and demonstrable threat, it is clearly time to deal with revitalizing the political structure that Winston Churchill so wittily said is “…the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…”
I doubt whether this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a write-in candidate will do anything to buttress democracy, but I would argue that as we send our graduating high school seniors out in the world to exercise their franchise, this is a concept they should understand. This is half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading–38 words though, with an element in parentheses, which may require editing for some students–and one comprehension question.
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.
Do you have any cinephiles (or cineastes, if you prefer) on your hands this summer? Fans of Turner Classic Movies (which has been in the news lately), perhaps? If so, this reading on the film classic Casablanca and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet might be useful. This is a reading from the Intellectual Devotional series, so a full page of text, along with my standard configuration for the worksheet: eight vocabulary words to define, eight comprehension questions, and the usual one to three “Additional Facts” questions–in this reading, it is three questions under that heading.
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.
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