Tag Archives: questioning/inquiry

Cultural Literacy: Pancho Villa

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Pancho Villa in observation of the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month for 2018.

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.

Independent Practice: Aztec Civilization

It’s September 15. Today National Hispanic Heritage Month begins. I interpret the month’s mandate broadly, so I’ll post materials on people and events from across the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world in the Americas.

Here is an independent practice worksheet on Aztec civilization to get the month started.

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.

Cultural Literacy: Altruism

This morning I’m working on some materials that attempt to inculcate understanding ot the idea of virtue and its manifestations in the world. So here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on altruism, a synonym for one of the cardinal virtues, charity.

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.

Elie Wiesel’s Night

If you can use it, here is a reading on Elie Wiesel and his classic memoir Night and the reading comprehension worksheet that attends it. At the school in which I currentlhy serve, we have always used this book in, if I’m not mistaken, sophomore English.

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.

Cultural Literacy: The Big Bang

Last thing on a suddenly hectic Sunday morning: here, if you can use it, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Big Bang.

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.

A Lesson Plan on the Paleolithic Era

Alright: I have to run off an meet a friend from Wisconsin in Manhattan. Before I do, I’ll drink a quick cup of coffee and post this lesson plan on the paleolithic period of human history. I begin teaching this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun artifact and this one on the noun nomad. This short reading and comprehension worksheet on the paleolithic period is the mainstay of this lesson.

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.

The Weekly Text, September 7, 2018: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Shimon Bar-Kokhba

As we go into the long Rosh Hashanah holiday weekend here in New York City, I’d like to wish my Jewish friends, colleagues, students, and neighbors a joyful and safe new year.

Apropo of the holiday (see below as well), here is a worksheet on Shimon Bar-Kokhba, a great Jewish warrior who fought against nearly impossible odds when he took on the Roman Empire under Hadrian. This comprehension worksheet 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.

Cultural Literacy: Israel

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Israel. This short exercise is meant mostly to introduce the topic before moving on to more in-depth study of the Middle East.

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.

King John

Ok, here’s one last post for Labor Day, to wit, this reading on King John and the comprehension worksheet that accompanies it. This is, of course, the King John whose barons forced him to sign the Magna Carta.

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.

Independent Practice: Feudalism

Here is an independent practice worksheet on feudalism for you social studies teachers.

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.