Tag Archives: cultural literacy

Cultural Literacy: Eleanor Roosevelt

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Eleanor Roosevelt. This a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences–all of them elegantly simple, single-clause sentences–and three comprehension questions. Just the basics, and if you need more, search “Eleanor Roosevelt” from the home page.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Ginger Rogers

Finally, for today’s document posts, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Ginger Rogers. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and two comprehension questions on this estimable American thespian and terpsichorean.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Helen Keller

OK, moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Helen Keller. This is a full-page worksheet (which could be pared down to a half-page very easily) with a reading of four sentences and four comprehension questions. This is a basic biography of an important American woman.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Gloria Steinem

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Gloria Steinem. This is a half-page worksheet with a long, compound, one-sentence reading and one comprehension question. A spare, and I do mean spare, introduction to this important 20th century figure.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who authored the famous, if insipid, saying “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.” Her biography is quite rich, and she was apparently prolific.

This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. A spare, but effective, introduction to a poet who, I’ll hazard a guess, is largely forgotten–which arouses the question: is any poet remembered today?

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.

Cultural Literacy: Lagos

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Lagos, which is, of course, the largest city in Nigeria and that nation’s capital until 1991, when the government moved the capital to Abuja, in the center of the country.

This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one very long compound sentence, separated by a semicolon, and a two-part comprehension questions on one line.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Harlem Renaissance

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Harlem Renaissance. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences (one of which, longish, presents a nice summary list of writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance) and three comprehension questions.

Once again, this is a short document that serves as a good general introduction to one of the most significant and consequential moments in 20th-century American cultural history.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Khartoum

Last, and quite possibly least, this morning is this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Kharthoum. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one sentence and one comprehension question. As I said: quite possibly least.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Joe Louis

OK, as long as we’re on the topic this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Joe Louis. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and three comprehension questions. This is a more basic introduction to the Brown Bomber than the post just below.

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.

Cultural Literacy: George Washington Carver

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on George Washington Carver. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. I had learned, I suppose in elementary school, to associate George Washington Carver with developing a plethora of uses for the peanut; as it happens, he did the same thing with the sweet potato.

All of this was done, interestingly, because Carver recognized the deleterious toll cotton production takes on the soil. This makes him, as his Wikipedia page observes, an early leader in environmentalism.

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.