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Yeats’s poem ‘’Leda and the Swan’’ and Dorothy Hewitt’s ‘’Grave Fairytale’’ have content that is both mythological and violently sexual. In Yeats’ poem the speaker retells a story from Greek mythology. It is that of the rape of Leda by Zeus. In Hewitt’s poem, the speaker creates a new version of Rapunzel’s fairytale. This essay will discuss the relationship between mythology/ folklore, violence and sex through the analysis of both poems. In Yeats’ poem, the speaker resents the rape scene,…

What Do You “Open Your Eyes” to? Have you ever wondered what your heart is telling you to do? Do you think you have the courage to do those things? The 2014 song, “Open Your Eyes” by Bea Miller, is about those things and what we feel inside. It grasps you really deep, that it drags you into your mind and make you think. We all think that way and yet we still don’t know what to do with it. The song’s strong, relevant lyrics are how Bea Miller’s song impacts teens, young adults, and children…

A scarf activity is a great activity for a story time class. It acts as an extension of the story and can really help with inciting some movement as well. Our students always react with such excitement at the sight of the scarves. We're sure it's the same with yours. Given the fact that we are still working through our "Ocean" themed ideas, we created this fun and simple song\rhyme, with jellyfish in mind, which works really well with scarves. It illustrates the movement of the jellyfish using…

Participant and Setting The participant was a six-year-old, first grade female named Mary. Mary did not have any diagnosed disabilities. She attended a private school Monday thru Friday for an average of 35 hours per week. While at school, Mary participated in an in-school tutoring program for students identified by their teacher as struggling readers. The in-school tutoring occurred twice a week for one hour each day. In addition, Mary’s parents paid for her to go to private tutoring for…

There are many difficulties and struggles that a First Generation American student like myself experience on the daily. My main struggle is the language barrier with English reading and writing. Growing up with foreign parents was not the easiest thing, but ended up being worthwhile at the end. My first and native language is Polish. I had not learned the English language till I started preschool and that is where I learned it from. Due to not knowing English well enough, I had to go to…

following part of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking verbs (past, present, and future. I can use the TEKS to help the students understand about past, future, present tense when referring to where they went for the trip. Before going to the trip, I can focus on helping first graders understand about past, present, and future. We can do interactive activities where we learn to identify how to properly use each of the verb tenses. Furthermost, after coming back from their trip…

Each person is often identify with different factors that allow us to be unique such as culture and language. Culture is usually defined depending the person’s belief, styles of life depending the place they live in and customs. This definition leads to the believe that culture is fixed factor that only defines the person’s past. In a similar way, language is also viewed a fixed factor that allows us to communicate with each other. We ignore the impact that culture and language has in our…

___________________________________________________________________ Game! Charades (imagen de alumnos jugando charadas) Divide the class into two teams. The teacher will call one student from one team to the front of the class, and show him one verb and one adverb (for example: run angrily). The student must act these words out. If his/her team can guess the two words, the team gets one point.…

Naturalism has a superpower that can be used to find a connection with all things in humans and nature. This power can be in all of us, because it's the power of observation and we can interact with nature by exploring its natural surroundings. Romanticism has no superpowers but does have amazing effects from its beauty, depending on your view of nature, the effects can be life changing; or a place of peace, "bliss of solitude", and a relaxing state of being. In these two writings, Muir faces…

study of the origins of words and the way the words have changed in meaning and in context over time and history. Etymology allows someone to go in depth with its origin, meaning, and the way the meaning has changed. Knowing the origins of words or phrases is crucial to have conversations with other people in our society. By looking at the word assassin, the history of the word allows us to study its many meanings in depth. Assassin is originally derived from the Arabic language(assassin). The…