Tag Archives: cultural literacy

Cultural Literacy: Mecca

Here is a Cultural Literacy Worksheet on Mecca, which might be handy in the toolbox of any global studies teacher.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Nile River

If you teach freshman global studies, especially here in New York City, you may find this Cultural Literacy Worksheet on the Nile River useful this fall.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Pax Romana

Here, if you happen to need it for your global studies class, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Pax Romana.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Johannes Gutenberg

Since I’ve long thought he could receive focus in English Language Arts or social studies courses (I’ve tagged this post as both), if you teacher either subject, you might find this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Johannes Gutenberg useful.

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.

Cultural Literacy: The Invisible Hand

As I’ve mentioned, probably ad nauseam at this point, I work in an economics and finance-themed high school in the financial district in Lower Manhattan. Wherever you work, however, if you teach high school social studies, or anything to do with early theories of capitalism, especially anything on Adam Smith, then you may well find this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the invisible hand useful.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Imperialism

Given the state of the world at the moment, now seems as good a time as any to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on imperialism.

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.

Cultural Literacy: The Great Depression

Because I work in an economics-and-finance-themed high school, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Great Depression sees a fair amount of service. It’s a handy do-now exercise for any number of lessons in the United States History curriculum, I would think.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Marginal Tax Rate

Because I work in a economics and finance-themed high school, I had call for this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the marginal tax rate.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Peter the Great

Here’s a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Peter the Great that might be useful in a global studies class.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Touch and Go

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the expression touch and go. My students really rise to the challenge when presented with one of these idiomatic expressions, and they often, in fact, ask to do another when we’ve completed one.

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.