Here’s a Cultural Literacy worksheet on supply and demand if you can use it. I can think of a number of ways and places to use this document–it does, after all, introduce students to a fundamental concept in economics.
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Since the zeitgeist appears to demand it, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the separation of church and state.
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On my way out the door on a chilly, damp morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on OPEC, i.e. the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Given the extent to which the Saudi Royal Family has been in the news for its complicity in the murder of a journalist, as well as the manifest effect burning fossil fuel now has on the ecology of this planet, this seems like a timely reading and comprehension exercise.
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Given the state of the nation, now seems as good a time as any to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Pentagon Papers. And thanks, Daniel Ellsberg,
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Apropo of the post immediately below, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the noun and adjective bohemian. N.B. the lower case b, please, so that you know that this worksheet doesn’t refer to the territory in Czechoslovakia, but rather those of us who have chosen unconventional lifestyles, mostly in the pursuit of deeper study and appreciation of the arts and sciences.
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Here’s a Cultural Literacy worksheet on carrying a torch for another person. It’s an old-fashioned expression to be sure, but not one without its charms.
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This week’s Text (after missing last week) is something I whipped up pretty much on the fly about three years ago when I was assigned an eight-meeting class conducted over eight weeks on math and science literacy. This literacy lesson on the polysemous word bond is, as I look at it now, an odd melange of stuff. Depending on what it is you want kids to understand, there are materials here for one extended lesson–I wrote this for a sixty-one-minute long period–or a couple of different short exercises.
The first document, because I worked in economics and finance-themed high school, is this Cultural Literacy worksheet on bond as a financial instrument. These two context clues worksheets on the verb and noun bond in the sense of attaching or joining follow; logically, I guess, this short reading and comprehension exercise on chemical bonds rounds out this deck. I also, for some reason, made up this learning support with three definitions of bond from Merriam-Webster’s 11th Edition.
Now that I think about it, Bronx County summoned me to jury duty before I had a chance to use this material. The coverage teacher who used it did say students received it relatively well.
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Since I’m already sitting here this afternoon, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on copyright. It’s something students with budding artistic talents and aspirations ought to know.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on one of the most commonly used Latinisms in the English language, Caveat Emptor. It means, of course, “let the buyer beware.”
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Here’s one more thing on this Tuesday afternoon, to wit a Cultural Literacy worksheet on amortization. Nota bene the Latin root mort in this word: it means death and also shows up in words like mortal and mortuary. This noun, coming from the verb amortize, which Merriam-Webster’s defines as meaning both to pay off (as a mortgage) gradually usu. by periodic payments of principal and interest or by payments to a sinking fund and to gradually reduce or write off the cost or value of (as an asset) can mean, given the presence of mort in it, to kill off a debt. Students might find that interesting. In any case, amortize does show up in the word root worksheet I have for mort, which I will post at some point.
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