Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Calvinism. This is half-page worksheet with a reading of four simple sentences and four comprehension questions. A basic, symmetrical introduction to Calvin’s ideology, which the reading observes is today found primarily in Presbyterianism.
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.
“summative evaluation: Evaluation carried out for the purpose of gathering information to assess the overall worth of educational staff, programs, and products. Evaluation is often motivated by a prospective decision, such as purchasing a product, adopting a program, or determining the amount of a raise for staff. See also formative evaluation.”
Excerpted from: Ravitch, Diane. EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2007.
It seems to me that there are a lot of politicians in the United States, most if not all of them Republicans, who are belligerently opposed (I’m thinking of you, Ron DeSantis, above all others here) to the changing concepts of gender in our culture. Earlier in my life, these same troglodytes (is it fair to call them troglodytes? It seems to be a guy like DeSantis makes the average troglodyte look like Bertrand Russell) were exercised by Free to Be You and Me. James Dobson, noted evangelist and right-wing scold, took particular offense and the changing gender roles in our society that this television show discussed–what a surprise!
This week’s Text is this short reading on Free To Be You and Me along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Nota bene, please, that the original sound recording for this television broadcast is available on the streaming music service I subscribe to, so I’ll bet it’s on yours as well.
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“No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a prime number. This is a half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading, which is actually two clauses separated by a semicolon, and two comprehension questions. The reading might require some simplification and editing if you are dealing with English language learners or emergent readers. That won’t be a problem as this document, like most of what you’ll find here at Mark’s Text Terminal, is formatted in Microsoft Word for the express purpose of flexibility in the teacher’s hand.
In any event, however, this is an elegantly simple worksheet on a relatively simple concept in mathematics.
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“Code Word: A code name: a word with a covert meaning, such as a sociological generality or a euphemism with an inexplicit but unmistakable signification to certain people. E.g. the Marxist term ‘rootless cosmopolite’ for Jew; word of menace; shibboleth.
‘He noticed it in her friends, too—that nearly manic combing of the hair, the chewing gum and talk about music. They disparaged everything, and their talk was full of clichés and code words.’ Anne Beattie, Falling in Place.”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Here is a worksheet on the verb consent as followed by an infinitive. I consent to distribute these curricular materials in spite of their manifestly dubious value.
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“Metier: A particular subject in which an artist specializes.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
Alright, here, finally, is the sixteenth and final lesson plan of the History of Hip-Hop Unit. I use this Cultural Literacy worksheet on racism as a do-now exercise. The work of this lesson, which I have allowed to play out over two or three days, is this concluding assessment and reflection and this metacognitive assessment worksheet.
And that, gentle reader, is that. There are now sixteen lessons available on the History of Hip-Hop at Mark’s Text Terminal.
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“Our era calls for a public accounting of what caste has cost us, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, so that every American can know the true history of our country, wrenching though it may be. The persistence of caste and race hostility, and the defensiveness about anti-black sentiment in particular, make it literally unspeakable to many in the dominant caste. You cannot solve anything that you do not admit exists, which could be why some people may not want to talk about it: it might get solved.
‘We must make every effort [to ensure] that the past injustice, violence, and economic discrimination will be made known to the people,’ Einstein said in an address to the National Urban League. ‘The taboo, the “let’s-not-talk-about-it” must be broken. It must be pointed out time and again that the exclusion of a large part of the colored population from active civil rights by the common practice is a slap in the face of the Constitution of the nation.’
The challenge for our era is not merely the social construct of black and white but seeing through the many layers of a caste system that has more power than we as humans should permit it to have. Even the most privileged of humans in the Western word will join a tragically disfavored caste if they live long enough. They will belong to the last caste of the human cycle, that of old age, people who are among the most demeaned of all citizens in the Western world, where youth is worshipped to forestall thoughts of death. A caste system spares no one.”
Excerpted from: Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. New York: Random House, 2020.
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