“social promotion: The policy of promoting students from one grade to the next with their age group even though they have not mastered the skills and knowledge that are considered appropriate for the next grade level. See also promotion. Contrast retention.
Excerpted from: Ravitch, Diane. EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2007.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Rosenberg Case. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. The information in the reading is out of date, as it is quite clear at this point that Julius Rosenberg was in fact spying for the Soviet Union. Ethel’s case, on the other hand, is not so clear cut.
This is a case in which I have been intermittently interested in over the years. When I saw Sidney Lumet’s 1983 film of E.L. Doctorow’s novel The Book of Daniel, I recognized immediately that it was a thinly fictionalized account of the Rosenberg Case. Likewise, of course, Doctorow’s novel. This encounter then led me to Louis Nizer’s book The Implosion Conspiracy, a study of the Rosenberg Case.
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.
“Central planning: The operation of an economy through centralized decision-taking whereby the decisions are taken at the center and orders issued to enterprises concerning their production and investment plans. While in theory such a system should allow the use of all resources in an economy in the public interest, without wasteful duplication of effort, the amount of information required to achieve efficiency is too great, and the incentives to supply the center with viable information are too poor. As a result, centrally planned economies, such as those of the former Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries, were not able to perform as well as a decentralized system based on competition between independent decision makers, and had to abandon central planning in the late 1980s in favor of the market economy.”
Excerpted from: Black, John, Nigar Hashimzade, and Gareth Miles. Oxford Dictionary of Economics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
As we approach Black History Month 2026, this will be the last–for the moment–of the Writing Revolution Learning Supports I will publish. I have a few documents remaining that I’ll distribute over three Weekly Texts in April. For the next two months, you’ll find materials related to Black History Month (February) and Women’s History Month (March).
For today, however, here is the table of contents–not that you’ll need it as there are only two documents. However, depending on how you organize your own files, you might want this document to copy and paste from if you decide to assemble your own table of contents for all this material.
And here, of course, are the documents:
II-A*Abbreviations and Symbols Learning Support 1
II-B*II-A*Abbreviations and Symbols Learning Support 2
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.
“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
As I am soon to run out of this particular run of documents (two more after this one), about which I remain skeptical, I offer this worksheet on the verb want when used with an object and an infinitive.
The students want their teacher to help them understand concept of post-colonial literature.
The teacher wants financial support to assist her in buying Apple computers for her classroom.
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.
“Dialect (noun): A special or regional strain of a language, usually oral in its dissemination, that is distinctive in its idiom, pronunciation, or grammar and is one of several varieties of a common tongue; the language peculiar to a social class, foreign-born group, or the like; idiosyncratic or nonstandard speech. Adjective: dialectical; adverb: dialectically.
‘It was a hard school. One could not learn geography very well through the medium of strange dialects, from dark minds that mingled fact and fable and that measured distances by “sleeps” that varied according to the difficulty of the going.’ Jack London, ‘Lost Face'”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Given this weeks focus on conjunctions, and especially subordinating conjunctions, now seems like a particularly good time to publish this worksheet on the grammatical concept of subordination. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and three comprehension questions.
Nota bene, please, that the second sentence, in two parts separated by a colon, contains an example of sentence that contains a subordinate clause. This might confuse emergent readers; that said, it’s a well constructed sentence. When I consider the meaning the sentence tries to convey, I’m not sure what I would do to change it.
So if you come up with something interesting, I would appreciate hearing about it.
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.
Orson (George) Welles: (1915-1985) U.S. film director, actor, and producer. Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he began directing on stage at 16 and made his Broadway debut in 1934. He directed an all-black cast in Macbeth for the Federal Theater Project. In 1937 he and John Houseman formed the Mercury Theater, creating a series of radio dramas and attempting to mount Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock in the face of determined opposition, and winning notoriety with their panic-producing broadcast of War of the Worlds (1938). Welles then moved to Hollywood, where he cowrote, directed, and acted in the classic Citizen Kane (1941), noted for its innovative narrative technique and atmospheric cinematography and considered the most influential movie in film history. His other films include The Magnificent Ambersons (1943), The Stranger (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1948), Othello (1952), The Trial (1963), Touch of Evil (1958) and Chimes at Midnight (1966). His problems with Hollywood studios curtailed future productions, and he moved to Europe. He was also notable as an actor in Jane Eyre (1944), The Third Man (1949), and Compulsion (1959).
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
OK, now that all the templates I developed for The Writing Revolution curricula are up, let’s get started with the learning supports. These will roll out in five different posts in order to keep the categories straight. This first post is the big one, on conjunctions. Here is the table of contents I, on conjunctions, for this tranche of documents.
And here are the documents:
I-A*Learning Support Template with Citation
I-B*Conjunctions Explanation Support
I-C*Because, But, So Learning Support
I-D*Because, But, So Learning Support Annotated
I-E*Learning Support for Subordinating Conjunctions Before, After, If
I-F*Learning Support for Subordinating Conjunctions When, Although, and Even Though
I-G*Learning Support for Subordinating Conjunctions Since, While, Unless, and Whenever
I-H*Learning Support for Subordinating Conjunctions Before, After, If, Adapted for Basic Definitions
I-K*Using Conjunctions Learning Supports 1 and 2 (Two Pages in One Document)
I-L*Subordinating Conjunctions Learning Support
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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