Category Archives: Social Sciences

You’ll find domain-specific material designed to meet Common Core Standards in social studies, along with adapted and differentiated materials that deal with a broad array of conceptual knowledge in the social sciences. See the Taxonomies page for more about this category.

Cultural Literacy: Marie Antoinette

As the final week of Women’s History Month 2018 begins, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Marie Antoinette, certainly one of the more infamous women in history.

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The Weekly Text, March 23, 2018, Women’s History Month 2018 Week IV: a Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Queen Isabella of Spain

Well, it’s Friday again, so it’s time for another Weekly Text, which continues to to observe Women’s History Month. So, here is a reading on Queen Isabella of Spain with a comprehension worksheet to accompany it. As long as we’re on the subject of royalty in modern history, here is an Everyday Edit on the women in King Henry VIII’s life to complement the longer exercises on Queen Isabella. Incidentally, if you want more of these Everyday Edit exercises, the good people at Education World have posted a year’s supply of them free for the taking.

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.

Amy Goodman on Effective Journalism

[Accepting an award for coverage of the 1991 massacre of Timorese by Indonesian troops:]

“Go to where there is silence and say something.”

Quoted in Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 1994

Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

Cultural Literacy: Cassandra

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Cassandra, she of Greek myth. She is often a metaphor, in polite but educated conversation, as a metaphor for a person whose valid warnings or concerns about the future are disbelieved by others.

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Cultural Literacy: Queen Victoria

If you teach global studies, or world history, or whatever your school district calls a survey course on global history, you will probably find this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Queen Victoria useful.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Sacagawea

You might be able to use this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Sacagawea in your classroom, particularly if you teach younger children. Sacagawea passed by my radar the other day when a female student in my third period class sought to exchange a Sacagawea one-dollar coin for a bill, because she didn’t believe it was real money.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Seneca Falls Convention

Monday has rolled around once again, so let’s start the fourth week of Women’s History Month 2018 with a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Seneca Falls Convention, one of the most significant events in the history of women in the United States.

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.

Hannah Arendt on Power and Capital

“Power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.”

Origins of Totalitarianism ch. 5 (1953)

Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

The Weekly Text, March 16, 2018, Women’s History Month 2018 Week III: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Geneticist Barbara McClintock

Another Friday has rolled around, so it’s time for another Weekly Text in observation of Women’s History Month. This week’s Text is a reading on geneticist and botanist Barbara McClintock accompanied by this comprehension worksheet on the reading. Finally, here is a complementary Everyday Edit worksheet on Marie Curie (and you can get a full-year supply of Everyday Edit worksheets from the generous proprietors of the Education World website.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Jane Addams and Settlement Houses

On a Thursday morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Jane Addams and another on the settlement house movement of which she was a founder. My paternal grandfather spent time as a child at Hull House. In high school, I read Twenty Years at Hull House, which exercised a profound influence over my view of the world and how I should live in it.

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.