“space perception: The ability to understand on a perceptual level the way in which objects are facing or placed, the direction in which they are moving, and the relation of objects to each other, both in distance and orientation.”
Excerpted from: Turkington, Carol, and Joseph R. Harris, PhD. The Encyclopedia of Learning Disabilities. New York: Facts on File, 2006.
“Paradoxical as it may seem, it is this subjective impotence that convinces the intellectual that the one method is right. Everything proves it is right. Dialectics: I predict that the house will burn; then I pour gas over the stove. The house burns; my prediction is fulfilled. Dialectics: I predict that a work of art incompatible with socialist realism will be worthless. Then I place the artist in conditions in which such work is worthless. My prediction is fulfilled.”
Excerpted from: Milosz, Czeslaw. Trans. Jane Zielonko. The Captive Mind. New York: Vintage, 1981.
“Metal Cut: A relief process for producing prints which differ from woodcut mainly in the use of a metal plate rather than a block of wood. Introduced about 1500, metal cut never found wide use.”
Excerpted from: Diamond, David G. The Bulfinch Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms. Boston: Little Brown, 1992.
“Coda (noun): A concluding part of a literary work, often as a set piece that rounds out or brings another; culminating passage; peroration.
‘The message was the same each time—learn to love thyself—and was usually tacked on as abruptly as those codas that once concluded episodes of Father Knows Best. Frank Rich, The New York Times.'”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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.
“source memory: The memory of where a person obtained information. For example, a child might know that Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania, but not recall where he or she obtained that information. Many students with learning disabilities have deficient source memory.”
Excerpted from: Turkington, Carol, and Joseph R. Harris, PhD. The Encyclopedia of Learning Disabilities. New York: Facts on File, 2006.
“Our mechanical, industrial civilization is concerned with averages, with percents…. We welcome a procedure which under the title of science sinks the individual in a numerical class; judges him with reference to capacity to fit into a limited number of vocations ranked according to present business standards; assigns him to a predestined niche and thereby does whatever education can do to perpetuate the present order.”
Excerpted from: Feldman, Joe. Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2019.
“Asia: (1) In classic mythology, one of the Oceanides, usually spoken of as wife of Iapetus and mother of Prometheus. In his ‘Prometheus Unbound,’ Shelley makes Asia play an important part as Prometheus’ wife.
(2) According to the Koran, the wife of the Pharaoh who brought up Moses. Asia’s husband tortured her for believing in Moses, but she was taken alive into Paradise. Muhammad numbers her among the four perfect women.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
“All men are created equal; they are endowed with by their creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free.”
Ho Chi Minh, Proclamation of Independence, 2 Sept. 1945
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
“Massacre of Amritsar: (1919) Incident in which British troops fired on a crowd of Indian protesters. In 1919 the British government of India enacted the Rowlatt act, extending its World War I emergency powers to combat subversive activities. On April 13th a large crowd gathered to protest the measures and troops opened fire, killing about 379 and wounding about 1,200. The massacre was the prelude to Mahatma Gandhi’s noncooperation movement of 1920-1922.”
Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.
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