In Alvermann‚ Phelps‚ & Ridgeway (p 43) A great deal of emphasis is currently placed on participatory student-centered literacy learning in small groups‚ such as literature‚ science labs‚ and school-related service learning projects. However little attention has been paid to how students’ use of gendered language in those groups can lead to harmful stereotyping‚ especially when the language of their texts reinforces certain stereotypes. As a science teacher‚ simply separating students into groups
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Heading into the 2012 London Olympics the expected battles of Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte were one of the bigger story lines for the U.S. Olympic team. Now that competition in the pool has finished‚ Lochte is little more than a footnote in the Phelps story. Perhaps that is harsh treatment of a swimmer that will leave London with five medals‚ two of them gold. But fans and analysts were so quick to find someone that could be better than the greatest swimmer—the greatest Olympian—ever that they
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2008 during one of the greatest spectacles in sports‚ the whole world was fixed on the Olympics to watch Michael Phelps attempt perfection. Not only did Michael Phelps define that Olympics‚ he defined and showcased the sport of swimming‚ and revealed the sport of swimming to society in a way that was never before experienced. This paper will not so much focus on what exactly Michael Phelps accomplished at the 2008 Beijing games( not to downplay arguably one of the greatest performances in the history
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3 February 2012 English 3rd hour I. Introduction a. Attention getter: “Faster‚ higher‚ stronger.” Michael Phelps motto b. Introductory info c. Thesis sentence: Michael Phelps is my role model because he is a swift swimmer‚ he has won fourteen Olympic gold medals‚ and he is a pothead. II. Body a. Swift swimmers b. Olympic gold medalists c. Pothead III. Conclusion a. Transition from lat point b. Reword thesis sentence
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Ignorance in Laramie‚ Wyoming Things don’t happen in a small town like Laramie‚ Wyoming‚ but when someone is beaten and left to die‚ the true colors of the residents come out. Some people in the town did not give a care in the world to him dying because he was gay and thought he should have died. Others thought it was down-right wrong‚ immoral‚ and a complete hate crime. Matthew chose to be gay‚ it was his right as a human being‚ and he was going to fight for that right. His fight for human rights
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picket and protest the funerals of people whom they feel have created blasphemous acts against God. This recently included the funeral of Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs. In an October 7th cbsnews.com article journalist Edecio Martinez quoted Margie Phelps as posting on twitter‚ “He had huge platform…gave God no glory and taught sin.” This in return yielded a great a greatly deal of responses by media‚ family‚ and some other government officials as well. This is the story behind the Westboro Baptist
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Speedo innovation: Swimwear companies have invested millions designing high-performance suits for the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Can design help swimmers finish faster? Following the 2004 Athens Olympics‚ officials at swimwear giant Speedo had good reason to celebrate: Athletes clad in their latest suits at the time‚ called Fastskin FSII‚ won 46 medals in the pool. Yet when the company ’s in-house design team‚ Aqualab‚ gathered soon after the games at company headquarters in Nottingham‚ Britain
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In Moises Kaufman’s‚ The Laramie Project the under lying theme of the novel is people are afraid of change. This can be proved from the novel with the character Cathy Connolly and the struggle that homosexuals have to live in there own society. The juxtaposition of anti-gay demonstrations sparked by religion at a homosexual’s funeral‚ and even the physical setting is related to why people are afraid of change. Whether it is start by homophobia‚ religion‚ or opression‚ people are not just afraid of
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Stroehlein 1 Sean Stroehlein Professor Craigan 10/22/12 How to Play Hide and Seek Hide and seek is a fun game to play if you are a kid that loves to run around you’re your friends or even just a parent that loves to run around with your kids. Everyone who plays hide and seek loves the game‚ can always have the best time‚ and creates the best memories with the friends and family. Hide and seek requires very little to play and takes no time to set up. The first thing you need before you
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all of which are american dreams today is libs monday. things break. mayhem ensues‚ such as the alarm not going off and peyton waking me up with 20 minutes to get him to school. so i figured a little rage against the machine would be the perfect mood music today. thus far‚ it has been. just another bomb track. the global icon loader moved once again. this time from kapplication to a singleton within kiconloader itself. so now one calls KIconLoader::global() whenever they want that and there
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