Wade Petersen Presents Dare to Be “Different” Using “Choice Menus” to Differentiate in Your Classroom Iowa World Language Association Conference October 7-8‚ 2011 Des Moines Downtown Marriott Contact Information: Wade Petersen wadecp@netins.net petersenw@wdmcs.org Valley Southwoods Freshman High School West Des Moines‚ Iowa Differentiation The new buzzword in the education world is “differentiation.” Teachers are increasingly being asked to provide alternative ways to help students learn. The
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Being Young Everyone has once been young. But everybody hasn’t gone through this difficult period in life the same way. Which possibilities and living conditions have teenagers nowadays? Some people think that you leave childhood when you become a teenager‚ and that you are still young up in your twenties. I don’t think there are exact limits that tell you whether you are young or old. According to christian tradition one is considered adult after the confirmation‚ but I wouldn’t call
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A Different story-Sujata Bhatt The poem a different story was written by Sujata Bhatt‚ who was born on the 6th May 1956 in Ahmedabad‚ and brought up in Pune until 1968. Many of her poems have themes of love and violence. Bhatt explores issues such as racism and the interaction between Asian‚ European and North American. Sujata Bhatt has experienced three different cultures: the Indian culture‚ American culture and the German culture she has had to adapt to all of them and now she cannot tell us
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PVT Lee‚ Kager 23 April 23‚ 2013 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ON TIME Time: It is the universes theoretical constant that governs‚ sometimes with an iron fist‚ the everyday lives of humans. Time has many different measurements. There are stellar measurements‚ such as the phases of the moon or the rotation of the Earth around our Sun. There are extremely long measurements of time‚ like the geological epoch that can span for tens of millions of years‚ and there are very small measurements
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1) If I had to choose‚ I would classify myself as a Libertarian. As a Libertarian‚ you make your own choices and accept the consequences of these choices. When other countries view the United States‚ they will always say how much freedom we have. Yes‚ we do have more freedom compared to other countries‚ but we are still limited on what we can do. Even though we have freedom of speech‚ we can get in trouble for saying certain things. I believe we should be able to choose what we do and say. I may
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Strength can be defined in many different ways. To some people‚ strength is about building the muscles in our body. To others‚ it is about being strong in the mind. To me‚ strength in our character is the most important as it is about being resilient and never giving up. Strength in character is the most important strength that anyone could possess in my opinion. Quoting Lawrence G. Lovasik‚ “Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others‚ to hide hurt
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Being yourself‚ being who you are. When you hear those two lines you may think they mean the same thing but do they? Think about it‚ you were born into this world a tiny little baby with no ideas‚ or preferences‚ but as you grew you developed a personal identity‚ but did it really develop or was it in you to begin with. If you believe you were born already with a personality‚ then you take the side of nature. on the other hand if you believe that your personality developed based on influences in
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The Business of Being Born Discussion Chase Bauer Washburn University School of Nursing Main Points McGrath‚ P.‚ & Ray-Barruel‚ G. (2009) The film “Business of Being Born” was very eye–opening‚ the main points included topics like‚ the numbers of cesarean births now a days‚ and why this was happening. Their conclusion was based off the times of when the majority of C-section deliveries were performed‚ which happened to be 4 pm‚ and 10pm. (“Business of Being Born‚ 2008”) Their supporting
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Being Deaf includes living in a silent world that is not quite the same as the Hearing scene‚ however a hard of hearing individual can at present appreciate an extremely gainful and free life. For a hearing individual the thought of being hard of hearing and never listening to a sound in a world brimming with sounds may be an alarming thing. On the other hand‚ to a hard of hearing individual the inverse can be valid. Growing up Deaf‚ a man may miss the sounds that a hearing individual has around
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Love‚ Your Only Mother David Michael Kaplan Another postcard from you today‚ Mother‚ and I see by the blurred postmark that you’re in Manning‚ North Dakota now and that you’ve dated the card 1961. In your last card you were in Nebraska‚ and it was 1962; you’ve lost some time‚ I see. I was a little girl‚ nine years old‚ in 1961. You’d left my father and me only two years before. Four months after leaving‚ you sent me—always me‚ never him—your first postcard‚ of a turnpike in the Midwest‚ postmarked
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