Last but not least this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Incas. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. A clear, cogent, and symmetrical introduction to a great civilization.
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 French and Indian War in the British Colonies in North America. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of five sentences and five comprehension questions. The reading explicitly connect sthe French and Indian War to the Seven Years War, which I’ve rarely seen done in social studies classrooms where I have been a co-teacher. In general, historians regard the French and Indian War as the North American theater of the Seven Years War.
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, moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a stanza in poetry and poetics. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and two comprehension questions. A clear, simple, and symmetrical introduction to this important concept in studying poetry.
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 Loch Ness Monster, a subject of no small fascination for me when I was a child in school (which is why I have tagged it as high-interest material, which I suspect it will still be for a certain type of elementary school student). This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading, both longish compounds, so you may want to take a look at them if you have emergent readers or English language learners on your hands, and three comprehension questions.
Somewhere along the line, I gathered the impression that Nessie, as the monster is affectionately known, was definitively disproved as a hoax. The reading in this document does not mention it, nor, particularly, does the Wikipedia page for the Loch Ness Monster. (The page, at its bottom, however, does warn that the article “…may lend undue weight to fringe sources and hypotheses.” For my part, I remain–mostly–agnostic.)
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 Janus, the “Roman god of doors and gateways and hence of beginnings,” as the four-sentence reading on this document explains. There are three comprehension questions accompanying the reading. I remember puzzling over Janus, the two-faced god, mostly because of the multiplicity and complexity of his myth and interpretation. As you probably know, Janus is represented with two faces, one young and one old, looking in opposite directions.
But did you know that the month of January is named for him? Or that to be Janus-faced is to be duplicitous, or two-faced? While I understand the image of Janus (if nothing else from watching films from the production company bearing his name), I have struggled for some reason with some of the abstractions that appear with his name on them.
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 Don Quixote for the final documents post of this blog’s observation of Hispanic Heritage Month 2023. This is a full-page worksheet with a four-sentence reading and six comprehension questions. Perhaps it’s length does not befit this landmark in world literature (confession: I am always reading this book–I keep it by my bedside and read a few pages each week; when I finish, I open the front cover and start again. It really is that good), but it is a solid introduction to this truly great book.
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 Central America. This is a full-page worksheet with a four-sentence reading and six comprehension questions. Beware the first sentence in this reading, which is a relatively complicated compound separated by a semicolon. The second clause is a list of all the Central American nations. This sentence may need a bit of revision for emergent readers and English language learners. Fortunately, this document, like most of what you will find on Mark’s Text Terminal, is formatted in Microsoft Word. Essentially, then, it is an open-source document which you may revise for your students’s needs.
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 Diego Rivera. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two short sentences and two comprehension questions. The basic facts of Diego Rivera’s life in a short, symmetrical exercise probably best used as a do-now exercise at the beginning of a period.
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.
Continuing with material to observe Hispanic Heritage Month 2023, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Caracas. This is a half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading and two comprehension questions. Take note, please, of the fact that the reading’s one sentence is 26 words separated into two independent clauses with a semicolon. Depending on the students using this, you may want to do something with that sentence, e.g. breaking it into two sentences, each with its own period. That move will probably need a corollary move of composing another question or two–easily done in this Microsoft Word document.
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, at the end of this morning’s labors, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Buenos Aires. This is a half-page document with a reading of three sentences, each of them longish compounds, and three comprehension questions. When I opened this document to prepare it for publication here, it was formatted as a full-page document. I’ve revised it to a half-page. However, if you need to break up some of these compound sentences into shorter, independent clauses, for a diverse group of readers, then you will probably need to write some more questions–and therefore return this worksheet to a full page.
Have I mentioned that this, like most documents you will find on Mark’s Text Terminal, is formatted in Microsoft Word for ease of revision and adaptation? Of course I have; forgive me for belaboring the point.
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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