Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the zodiac. This is a half-page document with a reading of two sentences and two comprehension questions. In other words, another succinct, but relatively thorough, introduction to this conception of the heavens.
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Here is the third lesson of the Styling Sentences Unit. This one, as the header indicates, prescribes a sentence structure with an introductory series of appositives (with a dash and a summarizing subject) that includes an excursus on appositive nouns.
I open this lesson with this parsing sentences worksheet for nouns, which, as it sounds, calls upon students to parse a series of sentences to find the nouns in them. Finally, here is the worksheet with explanatory and mentor texts that is the primary work of this lesson. Once again, there are no modified cloze exercises on this worksheets; rather, there are mentor texts, sentences in the form the lesson seeks to help students learn to write. Unlike other lessons in this unit, I am still less than certain how I might go about developing some structured practice for sentence structures this complicated.
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OK, here is a worksheet on the verb help when used with an infinitive. The teacher hopes to avoid producing anymore questionable material on instruction in grammar and style.
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Moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Zeus. This is a full-page document with a reading of three sentences and a parenthetical element, and four comprehension questions. This is one of a series of new Cultural Literacy materials I developed this summer, and I’m trying out some new strategies in composing the questions. As almost always on this blog (but for a few PDFs floating around), this document is formatted in Microsoft Word, so you can manipulate it to suit the needs of your classroom.
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.
Another week has passed, so it’s time for this week’s Text, which is the second lesson of the Styling Sentences Unit, this one, as above, on a sentence structure that includes a series with a variation, with an excursus on using the conjunction and.
I begin this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Latinism non sequitur. It means, as the text of the document begins, “A thought that does not logically follow what has just been said.” It’s probably a concept and practice students should know before they set off on writing long, complicated declarative sentences. Finally, here is the worksheet with mentor texts that is the work of this lesson. There are no modified cloze exercises in this document; students work from the mentor texts to produce their own sentences in the form displayed.
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 concept of altruism that I developed on the fly last spring. This is a full-page worksheet with a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions. I ended up not using this, because if I had I probably would have adapted it some: the reading contains some terms of art from sociology that require amplification and explanation. Also, I think there are some critical questions to ask about altruism–how does it benefit society? for starters–that I didn’t get around to writing.
This is more of a skeleton than a fully fleshed-out worksheet. Like almost everything on this website, however, it is formatted in Microsoft Word. You can, therefore, adapt it to your classroom’s 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 reading on Immanuel Kant along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Over the years, I’ve published a number of documents posts on various figures in western philosophy; at my first posting in New York City, at a school in the South Bronx, I found myself in the company of a student who had improbably–but certainly not implausibly, as he demonstrated with the skill and enthusiasm with which he dealt with these materials–conceived an interest in the major figures in continental philosophy.
In other words, I used these documents once, with one student. It was worth it. But I am under no illusions about the level of demand for this material, which will be low if it exists at all.
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, last but not least on this blessedly cool late-July morning, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb cajole. It means “to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance,” “coax,” “to obtain from someone by gentle persuasion,” and “to deceive with soothing words or false promises.”
This isn’t, I will stipulate, a high-frequency word in English. It is, however, a useful one. This verb is only used transitively, do don’t forget your direct object: The teacher cajoled his students into reading Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
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 yoga. This is a half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading and one comprehension question. The sparest, which is not to say ineffective, introduction to this regimen of physical culture.
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 worksheet on differentiating and using the adjectives later and latter. This full-page worksheet (adapted, as always with documents under the header above, from Paul Brians’ book Common Errors in English Usage, to which he generously allows open, free-of-charge access at his Washington State University web page) presents a four-sentence reading from Professor Brians’ book followed by ten modified cloze exercises.
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