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What I have learned through this assignment is that I need to plan on more questions being asked so that I can time better my lesson to the short periods as Sleep Giant Middle School. I also need to take into account that my CT likes to use worksheets as Summative assessments instead of Formative and I plan for that section of the class to take longer than expect therefore, I can’t lag in the beginning of my lesson otherwise I will not be able to have the students finish the activity making it…

On Friday, October 31, 2014, Janice Lewis woke up earlier to attend to the San Francisco Giants parade. Janice Lewis got at Market Street at Steuart street where the parade begins, just in time to get the best space where she could see the parade. As the time passed by, with just feel minutes for the pared to start, more people kept coming. Janice who was comfortable at her spot no longer could move, because there were so may people trying to see the parade as well. At Noon, when the parade…

Overcoming the Fears of Being Tiny In a Giant World In “Gulliver’s Travels: Into Several Remote Nations of The World” by Johnathan Swift, several ways are shown as to how Gulliver’s interaction with Glumdalclitch and the queen develop a theme of overcoming fear. First, Gulliver is not frightened of Glumdalclitch. Secondly, he continues to dine with the queen despite his fear of their knives. Lastly, Gulliver begins to fight back against the massive flies by cutting them with his knife. First,…

It was a cold, sunny October day in 1981 when I was born. My mother was in labor for 8 hours and the doctors kept insisting that I was not ready yet, by the time that they finally really checked I was on the verge of falling out onto the floor. I do not have much reference for the first couple of years of my life as is typical. I do however have photos to look at and boy was I an adorable baby my hair would stand straight up. I have been told that back then I did not know a stranger and…

Film Essay The Zookeeper's wife, directed by Niki Caro and written by Angela Workman, has a Holocaust-related theme. Antonina Zabinski (Jessica Chastain), Jan Zabinski's (Johan Heldenbergh), the zookeeper’s, wife assists in caring for their zoo and her family. The zoo brings the whole family and town together, and the entertaining animals bring joy to everyone. Conversely, they are to find out that the Germans were going to turn their Polish town and cozy lives upside-down. Antonina's faith to…

I. Introduction a. Attention Getter: Anthony Douglas Williams once said, “Animals should not require our permission to live on earth. Animals were given the right to be here long before we arrived.” b. Background: According to Wikipedia.com, a zoo is a facility in which wild animals are confined within enclosures displayed to the public for momentary gain and scienticfical and educational purposes. The first zoo was opened for scientific study in 1828 and to the public in 1857, in London called…

When I was a young child, my parents took my brother and me to the Toronto Zoo, and I visited the site throughout my years in elementary school for field trips. I found a great pleasure in staring at these big, beautiful, and mysterious animals through the wide glass windows; and during the course of being adolescence, I marveled at the fact that, still, living in the city, we had the opportunity to be exposed to an animal in its “natural” habitat. (sites.psu.edu) However, amidst the entire fun…

Keep Zoo’s! Between 200 and 2,000 animal extinctions occur every year. I believe that animals should stay in zoos. Animals should stay in zoos because they wouldn't have to worry about getting killed and they will always get food. Zoos are helping less and less of animals each year that are going extinct, zoos are providing a safer environment for the animals. As Dr Dave Hone form The University of London “Zoo's protect against a species going extinct.” (Hone, Dr. Dave. "Why Zoos Are Good.").…

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other." (Davis BrainyQuote.com) "Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education."(Davis, BrainyQuote.com) These two quotes, both by the Afro-American civil-right activist, philosopher, human scientist and author Angela…

Zoos Did you know that most zoos are treating animals vary badly? Well some people believe that zoos are very good to the animals. I disagree because the zoos use the animals for selfish gains, ill handling of animals and also suiravel of the fittest. In my opinion animals should not be held captivity because most of the animals there can change to sick and also are upset for the people who see them in the zoos. To begin zoos often just want make money off the animals by not paying…