Here is yet another lesson from The Order of Things, this one on Continents’ Population and Surface Area. You’ll need this worksheet with the list and comprehension questions to complete this lesson.
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This week’s Text, in the continuing–but premature–observation of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020–returns to the subject with which I began the month, to wit, this reading on the internment camps in which American citizens of Asian Pacific descent were held during World War II along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. We Americans think ourselves exceptional, but nationalism, tyranny, and bigotry are anything but exceptional–they are the tedious crap to which we as a species have subscribed for centuries.
That’s something worth remembering as our idiot president uses locutions like “Chinese virus” and violence against Americans of Asian descent is on the rise.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Academy Awards. This may be high-interest material for some students, though I can’t recall any of students I’ve served asking for it–so I have not tagged it as high interest.
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On a rainy, chilly Friday morning in southwestern Vermont, here are two context clues worksheets on the noun duty and the adjective dutiful.
And I submit to you, editorially of course, that these two words, and the two concepts the words represent, ought to be very active in our public and private discourse right now.
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Here is an English usage worksheet on differentiating the nouns Islam and Muslim. Don’t forget that May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020 (and that I began posting materials for it a month early because, like–increasingly–the days of the week, I lost track of the month).
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OK, last but not least this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “All’s Fair in Love and War.” It’s a nice abstract expression that students, if you want to augment, could work to reify in a few sentences.
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Here are two context clues worksheets on the noun congress if you can use them. Incidentally, these present an opportunity to help students further differentiate between proper and common nouns–congress is used both ways in these documents. A simple question like “Why is this noun capitalized in some sentences and not in others?” would push the conversation in the direction you need it to go to develop understanding of this area of usage.
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Here is a lesson plan on the division of labor within academic historical disciplines. I start this lesson off with this context clues worksheet on the adjective scarce. If the lesson goes into a second day on account of classroom conditions, I keep this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of class struggle nearby. As I think about it, I think I made a point of either teaching this with the lesson, or perhaps assigning it as independent practice (i.e. homework). This scaffolded worksheet is at the center of the unit; here is the teacher’s copy of it to get you through the lesson with something resembling ease.
Incidentally, I wrote this lesson because there were, for the several years I taught the subject in New York City, a couple of questions at the beginning of the New York State Global Studies and Geography Regents Examinations on who might perform a specific task in a historical inquiry. I took this a step further because I wanted to build a literacy lesson as well as give students a preview of potential college areas of study and majors.
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Last but not least this morning, here is a lesson plan on the Greek word root hetero. It means different and other. This is a relatively productive root in English, giving us words like heterogenous and heterosexual. The first of those adjectives, science teachers, is something you probably want students to know; more broadly, you certainly want them to understand the concepts of otherness and difference. That said, these concepts traverse the entire curriculum in primary and secondary schooling.
I open this lesson, hinting at the meaning of hetero, with this context clues worksheet on the adjective diverse. Lastly, here is the the scaffolded worksheet that is the primary work of this lesson.
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.
OK, health teachers, here is a reading on the human uterus along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
I guess there’s not much to say other than that.
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