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Cultural Literacy: Branches of Government

Posted on November 3, 2026 | Leave a comment

It’s Election Day 2026 in the United States. So it seems like a good time to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the branches of government. This is a full-page worksheet with a five-sentence reading and five comprehension questions. A basic, symmetrical explanation of the distribution of governmental power under the United States Constitution.

And don’t forget that it is the role of the United States Congress to limit the power of the Executive Branch–i.e. the president.

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Cultural Literacy: Thirteen Colonies

Posted on October 28, 2026 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the original thirteen colonies of what would become the United States. This is a half-page worksheet with a one–longish, with the first clause separated by a colon from the list of the thirteen colonies–sentence reading and two comprehension questions.

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Cultural Literacy: Take-Home Pay

Posted on October 23, 2026 | Leave a comment

Given that most wage-earners have seen it shrink consistently over the past 18 or so months (not to mention over the past two or three generations), now strikes me as a propitious time to publish this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the term take-home pay and the concept it represents. This is a half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading and two comprehension questions. This document, obviously, could be dilated to move an inquiry on the effect of inflation on take-home pay, something we’re all dealing with (unless your income is derived from invested capital, and even then you might be taking a haircut) right now.

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Cultural Literacy: T.S. Eliot

Posted on October 9, 2026 | Leave a comment

Although I expect he is not much taught at the secondary level (where, nonetheless, I first encountered him), here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on T.S. Eliot. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences and four comprehension questions. A short, symmetrical, and almost thorough introduction to this important, if controversial, twentieth-century poet.

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Cultural Literacy: Tariff

Posted on October 9, 2026 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the tariff as a means of raising revenue for governments. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one sentence and one comprehension question. Under the circumstances, I think it might be useful to press this document into service as the initial step in answering the question “Who really pays tariffs on a good, in the final analysis?”

I should have posted this a year or eighteen months ago.

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Cultural Literacy: Topic Sentence

Posted on October 1, 2026 | Leave a comment

Here is Cultural Literacy worksheet on the topic sentence as a unit of composition in a paragraph. This is a half-page document with a reading of two sentences and two comprehension questions. A basic, symmetrical, and surprisingly thorough exposition of the form and function of a topic sentence.

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The Weekly Text, 2 October 2026: Introduction to Writing Sentences Lesson 17, Avoid the Run-On Sentence!

Posted on October 1, 2026 | Leave a comment

Phew. We’ve made it. Here is the seventeenth lesson plan (of seventeen!) of the Introduction to Writing Sentences unit. This final lesson, as the header indicates, deals with avoiding run-on sentences. If you teach English, I imagine the run-on sentence is one of the bane of your existence; they were mine.

This lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the run-on sentence, which, obviously, is the appropriate do-now for this lesson. Here is the scaffolded worksheet on avoiding run-on sentences that is the primary work of this lesson. This learning support on the types of run-on sentences and this one on coordinating conjunctions will help students–and you–get through this lesson.

And that’s it! Seventeen posts of lessons on writing sentences conclude with this post.

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Cultural Literacy: Verse

Posted on September 25, 2026 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on verse; this is a full-page document with a reading of four relatively straightforward sentences, with the fourth sentence, a bit longish, possibly posing a challenge for emergent or struggling readers, and four comprehension questions. Otherwise, this is a simple yet elegant exposition of the concept of verse.

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Cultural Literacy: Vowels

Posted on September 18, 2026 | Leave a comment

It’s hard to imagine that I haven’t (my primary interest as a teacher has been in assisting students in developed advanced literacy) that I haven’t heretofore published this Cultural Literacy worksheet on vowels somewhere along the line in the ten-year existence of this blog. It’s probably embedded in a lesson plan somewhere. But here it is as an easily searchable standalone post.

This is a half-page document with a (longish) one-sentence reading and two comprehension questions.

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The Weekly Text, 18 September 2026: Introduction to Writing Sentences Lesson 15, Writing the Complex Sentence for Practice

Posted on September 18, 2026 | Leave a comment

OK, this fifteenth lesson plan is a direct companion to the preceding fourteenth lesson plan from the Introduction to Writing Sentences unit: both of these deal with the tricky business of writing complex sentences. The first of these two (again, the fourteenth) introduces students to the subordinating conjunctions that writers use to form complex sentences. This lesson calls upon students to practice this newly acquired (I hope) understanding of composing complex sentences.

This Cultural Literacy worksheet on the grammatical concept of coordination serves to open this lesson. Finally, here is the scaffolded worksheet to write complex sentences for practice that is the mainstay of this lesson.

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