Finally, for today’s document posts, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Ginger Rogers. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and two comprehension questions on this estimable American thespian and terpsichorean.
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“Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis: (1808-1889) American author. Davis was one of the earliest American realists, known for her attempts to deal in fiction with the life of industrial workers, the problems of black Americans, and political corruption. Her first success was as a muckraker with Life in the Iron Mills, published in the Atlantic Monthly in April, 1961. This was followed by Margaret Howth (1862), a novel set in an Indiana milltown. Waiting for the Verdict (1868) was a story about racial bias; John Andross (1874) was a tale of political corruption. She also raised a large family and, from 1869 to the mid-1870s, was an associate editor of the New York Tribune.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
OK, moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Helen Keller. This is a full-page worksheet (which could be pared down to a half-page very easily) with a reading of four sentences and four comprehension questions. This is a basic biography of an important American woman.
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For the second Friday of Women’s History Month 2025, the Weekly Text from Mark’s Text Terminal is this reading on Benazir Bhutto along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. You may recall, if you are of a certain age, that she served twice as Prime Minister of Pakistan, from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996.
She was, alas, assassinated in 2007.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Gloria Steinem. This is a half-page worksheet with a long, compound, one-sentence reading and one comprehension question. A spare, and I do mean spare, introduction to this important 20th century figure.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who authored the famous, if insipid, saying “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.” Her biography is quite rich, and she was apparently prolific.
This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. A spare, but effective, introduction to a poet who, I’ll hazard a guess, is largely forgotten–which arouses the question: is any poet remembered today?
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OK, we’ve rounded to corner to March, during which Mark’s Text Terminal, conforming to the latest consensus, observes Women’s History Month. The first Weekly Text for this month is this reading on Harriet Tubman along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Lagos, which is, of course, the largest city in Nigeria and that nation’s capital until 1991, when the government moved the capital to Abuja, in the center of the country.
This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one very long compound sentence, separated by a semicolon, and a two-part comprehension questions on one line.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Harlem Renaissance. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences (one of which, longish, presents a nice summary list of writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance) and three comprehension questions.
Once again, this is a short document that serves as a good general introduction to one of the most significant and consequential moments in 20th-century American cultural history.
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For the final Friday of Black History Month 2025, the Weekly Text from Mark’s Text Terminal is this reading on Langston Hughes along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. These documents join a solid body of material by and about Langston Hughes on this blog.; to find others, just search his name on the home page.
And now we move on to Women’s History Month 2025 in March.
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