Tag Archives: questioning/inquiry

The Weekly Text, March 16, 2018, Women’s History Month 2018 Week III: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Geneticist Barbara McClintock

Another Friday has rolled around, so it’s time for another Weekly Text in observation of Women’s History Month. This week’s Text is a reading on geneticist and botanist Barbara McClintock accompanied by this comprehension worksheet on the reading. Finally, here is a complementary Everyday Edit worksheet on Marie Curie (and you can get a full-year supply of Everyday Edit worksheets from the generous proprietors of the Education World website.

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: Jane Addams and Settlement Houses

On a Thursday morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Jane Addams and another on the settlement house movement of which she was a founder. My paternal grandfather spent time as a child at Hull House. In high school, I read Twenty Years at Hull House, which exercised a profound influence over my view of the world and how I should live in 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: Alice Walker

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Alice Walker. She remains relevant as does The Color Purple , and I hope, despite the many attempts to ban the novel, it remains within the reach of all who seek to read it.

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: Joan of Arc

There are a number of classroom situations, I think, in which this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Joan of Arc might come in handy.

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: Cleopatra

Here is, first thing on a Monday morning, a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Cleopatra. Time to get a brain signal and get to work.

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.

The Weekly Text, March 9, 2018, Women’s History Month 2018 Week II: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Abolitionist and Author Lydia Maria Child

Friday morning at last, which means it’s time for the Weekly Text, this one in observance of Women’s History Month. This week I offer this reading on Lydia Maria Child. To accompany it, here is a reading comprehension worksheet. Finally, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on “Women Get the Vote.” (And, incidentally, you can get more Everyday Edit Worksheets–indeed, an entire year’s worth–from the generous people at the Education World website.

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: Double Standard of Sexual Behavior

Here, to complement yesterday’s post of a Cultural Literacy worksheet on sexism, is another Cultural Literacy worksheet, this one on the double standard of sexual behavior that is one of the most common manifestations of sexist hypocrisy.

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: Sexism

My first exposure to Feminism in the 1970s was in a class I took at my high school called “Sexism in America.” The teacher was excellent. At age 15, needless to say, I found it edifying. Also, I began then to see sexism as primarily a feminist issue, since the majority of sexists acts, in my view and in fact, are committed by men.

So I think it entirely appropriate to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on sexism as part of the array on Mark’s Text Terminal for Women’s History Month.

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: The Muses

On a Tuesday morning, here is a Cultural Literacy exercise on the muses, those goddesses of cultural inspiration from ancient Greece.

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: Toni Morrison

Monday has rolled around once again. I can’t think of a better way to start the week than to offer you this Cultural Literacy exercise on Toni Morrison.

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.