Tag Archives: questioning/inquiry

A Lesson Plan on the Crime and Puzzlement Case “The Peek-a-Boo Girl”

Posted on January 23, 2020 | Leave a comment

Because I’ve been in the folder preparing some of them for a new job I am about to start, I’ll post this lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “The Peek-a-Boo Girl.”

I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Harlem Renaissance. This scan of the illustration and questions drives the lesson. Finally, here is the typescript of the answer key.

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Johnny Cash

Posted on January 23, 2020 | Leave a comment

For a student with certain interests, e.g. the kid I had in mind when I put this together, this reading on the late, great Johnny Cash and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet are high-interest materials.

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A Lesson Plan on Birth Control

Posted on January 23, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, moving right along, here is a lesson plan on birth control. You’ll need its short reading and its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet to conduct the lesson. If you want slightly longer versions of the reading and worksheet, they’re under that hyperlink.

These materials have been of high interest to the high school students I’ve served over the years.

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A Short Lesson on the Neolithic Period

Posted on January 22, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, here is a lesson plan on the Neolithic Period of human history. I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on carbon which serves to familiarize students with that element in preparation for a lesson on carbon dating organic material to establish its age. If this lesson goes into a second day, you might want this context clues worksheet on the noun mayhem. Finally, here is the short reading and comprehension worksheet at the center of this lesson.

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Thomas Edison

Posted on January 22, 2020 | Leave a comment

Moving right along on my lunch break, here is a short reading on Thomas Edison and its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet if you can use them.

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Cultural Literacy: Acid Rain

Posted on January 22, 2020 | Leave a comment

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.

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A Lesson Plan on Addiction

Posted on January 22, 2020 | Leave a comment

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.

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Friends (The Television Show)

Posted on January 22, 2020 | Leave a comment

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?

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A Lesson Plan on Psychiatrists and Psychologists

Posted on January 21, 2020 | Leave a comment

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.

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Cultural Literacy: Act of God

Posted on January 21, 2020 | Leave a comment

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.

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