Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Polynesia. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one sentence–a long compound that might be best broken up for emergent and struggling readers–and two comprehension questions.
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.
He has been in the news recently for his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, which tells the story of the attack he suffered in August, 2022, while onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, so now is a good time to offer this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Salman Rushdie. This is a half-page document with a reading of two sentences, on relatively simple, the other a longish compound, and two comprehension questions. The reading does mention the Satanic Verses controversy (which may have motivated Mr. Rushdie’s attacker) and the fact that it necessitated that Mr. Rushdie go into hiding.
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 the racist concept of the Yellow Peril. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and two comprehension questions. There is a parenthetical element at the end of the reading the advises interested parties to See internment of Japanese Americans. If you want to take this further, you’ll find a Cultural Literacy worksheet on that topic under this link.
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 the Russo-Japanese War. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences and three comprehension questions. Once again, for its brevity, this is a surprisingly thorough summary of this conflict from the editors of The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.
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 Zhou En-Lai. This is a half-page document with a reading of three sentences ranging from simple to relatively simple, and three comprehension questions. It is, therefore, the sparest of biographies on a founder of the Chinese Communist Party and ally of Mao Zedong.
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 the sociopath and a concept and figure. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two relatively simple sentence and two comprehension questions. Given the tone of our current election cycle as I publish, this is probably timely material.
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 Shakespeare’s play Othello. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences and five comprehension questions. It is a relatively spare synopsis of the play, so I wonder how useful it might be. It could serve as a do-now–which is what most of the Cultural Literacy worksheet on this site are intended to do.
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 the tsunami as, you know, a seismic event. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three relatively simple sentences and three comprehension questions. Just the basics, but with a good explanation of the fact that tsunamis are also called tidal waves.
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.
OK: Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Pythagorean theorem. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences and four comprehension questions. I’m not a math teacher–it has been, historically, a difficult subject for me–so I can’t vouch for the cogency of this reading. I can say that the first sentence, a long compound of 40 words with multiple comma breaks, is a doozy; for emergent and struggling readers, this might best broken up.
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 Cultural Literacy worksheet on Annie Oakley seems like kind of an odd place to end this year’s Women’s History Month, but she is a woman and part of United States history, so here we are. This is a half-page document with a three-sentence reading, all of them of reasonable simplicity, and three comprehension questions.
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.
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