Penny Kittle examines a difficult topic for many ELA teachers to wrestle with. Outside reading for students has been discussed at various times, and the current standards do not promote this type of learning in the classroom. However, Kittle gives step-by-step examples to integrate this area of growth for our students in a positive way. She takes a topic that students do not like, reading, and makes it accessible and easy to understand. Without these approaches, I would not have a fully…
make weekly schedules on my laptop, I do not forget things as much, and my brain no longer has to work itself so hard to remember my schedule and everything I am learning in school at the same time. Secondly, I also saw a positive change in my annotations and note-taking skills. At the beginning of this…
Before we get into deeper to explore the advantages of OO development, let’s understand what is Object? Its complex for beginners who does not have knowledge on programming and its simple for those who worked on other programming languages. For example, if we consider a car, it has engine, battery, mirrors, seats and other parts. An object is considered as consists of attributes and behavior. A car can be driven, parked and serviced etc. Hence an object consists of both data and behavior.…
College has been nothing as I expected, as well as an unforgiving experience. Since, in high school teachers supposed to lead the education of their students. However, now that I am attending college it is clear that I am the owner of my own learning. (Hazard & Nadeau, 2011, p. 11) When I was attending high school, I did not have any other responsibilities other than my education. However, now that I am attending college, there are expenses that need to be paid. This has caused me to both, be…
myself this semester The eight habits of mind that I have made a dramatic improvement on the most this semester are openness and creativity. Openness was the habit I improved the most on while writing reading responses, annotation quizzes, and pre work assignments. Writing annotation quizzes has shown me where I am weak in, in my understanding of the work and being able to use the material that I am reading. I used to think that the only pre work assignment was doing a web but this year I…
important task because knowing what leads to heart disease is the key to preventing it. After all, the goal of medicine is to prolong life, medicine cannot achieve this without further examining potential factors that can lead to heart disease. Annotation: In examining psychosocial and medical approaches, Stephen and Marmot first discuss how stress in different levels of socioeconomic statues are involved in coronary heart disease. They define stress as a reaction of an organism to their…
1. Introduction Lernaea infection is a major disease problem encountered in carp culture in the Indian subcontinent and has been reported from Indian major carps Catla (Catla catla), Rohu (Labeo rohita), Mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) , exotic carps silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) and indigenous carps Labeo fimbriatus (Nandeesha et al., 1984, 1985; Tamuli and Shanbhouge, 1996; Zafar et al., 2001). The three Indian Major Carps viz., Catla, Rohu and…
The documentary Are We to Be a Nation was directed by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer. The writer was Ronald Blumer. This is episode 6 of the season 1 series of Liberty! The American Revolution. The cast consist of numerous actors/actresses including Jane Adams, David Bishins, Rob Campbell, and Colm Feore. The host of the series is award winning journalist and ABC news anchor Forrest Sawyer. The narrator is Edward Herrmann. This history/war documentary is the story of how armistice is impending…
The Saturday symphony begins as electric mixers hum and speakers pulse. The rapid succession of thuds signal the conductors below, informing them that the final instrumentalists are awake and ready to play their part. Three children emerge from the stairs hauling pencils, pastels, and sketch paper, littering the living room floor as new masterpieces are planned and executed. Music from microphones fill the rooms with my mother's soulful singing while graphite and stationary collide to become art…
materialistic individual and tries to make everything about him. Mariana is sweet but cautious and does not fall for the tricks that Jake attempts to play. This battle of "love versus LA" is not limited to this single setting, however, the negative annotations of LA make this picture easier to imagine. 2. Love is the ideology that Mariana represents. She is a younger woman with a sense of nativity. She develops and does not believe the story that Jake is…