OK, time to wrap up this morning’s work and head off to school. Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Pablo Neruda. This worksheet is a half-page in length with a reading of three relatively simple declarative sentences and three comprehension questions.
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Continuing with this blog’s underwhelming–for which I apologize profusely–observance of Hispanic Heritage Month 2023, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Bolivia. This is a full-page document with a reading of four sentences and nine comprehension questions. The asymmetry of this worksheet may require some explanation.
The first sentence in this reading situates Bolivia in continental South America with a series; that series could easily be broken up and turned into four separate, easier-to-use independent clauses. The next sentence is a compound separated by a semicolon. In other words, another sentence you might consider breaking up and turning into two separate independent clauses. The second two sentences are clear in their declarations, and should be easy for emergent readers and English language learners to process. I wrote nine comprehension questions because I decided to take the facts in the reading one at a time, which I suppose is how I imagine readers will take them.
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 the ninth lesson plan of the Styling Sentences Unit. This one, as heralded above, aims to assist students in writing a sentence with a single modifier out of place for emphasis.
I use this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the oxymoron as a rhetorical device as the opener for this lesson; this is half-page worksheet with a reading of one sentence that is two clauses separated by a colon. On one side of the colon is the explanation of oxymorons, on the other an example of an oxymoron in quotes. Finally, here is the worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts that is the work of this lesson. This is largely unsupported instruction: the worksheet presents only mentor texts, after which students will model their own sentences in this form. I’ve developed no sentence stems or cloze exercises for this material. If you do, could you let me know?
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.
Finally this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences with four comprehension questions. I would submit this caveat: the first sentence in the reading is a longish compound separated by a semicolon which might be too much for emergent readers and English language learners. But, as this document is formatted in Microsoft Word, you can adjust it to your students’ needs.
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 Cultural Literacy worksheet on Chicanos, which does a particularly nice job of describing the origins of this proper noun, its use, and the extent to which the words Latino and Latina–or Latinx if you prefer, though that term is of sufficiently recent coinage that it does not appear in the reading–correlate with this word. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and two comprehension questions. Simple and symmetrical, this is a decent, brief introduction to a word Americans really ought to know, understand, and be able to use properly, and therefore respectfully.
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.
Today marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month 2023, which continues to 15 October. With considerable chagrin, I now report that I have nothing substantial to post as Weekly Texts in observance this month: I understand (and this has a great deal to do with Hispanic students at my school reporting that they often feel unnoticed) that I need to develop more materials for my students and this blog. Last year, while developing and teaching a sociology course, I began a unit on the Zoot Suit Riots, a race riot in Los Angeles provoked by the Sleepy Lagoon murder and perpetrated by U.S. servicemen. I do have a sizeable inventory of short exercises–Cultural Literacy worksheets–that I can and will post during the month, as well as plenty of quotes to publish.
So, this week’s Text is the eighth lesson plan of the Styling Sentences Unit, this one on sentence forms featuring an introductory or concluding participle. This lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on irregular verbs. Finally, here is the worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts that is the primary work of this lesson. Please take note that this document contains no supported content, i.e. no sentence stems or cloze exercises. Students use mentor texts to model their own sentences in this form.
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 verb learn when it is used with an infinitive. The teacher learned to think more carefully about what constitutes rigorous, cogent, curricular materials.
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.
While I can’t imagine there could be much call for it, I must have produced this Cultural Literacy worksheet on John Dos Passos for some reason, though now I don’t remember why. Perhaps an independent study on Jazz-Age authors? Your guess is as good as mine. In any case this is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one sentence–which at 34 words might require some paring or judiciously placed punctuation for emergent readers and English language learners.
Incidentally, does anyone read Dos Passos any more? I took a crack at Manhattan Transfer about 30 years ago and found it relatively tough sledding. I’ve been meaning to return to it, and perhaps The U.S.A. Trilogy as well. His books remain in print, and he has been designated, by virtue of his inclusion in The Library of America, as one of this nation’s great authors. So someone must still be reading him. His books, I would think, are solidly midlist titles.
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.
This week’s Text offers the seventh lesson plan in the Styling Sentences unit (and as I look at these lessons, one after another, as I post them, I am once again skeptical of their worth, as I was before I undertook a major revision and expansion of this unit during the COVID pandemic), this one, as heralded above, on a sentence form with an emphatic appositive at the end, after a colon.
This lesson opens with this worksheet on parsing sentences for nouns. The primary work of this lesson is this worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts. I want to point out, again, that this worksheet contains no sentence stems or cloze exercises, or really any kind of supportive apparatus. There are mentor texts for students to emulate. I think I could write some supported material for this worksheet, but I don’t know how useful it would be.
But what do you think?
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.
If I have flogged this material too much, please advise. Here, nonetheless, is a worksheet on the verb intend when used as an infinitive. I intend to persist in publishing this group of documents on a weekly basis until they are gone.
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