I have used Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan many times in a guided reading group. It is the story if Sarah‚ who moves from Maine to the prairie when she answers the advertisement for a wife. She decides to try this out for a month and care for Anna and Caleb whose mother has dies. Sarah tells the family that they will recognize her when she arrives because she is "plain and tall." She brings with her a cat and gifts from the ocean. The story revolves around Caleb and Anna and their
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SOLD in class. The book was about a young girl who got sold into the sex slave trade and it illustrated her realization of how horrible the world can be. Even the people who should depend on can cross you and become untrustworthy. My quote is by Patricia McCormick who writes a main character named Lakshmi. The main character snuck down after a customer and saw the woman who owned her paying off a police officer to look the other way. She began to realize that things were not what they seemed. “I
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“America’s Choice” Phasebook by Frank Sacco P4 9/6/16 In Patricia Smith’s article‚ “America’s Choice”‚ from Junior Scholastic‚ Smith explains the current state of the 2016 United States presidential election. The election had surprises for both sides. On the Republican side most people were surprised Donald Trump was elected Republican Nominee. On the Democratic side‚ everyone was surprised on how long it took for Hillary Clinton to beat the unknown senator Bernie Sanders. These
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Topic: Do memories hinder or help people in their efforts to learn from the past and succeed in the future? No matter how much we want to forget‚ we still remember what and how we did it. Sometimes‚ we regret the things that hurt other people especially our loved ones‚ friends and even our teachers. We always think that sharing the worst memories is as hard as a rock but after sharing them‚ we feel a difference in both our minds and body. Memories were our completion to who we are and what
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CB-PAST Form 1 COMPETENCY-BASED PERFORMANCE APPRAISALSYSTEMFOR TEACHERS (CB-PAST) Name: _Charito O. Bag-ao_______Position/Title:____T-I__ ______Appointment Status:_Regular Permanent______ School:_Baculod Elementary School___________District:_Hinundayan_________Division:_Southern Leyte__________ Region:_VIII – Eastern Visayas_____School Year:_2012-2013_____1st Semester:___ ____2nd Semester:_____ √_______ Direction: Make a total of the respondents for eachof the Teacher Performance Index
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Write your name here Surname Other names Centre Number Candidate Number Edexcel GCE Biology Advanced Subsidiary Unit 1: Lifestyle‚ Transport‚ Genes and Health Thursday 8 January 2009 – Morning Time: 1 hour 15 minutes You do not need any other materials. Paper Reference 6BI01/01 Total Marks Instructions se b ink or • Uill inlack boxesball-point pen. page with your name‚ a the top of this • F the andt candidate number. centre number uestions. • Answer all qquestions
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INTRODUCTION: "India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages. India was the mother of our philosophy‚ of much of our mathematics‚ of the ideals embodied in Christianity... of self-government and democracy. In many ways‚ Mother India is the mother of us all." - Will Durant‚ American Historian 1885-1981 Mathematics is an important field of study. Mathematics is essential as it helps in developing lots of realistic skills‚ in fact study of mathematics itself include
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w w ap eP m e tr .X w om .c s er UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education *9505164189* 0653/03 COMBINED SCIENCE May/June 2007 Paper 3 (Extended) 1 hour 15 minutes Candidates answer on the Question Paper. No Additional Materials are required. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen
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The feeling in the hospital room was eerie. It was weird and horrible to be sitting there‚ waiting. I could not believe that I was the one sitting in the emergency room. I was only fourteen years old. I was not supposed to be in this type of pain. A typical day of relaxing‚ and riding horses ended up to be a life changing day for me. Earlier that day I had been riding my horse‚ Shane. Everything was going as usual; we had warmed up and were now running through the pasture. We had done this dozens
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ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION 1303 EXAM PAPER /AUGUST 2012 1. a. Define what is meant by communication ( 2 Marks) b. Explain the purposes of communication ( 4 marks) 2. a. Explain the difference between hearing and listening? ( 2 marks ) b. Write the four types of interference in communication (4 marks) 3. a. Define active listening? ( 2 marks) b. Write four tips for active listening ( 4 marks) 4. Give three examples for each ( 6 marks) Macro markers Micro markers 1.
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