Here, for the third day of 2018, are five homophone worksheets on the nouns material and materiel.
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We’ve been studying the Industrial Revolution and the birth of capitalism in my sophomore global studies class. That means we’ve been spending a lot of time with Adam Smith, but for the sake of expedience, I imagine, very little on David Ricardo. Certainly, Ricardo is one of the most important of the political economists.
But perhaps not for the high school curriculum. In the event you might need it (it might make a good short introduction to a lesson on Smith, Thomas Malthus, or James Mill, if you teach those thinkers), here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on David Ricardo.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun grievance I recently wrote to attend a lesson on the French Revolution. I can’t imagine how students in high school can meaningfully participate in social studies classes–or come to think of it, how meaningful social studies classes can occur–without knowledge of this word and the concept it represents.
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“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
Horace Mann (1756-1859)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
Posted in Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Here is a short exercise on the Greek word root ecto; it means outside. This is one of those roots that show up in words in the sciences, so it and its words are important for literacy in science courses.
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“Absolute, adj. [1.] Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign’s power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance. [2.] In Philosophy existing without reference to anything, and for a purely selfish purpose. Absolute certainty is one of the possible degrees of probability. Absolute monarchy is a form of government in which the chief power is vested in a gentleman who is near his end.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. David E. Schultz and S.J. Joshi, eds. The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2000.
For some reason, I thought I’d posted this reading on Hammurabi’s Code of Laws and the comprehension worksheet which complements it. This material, I would think, is a cornerstone of an introductory global studies class.
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“Xenophon’s Anabasis tells the story of 10,000 elite Greek mercenaries who are left isolated on the losing side of a Persian civil war and fight their way across the mountain tribes of Anatolia to reach the safety of the Black Sea coast. The history of this march in 401 BC was the original story of swashbuckling adventure against the odds and was said to have inspired Philip of Macedon to take on the Persians. T.E. Lawrence had the book in his camel bag during the Arab revolt of 1916. And more recently, transplanted to the gangs of New York, it became the Warriors video game.”
Excerpted from: Rogerson, Barnaby. Rogerson’s Book of Numbers: The Culture of Numbers–from 1,001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the World. New York: Picador, 2013.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on social class, so when politicians whine about “class war,” your students will have some context for understanding that concept.
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I: The Kandy-Kolored, Tangerine-Flake, Streamlined Baby
“One wants to say to Mr. Wolfe; you’re so clever, you can write so well, tell us something interesting.”
Saturday Review
II: The Painted Word
“There is plenty of hot air in this particular balloon, but I don’t see it going anywhere.”
John Russell, New York Times Book Review
Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
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