10 Allusions from TKAM 1. “Angel May” (p. 51) Angel May means the common nickname given to girls to mock their particularly “girly” behavior. Jem refers to Scout as Angel May when Dill and Jem were planning on going to the Radley’s house to try and see Boo Radley. Scout is a tomboy so Jem calling her this is like calling her weak and scared. 2. “Get Miss Maudie’s goat” (p.44) An expression meaning‚ “to annoy someone jokingly.” Uncle Jack asks Miss Maudie to marry him every Christmas and she always
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1. Which of the following skills is most important in learning how to write? A. Knowing how to use the Readers’ Guide before you write B. Knowing how to plan before you write C. Knowing proper punctuation before you write D. Knowing proper grammar before you write 2. The most important difference between an outline and finished writing is the A. details. B. order of events. C. grammatical structure. D. source of ideas. 3. A search engine is a way to A. revise a rough draft. B. speak with
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northwest Florida. Stumphole whiskey: illegally made and sold whiskey that would be hidden in the holes of tree stumps. Tuscaloosa: a city in central Alabama. Bullfinch: A famous collection of Greek myths Dewey Decimal System: A system for organizing books in libraries devised by Melville Dewey. diaries of Lorenzo Dow: Lorenzo Dow (1777 - 1834) was a Methodist preacher who traveled throughout the country‚ including the state of Alabama. man who sat on a flagpole: Flagpole sitting was one of the
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Education As the novel begins you can see that education is very important theme along with all the others in the book. The theme of education runs through the novel which is not always based on school‚ but always where Scout realizes that school is not what you expect it to be‚ where the children are in a rougher environment‚ though they are smart. There are many instances in Tkam that prove education is a theme that is important and needed throughout the whole story because most of education
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content-based instruction as the most appropriate method to learn and construct knowledge have resulted in the development of activities to integrate the Internet into the classroom. WebQuests are activities designed for this purpose that take full advantage of the resources on Internet. Although the WebQuests free to use on the Internet are designed for native speakers and have not been developed as activities for second and foreign language learning‚ I propose that they can be effectively used
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English (Reviewer) Part 1: Nouns Nouns comes from the Latin word “Nomen” which means name. Noun are persons‚ places‚ things‚ event or ideas. Nouns Can either be common or proper. Common nouns are general name‚ while proper nouns are specific names. |Common Nouns |Proper Nouns | |Begins with a small letter |Starts with a Capital letter
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In September‚ Scout and Jem go to school. Their teacher Miss Caroline is strict to the students. Her teaching style pushes them too hard. The students are not adapted to it. Scout has been taught reading by Calpurnia‚ the cook in her home‚ in a naive but effective method. It remains unsure whether Miss Caroline will eventually fit into her students and fellow teachers in the town. Walter is a poor‚ shy child in the class. He has no book‚ tidy clothes or even lunch. Atticus helped his father‚ and
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student interests‚ develop critical thinking skills to be able to adapt and/or solve real life problems. Today’s world is full of media and technology use that can be used in the classroom to spice things up. This paper focuses on the integration of WebQuests‚ virtual video games‚ and virtual dissections in the science curriculum. Using Technology to Motivate Students in the Science Classroom Today‚ a majority of students are either bored‚ frustrated‚ or feel like school is a waste of time.
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for college at Philips Academy in Exeter‚ N.H.‚ and was accepted at Harvard. His eyesight failed and he became an industrial apprentice in the depression of 1873. At Exeter he was influenced by the classification system invented by Melvil Dewey in 1872 (Dewey Decimal System). He became in 1878 a machine shop laborer at Midvale Steel Company. In the following book he describes some of his promotions to gang-boss‚ foreman‚ and finally‚ chief engineer. He introduced time-motion studies in 1881 (with ideas
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Typically‚ a woman’s job is to nurture‚ teach‚ and take care of domestic chores. During the 1930s and in modern times‚ there is a softness associated with femininity (Armengol 62). Such activities women would be expected to be involved in at the time would be tending to gardens‚ hosting parties‚ and cooking. All of these are done by the female characters in Lee’s novel. Jem even tells Scout‚ “ You know she’s [Aunt Alexandra] not used to girls’...’leastways‚ not girls like you. She’s trying to make
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