Category Archives: Worksheets

Classroom documents for student use. Most are structured and scaffolded, and most are pitched at a fundamental level in terms of the questions they ask and the work and understandings they require of students.

The Weekly Text, 14 November 2025, National Native American Heritage Month Week II: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on The French and Indian War

This week’s Text, in observance of the second week of National Native American Heritage Month 2025, is this reading on the French and Indian War along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. You most likely already know this, but it’s worth mentioning that this conflict is also known as the Seven Years War.

And, as the Wikipedia article (which you’ll find in the hyperlink under the last three words in the preceding paragraph) points out, this was a Great Power conflict, global in scope. I expect that this conflict will remain a part of most secondary social studies curricula.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Custer’s Last Stand

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Custer’s Last Stand. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four–longish–sentences and four comprehension questions.

I don’t know if you’ve ever read the novel Little Big Man by Thomas Berger, or seen the fine film adaptation starring Dustin Hoffman, but both were obsessions in my high school crowd a couple of centuries ago. I mention them on the chance you might be interested in seeing a dramatic recreation of George Armstrong Custer’s last moments on this earth. The film shows you–vividly. Dare I admit I have always found that scene satisfying?

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.

Cultural Literacy: Hiawatha

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Hiawatha. Most people, if they’re aware of Hiawatha at all, probably received that awareness by way of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Song of Hiawatha.” I vaguely recall reading “The Song of Hiawatha” in grade school, but Longfellow is more memorable to me as one of the suits in the old card game of “Authors.”

Incidentally, the Wikipedia page for “The Song of Hiawatha” suggests that Longfellow based some of the material in the poem on conversations with an Ojibwe man named George Copway, whose story interested me enough to mention him here.

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.

The Weekly Text, 7 November 2025, National Native American Heritage Month Week I: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on the Annexation of Hawaii

November is National Native American Heritage Month, and to the greatest extent possible, Mark’s Text Terminal strives to produce and publish material to observe the month.

Let’s start with this reading on the annexation of Hawaii along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Here in the United States, I have perceived, we don’t think of the Native Hawaiians in the same way we think of the indigenous peoples of the North American continent. Ethnically Polynesians, the indigenous peoples of Hawaii settled the islands 800 or so years ago. Then they experienced the same colonization and dispossession as the tribes in the United States.

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.

Places in Indigenous History: Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City

Common English Verbs Followed by an Object and an Infinitive: Persuade

Here is a worksheet on the verb persuade when used with an object and an infinitive.

The students persuaded their teacher to scrap his substandard worksheets.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Ships that Pass in the Night

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “ships that pass in the night.” This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three questions. A spare, but adequate, introduction to an idiom that may well be fading from public use.

Did you know this line comes from a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? I didn’t until I prepared this document for publication here.

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.

The Weekly Text, 31 October 2025: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on the Nuclear Bomb

Happy Halloween! For this week’s Text, about the scariest thing I could find is this reading on the nuclear bomb along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. And if you really want to scare kids who are old enough to understand, you can enumerate the number of unstable and belligerent countries that possess this fearsome weapon.

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.

Common English Verbs Followed by an Object and an Infinitive: Permit

Here is a worksheet on the verb permit when followed by an object and an infinitive.

The student radio host couldn’t permit the politician to curse on the air.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Sect

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a sect. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and two comprehension questions. A simple but effective introduction to a concept students really ought to understand before they graduate high school.

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.