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Cultural Literacy: Lucrezia Borgia

Posted on March 23, 2023 | Leave a comment

Moving right along on this Friday morning, here is Cultural Literacy worksheet on Lucrezia Borgia. This is a half-page document with a single-sentence reading (which notes, I think it’s worth mentioning on this front page, that like her brother, Cesare Borgia, she was “famous for her treachery”) and two comprehension questions.

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Cultural Literacy: Katherine Hepburn

Posted on March 23, 2023 | Leave a comment

Elsewhere on this blog, you will, I admit, find Dorothy Parker’s famously withering remark on the actress, but here, nonetheless, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Katherine Hepburn. This is a full-page document with a four-sentence reading and four comprehension questions.

Incidentally, while I find Ms. Parker’s comment, like almost everything this pillar of the Algonquin Wits ever said, hilarious, I don’t necessarily agree with it.

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Cultural Literacy: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Posted on March 17, 2023 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. This is a full-page document with a reading of four sentences and four comprehension questions. I’m not sure what call there would be for anything beyond this on the late First Lady–but she is still enough of an icon that this short exercise might find some relevance somewhere.

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Cultural Literacy: Frances Perkins

Posted on March 17, 2023 | Leave a comment

Moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a cabinet position, in Ms. Perkins’ case, as Secretary of Labor in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This is a full-page document with a reading of four sentences and five comprehension questions.

Did you know she was a witness to the horror of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire? She chaired a committee on public safety after the disaster.

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Cultural Literacy: Agatha Christie

Posted on March 10, 2023 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Agatha Christie. This is a half-page document with a reading of two sentences and three comprehension questions. A spare, but useful, introduction to this prolific and highly influential novelist. Your students might find it interesting, as I did after learning of it in, of all places, an episode of Doctor Who called “The Unicorn and the Wasp,” that Dame Agatha disappeared for eleven days in December of 1926.

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Cultural Literacy: Guinevere

Posted on March 3, 2023 | Leave a comment

OK, moving right along with Women’s History Month materials, here is a half-page Cultural Literacy worksheet on Guinevere, known, alas, mostly for being the wife of King Arthur. Perhaps this slim document–it contains a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions–might spur a discussion about the autonomy of women and their accomplishments and identities separate from their male spouses?

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Cultural Literacy: Iphigenia

Posted on March 3, 2023 | Leave a comment

Depending on the depth of the dive your class takes into the Trojan War and its mythology, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, might be a useful short introduction to her. In any case, this is a half-page worksheet with a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions.

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Cultural Literacy: Booker T. Washington

Posted on February 22, 2023 | Leave a comment

Alright, let’s wrap up Black History Month 2023 with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Booker T. Washington. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences (two of them longish compounds) and three comprehension questions. A solid, if basic, introduction to this important figure in United States history.

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Cultural Literacy: Alex Haley

Posted on February 15, 2023 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Alex Haley. This is a full-page document with a reading of three sentences and six comprehension questions. The reading doesn’t mention Mr. Haley’s role in the production of The Autobiography of Malcolm X (a salient fact in any writer’s career, I would think), focusing instead on Roots: The Saga of an American Family and its commercial and artistic success.

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Cultural Literacy: Jamaica

Posted on February 15, 2023 | Leave a comment

Moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Jamaica. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of six sentences and six comprehension questions.

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