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.

The Weekly Text, June 30, 2017: Two Context Clues on Rite (n) and Ritual (n)

Posted on June 30, 2017 | Leave a comment

The last day of school here in New York City was Wednesday the 28th, and not a moment too soon. As Joey Ramone once said, “Chewin’ out the rhythm on my bubble gum, the sun is out, and I want some” (The Ramones, “Rockaway Beach”).

So this week’s Text is a short one, to wit, these two context clues worksheets on the nouns rite and ritual. I hope you can use them.

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Two Short Word Root Exercises: Hemi and Demi

Posted on June 29, 2017 | Leave a comment

Here is a worksheet on the Greek root hemi (it means half or partly) and another on another on the Latin word root demi (it means half or less than). These are short worksheets designed to open a class session–they are not full lesson-length documents.

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Raze (vt)

Posted on June 29, 2017 | Leave a comment

If you’re teaching the Fall of Rome, or invasions and empire building in general, in your social studies class, this context clues worksheet on the transitive verb raze helpful.

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Cultural Literacy: Imperialism

Posted on June 27, 2017 | Leave a comment

Given the state of the world at the moment, now seems as good a time as any to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on imperialism.

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Ambrose Bierce on History

Posted on June 27, 2017 | Leave a comment

“History n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

Ambrose Bierce

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

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Cyril Connolly on Decadence

Posted on June 27, 2017 | Leave a comment

“The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.”

Cyril Connolly

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

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Cultural Literacy: The Great Depression

Posted on June 27, 2017 | Leave a comment

Because I work in an economics-and-finance-themed high school, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Great Depression sees a fair amount of service. It’s a handy do-now exercise for any number of lessons in the United States History curriculum, I would think.

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Mis/o

Posted on June 22, 2017 | Leave a comment

Here is a short exercise on the Greek word root mis/o. Neither you nor your students will need to look hard or far to see that this means to hate.

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Thucydides

Posted on June 22, 2017 | Leave a comment

Here, if you can use it, is an Intellectual Devotional reading on the Greek historian Thucydides. You may also want to use this reading comprehension worksheet to accompany it.

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Cultural Literacy: Marginal Tax Rate

Posted on June 21, 2017 | Leave a comment

Because I work in a economics and finance-themed high school, I had call for this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the marginal tax rate.

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