Now seems as good a time as any to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on apartheid, a horrorshow that many of us are old enough to remember and to have joined campaigns to abolish.
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For eleven years, I worked in a economics-and-finance-themed high school in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. For some reason, in this school, one door away from the former headquarters of the American Stock Exchange, I’ve never heard students use the noun fungibility or the adjective fungible. Despite its essentiality to understanding a certain area of economics–i.e. commodities and exchange–I’ve never seen students working on material that would help them understand it.
So, a few years ago, I wrote this context clues worksheet on the adjective fungible as an attempt to start students down the road to understanding this word and the concepts it represents. However, given the complexity of fungibility, this only briefly prepares students for that understanding. In high school, that may all that students require. But I would argue that they should at least arrive at the doors of their college or university with this word in their vocabularies.
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This week’s Text is a complete lesson plan on the Latin word roots mal and male. They mean, of course, bad, evil, ill, and wrong. This post, like all the material published here between September 15 and October 15, is in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. This material may stretch the boundaries of the letter of the month’s intent; on the other hand, the Latin language is, like it or not, a key part of Hispanic Heritage.
Over the years I’ve worked with many native Spanish speakers. My original impulse in writing word root worksheets, particularly those dealing with Latin roots, arose from the idea that helping students develop their own understanding of the Latin language as a bridge to English would hasten their journey to bilingualism. Ideally, students will retain their Spanish language skills while building their English vocabularies and understand the way these roots show up across the spectrum of Romance languages–often in the exact same words.
Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective sinister to hint at the meaning of the roots mal and male, thereby pointing them in the right direction. This scaffolded worksheet is the mainstay of the lesson.
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Continuing with this blog’s observation of Hispanic Heritage Month, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Spanish-American War.
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While I do understand that this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Spanish Armada stretches, both in letter and spirit, the bounds of Hispanic Heritage Month, I confess its inclusion here reflects a well that I will very soon run dry. In any case, it is certainly a document that could find a place in a global studies class–here in New York it would be a freshman class.
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As I sit down to post this Text, I realize that I’ve run through, in the past week, just about all the short materials I have to offer for Hispanic Heritage Month 2018 (if you encounter problems with that link, please advise; it might be the longest URL I’ve ever copied and pasted into WordPress’s link generating module).
This week’s Text is a reading on the Spanish-American War and this comprehension worksheet to accompany it. Both, as with almost all of the documents you find here, are in Microsoft Word and can be adapted for a variety of reading levels and attention spans.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
I think if you combine this Cultural Literacy worksheet on developing nations or use it to preface an opening lesson on colonialism, students would make a connection and move toward an understanding of history as a process. I’ve had a few classes make the connection, but it requires some careful Socratic questioning.
In any case, I’ve tagged this as Hispanic History and posted in observation of Hispanic Heritage Month. It wouldn’t take much in the say of questioning to lead students to an understanding of how and why–i.e. imperialism and colonialism–developing nations remain under development.
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Here is an independent worksheet on the conquistadores that I’ve used in freshman global studies classes here in New York.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Pyrenees. I do realize this is a bit of a stretch under the Hispanic History tag, but I’ll risk it.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Columbian Exchange, also known as the Triangle–or Triangular–Trade. If you made your way to this post, then I must assume that you recognize and understand the importance of this topic for understanding the world today.
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