Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on narration. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one sentence and one comprehension question. A very basic introduction to the concept of narration here, but useful here nonetheless, I submit.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on montage in cinematic form. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. The sentences are longish, but sufficiently straightforward that I don’t think they need any modification. However, as I looked at this document this morning, I couldn’t help but think it might be better presented as a full-page document with a few prior knowledge questions on the order of “Can you think of a movie you’ve watched that used montage to advance the story?”
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of the lowbrow in culture. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one sentence (longish, separated by a colon, but easily readable) and two comprehension questions. It’s easy to see the usefulness of this word in the context of a cultural review.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on kitsch. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and two questions and nicely introduces this concept. It’s not hard to see how the words kitsch or kitschy would find their way into a review–especially of, say, a visual arts exhibition.
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OK, moving right along, here is the third lesson plan of the Writing Reviews Unit, this one on gathering and judiciously using evidence in a piece of argumentative writing. The do-now exercise for this lesson is this Cultural Literacy worksheet on genre: This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four simple sentences four questions. Finally, this structured note-taking and outlining worksheet is the primary work of this lesson.
The worksheet is longish by design, and can, as can all the documents in this post, can be easily edited. Like just about everything on this blog, these documents are formatted in Microsoft Word, so fully manipulable.
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.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on irony. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and two comprehension questions–just the basics, in other words. This is useful word and concept in particular for reviewing books and movies.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on euphemism, which I think might be useful in writing reviews, especially since reviews often use euphemisms so soften harsh judgments. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences (the first of which is a compound separated by a semicolon, and may be best shortened for emergent readers and users of English as a second language) and three comprehension questions.
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The second lesson plan of the Writing Reviews Unit is about argumentation, which any review will need to do well to convince its readers. In fact, when I first began working on these materials in 2006 or so, I conceived them as an introduction to the kind of academic writing kids really need to know how to do before they graduate high school.
So this scaffolded worksheet seeks to assist students in developing their own understanding of the difference between a quarrel and an argument in order to clarify the rhetorical and epistemological purpose of an argument. You might find the the teacher’s copy of the worksheet useful.
This lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of to damn with faint praise, the use of which in a review I will take as a given.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on conciseness. This is a full-page worksheet, although it could certainly be made more, uh, concise by turning it into a half-page worksheet by removing a question or two–there are four, total. Especially because the reading is only two sentences.
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 caricature. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and two comprehension questions. This is a word and concept that would be useful in certain kinds of reviews, either as a noun (a caricature of) or a transitive verb (The critic caricatured the intentions of the author).
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