...program is an intensive systematic phonics learn to read program that will improve comprehension, spelling and a child’s penmanship. This program is well-suited for absolutely every age group and it is an effective solution for any reading problem (actionreading.com). Formulated for use with learners from preschool through adult ages, this program is the key to learning to read the English language in a much easier way. Children struggle with comprehension the most and this program helps to build on being able to understand what you are reading. Our students that we will be tutoring should go from knowing little to nothing about reading to being more knowledgeable and finally able to hold their own in the classroom. Since I have been a substitute teacher at my daughter’s school for the past two years, I reached out to my friends there for a student to tutor. I let them know I wanted to tutor a student they had who had trouble with learning to read and write so they could really benefit from being tutored. My student’s name is Dustin and he is five years old and in kindergarten, and his teacher told me he didn’t really get anything from the time they spent on learning letters or writing. When I first met him I realized that the only problem he really has is being able to concentrate and he forgets really easy what you are talking to him about, so we have to use alliteration throughout our sessions. In starting...
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...Chapters 8, 9 and 10 * Deadline for the complete file (hard copy; so, print out everything): to follow on BlackBoard and via your lecturer ------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1: surprising facts about leaders 1. your turn, page 3 Already done in the first session 2. your turn, page 4 The idea that leaders differ in personal traits makes me realize that every leader has a different view on things and that it does not have to matter for the quality of the leader. Everybody is able to be a good leader, as long as they the right training 3. your turn, page 7 I think Hesse portrays Leo as a servant to make the point that good leaders are not only leaders but also servants. To achieve a goal the leader needs his members and will do as much as he can to fulfil the needs of the group or company. This means for instance that a boss of a jewellery shop also needs to stand in the shop from time to time to see if everything is going well with his customers and employees. 4. your turn, page 8 I consider Peter Coffeng as a servant-leader. I work in the workplace of a jeweller in Amsterdam and he is the head of the workshop. Normally he sits behind his desk helping customers and he makes sure everything goes well in the workplace but when it is very busy he helps us out by also sitting behind the workbench repairing jewellery. Fill out the ‘instrument for reflection’ part from page 11-13 1. C, ability to inspire others. 2. B, will power. 3. J,...
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...Unit 5 Title: The Ransom of Red Chief[1] Suggested Time: 4 days (45 minutes per day) Common Core ELA Standards: RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3, RL.8.4, RL.8.6, RL.8.7, RL.8.9; W.8.2, W.8.4, W.8.9; SL.8.1; L.8.1, L.8.2, L.8.5 Teacher Instructions Preparing for Teaching 1. Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description for teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task. Big Ideas and Key Understandings Writers use irony to fuel the plot of a story. Synopsis Bill and Sam decide that the best way to finance their upcoming land swindle is to kidnap the child of a wealthy citizen and hold him for ransom. The boy they choose, instead of being the docile, frightened child one would expect, is a terror who abuses Bill in every way he can think of, all in the name of fun. The response to their ransom note is not what they would have wished: instead of paying $1500 to get Johnny back, the father demands $250 to take the boy off their hands. In desperation, they agree, and end the story poorer than they began. Read the entire selection, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings. Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary. During Teaching 1. Students read the entire selection independently. 2. Teacher reads the text...
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...being the reason for his little brother’s demise. The short story opens up with the narrator reminiscing about his time with his younger brother, Doodle. His younger brother Doodle was a child born with a serious medical condition, but even though the narrator was warned–many times–on how Doodle can’t do things like “normal” kids, he decided to ignore it and still try to “help” him overcome some of his challenges–not understanding that his condition isn’t something that can be fixed. Throughout the story, the narrator keeps trying to push Doodle and doesn’t seem to understand why he can’t do simple tasks, even calling him a “burden” (p.2) since the “doctor says he mustn’t get too excited, too hot, too, cold or too tired and he must always be treated gently” (p.2)....
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...Odyssey around 850BC and I think it reflected the society of that time greatly. I think the biggest idea of The Odyssey was the suffering. Since in Book 19 page 403, it revealed that “let his name be Odysseus… the Son of Pain, a name he’ll earn in full.” We could tell that throughout the whole book, the ultimate purpose of Odysseus’s adventure and suffering was to return home. He endured so much pain which lived up to his name and matured through all that he overcame. So that through suffering, he became the hero the ancient Greek admired and advocated, but he still remained a flawed being. The principle thing Odysseus learned was that God can control fate and he was destined to go home. In book 12, Odysseus’s crewman ate the cattle which disobeyed his orders of not eating the cattle while he went off to pray. They later died of eating the Sungod’s finest cattle since the crewmen at the same time disobeyed god. (Page 281-282) And what was interesting was that God put Odysseus to sleep while the crewmen ate the cattle. So God gave the people free will to decide what to do, but at the same time let it happen while Odysseus could have saved them. So I may say that the God made the crewmen die. The end of the book was the most amazing part to me. When Odysseus and the avengers for suitors were fighting, they only stopped fighting because the Gods would be angry. They were not actually in peace but pretended to be in order not to enrage Gods. I think Odysseus learned well...
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...In the Socratic Seminar I would’ve asked at least four questions. First one being, If you were in Elies shoes, how do you think you would have acted? What do you think would have become of you, and why? If someone else asked that I would’ve replied by saying that I would’ve became sane and would most likely hurt someone. Being in Elie’s shoes, he lost his mom and his sisters in the beginning. Whenever my parents/sisters come home later than the usual I worry and tear up with just the thought of one of my family not being in this world anymore. Now imagine being Elie, he had just started in the holocaust and he lost people.. Afterwards in page 24 there was a women, Mrs. Schachter, who would cry screaming “Fire! I see fire! I see fire”. Being in the car with her would make me crazy, I would want it to be quiet. With someone screaming while I’m going to a place that I know is dangerous, I’d really like it to be quiet. Throughout the book Elie saw and experienced cruelness, people were being killed thoughtlessly. Seeing this, would make me only think of myself. I...
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...Introduction This thesis explores Social Networking sites as a medium of expression for sexual identity construction; more specifically the research question aimed to explore how gay and lesbian individuals use social networking websites as a means to construct and explore their sexual identities through self presentation on conventional social networking sites (SNS) available and used by everybody versus LGB SNS which are primarily used by Lesbian/Gay and Bisexual individuals and groups. Through the conduction of eight semi- structured interviews with an even number of four males and females and a content analysis of each participant’s social networking profiles, the research explored how sexual identities were presented and played out on these sites by the variation and degree of information that was disclosed by the sample study. Overall the aim was to explore the advantages and disadvantages social networking entails for the gay community through a comparison of both types of SNS, exploring how self presentation and sexual identities are negotiated and managed through the two while determining if these sites were in fact a safe location to play out sexual identities if they are a site of identity restrictions. From research up to this point it has struck me that there is limited research concerned with the disadvantages of social networking and identity experimentation for gays and lesbians. Thus this present study aims to acquire if gay individuals feel they can perform their...
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...When a seed-merchant of cautious disposition and an eye to the main chance receives from an eminent firm of jam-manufacturers an extremely large order for clover-seed, his emotions are mixed. Joy may be said to predominate, but with the joy comes also uncertainty. Are these people, he asks himself, proposing to set up as farmers of a large scale, or do Page 1 This page was created using BCL ALLPDF demo software. To purchase, go to http://www.bcltechnologies.com/allpdf/ a man of means they merely want the seed to give verisimilitude to their otherwise bald and unconvincing raspberry jam? On the solution of this problem depends the important matter of price, for, obviously, you can charge a fraudulent jam disseminator in a manner which an honest farmer would resent. This was the problem which was furrowing the brow of Mr. Julian Fineberg, of Bury St. Edwards, one sunny morning when Roland Bleke knocked at his door; and such was its difficulty that only at the nineteenth knock did Mr. Fineberg raise his head. "Come in--that dashed woodpecker out there!" he shouted, for it was his habit to express himself with a generous strength towards the junior members of his staff. The young man who entered looked exactly like a second clerk in a provincial seed-merchant's office--which, strangely enough, he chanced to be. His chief characteristic was an intense ordinariness. He...
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...University in Chicago, and then went on pursue a career at The Wall Street Journal. He used his years of journalism experience to document a monumental journey that his family took on the right path. Although I've yet to read the book, I presume that his story will both be personal and informative all while trying to get a greater message across to the readers. During reading one third-...
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..."simplified" statement? What member of an insurance or medical plan can decipher the brochure that tells him what his costs and benefits are? What father or mother can put together a child's toy—on Christmas Eve or any other eve—from the instructions on the box? Our national tendency is to inflate and thereby sound important. The airline pilot who announces that he is presently anticipating experiencing considerable precipitation wouldn't dream of saying that it may rain. The sentence is too simple—there must be something wrong with it. But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that's already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what—these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence. And they usually occur, ironically, in proportion to education and rank. During the late 1960s the president of a major university [end of page 7] wrote a letter to mollify the alumni after a spell of campus unrest. "You are probably aware," he began, "that we have been experiencing very considerable potentially explosive expressions of dissatisfaction on issues only partially related." He meant that the students had been hassling them about different things. I was far more upset by...
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...and now that the beautiful Racine, was looming in the background, Dana became more insecure about Page. Page hated the pinch test, the ridicule and constant battles over her weight. Needless to say – on this night instead of the usual father and daughter talk Page was excited to tell Ray what happened at school today. From her expensive ornate pink canopy bed in her illustrious bedroom in Piedmont, California, Page Starr had been born with a silver spoon in her mouth. She had a cell phone for each day of the week, two computers and a MAC thanks to her generous father. Her wardrobe was exchanged for a new one once a year mostly because Dana Ann ordered smaller sizes hoping that Page had lost weight. The Stylist toted bigger sizes for Page...
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...by David Sedaris, 2005 In my essay I will focus on the writer’s tone and on the attitude to learning foreign languages that is explored in the text Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Me Talk Pretty One Day is an essay about the narrator’s, David, time in Paris where he means to learn French. He feels quite intimidated by the other foreign students who, in his opinion, speak excellent French. The teacher assigned to the French class he is partaking in, is extremely tough and intimidating. While going through the alphabet, she proceeds to ask the students questions that will only serve as a humiliating experience for the chosen party. David spends many hours every day studying and preparing for the upcoming classes. His private life is heavily affected by the teacher’s harsh treatment in class, driving him to not to speak in public or on the phone. It feels like an uphill battle for David, but after some months David realizes while in class that he understands everything the teacher is saying. He counteracts the teacher’s provocation with his own sly remark, indicating his perfect understanding of her choice of wording. The tone is this essay moves throughout the essay from being sarcastic through uncomfortable to depressed until it ends on a more hopeful note. In the start the tone is quite sarcastic when he, after the mentioning of his age as being forty-one, describes his start in Paris as that of the circumstances in which a much younger student would have found themselves...
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...Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summers day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum." Page 5 Analysis The descriptive detail paints a vivid picture of the town of Maycomb, which provides some insight on Scout's feelings about Maycomb. In addition, the narrator provides the setting for the story and sets the mood for a quiet and somewhat dull town, which sets the stage for the conflict of Tom's trial. Chapter 2 Quotation "'Your father does not know how to teach. You can have a seat now.' I mumbled that I was sorry and retired meditating upon my crime." Page 17 Analysis Scout's first grade teacher makes her feel bad about being able to read, when she should feel proud that she can read and write at such a young age. Scout even apologizes and referred to her ability as a crime. This exchange demonstrates how many people in Maycomb are very small minded in their views. Chapter 3 Quotation "'First of all,' he said, 'If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with...
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...someone recounting the events and Grendel is told in a 1st person view of Grendel himself. There is lots of controversy whether which of the two is the real hero, so here is the gist of both stories for you to decide: There is a small town full of people that is being tormented by a monster who comes only to kill and bring terror among the people, the attacks continue and after a short while comes a famous warrior named Beowulf. He comes to defeat the town’s monster to save the people and end the mindless killings of Grendel. Both stories result in Grendel being killed and Beowulf being praised for his actions and he eventually becomes a great, fair king that all the people adore and love. The Anglo-Saxon definition of a hero is typically a man who is strong, brave and an intelligent warrior. They had to be willing to fight to the...
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...enormous chateau on his own private island and ate off the best china, using the best silverware. He wore clothes made by a tailor that only sewed for the elite, proof of his wealth and a glimpse of his position in society. On page 5, it says, “Ivan laid out an evening suit, and Rainsford, as he put it on, noticed that it came from a London tailor who ordinarily cut and sewed for none below the rank of a duke.” Zaroff also used to be a part of the military, revealed on page 7, when he refers to himself as an “officer of the Czar”. For him, this is...
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