Tag Archives: questioning/inquiry

Cultural Literacy: Acid Rain

You don’t hear much about it anymore–perhaps because we have much bigger, more threatening environmental catastrophes on our civilizational plate–but if you can use it, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on acid rain.

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 Lesson Plan on Addiction

Here is a lesson plan on addiction along with its short reading and its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. If you want slightly longer versions of both they’re under that hyperlink.

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.

Friends (The Television Show)

Like the show itself, this short reading on the television show Friends and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet have, over time, been consistently high-interest materials in my classroom. Do your students watch the show?

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 Psychiatrists and Psychologists

If you want or need to help students differentiate between psychiatrists and psychologists, this lesson plan on the subject along with its short reading and vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet might serve your purpose. And if you think longer versions of these documents (i.e. more vocabulary words and a few more questions) might be better, you’ll find them under this hyperlink.

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: Act of God

Here’s a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the “act of god” as a legal concept. Since there is a pretty good chance that your students will purchase insurance some time in their lives, this is a term–and concept–they definitely should know.

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 Lesson Plan on Smoking

If you need a lesson plan on smoking, this one features the least equivocal short reading I’ve ever seen on this filthy, dangerous, and expensive habit. Here’s the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies the reading. Also, if you’d prefer slightly longer versions of the reading and worksheet, you can find them here.

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World War II on the Homefront

Here is a reading on World War II on the Homefront and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet if you teach this period of global history.

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 Panic Disorders

Here is a lesson plan on panic disorders with the short reading and vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Also, if you prefer, here is a slightly longer version of the reading and worksheet.

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: Alien and Sedition Acts

Because it was an important topic, as I recall, in the United States History course I taught for a couple of years, I suspect this this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Alien and Sedition Acts will be useful to teachers of that subject. Indeed, when I briefly–but happily–co-taught United States History in Lower Manhattan, my esteemed colleague taught this with a thoroughness that persuades me this worksheet probably can only serve either as an introduction to the subject, or as an independent practice worksheet.

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 Lesson Plan on Depression

Moving right along, here is a lesson plan on depression with the work that comprises it, namely this short reading and vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. If you’d like to use slightly longer versions of these documents, they are available under this hyperlink.

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.