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….
“nationally normed assessment: A standardized test that has been administered to a national control group reflecting the demographic profile of the target population (e.g. 4th graders) throughout the country. The scores of all subsequent test takers are then compared with the scores of this control (or norming) group.”
Excerpted from: Ravitch, Diane. EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2007.
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.
“Definition of Protestantism: hemiplegic paralysis of Christianity—and of reason.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged literary oddities, philosophy/religion
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.
“Historical Materialism: A term applied by Karl Marx himself to his theory of society and history. ‘History entailed the analysis of how particular forms of society had come into existence, and the specific historical concepts within which apparently universal or eternal social forms—state, religion, market, and so forth—were located. Materialism denoted the rejection of Hegelian idealism and the primacy of socio-economic processes and relations. A sustained attempt to defend Marx’s account of the determining role in history played by the productive forces is made by William H. Shaw (Marx’s Theory of History, 1978).”
Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
At this moment in the political history of the world, I think it’s important that students get a look at this context clues worksheet on the noun despot.
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 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.
“Earhart, Amelia: (1897-1937) U.S. aviator, the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Born in Atchison, Kansas, she worked as a military nurse in Canada during World War I and later as a social worker in Boston. In 1928 she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane, though as a passenger. In 1932 she accomplished the flight alone, becoming the first woman and the second person to do so. In 1935, she became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. In 1937, she set out with a navigator, Fred Noonan, to fly around the world; they had completed over two-thirds of the distance when her plane disappeared without a trace in the Pacific Ocean. Speculation about her fate has continued to the present.”
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged united states history, women's history
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.
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