Here’s a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Peter the Great that might be useful in a global studies class.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the expression touch and go. My students really rise to the challenge when presented with one of these idiomatic expressions, and they often, in fact, ask to do another when we’ve completed one.
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Although Will Ferrell famously mangled it in “Anchorman,” your students needn’t, especially if you guide them through this Cultural Literacy Worksheet on the expression “When in Rome (do as the Romans do).” I’ve tagged this as an idiomatic expression. It apparently originated with Saint Augustine, who related it as advice to a traveler to Rome for the first time.
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I don’t know if anyone teaches her anymore, but in my high school in the 1970s, there was interest in Carson McCullers. In fact, if memory serves, some of our teachers at City School, which is now called Malcolm Shabazz City High School, used the stage adaptation of The Member of the Wedding for one of our school plays. I saw the film adaptation of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter just after high school, and later read the novel, both of which I found quite moving.
All of this is a long way around to offering this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Carson McCullers, whom I hope has not been forgotten.
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Because I think it’s a concept high school students ought to understand, I offer this Cultural Literacy worksheet on alienation this morning.
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Occasionally, if a few minutes remain in a period after a lesson, I’ll pull out a short exercise to keep students busy. Often, these are things like this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the french noun je ne sais quoi. I tell kids that while this isn’t something they will be tested on–and what a dismal standard for assessing the importance of knowledge that is!–but rather something they will need for cocktail party chatter when they become successful professionals.
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If you teach in New York City–or somewhere else, and want to introduce students to one of the most dedicated and selfless public servants in the 20th century–you might find this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Fiorello LaGuardia useful.
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It’s as good a time as any, I guess, to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on checks and balances. I do so in hope of the survival of our republic from those who would subvert it.
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Here is a short Cultural Literacy exercise on understatement. I use these to get class periods started, as well as to help those students who struggle with transitions between classes to settle themselves and focus on the work at hand.
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The last day of March is also the last day of Women’s History Month. This week’s Text is a reading on Murasaki Shikibu. Lady Shikibu wrote what is arguably history’s first novel, The Tale of Genji. Here is a comprehension worksheet to accompany the relatively short reading.
And that is the last Weekly Text for Women’s History Month. I hope they’ve been useful. Next week I’ll return to posting less theme oriented material; I think I have a grammar lesson queued up.
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