Tag Archives: cultural literacy

Cultural Literacy: Stage Direction

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on stage direction. This is a half-page document with a two-sentence reading and two comprehension questions. When it’s all said and done, your students will understand the concept of state directions and even receive an introduction to three primary stage directions, enter, exit, and exeunt.

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: Sonnet

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the sonnet as a poetic form, This is a half-page document with a reading of two sentences and two comprehension questions. A simple–even elegant, if I may say so–and symmetrical introduction to the structure of the sonnet and some of the poems who wrote in the form.

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: Social Sciences

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of social sciences. This is a half-page document with a two-sentence reading and two comprehension questions. It is the sparest of introductions to the concept, but still manages to cover the necessities of defining something that can be broad and perhaps a bit too flexibly abstract in meaning.

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.

The Weekly Text, Friday 7 April 2023: History of Hip-Hop Lesson 9, The Black Power Movement in the United States

This week’s Text is lesson plan nine of the History of Hip-Hop unit, on the rise of the Black Power movement in the United States. This lesson begins with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Black Panthers. The principal work for this lesson is this reading on the Black Power Movement with its accompanying comprehension worksheet.

And that’s it for another week.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Dolley Madison

Moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Dolley Madison. This is a half-page document with a four-sentence reading 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.

Cultural Literacy: Gertrude Stein

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Gertrude Stein. This is a full-page document with a reading of three sentences and five comprehension question. It’s a curiously asymmetrical page, far from perfect. But is anyone teaching Gertrude Stein’s work? She is presented here as a historical figure and the coiner of the term “Lost Generation,” which perhaps is all high school students need to know about her.

But what do you think?

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: Lucrezia Borgia

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.

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: Katherine Hepburn

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.

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: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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.

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: Frances Perkins

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.

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.