I was ahead of the game. Entering my Freshman year of high school without fear, I took my first AP English class with Mr. Dearing, a sophisticated, tall, bald, white man, who fails at being humorous. At this instant, when I stepped into his classroom on the second floor I could already sense my writing skills being challenged; assignments being piled and being thrown at my face every week. I had Mr. Dearing for two years, AP English and AP Literature and Composition. Throughout those long two…
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As we navigate the literary landscapes of this semester, we find ourselves embarking on a deeply personal journey of exploration. Through the diverse stories that we have encountered, spanning a multitude of cultures and perspectives, we are compelled to examine our own cultural rules and biases. These narratives act as reflective mirrors, urging us to confront the implicit biases that often shape our understanding of the world around us. In parallel, our academic experiences encourage self-reflection…
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class. However, Kian’s cultural sensitivity leads him into making comparisons between his abstract stories from home and the far more tangible, but no more valid, physical manifestations of Maricela’s household culture which she imports into the classroom. Although Kian identifies with Maricela, as a kindergarten-age child, he does not yet understand how vastly the experiences of first-generation immigrants and their second-generation children differ. Kian may recognize that he is tied to the common…
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. classroom.” Ultimately, the great takeaway from this theme was the insight we gained in forming our life purposes and, specifically, how we should form them for the benefit of our futures. This novel and the message that it contains would not be as influential…
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format as described in lecture and text. Sample outline included below. Why we are doing this: This is a bridge from narrative to informative speaking where we use the entire speech preparation process but without the need for external research. In narrative speeches we simply relate a personal incident in the natural order of events as they occurred. We now move to another form of personal expression (complaining!) that is just as natural as storytelling, but requires a bit more analysis and preparation…
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this unit: In this unit, pupils explore the use of the moving image to communicate ideas about particular genres or styles of art. They analyse paintings, films, cartoons, illustrations, digital images, photographs and images from contemporary visual culture. They learn how to represent ideas and values using the moving image. They make connections between abstract expressionism, expressionism and pop art of the 1960s and contemporary moving images. SMSC links: Spiritual: enables students to develop…
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make deliberate choices). • Adults want formal learning to be convenient and affordable. • Adults want university‐level learning to be relevant to real‐world issues and workplace practices. • Adults want to use their earned university credentials for personal and career advancement. What Do You Think? Are these the things that you value in online learning? What would you add to the list? Youthful learners do not usually have the necessary experiential component to enrich a self‐directed learning…
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University of Southern California Final Exam Jori Richman CTCS 200: History of International Cinema I Professor Laura Serna TA: Andrew Meyers 12 December 2014 Final Exam A. Clip Analysis – “Kids United” from Zéro de conduite (1933) Through his distinctive formalistic style and vibrant temporal experimentation, Jean Vigo’s famous pillow fighting sequence from Zéro de conduite (1933) represents a culmination of his anarchist political ideology. Because the children present a microcosmic…
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1924 and 1948 as well as across national borders and cultures. Levy’s novel, written more than fifty years after the first Windrush arrival, creates a common narrative of nation and identity in order to understand the experiences of Black people in Britain. Small Island—structured around four competing voices whose claims of textual, personal and historical truth must be acknowledged—refuses to establish a singular articulation of the experience of migration and empire. In this essay, I focus on…
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THE ARTS CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK Connecticut State Department of Education Division of Teaching and Learning March 1998 1 NOTE: Portions of this framework are adapted with permission from National Standards for Arts Education, © 1994 by the Music Educators National Confer ence (MENC). The complete National Arts Standards and materials related to the standards are available from MENC, 1806 Robert Fulton Drive, Reston, VA 20191. 2 THE ARTS By the end of…
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