Tag Archives: questioning/inquiry

Pop Art

Posted on July 11, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a reading on pop art along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I suspect, with the right student or students, this reading and worksheet could be the beginning of a high-interest unit on pop art that would include the artists specified in the reading–Andy Warhol (of course), Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Roy Licthenstein, Duane Hanson, Claes Oldenburg–and grow to include Jean-Michel Basquiat and perhaps some graffiti artists. Futura comes to mind.

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Cultural Literacy: Avatar

Posted on July 11, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy on the concept of the avatar. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three short sentences and three comprehension questions. Interestingly, the reading in this worksheet deals with the concept of the avatar in Hinduism, but not the avatar as a graphical representation of a computer user that is usually reflective of a person’s character or persona.

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Nuclear Fission

Posted on July 7, 2022 | Leave a comment

Moving along, here is a reading on nuclear fission with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Science teachers take note (I guess): This is a good general introduction to a complicated topic.

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Cultural Literacy: Attila the Hun

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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Attila the Hun. This is a half-page worksheet with a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions. This is a good general introduction to Attila, but to appreciate fully the wide swath he cut through history, and the consequences of it, you will probably need to dig a little deeper than this document does.

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Placebo Effect

Posted on July 7, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a reading on placebo effect along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I don’t know if this is something high school students need to know; it is something that pops up (e.g. in an episode of Family Guy that I watched late last night) in common discourse often enough that we should at least consider its relevance to everyday life.

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Cultural Literacy: Atlantis

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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Atlantis, the mythological city swallowed by the ocean. This is a half-page worksheet with a two-sentence reading, on a longish compound, and three comprehension questions. Just the facts, as Joe Friday liked to say.

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Pi

Posted on July 7, 2022 | Leave a comment

OK, moving along to a subject that I really cannot teach (mathematics), here is a reading on pi along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I guess that’s pretty much all there is to say about that.

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Cultural Literacy: Assimilation

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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on assimilation, used to mean the process by which immigrants internalize and, well, assimilate, the social and cultural mores of the nation to which they have immigrated (without, one hopes, losing the social and cultural mores of the nation from which they have emigrated; for if they do, where we will get the wonderful varieties of ethnic food that have entered the American diet since my childhood?).

Anyway, this is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one compound sentence and two comprehension questions.

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The Ozone Layer

Posted on July 6, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a reading on the ozone layer along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Given that the United States Supreme Court recently handed down a decision, in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency et al, limiting the EPA’s authority to regulate emissions of chemicals that pollute the air and use the atmosphere of this planet for, you know, a toilet, this material may be suddenly quite relevant.

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Cultural Literacy: Assembly Line

Posted on July 6, 2022 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the assembly line as a means of organizing production. This is half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and two comprehension questions. In other words, just the basics on this term and what it represents

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