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Reading Conference Analysis I conducted my reading conference with my younger brother, Seth. Seth is in the fourth grade and homeschooled with his two older sisters by my mom. While his visual/spatial abilities are strong, he struggles with reading and both written and oral communication. The book he chose to read was The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit. Once aspect of the conference that went well was Seth’s wiliness to participate. He was very willing to read and answer questions. This was…

When interviewing a child it is necessary to ask appropriate questions that are age appropriate for the child. This is a very important factor when interviewing a child because this can either result in a child not understanding the process of an interview by just responding with head nods or a child replying with a response that assures you that they understand the process of the interview. In order for an interview to be successful with a child there are certain procedures that should be…

which took over two of the open prisons (Mogelkaer and Kaershavedgard) because of an increasingly number of offenders. In modern society, there is no special reception Centre. The two prisons that are open is for those offenders that are serving sentences of lenient imprisonment and ordinary imprisonment (National Criminal Justice Reference Service,…

was able to successfully engage the audience by using simple words and short sentences. His calculated grade level was an 8.2, compared to Bill Gates whose speech achieved a grade level of 9.7. At first, this different doesn 't seem that great but after reading Bill Gates’ statement, it was clearly more complex than Jobs’. He doubled the average word count for sentences and used more complex language. In the four sentence stump speech it was successful in this aspect of speech giving. It is…

books), the red rose in Beauty and the Beast, the clothing colors in Divergent and the Bliss in The Maze Runner series. Option 2: Anaphora Anaphora, pronounced “a-NAFF-ra,” is the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of sentences or phrases within a sentence,” (Myers, 95). The purpose of this technique is to reiterate the surrounding idea. An (overly-exaggerated) example anaphora might be something like this: It was then that they realized Sarah would always be wild. She would…

1A. According to Erikson, the older adults are in the developmental stage of ego integrity versus despair (Blais, 2014). J.B. would be more on the side of integrity because he isn’t letting cancer hold him back. The case study tells us that he is optimistic about his prognosis. If he was leaning more towards despair than he would be giving up or being more pessimistic. He is also, looking for ways to improve his health and stay independent; such as, exercising to regain strength. 1B. One of…

which argues that that all definite descriptions are in reality a series of propositional statements and claims. I will then reconstruct Strawson’s account and claim that Russell’s account is flawed because it focuses exclusively on the meaning of sentences, ignoring their use, and because Russell’s theory of description fails to fully describe how definite descriptions can be used to refer. Finally, I will argue that … Russell’s account of definite descriptions Russell first introduces and…

I had not thought about my reading habits until reading this chapter. Of course, I knew that reading is an essential part of many courses. During high school I had experienced many different kinds of reading — from history texts to mathematics explanations to research for a variety of papers, along with reading for pleasure. However, looking back, I do not think that I truly committed my self to learning what I was reading. Rather, I would read enough to complete the assignment, and maybe…

“The things you won’t know can’t hurt you”. In the poem, “First Poem for You,” written by Kin Addonozio, we explore the mind of a person who is deeply in love, but seems confused about the relationship she is in with her partner. We do not know if the narrator is a woman, or a man, but the way the narrator expresses herself seems like a woman; since woman seem more intimate about relationships. The woman takes us to a world where she compares her love to her lovers’ tattoos. Even though she is…

Poetry is often defined as a “literary work that uses a distinctive style of writing to express an idea or feelings.” Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun” serves to be one of the most controversial poems as many individuals take on various interpretations on the work of art. Several readers regarded the poem as demonstrating the inferiority of women to men, which was prevalent during the nineteenth century in which the poem was written. Other readers found the poem to be a…