It’s Thursday, and as another week proceeds to its end, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the goddess Athena. She is, as you will recognize in the nouns Athens and Athenaeum, an important figure in both the Greek pantheon and Western civilization.
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It’s Monday again, the first of Women’s History Month 2019, which Mark’s Text Terminal will observe with Women’s History-related posts for the entire month. Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Marian Anderson. I am happy to report that the authors, even in the squib that serves as a reading for this worksheet, mentioned the ugly racist indignity Ms. Anderson suffered in 1941.
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OK: here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Thurgood Marshall to reminds students of this major–and great–figure in the United States in the twentieth century.
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One of the supreme and bitter ironies of the events leading up to the founding of this nation is the death, in the Boston Massacre, of Crispus Attucks. Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Boston Massacre which, even in its squib, makes sure that the first person to die for the cause of American liberty was a black man.
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Although he is little known today, Benjamin Banneker was an African-American Renaissance man. If you’d like your students to know something about him, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Benjamin Banneker might be a reasonable place to start.
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If you’re observing Black History Month in your classroom, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the African Methodist Episcopal church may be of some use, depending on your approach to the subject. I would think if nothing else that this would reinforce the idea of community and social cohesion in an oppressed and misunderstood community.
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Ok, dawn just arrived here in the Northeast. I seem to be getting away with it so far, so let me offer up another lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “A Matter of Diamonds.”
I open this one with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the noun phrase and concept of pecking order. You’ll need the illustration, text, and questions for the case, which I’ve scanned directly from the book. Finally, here is teacher’s copy and answer key to solve the case.
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As students head off to college, teachers probably should explain to them the cognitive science research on “cramming” as a method of studying, i.e. that it is basically useless and mostly exhausting. Perhaps this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom burn the midnight oil would serve as an elegant way to kill two birds with one stone: teach students a new idiomatic expression, and urge them to pace themselves when studying.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “to burn the candle at both ends.” It remains in sufficiently common usage in English, I think, that it might be worth taking the five or so minutes required to complete this short exercise to familiarize students with it.
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OK, on a rainy morning, here is a lesson plan on “Merrill’s Alibi,” the fourth “case” in the first volume of the Crime and Puzzlement series of books.
I begin this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on “Parting is such sweet sorrow,” the famous line, of course, from Romeo and Juliet. You’ll need this PDF of the illustration and questions from the book itself so students may can investigate whether or not Merrill’s alibi is credible. Finally, here is a typescript of the answer key to close the case of Merrill’s Alibi.
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