Showing posts with label cultural literacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cultural literacy. Show all posts

Thursday, February 6, 2014

February Cultural Literacy


Here are this week's 25 cultural literacy terms for the game night at the end of the month! This is optional, but please study the terms and come if you can!


1. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
2. an eye for an eye
3. Judge not, that ye be not judged
4. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone
5. The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life
6. Love thy neighbor as thyself
7. Love your enemies
8. Turn the other cheek
9. "Actions speak louder than words"
10.  "Experience is the best teacher"
11. "When the going gets tough, the tough get going"
12. "While there's life, there's hope."
13. purgatory
14. Quaker
15. sect
16. Hawthorne, Nathaniel
17. The Pilgrim's Progress
18. The Scarlet Letter
19. character
20. hyperbole
21. paradox
22. purple prose
23. spoonerism
24. syntax
25. Liszt, Franz

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

25 Cultural Literacy Terms

Here are the 25 cultural literacy terms this week for the game night at the end of the month. You don't have to memorize them word-for-word, and you can choose whether you want to memorize them for the game night at the end of the month. This is optional.

This has been so much fun!  I hope those who are ready for this challenge are working hard, it should be a fun night of challenging memory retention!


Section titled: Literature in English-pg. 115


1. Friday
2. Robinson Crusoe


Section titled: Conventions of Written English pg. 147


3. allegory
4. analogy
5. circumlocution
6. couplet
7. declarative sentence
8. ellipsis
9. folklore
10. parody
11. satire


Section titled: Fine Arts pg. 164


12. allegro
13. baroque
14. concerto
15. counterpoint
16. key
17. liberal arts
18. rococo
19. Stradivarius
20. string quartet
21. strings
22. suite
23. viola
24. violin

25. Vivaldi, Antonio