Berube’s fifth grade class at Mary Baker Elementary on April 3, 2017. Lesson Title: Fractions and Word Problems Estimated time: 45 minutes Lesson overview: This will be the last lesson taught to students’ in order to meet our standard. We will focus our lesson…
native language, despite having an at least average intelligence. Dyslexia is very common, but has only been talked about in recent years. It was 1878 when German neurologist, Adolph Kussmaul, first used the phrase “word blindness” describing what we know as dyslexia today. The word dyslexia was first used by Rudolf Berlin of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1887 to describe the inability to read. In 1905 W.E. Burner published the first report of childhood reading difficulties in the U.S.. It was not…
are four people in my group: Julia, Elvida, Jose, and myself. While reading this book we had jobs to do. Julia, summarizer, summarized what happened in the section we read. Elvida, disscusion director, asked questions that caused disscusion and debate. Jose, illuminator, explained why he like certain phrases in the section read. I was the vocabulary enricher, finds hard or intresting words with a understandable definiton that is used like in the book. In all I liked my group disscusion because…
offence to such words. People should not have fear when it comes to living in the United States, hateful and offensive speech should have some type of restriction. People hiding behind the first Amendment, when it comes to hate speech, has always happened. Whether it when the bill of rights was created or today, this has always occurred. A…
was also balanced as an active but at the same time a reflective learner depending on the information discussed in class. Although group work is beneficial when it comes to activities in class, it’s not my most productive way to apply what was discussed in class. I usually sit back and listen to see what other people’s inputs are before I put any input into the group.…
I believe that this course can be best described by using the title of the assigned text. Untangling the Web is what I would say if I only had three words to describe the course, but three words wouldn’t nearly be enough to encompass the complexity and depth of the material. The course is more specifically focused on the Middle East. It is about how by analyzing historical events from as far back as 2000 BCE, we can denounce why the Middle East has been a mess. This course is about explaining…
is that subjects with chronic non-fluent aphasia will recruit right-hemispheric areas to improve their language functions following two weeks of constraint-induced aphasia therapy. The independent variable is the aphasic experimental group compared to the control group, and the dependent variables are activation in the regions of interest and the behavioral improvements. In this study, the regions of interest were the inferior frontal gyrus…
Words are dangerous, words travel to the very heart of a person and change how they look at the world. When presenting to a group of people, using normal conversational words will not be enough. In history there has been many great speeches; two great ones were given by John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. In the speeches President Kennedy's Inaugural Address and “I Have a Dream” they have multiple similarities and differences. The similarities are a passion for what they say and how they…
Vocabulary Indiana Academic Standards: English/Language Arts 5. RV. 3.2 Determine the meaning of general academic and content-specific words and phrases in a nonfiction text relevant to a fifth grade topic or text. 5.RV.2.5 Consult reference materials, both print and digital (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus), to find the pronunciation and clarify the precise meanings of words and phrases. 5.SL.2.3 Establish and follow agreed-upon rules for discussion. Content Covered: Students will be…
Words serve a function. A structuralist would say that a word acts as a signifier and the definition that people associate with that word is the signified. A post-structuralist would argue that the words meaning depends on a person’s context and could change from moment to moment and person to person. The way we approach words lies somewhere in between. We all approach a word differently, but we seek to agree upon a definition to have a common understanding. Antisemitism is a great example of…