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    The Lesson

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    Rights Movement‚ Toni Cade Bambara’s short story "The Lesson" tells the story of a young African-American girl named Sylvia and the important life lesson that she learns one day while on a trip to a toy store in New York. Her neighbor‚ Miss Moore‚ brings Sylvia and a group of her friends to F.A.O. Schwarz and while there‚ they come face to face with the injustices they face because of their backgrounds. Miss Moore does this to teach them a lesson‚ one that she feels that they need to learn in order

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    The Lesson

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    Rupp Eng 101 October 16‚ 2013 The story “The Lesson‚” by Toni Cade Bambara‚ is about a young girl named Sylvia who is accompanied by a group of her friends from her neighborhood and her elderly neighbor named Ms. Moore‚ who tries to teach all of them a lesson about life. “The Lesson” is a realistic story that takes place in the mid-20th century that exemplifies the true difference between upper and lower classes during that time period. Although Sylvia might come off as a mean and cocky little

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    | |Social Studies | |Lesson Plan | |For the Week of: February 25‚ 2013

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    Chapter one: Humility‚ discusses the traditions followed three days after a girl was born into the world. Whoever would visit her would make a sacrifice. Also the baby girl would be placed “below the bed to show that she was lowly and weak and should concentrate on humbling herself before others.” Zhao proclaims a woman must possess humility‚ industriousness and to continue sacrifice. She defines humility as acting respectful to others. She defines industriousness as complating everything that needs

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    Chapter 3 Discovering Self-Motivation Concept Choosing a meaningful purpose gives our lives a direction and creates inner motivation. Many students have not defined a personally meaningful purpose for being in college‚ let alone for being in a particular course. Unfocused‚ these students are more likely to drift from rather than to academic success. By offering them the opportunity to choose personally meaningful outcomes that they would like to achieve in college or in life‚ we assist students

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    Disability Awareness Lesson Go Math! 3rd grade single digit multiplication Objectives: 1. Students will demonstrate their knowledge gained from the day before by correctly solving the problem of the day. 2. Students will use different strategies to solve single digit multiplication problems with at least 80% accuracy. Activity 1: The students will complete problem of the day. The problem will be related to what the students learned the day before and will be posted on the board and they

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    Arts and Culture - Art (Choice A) Assignment 01 Student 50227335 Jeandri van Zyl Unique Code: 833253 Semester 1: 740713 A) Introduction 1) Discuss the role of Art Education and the outcome of a quality art program. 1.1) The role of Art Education 1.2) Outcomes of a Quality Art Programme 2) Name and discuss the development of perceptual development in the Intermediate and Senior learners through: * Experience * Visual Stimuli 2.1) Experience 2.2) visual Stimuli 3) Define the concept

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    The Lessons

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    1. Why are the three rioters looking for Death? Because they think death is a person. 2. What do they expect to find under the tree‚ and what do they actually find? They expect to find death but they find a pot of gold. 3. What happens to the rioters? They die‚ and actually find death. 4. Who/what is the Old Man a personification of? Death 5. How is “The Pardoner’s Tale” a moral tale? What is the moral? Because the rioters search for death‚ and find gold. They all die. Think Critically

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    Life Lessons in Sports

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    Life lessons are lessons that people receive to help them carry on their life smoothly. These lessons would include acquiring socialization skills and etiquette and learning how to be effectively persistent and responsible with others. Sports can be very instructive in teaching these types of lessons. There are obvious benefits of sports such as keeping people physically fit‚ promoting active lifestyles‚ and relieving emotional stress. There are also moral benefits associated with sports. Some people

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    Lesson Observation

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    Lesson Observation 1 Teacher’s name: Slusari Alexandra Observer’s name: Cebotari Tatiana Topic: Artisanship Date: 10 of April Number of students: 10 Class: VII “B” The lesson I have observed was on the topic “Artisanship”. At the beginning of the lesson the teacher put a clear set of aims to the pupils. She had a lesson plan which helped her to organize the lesson better. She used a lot of additional material. First of all at the beginning she involved pupils into the lesson by asking pupils

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