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.

Emerson on the Importance of a Free Press

Posted on July 28, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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George Santayana on Advertising

Posted on July 11, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”

George Santayana

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Cultural Literacy: Dyslexia

Posted on July 11, 2017 | Leave a comment

Here is a short Cultural Literacy exercise on dyslexia to complement some other readings and worksheets posted below on cognition and learning.

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.

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A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Understanding Memory

Posted on July 8, 2017 | Leave a comment

To add a third to the two Intellectual Devotional Readings on oppositional defiant disorder and learning I posted below, here is an Intellectual Devotional reading on memory and a reading comprehension worksheet to complement it.

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Crani/o

Posted on July 8, 2017 | Leave a comment

Here is a short worksheet on the Greek word root crani/o. Your students will very likely recognize quickly that it means skull and cranium. Along the way, however, they’ll expand their vocabulary with some common medical terms–particularly helpful if they are interested in careers in healthcare.

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Wise Words from Africa on Willful Ignorance

Posted on July 8, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.”

African Proverb

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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Consecutive (adj)

Posted on July 8, 2017 | Leave a comment

Because I have always been surprised at how many high school freshman don’t know the word, today I offer this context clues worksheet on the adjective consecutive.

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Cultural Literacy: Right of Privacy

Posted on July 8, 2017 | Leave a comment

Now seems like a perfect time to post a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the right of privacy. Did we retain this right, or did it vanish with social media and other digital platforms (like the very blog you’re reading now!).

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Helic/o

Posted on July 7, 2017 | Leave a comment

Here is a short worksheet on the Greek word root helic/o. It means spiral and circular. This is a particularly productive root in vocabulary in mathematics and the life sciences.

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Edward C. Banfield on Intellectual Independence

Posted on July 7, 2017 | Leave a comment

“A good professor is a bastard perverse enough to think what he thinks is important, not what the government thinks is important.”

Edward C. Banfield, as Quoted in Life (1967)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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