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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“Discursive (adjective): Covering a range of topics or discoursing freely and broadly, moving from subject to subject; characterized by rational analysis rather than intuition. Adverb: discursively; noun: discursiveness.
‘He published some of the best reporting—of an unofficial and personal kind—that was written about the war, and he elicited from Augustus John his delightful discursive memoirs, in which history is unimportant and chronology does not exist.’ Edmund Wilson, Classics and Commercials”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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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“Depot for Station. ‘Railroad depot.’ A depot is a place of deposit; as, a depot of supply for an army.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
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.
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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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OK, moving right along with this Writing Reviews unit, here is the first lesson plan, which aims to introduce students to the concept of the review. The do-now exercise for this lesson is this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom having an axe to grind. I think any reviewer has by definition an ax to grind, hence this document. Finally, here is the structured analytical worksheet on the concept of reviews that is the mainstay of this lesson.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of the archetype, should you find it helpful in teaching about writing reviews. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and three comprehension questions. As I have come to expect from the editors of The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, this is both cogent and thorough.
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“Diatribe (noun): And abusive, often prolonged attack or denunciation; acrimonious harangue or critique.
‘Without polemic, dialectic, or diatribe, she has conveyed more clearly than anyone I’ve ever read before what it was like to be a girl in the 50’s, when one had a chance to grow up quietly and gradually.’ Susan Bolotin, The New York Times”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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