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!).
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.
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.
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.
“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.
There might be a better way than this context clues worksheet on the verb censure (it’s transitive only) to teach the word, and I may have started a draft on a homophone worksheet on censure and censor, which would be more efficient. Stay tuned, because I’ll post such a thing, when and if I write, sooner or later.
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.
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Here, for what I assume are obvious reasons besides a complement to the worksheet on the Greek word root xen/o (foreign) I posted a couple of days ago, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on xenophobia.
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.
Here is a short worksheet on the Greek word root arthr/o, which means joint. Now you know the origin of the word arthritis. This is a word root for students interested in the health care professions, if nobody else.
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.
I use this context clues worksheet on the noun chronology in the first week of school in any social studies class I teach. For reasons I don’t fully understand, we have too many students in my high school who don’t know this fundamental word.
It’s an important word and concept to know and use when discussing just about anything that occurs across a span of time.
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.
If you can use a Cultural Literacy worksheet on totalitarianism, click on that hyperlink and one, in Microsoft Word format, will download onto your desktop.
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.
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
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