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The Weekly Text, February 23, 2018, Black History Month 2018, Week IV: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Posted on February 23, 2018 | Leave a comment

This is the last Friday of Black History Month, 2018, so this is by definition the final Weekly Text for the month. I’m actually publishing this from my phone, since I am away from New York (but on an Amtrak train on my way back right this minute).

Here is a reading on Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the great men of my lifetime. You might be able to use this comprehension sheet which accompanies the reading. Finally, here is an Everyday Edit on Martin Luther King, Jr. (and you can get lots more Everyday Edits from the good people at Education World.

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Cultural Literacy: Nelson Mandela

Posted on February 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy Worksheet on Nelson Mandela. I miss him. He is someone everyone in the world should know about.

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Cultural Literacy: Jazz

Posted on February 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

You might find that this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Jazz nicely complements the post on the late, great Clifford Brown above it. “Brownie,” as his friends and colleagues called him, was a major influence in the genre and still an unmitigated joy to hear.

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Cultural Literacy: Spirituals

Posted on February 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

Since we as a society have decided that music education is somehow superfluous to the edification of children, I don’t know whether you’ll be able to use this Cultural Literacy worksheet on spirituals. I hope so.

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Cultural Literacy: W.E.B. Du Bois

Posted on February 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

This Cultural Literacy Worksheet on W.E.B. Du Bois should probably be a mainstay of any Black History Month instruction.

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Cultural Literacy: Frederick Douglass

Posted on February 14, 2018 | Leave a comment

Here, on a Wednesday morning, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Frederick Douglass. I don’t think this document requires much explanation or rationalization for use in your classroom.

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Cultural Literacy: Harlem Renaissance

Posted on February 13, 2018 | Leave a comment

Thankfully, the literature on the Harlem Renaissance is deep and wide. That said, I highly recommend historian David Levering Lewis’s When Harlem Was in Vogue as one of the standouts of what is generally a distinguished body of literature. For a more general reference book, The Black New Yorkers (as well, presumably, as its companion volume, The Black Washingtonians, with which I am less familiar) is also excellent.

For my part, I offer this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Harlem Renaissance, which is, as these things are, a short introduction to the topic.

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Cultural Literacy: Black Arts Movement

Posted on February 13, 2018 | Leave a comment

Yesterday, I missed work on account of illness, so this morning I make haste to get up blog posts for African American History Month, which continues for a little over two more weeks. Here is a Cultural Literacy exercise on the Black Arts Movement. These Cultural Literacy worksheets are short exercises designed to introduce students to a subject of idea and to briefly define it for them. If you want to take your students deeper into the history and personnel of the Black Arts Movement, this page from BlackPast.org  is a good place to start.

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Cultural Literacy: Gospel Music

Posted on February 12, 2018 | Leave a comment

OK, for the third post of this Tuesday morning, you might find this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Gospel Music useful somewhere in your practice. Because even in this short passage, its authors found room to mention Gospel’s influence on Rock and Roll, a couple of nice complements to this short exercise are this Wikipedia article on the great Sister Rosetta Tharpe as well as this this article from Rolling Stone arguing for her inclusion  in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Cultural Literacy: Racism

Posted on February 12, 2018 | Leave a comment

Is there ever a time when it isn’t appropriate to raise students’ consciousness about Racism? It remains a patent blot on the American consciousness and landscape, after all. I’d like to think that this Cultural Literacy worksheet on racism will shed some light on this grave problem, even if only briefly.

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