Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Continuing with material to observe Hispanic Heritage Month 2023, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Caracas. This is a half-page worksheet with a one-sentence reading and two comprehension questions. Take note, please, of the fact that the reading’s one sentence is 26 words separated into two independent clauses with a semicolon. Depending on the students using this, you may want to do something with that sentence, e.g. breaking it into two sentences, each with its own period. That move will probably need a corollary move of composing another question or two–easily done in this Microsoft Word document.

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.

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Chicanos, which does a particularly nice job of describing the origins of this proper noun, its use, and the extent to which the words Latino and Latina–or Latinx if you prefer, though that term is of sufficiently recent coinage that it does not appear in the reading–correlate with this word. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading and two comprehension questions. Simple and symmetrical, this is a decent, brief introduction to a word Americans really ought to know, understand, and be able to use properly, and therefore respectfully.

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.