Tag Archives: cultural literacy

Cultural Literacy: Battle of Hastings

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Battle of Hastings in 1066. This is a half-page worksheet with a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions. In other words, a concise introduction to what is a seminal event in the history of Western Europe (and the basis for the hilarious 1066 and All That by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman).

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Cultural Literacy: Battle of Britain

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Battle of Britain. This is a half-page document with a reading of three relatively involved compound sentences and three comprehension questions. It explains the Battle well, and so is a good general introduction to this epochal event in World War II.

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Cultural Literacy: Bastille

It may be too brief, but if you can use it, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Bastille. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences, one a longish compound separated by a semicolon, and three comprehension questions. Despite (or may because of) its brevity, it is a good general introduction to this hated edifice. It might therefore be a useful tool in introducing the French Revolution.

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Cultural Literacy: Balkan Peninsula

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Balkan Peninsula. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three compound sentences and three comprehension questions. Nota bene, please, that the compounds in these sentences contain lists of geographical particularities and the many nations and nationalities that crowd this relatively small piece of real estate. If you’re looking for something to begin a lesson on this region–particularly just about anything on World War I, empires, colonialism, or the horrorshow that ensued in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union–this short worksheet might be a good place to start.

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Cultural Literacy: Balance of Trade

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the balance of trade. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two compound sentences and three comprehension questions. A concise introduction to a fundamental concept in the economics of trade. If I had been paying attention, I would have paired this document into one post with this worksheet on the balance of payments as a concept in trade and economics I that posted about a week ago.

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Cultural Literacy: Balance of Payments

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the balance of payments as a concept in trade and economics. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two longish compound sentences and three comprehensions questions. A do-now exercise for some sort of social studies class, in other words.

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Cultural Literacy: Bacchus

OK, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Bacchus. He is, as my late, great friend Fritz Hewitt once said, “the god of rave-up.” If you prefer, the reading in this worksheet puts it, a bit more academically: Bacchus is the “Greek and Roman god of wine and revelry.” This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of five sentences–all short–and three comprehension questions. Even a reading this short, from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, hits all the bases, including associating Bacchus with Dionysus, which is useful.

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Cultural Literacy: Avatar

Here is a Cultural Literacy on the concept of the avatar. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three short sentences and three comprehension questions. Interestingly, the reading in this worksheet deals with the concept of the avatar in Hinduism, but not the avatar as a graphical representation of a computer user that is usually reflective of a person’s character or persona.

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Cultural Literacy: Atlantis

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Atlantis, the mythological city swallowed by the ocean. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading, on a longish compound, and three comprehension questions. Just the facts, as Joe Friday liked to say.

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Cultural Literacy: Assimilation

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on assimilation, used to mean the process by which immigrants internalize and, well, assimilate, the social and cultural mores of the nation to which they have immigrated (without, one hopes, losing the social and cultural mores of the nation from which they have emigrated; for if they do, where we will get the wonderful varieties of ethnic food that have entered the American diet since my childhood?).

Anyway, this is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one compound sentence 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.