Tag Archives: questioning/inquiry

A Lesson Plan on Culture and Religion as Causes of History

Posted on October 29, 2019 | Leave a comment

Last but not least this morning is this lesson plan on culture and religion as causes of history. I start this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun epidemic. This lesson is a brainstorming and note-taking activity, so, accordingly, you’ll want this (or some iteration of it you make) this brainstorming and note-taking worksheet for students to use.

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Dance Marathons

Posted on October 29, 2019 | Leave a comment

Last year, to my great surprise, this reading on dance marathons and its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet became high-interest materials in my classroom in Springfield, Massachusetts. As a teenager, I read They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? By Horace McCoy, so I have always found this cultural phenomenon interesting.

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Cultural Literacy: Sociology

Posted on October 28, 2019 | Leave a comment

OK, it’s Monday again, and cool and damp in southwestern Vermont. Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on sociology if you need your students to understand (and who doesn’t I guess, particularly those of us charged with teaching the social sciences) the concept and academic discipline.

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Asthma

Posted on October 25, 2019 | Leave a comment

Health teachers–as well as my erstwhile colleagues in the South Bronx, the asthma capital of New York City, and maybe the world–might find useful this reading on asthma and the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies it.

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Artificial Sweeteners

Posted on October 21, 2019 | Leave a comment

OK, to wrap up on this cool, autumnal morning in southwestern Vermont, here is a reading on artificial sweeteners and the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies it.

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Cultural Literacy: Socioeconomic Status

Posted on October 18, 2019 | Leave a comment

It’s Friday afternoon. In the process of cleaning off desktops virtual and tangible, I found this Cultural Literacy worksheet on socioeconomic status. If there was ever a time in the history of the United States (or the world, I suppose, for that matter) that people ought to be cognizant of this term and the deep well of concepts attached to it, it’s now.

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The Weekly Text, October 18, 2019, Hispanic Heritage Month 2019 Week V: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Pueblo Civilization

Posted on October 18, 2019 | Leave a comment

This week’s Text, in the ongoing observation of Hispanic Heritage Month 2019 at Mark’s Text Terminal, is a reading on Pueblo Civilization and the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies it.

As I am wont to do, I debated with myself the relevance of Pueblo Civilization to Hispanic Heritage. I’m confident that these first nation peoples were part of the same ethnic group as the Mayans–who of course became a subject population to the Spanish Empire. In any case, if anyone with the bona fides to do so could weigh in on this, I would of course be grateful.

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Cultural Literacy: Basque Region

Posted on October 18, 2019 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Basque Region if you have any use for it. I’ve tagged it as a Hispanic History document. However, I must concede that the reading that drives this worksheet is at the outer limits, so to speak, of Hispanic History….

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A Lesson Plan on the Crime and Puzzlement Case “Murder in a Bookstore”

Posted on October 17, 2019 | Leave a comment

OK, esteemed colleagues: because they continue to be the most frequently downloaded files from Mark’s Text Terminal, here is another complete Crime and Puzzlement lesson plan, this one on the “Murder in a Bookstore.”

I begin this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Aesop’s fables. You won’t be able to do much without this PDF of the illustration and questions that drive this lesson. Finally, here is the typescript of the answer key.

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Paparazzi

Posted on October 16, 2019 | Leave a comment

Here is a reading on paparazzi and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. This material is of high interest for some students in my experience using it. Don’t forget the paparazzi is a plural noun; the singular is paparazzo.

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