Can you use this independent practice worksheet on Niccolo Machiavelli? At my school, we teach him (never, alas, hitting on key concepts he represents, like “political science” or “political philosophy”) in the freshman global studies cycle.
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“The class of visual arts in which lines, marks, or characters are impressed on a flat surface, usually paper. These include drawing, engraving, etching, lithography (which are grouped with fine art) and also processes such as typography and printing, when they are intended for more than utilitarian purposes.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged art/architecture/design
If you teach global studies or world history, I expect you might be able to use this reading on Commodore Perry and Japan and the comprehension worksheet that attends it. When I taught sophomore global studies for the first time last year, I was surprised to learn that the curriculum the administration of my school prescribed didn’t introduce students to the key concept implicit in this material, namely gunboat diplomacy.
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“The study of the relationship between brain function and behavior. This field includes neuropsychologists who work in experimental and clinical settings; experimental neuropsychologists who work with both human and animal models; and clinical neuropsychologists who look for procedures that will help people with neurologically based disorders by studying brain and behavior relationships.”
Excerpted from: Turkington, Carol, and Joseph R. Harris, PhD. The Encyclopedia of Learning Disabilities. New York: Facts on File, 2006.
Here’s a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the state of Mississippi that might be useful for a variety of lessons.
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“That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. David E. Schultz and S.J. Joshi, eds. The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2000.
Here are two context clues worksheets on de facto and de jure. Both of these Latin terms are used as adverbs and adjectives. I would argue that these are two terms that represent conceptual understanding students really ought to have upon high school graduation.
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The second post immediately below this one is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on pandemics. In that post I mention that one can discern the Greek word root dem within that noun, and that dem–or, as in the case of this Greek word root worksheet, dem/o and demi–means people. That said, I must make note of, and offer caution on account of, the fact that in Latin the root demi means half or less than. Now you know why espresso is served in a demitasse.
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“A character in writing which represents a word as a whole. Distinguished especially from a phonogram, which represents a sound or group of sounds; also from a pictogram or an ideogram, which represent an object or idea independently of words.”
Excerpted from: Matthews, P.H. The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged term of art
Teachers working in social studies or science may find this Cultural Literacy worksheet on pandemics useful. For a literacy connection, nota bene the Greek root dem in this word; it means people, and shows up in other words like democracy and demography, both words related to people. If you look at the post two above this one, you’ll in fact find a word root worksheet on that Greek word root.
Pan, another Greek root, simply means all. You can see that these two word roots, which meet in the noun pandemic, give students an opportunity for some synthetic thinking about these two roots and the words in English they produce.
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