Here is a worksheet on the verb choose as followed by an infinitive. I’ll not choose to write any more subpar curricular material.
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As I mentioned in a post last week, a recent editing job caused me to develop some learning supports on punctuation; this week’s is a pair of learning supports on using ellipsis points. The text is drawn, as with the previous week’s post on using slashes, from June Casagrande’s The Best Punctuation Book, Period. (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2014) and Susan Thurman’s The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need (Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2003).
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.
This week’s Text offers the fifteenth lesson plan of the History of Hip-Hop Unit, this one on one of the seminal groups in the genre, Public Enemy. The lesson opens with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Marcus Garvey. This is a full-page document with a reading of four sentences, two of them relatively simple compounds, and seven comprehension questions. A bit longer, in other words, than the typical do-now exercise.
Because of Public Enemy’s importance to the genre, there are an inordinate number of materials to use with this lesson. I’ve tended to use them all, but obviously you can pick and choose. So, for starters, here is a reading on Public Enemy along with its comprehension worksheet. Secondarily–or primarily, if you prefer–here are the lyrics to “Fight the Power”, one of the group’s best known songs and the opening theme to Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing, along with the analytical reflection worksheet that accompanies it.
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.
Posted in English Language Arts, Independent Practice, Lesson Plans, New York City, Social Sciences, The Weekly Text, Worksheets
Tagged black history, building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge, cultural literacy, diction/grammar/style/usage, high-interest materials, music, poetry, questioning/inquiry, readings/research, united states history
Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective furtive. It means, variously, “done by stealth,” “surreptitious,” “expressive of stealth,” “sly,” “obtained underhandedly,” and “stolen.” The adjective is furtively and the noun is furtiveness. This is a relatively high-frequency word in English and one, I would argue, students really ought to know before they graduate high school.
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“Defalcation for Default. A defalcation is a cutting off, a subtraction. A default is a failure in duty.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
Recently, I edited a the fourth iteration of a privately published book that I have worked with on and off for about twenty-five years. In this most recent edition, I thought the author relied too heavily on slashes where he should have been using coordinating conjunctions. So, I prepared these two learning supports on using slashes and backslashes. These texts are drawn from June Casagrande’s The Best Punctuation Book, Period, (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2014) and, from Susan Thurman’s book The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need (Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2003).
Incidentally, the slash is also known as a virgule and solidus. But for our vernacular? Slash (in spite of its complicated polysemy) and backslash are the right words to describe these punctuation marks.
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.
Don’t worry, after this, only two lessons remain to post in the History of Hip-Hop Unit. This week’s Text is lesson plan fourteen of the unit, on Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s seminal Hip-Hop recording, “The Message.” This lesson begins, after your class change, with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a manifesto. The central work of this lesson is a reading, and a listening, for which I use this Official Video of the song on YouTube, and the lyrics to the song, to guide students toward completing these comprehension and analytical questions on these verses.
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.
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Tagged black history, building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge, diction/grammar/style/usage, high-interest materials, music, poetry, questioning/inquiry, readings/research, united states history
Given the state of our news media, this Cultural Literacy worksheet on brainwashing strikes me as timely. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and four comprehension questions. Nota bene, please, that the second two sentences are long compounds with lists separated by serial commas. In other words, this reading may require editing and adaptation for emergent readers and learners of English as a new language.
Where might you use something like this? All over the place, I would think: it would be useful as a do-now exercise for just about any study of twentieth-century political, religious, and social movements. It would also accompany nicely, I am confident, a viewing of The Manchurian Candidate–a perfect film, in my estimation. However, I speak here about the 1962 production, not the execrable, regrettable, 2004 remake from Jonathan Demme, who ought to have known better.
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 worksheet on the verb care followed by an infinitive. I don’t care to write weak curricular materials.
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.
This week’s Text offers the thirteenth lesson plan of the History of Hip-Hop Unit. This lesson opens, after a class change, with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Nation of Islam. The principal work of this lesson are the lyrics to “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang and “The Breaks” by Kurtis Blow, and the comprehension and analytical questions about those lyrics. You can find both of these songs on YouTube–and in the case of “The Breaks” a live performance by Kurtis Blow on Soul Train. I’ve shown parts of both–and nota bene, please, that “Rapper’s Delight,” depending on which version you land on, can be a long song.
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