Mark’s Text Terminal is about to move to another state, so I spent the day dealing with that. Here, as I wind things down, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Appalachian Mountains.
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“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.”
Helder Camara, Quoted in The Guardian, 21 Jan. 1985
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Posted in Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged hispanic history, philosophy/religion
Somewhere in the shuffle of documents for posts in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month 2018 (and those for 2016 and 2017 as well) l misplaced this reading on Francisco de Goya and the comprehension worksheet that complements it. He’s a key late-Enlightenment figure, and this reading has some key points on art history.
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“(1909-1966) Peruvian novelist. Frequently at odds with the repressive regimes of his government, Alegria lived in exile in Chile from the age of twenty-five. All his major works deal with the lives of Peruvian Indians, although, rather than drawing individual heroes, he deals with entire Indian communities, creating a kind of aggregate protagonist. In his first two novels, La serpiente de oro (1935; tr The Golden Serpent, 1963) and Los perros hambrientos (1936), set on the river Maranon and in the high Andes, respectively, he describes the hard-fought struggle for survival against the massive forces of nature. In his best-known novel, El mundo es ancho y areno (1941; tr Broad and Alien Is the World, 1941), the white man, not nature, is the adversary, as an entire Indian community in northern Peru is displaced by the scheming of a greedy landowner. His other novels include Duelo de caballeros (1963) and Lazaro (1973). An edition of his Novelas completas was published in 1964.”
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
“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”
Jorge Luis Borges
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged fiction/literature, hispanic history, humor, philosophy/religion
This context clues worksheet on the noun hallmark was one of the first of these exercises I composed. Student in a freshman global studies class I was co-teaching were reading about river valley civilizations, and the locution “hallmark of civilization” recurred in the textbook we were using. Finally, one plucky ninth-grader stood up and said “We have a Hallmark store in my neighborhood.”
So I knew I needed this worksheet.
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“(1864-1936) Spanish philosopher, poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. The leading member of the Generacion del 98, Unamuno is a major figure in the history of modern thought. The conflict of reason and faith, religion and science, and the problem of life and death anguished him and led him to conclusions which anticipated Existentialism. A vision of the tragic nature of life, its absurdity, and man’s radical solitude is conveyed in his major philosophical works Del sentimiento tragico de la vida en los hombres y los pueblos (1913; tr The Tragic Sense of Life, 1958) and La agonia del cristianismo (1924; tr The Agony of Christianity, 1960). He also explored the problem of 20th-century materialism.
After the failure of his first novel Paz en la Guerra (1897), Unamuno invented the “nivola,” the best example of which is Niebla (1914; tr Mist, A Tragicomic Novel, 1928). Tres novelas ejemplares (1920); tr Three Exemplary Novels, 1930) and San Manuel Bueno, martir (1931; tr St. Manuel Bueno, Martyr, 1954) are his most popular works of fiction. Unamuno experimented with the autonomous character. In Mist the protagonist proclaims his own reality to be equal with that of the author. His novels are primarily concerned not with action, but with the minds of the characters and with philosophy.
One of Spain’s major 20th century poets, Unamuno’s best-known works include El Cristo de Velazquez (1920; tr The Christ of Velazquez, 1951) and Cancionero (1953, a posthumous poetic diary).”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
“You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States in ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.”
Fidel Castro, quoted in Herbert L. Matthews, Castro: A Political Biography (1969)
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Posted in Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
If anyone can use it, here is an independent practice worksheet on the Counter-Reformation.
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“It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.”
George Santayana
The Unknowable (1923)
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
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