Tag Archives: questioning/inquiry

Cultural Literacy: Syntax

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on syntax. I’m pretty sure I’ve published it elsewhere on this blog as part of a lesson plan. This post will make the document more easily searchable. I think you could use this document with just about any lesson on writing–either as an introduction to the topic, a short independent practice exercise to take home, or as reinforcement and retention somewhere along the line in a unit on writing.

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.

Three Basic Research and Comprehension Worksheets on Formula 1 Racing

In an attempt meet the needs of a student I served, earlier this week I wrote these three basic research and comprehension worksheets on Formula 1 racing. I envisioned them as useful in calling up prior knowledge and conducting basic inquiries on the internet.

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.

A Lesson Plan on War, Revolution, and Peace

Here is a lesson plan on war, revolution, and peace as causes of history. I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun agriculture. This is a discussion, brainstorming, and writing lesson, so here is a structured brainstorming and note-taking blank to use in the execution of this lesson.

And yes, for those in the know, I did crib the title of this lesson from the Hampshire College course (taught by Michael Klare when I took it in the fall of 1991) of the same name, part of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at that fine institution.

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.

Kurt Godel

Here is a reading on Kurt Godel along with its attendant vocabulary building and comprehension worksheet. There is room in the document–and the latitude, as, like most other things on Mark’s Text Terminal, these are Word documents that can be edited for your students’ needs–to deal with some of the abstractions Godel’s work deals with.

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: J.R.R. Tolkien

On my way out the door on this pleasant afternoon, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on J.R.R. Tolkien if you have students interested in The Lord of the Rings trilogy in print or onscreen.

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.

A Short Comprehension Worksheet on Gravity

OK, on my way out the door this afternoon, here is a short comprehension worksheet on gravity I wrote this morning. As its instructions indicate, it follows the “What Is Gravity ” page at the NASA Space Place Site.

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.

Plato

Finally this morning, here is a reading on Plato and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet if you teach him in the context of global studies, English language arts, or even a philosophy class. This is a short but solid general introduction to ancient Greek thought in general and Plato in particular.

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.

Aesop’s Fables: “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”

Here is a lesson plan on Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” along with its reading and comprehension worksheet if you can use them.

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.

The Weekly Text, March 5, 2020, Women’s History Month Week I: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Helen Hunt Jackson

For the first Friday of Women’s History Month 2020, here is a reading on indigenous rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Her work, which resulted in the disastrously inappropriate Dawes Severalty Act, was nonetheless the first real real attempt–via her book A Century of Dishonor–to bring this country to a reckoning with its genocidal policies against the original inhabitants of this continent.

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.

Obesity

Health teachers, here is a reading on obesity along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Do I need to belabor the importance of this material in a nation as fat as the United States?

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.