Tag Archives: cultural literacy

Cultural Literacy: Queen Victoria

Posted on March 16, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Queen Victoria. This full-page document contains a five-sentence reading with one longish compound, and six comprehension questions. It’s suitable, therefore, to use as independent practice, aka homework; it would make a suitable piece of classwork, or even make-up work, as well. Or, because it is a Microsoft Word document, you can export it to a word processor of your preference, or edit it as is, for the needs of your students.

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Cultural Literacy: Diana

Posted on March 10, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Diana, who is the Roman version of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and the moon. This is a half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading and two comprehension questions. In other words, just the basics.

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Cultural Literacy: Dorothea Dix

Posted on March 10, 2022 | Leave a comment

While I am not exactly sure where she fits in the primary or secondary curriculum (health classes? United States history classes?), here, nonetheless, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Dorothea Dix. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one sentence and three comprehension questions.

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Cultural Literacy: Rachel Carson

Posted on March 4, 2022 | Leave a comment

As we begin to see the effects of global warming on our biosphere, it might be time to reacquaint ourselves, by way of this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Rachel Carson, with one of the founders of the environmental movement. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions.

Incidentally, the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the United Nations reported this week that some changes to the earth’s climate are “irreversible.” But, as National Public Radio opined, there is still hope. For the sake of the students we presently teach, let’s, uh, hope so.

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Cultural Literacy: Betty Friedan

Posted on March 4, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Betty Friedan. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. In other words, a basic introduction to this seminal figure in the modern feminist movement.

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Cultural Literacy: Kwanzaa

Posted on February 25, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Kwanzaa. This is a half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading and one comprehension question. In other words, it doesn’t exactly do justice to its topic.

However, there is a lot of open space in this document, which means there is room to ask more questions about Kwanzaa. Like almost everything else on this blog, this is a Microsoft Word document. You may download it and modify it for the needs of your students.

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Cultural Literacy: Angola

Posted on February 25, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Angola. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four compound sentences and nine comprehension questions. This is a good general introduction to the country including its geography and its history, including the relatively recent history of the Angolan Civil War. Early on, during the 1970s the Angolan conflict was a proxy war pitting, essentially, the United States against the Soviet Union, i.e. a “war which came in from the cold,” as the late Hampshire College professor Eqbal Ahmad put it.

So, this would make a good independent practice (i.e. homework) assignment. Or, because it is formatted in Microsoft Word (as is the majority of material you’ll find on this site), you can revise it to suit the needs of your students.

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Cultural Literacy: Liberia

Posted on February 18, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Liberia. This is a full-page worksheet with a three-sentence reading with six comprehension questions. This is probably suitable as an independent practice assignment (aka homework). My own sense is that the history of racism in the United States warrants a deeper, more critical look at the motivations of the American Colonization Society in encouraging freed slaves to migrate to Africa.

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Cultural Literacy: Brown v. Board of Education

Posted on February 18, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the on the Brown versus Board of Education case. This is a full-page worksheet with a two-paragraph–six-sentence–reading and six comprehension questions. This document joins a number of other materials (including, apparently, an earlier version of this document) on Brown, which you can find here by searching “Brown v Board.”

Depending on what you need you students to know about this landmark civil rights case, however belated even in 1954, this document will either provide you with a short but solid lesson (like most of the entries from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, this one packs a lot of information into a a pair of short paragraphs. But if you want students to understand that school segregation in the United States continues on a de facto basis, well, you’ll need something a little stronger, so to speak.

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Cultural Literacy: Mali Empire

Posted on February 11, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Mali Empire. This is a half-page worksheet with a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions. When I taught global studies, I thought Mali and its empire warranted a full unit. So this document would have served either as a very general introduction, an independent practice (i.e. homework) worksheet, or some sort of assignment for review.

It’s a Microsoft Word document (like almost everything else posted on this site), so you can modify it to suit your classroom.

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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