Tag Archives: cultural literacy

Cultural Literacy: Yellow Peril

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.

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Cultural Literacy: Russo-Japanese War

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.

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Cultural Literacy: Zhou En-Lai

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.

Cultural Literacy: Sociopath

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.

Cultural Literacy: Othello

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.

Cultural Literacy: Tsunami

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.

Cultural Literacy: Pythagorean Theorem

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.

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Cultural Literacy: Annie Oakley

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.

Cultural Literacy: Sarah Bernhardt

OK, it’s just about time to leave for school, but finally this morning here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Sarah Bernhardt. This is a half-page document with a reading of two sentences and two comprehension questions. In other words, the sparest of introductions to this major figure in French culture.

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: Jane Eyre

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Jane Eyre. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four simple sentences and four comprehension questions. A basic, symmetrical, introduction to this landmark novel by Charlotte Bronte.

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.