The name of my book is Curtains by R.L. Stine. This book is about a girl named Rena. She is into plays like Broadway. So in the beginning she is in a play and does good acting in her play. In the play she acts like she has to kill her friend chip. Chip jokes with her about it and a person named Bax comes up to them. Bax is the director of the plays. Bax informs Rena that she will be taking the star role. Rena was excited
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James Pitman Level 4 PTLLS Unit 009 Oct/Nov 2012 Analyse learning and teaching strategies used in own specialism Strategy | Strengths | Weaknesses | Group discussion | A good way of exploring a topic in depthUseful to assess a learners knowledge and understanding of the topicAll learners can be encouraged to be involvedDiverse characteristics and backgrounds of learners will ensure a well rounded view | Some learners may not feel confident contributing – good ice-breaker required Other
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The story begins a few days before Christmas in Los Angeles‚ Jean and her L.A. District Attorney husband Rick are carjacked by a couple of African American guys. Soon after in another part of L.A.‚ a racist cop Ryan and his partner Hanson pull over an African American TV director Cameron and his wife Christine‚ for no cause. Officer Ryan sexually molested attractive Christine in front of her helpless husband. Officer Ryan has an explanation like "searching” for hidden weapons inside a woman’s cloth"
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Why is Zero running away from camp and Stanley’s chase after him the key moment in ‘Holes’? * This scene shows a development in Stanley and Zero’s relationship. Stanley now understands Zero and why he doesn’t answer the Warden’s questions. “Zero just didn’t like answering questions.” * Stanley now trusts Zero – “he’d learned not to doubt him when it came to math.” * Zero finally stands up to Mr. Pendanski‚ before running away through either fear‚ frustration or both. Mr. Pendanski had
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The Nostalgia of East Germans in Good bye Lenin Main points: 1) Why were the East Germans so nostalgic about joining with W. Germnany : -They lose not only their national identitity but a definition of who a they are as individuals. They were socialist who unlike the W. Germas were not materialistic. They thouh about the welfare of their community even more than theirs. ( An example can be seen when Christiane Kenner help) people to write letters ‚ teaches children and through the various awards
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The Haitian Revolution was an inevitable‚ as the hatred built up in the slaves and the aftermath of the French Revolution only lead for a strong desire for slaves in Saint Domingue to revolt. The slaves were treated very cruelly and unjust which added a forever burning fire of hate in their hearts towards their enslavers‚ Toussaint L’Ouverture was a key figure and aspect to why the Haitian Revolution reached such a height. Toussaint was a free man‚ no longer a slave‚ but he still felt the need to
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The book I read this quarter is called Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan. It’s a self published book I got for free on my kindle‚ and it’s 309 pages long. Jenny Pox is classified as horror in the kindle store‚ but the blurb didn’t seem to scary or graphic. It told me Jenny Pox was about a teenage girl named Jenny who couldn’t touch anyone without making them sick with a disease/infection nicknamed “Jenny Pox”. At the time‚ I was going on a sort of shopping spree for free books‚ so I bought it along with about
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In chapter 14‚ monk opens the chapter by describing how he does not fit in his race‚ and his book is the result of trying to fit in the black community. Monk tried numerous times to try to prove his identity. However‚ he always had a disconnect with other people‚ including his family‚ and his few friends. In my aside‚ I was assigned language. Specifically‚ 8: behold the invisible. Throughout the whole book‚ Monk struggled with finding his identity. He goes through different phases and ideas that
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Trouble herein (L&T) and You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down herein (Good Woman). Many of the main characters in these stories are left unnamed; this offers the reader the opinion that the unnamed character is Alice Walker herself. Critic Alice Hall Petry discusses the differences between the short stories in Walkers L&T and her stories in Good Woman‚ asserting that the stories in the first collection are much stronger that those in the second. (Petry) The works contained in L&T‚ are stories of
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Howard Wakefield’s life is seemingly perfect in all regards. A stable job at a respected law firm‚ a lovely home‚ and a beautiful family. Yet‚ he is clearly unhappy with the monotonous routine that plagues his daily life. In Doctorow’s version of the short story‚ the narrator is Mr. Wakefield and as a result‚ the reader understands his reasoning in deciding to leave his wife and children. The reader is given insight about Wakefield’s unsatisfying marriage and the irritation he expresses due to
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