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A Lesson Plan on the Crime and Puzzlement Case “The Possible Dreams Auction”

Posted on April 4, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, moving right along, here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “The Possible Dreams Auction.”

I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “Feather One’s Own Nest.” You’ll need this scan of the illustration and questions that drive the investigation in order to conduct it. Finally, here is the typescript of the answer key.

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Hippocrates

Posted on April 4, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is a reading on Hippocrates and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I assume I don’t need to explain why now might be a good time to read about the father of modern medicine and the historical embodiment of why politicians and half-wit journalists should not pronounce on medical issues like, oh let’s say chloroquine as a treatment for COVID19.

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Cultural Literacy: Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on April 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

Now is a good time to post this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Edgar Allan Poe. If you’re obsessively following news, then you may have seen this piece from Slate on Poe’s story “The Masque of the Red Death.” Somewhere in my iTunes library I have the story read by none other than William S. Burroughs, which is basically one of those perfect literary pairings. It looks like you can listen to Burroughs’ rendition of the story at no charge here at Open Culture.

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The Weekly Text, April 3, 2020, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020 Week I: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Weekly Text for the first Friday of Asian Pacific American History Month 2020 is a reading novelist and Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I’ve read three of his novels over the years and can say confidently that he richly deserves the honors and plaudits he has received.

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Aesop’s Fables: “The Fox and the Crow”

Posted on April 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, finally for this morning, here is a lesson plan on Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Crow” along with its reading and comprehension worksheet.

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Independent Practice: Silk Road

Posted on April 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, here is an independent practice worksheet worksheet on the Silk Road. This is part of the month-long observance of Asian Pacific American History Month 2020 (as are the next couple of posts above) at Mark’s Text Terminal. Over time, I’ve come to realize that this worksheet can open a discussion on the concept of a global economy; indeed, the Silk Road is in every respect the beginning of the globalization of human economic activity.

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Testis

Posted on April 2, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, last but not least this afternoon, for you health teachers, here is a short reading on testis along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet if you can use them.

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Cultural Literacy: Internment of Japanese Americans

Posted on April 2, 2020 | 1 comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II. I don’t want to belabor the point, but this is not one of the proudest moments in this nation’s history. But come to think of it a bit, especially given the recent spate of racist attacks against Americans of Asian Pacific descent, it might not be a bad idea to teach this as a cautionary tale about nationalist bigotry.

In any case, this worksheet is long enough that you could–especially if you teach social studies–use it as independent practice, i.e. homework.

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.

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John Lennon

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, I’m drawing down to the last couple of posts for this morning. Here is a high-interest (depending on whom you’re teaching, I guess) reading on John Lennon along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

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Cultural Literacy: Multiculturalism

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

For reasons I never understood (and still don’t, frankly), it was anathema to academic conservatives about the time I began to think about going to college in the late 1980s, but I think this Cultural Literacy worksheet on multiculturalism is something to which students ought to be exposed.

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