Lesson Plan Lesson Topic/Focus: Under the sea fish (includes some invertebrates) Date: 20-4-2008 VELS Domain(s): Science Grade(s)/Year Level(s): grade 4‚ level 3 VEL Dimension(s): Science knowledge and understanding Duration of Lesson: 1hour to an hour and 10mins Learning Standard(s)/Outcome(s): At the completion of this lesson students will be able to: - explain what a fish is; - distinguish which animals are called fish that are not actually fish (using the technical
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Spencer Long Daniel Gleason ENG 211 19th April‚ 2015 Research Context Essay: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel García Márquez‚ or locally known as Gabo‚ was born in 1928 at a small Colombian village near the Caribbean coast. Because his parents were so poor‚ his grandparents chose to raise him‚ and later he would say that he drew much of his inspirational stories from his dear grandmother. Gabriel is said to be one of the greatest authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish
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The stories we read in class were both titled ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World’‚ and ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’. Both stories seem to correspond with each other‚ and have both major similarities‚ as well as major differences. The stories fit together just like that‚ almost feeling like you’re reading the same story again‚ though having enough differences to separate the stories from each other. These similarities and differences tend to range from either small and subtle‚ to extreme
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change‚ and they develop‚ but some pieces stay with them throughout their lives. In Alice‚ Alice has a problem with the way Wonderland works. She constantly grows and shrinks in size when she eats and drinks various items. When she shrinks to a height of 3 inches‚ she tells the Caterpillar‚ "I’m afraid I am sir [changed]‚’ said Alice‚ I can’t remember things as I used- and I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together’" (Carroll 33). She says this when the Caterpillar " repeats it contemptuously-
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Autobiography: The Sea My family took a vacation the summer before sixth grade. We were in Maui‚ Hawaii to be exact‚ it was paradise. We walked to the beach from my family’s cabin everyday. As I looked around‚ the white sand felt scalding and the water was warm. The shore was filled with coral rocks‚ crashing waves and laughing children playing with the warm‚ wet sand. The water rose and fell‚ each time dissolving a sand castle into mud and making a child scream and run playfully from the water
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By using magical concepts in his story to stimulate the reader’s imagination‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez obscures the serious theme behind “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”. With the subtitle to this story of “A Tale for Children”‚ one is lead to believe that this is a fantasy written to entertain children using magical realism. However‚ there is a much deeper premise for this story which is seen after analysis. The story examines how humans react to supernatural occurrences and disrespect the importance
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Beginning with When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats‚ we as the reader’s first notice the rhyme scheme used. Readers observe that the first and fourth lines of the poem rhyme‚ as well as the second and third lines. Correspondingly‚ the poem grasps an iambic pentameter which gives Yeats poem a more musical characteristic. The word “And” appears in this poem more than six times just in the first stanza alone which keeps the rhythm of the meter constant. In my opinion‚ I believe that the narrator
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The Symbolism of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” An allegory is a method in which characters or events symbolize ideas and concepts; it is a way of explaining concepts which cannot be easily explained‚ by telling a story which has a deeper meaning. The underlying meaning of an allegory has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance‚ and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas‚ like charity‚ greed‚ or envy. With this in mind‚ symbolism is the art of using an object or
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Literary Elements & Style Instead of using commas to separate “doctors and generals and coaches…” Gladwell uses the word “and” to connect each occupation to the next‚ which tricks the reader into thinking that there are more occupations listed than there actually are. The same tactic is evidenced in “to shape and manage and educate…” By stressing the prevalence and importance unconscious reactions have‚ the reader will more likely believe that unconscious reactions are influential. Literary Elements
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A Place Where the sea Remembers is a book written by the author Sandra Benitez. The story takes place in a small town in Santiago‚ Mexico. Candelario (the salad maker)‚ Marta (the 16 year old that’s pregnant)‚ Fulgencio (the photographer that loses all of his equipment are all characters that go through hardships and unfairness. The conflicts this essay will have are person vs person because the characters that I will be describing are having problems with other characters. The first conflict will
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