OK, here, to wrap up the week, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Pablo Picasso.
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“Bello, Andres (1781-1865) Venezuelan, scholar, poet, humanist, and educator. He was one of the great figures of nineteenth-century Latin America, often referred to as the intellectual father of the continent. His complete works total twenty-six volumes. Bello studied classical literature, law, and philosophy. His interest in science was stimulated by having known Alexander von Humboldt. He was active in the wars of independence through his political work in Europe, primarily England, where he lived for almost twenty years. There he met Bentham and James Mill and translated Byron. A poet greatly influenced by Spain’s Golden Age writers (Garcilaso, Lope de Vega, and Calderon), in Britain Bello wrote his best-known verses: Alocucion a la poesia (1823; tr in The Odes of Bello, Olmedo, and Heredia, 1920), asserting Latin America’s right to literary independence; and La agricultura de la zona torrida (1826; tr A Georgic of the Tropics, 1954), notable for its description of the plants of America, in which realistic detail is combined with Horatian overtones. Yet, along with Bello’s exaltation of America through nature or culture, there is a sadness and solitude evoked, as well as a bitterness that true liberty had yet to be realized in the newly established republics.
From 1829 to his death he resided in Chile. In 1830 he started the newspaper El Araucano and was its principal editor until 1853. He was founder and first president of the University of Chile (1842), and was the chief architect of the Chilean civil code (1855), also adopted in Ecuador and Colombia. Though a creature of the Enlightenment, Bello was also close to the Romantic movement. Bello’s Gramatica de la lengua castellana (1847). still considered an important grammar, advocated the enrichment of the Spanish language. His vast culture–humanistic, scientific, and legal–was dedicated to writing manuals and other works with a pedagogic purpose, within a liberal humanist tradition. Other works available in English include the Anthology of Andres Bello (1981) and his Filosofia del entendimiendo (1881; tr Philosophy of the Understanding, 1984).”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged fiction/literature, hispanic history, poetry, readings/research
When I prepare materials for Hispanic Heritage Month (of which, alas, as I previously mentioned in these pages, I currently suffer a shortage), I tend to perceive the materials along a narrow range of topics, related almost solely to people and events in the Americas. As this web page from Catholic Relief Services observes, “Hispanics and Latinos are not necessarily the same. Hispanics are descended from Spanish speaking populations. Latinos are people of Latin American descent.” I’m no expert on this. If you are, I’d be greatly obliged if you could weigh in on this topic.
What I do know about the Hispanic World derives both from my own education and my travels across South America. For me, the most salient characteristic of the Hispanic world is that it was, in its entirety, subject to imperial exploitation and expropriation. Therefore, one of the unfortunate products of the Spanish presence in the new world is that legacy.
In any case, I think under the definitions limned above (again, if you have scholarly knowledge of this, I would be extremely grateful for some clarification of this issue), I can safely post, as part of Mark’s Text Terminal’s observance of Hispanic Heritage Month 2019, this reading on the War of Philippines Insurrection and its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
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In what language does Carlos Fuentes write? Mexico’s best known author (The Death of Artemio Cruz, 1962; The Old Gringo, 1985) first began writing in English, but has since switched to his native language, Spanish.
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
“Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end. Learning, if you use it, increases.”
Swahili saying
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
As I get ready to leave school for the day, I’ll post this reading on Bonnie and Clyde and its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Nota bene, please, that this is not biographical material on Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, but rather a reading on Arthur Penn’s film starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, respectively, in the title roles.
Have you seen it? It’s a masterpiece by any standard I recognize.
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This reading on the Titanic and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet have tended to be relatively high interest material in my classrooms over the years.
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.
“code switching: Switching in speech between different languages, dialects, etc. E.g. two business associates meet and chat in one language; the meeting becomes formal and they switch to another. Often analyzed into subtypes, e.g. as occurring within sentences or at sentence boundaries. Sometimes distinguished from code mixing, or from borrowing; sometimes not.
The term ‘code’ is loosely used of any language or distinct variety of a language, whether or not it is actually thought of as a code (like the Morse code or a legal code) in any illuminating sense.”
Excerpted from: Marshall, P.H., ed. The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
OK, moving right along on this chilly Monday morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on cryptography. This has turned out, at times, to be of very high interest to students I’ve taught over the years.
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.
“Much assistance in the selection of appropriate material may be derived by considering the eagerness and closeness of observation that attend the following of a story or drama. Alertness of observation is at its height whenever there is plot interest. Why? The balanced combination of the old and the new, of the familiar and the unexpected…alternatives are suggested, but are left ambiguous, so that our whole being questions: What happened next? Which way did things turn out? When an individual is engaged in doing or making something, there is an analogous situation. Something is going to come of what is present, but just what is doubtful. The plot is unfolding toward success or failure, but just when or how is uncertain. Hence the keen and tense observation that attends construction. [Even] when the subject matter is of a more impersonal sort, the same principle of movement toward a denouement may apply. Mere change [in the experiences and situations] is not enough. The changes must (like the incidents of a well-arranged story or plot) take place in a certain cumulative order.”
John Dewey
How We Think: A Restatement of the Relation of Reflective Thinking to the Educative Process
Excerpted from: Wiggins, Grant, and Jay McTighe. Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 1998.
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