Here is a lesson plan on psychosis with the short reading and vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that drives it.
If you would like a slightly longer set of the work documents for this lesson, they are under that hyperlink.
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.
Here is a worksheet on the Greek word roots trop/o and -tropy. This is a complicated pair: they mean turning, changing, figure of speech, and responding to a stimulus. A lot of the words in English that grow from this root are abstract and science related–one of them, of course, is trope, which literally means “a word or expression used in a figurative sense: FIGURE OF SPEECH,” and has happily turned up in the American vernacular. But you can also find in a word from physics, entropy.
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 reading on Rene Descartes along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I’ve had exactly one request for this material in 17 years of teaching, which is why it exists. If, like me, you’ve had students in special education classes who were there on account of acting-out behavior, and not because they were learning disabled. I prepared this for just such a student, who was exceptionally intelligent, but suffered from an inordinate love of fisticuffs.
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.
For Week II of Women’s History Month 2020, here is a reading on Toni Morrison with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
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, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Pocahontas for Women’s History Month 2020. I always like to give credit where credit is due, so let me once again remind you that you can find a yearlong supply of these worksheets at Education world, where the generous proprietors of that site give them away at no charge.
If you find typos, fix the dang things, That’s the purpose of these exercises.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on syntax. I’m pretty sure I’ve published it elsewhere on this blog as part of a lesson plan. This post will make the document more easily searchable. I think you could use this document with just about any lesson on writing–either as an introduction to the topic, a short independent practice exercise to take home, or as reinforcement and retention somewhere along the line in a unit on writing.
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.
In an attempt meet the needs of a student I served, earlier this week I wrote these three basic research and comprehension worksheets on Formula 1 racing. I envisioned them as useful in calling up prior knowledge and conducting basic inquiries on the internet.
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.
Here is a worksheet on the Latin word roots lun and luni. They mean, you will probably not be surprised to hear, moon. These show up quite a bit in English (lunar, lunatic, interlunar, etc.).
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.
Moving right along on this late winter morning, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Maya Angelou. I cannot in good conscience–even though if you find these worksheets on Mark’s Text Terminal, you have already read this ad nauseum–post this material without both thanking and directing you towards the Education World website, where you can find a yearlong supply of Everyday Edit worksheets.
Here is a lesson plan on war, revolution, and peace as causes of history. I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun agriculture. This is a discussion, brainstorming, and writing lesson, so here is a structured brainstorming and note-taking blank to use in the execution of this lesson.
And yes, for those in the know, I did crib the title of this lesson from the Hampshire College course (taught by Michael Klare when I took it in the fall of 1991) of the same name, part of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at that fine institution.
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.
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