...It is imperative to assign formative assessments in the classroom especially to track student’s reading and comprehension abilities. Formative assessments help the teacher differentiate what students know and what gaps in the student’s background knowledge have to be filled. Formative assessment also assesses student’s current ability and evaluates whether they are grasping the main ideas, and purpose of the reading. The information gathered from this evaluation will help the teacher determine the level of support the students need during reading and what reading strategies might need to be modeled before the students read a complex text. For this formative assessment, students will read a textbook passage titled Cells and Energy. This passage will introduce students to how plants get their energy and how the chloroplast functions to make sure that the plant is converting energy to food. To track student’s progress during the lesson students will complete a short response analogy and a concept map. Students will create an analogy between something/someone that that shares a similar function and role of a chloroplast. Students should demonstrate that they understand the function of a chloroplast and can make a connection between a chloroplast and an unrelated object or person. This assessment will help me discover if students are comprehending the information they are gathering from the text and whether they can use that information to explain the importance of a chloroplast...
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...The author’s thesis is that even though these young Iraqis, who are labeled as “emo” or “homosexuals,” are facing horrifying and tragic situations under extreme violence, the future is in their hands, therefore risking their lives for a better tomorrow will hopefully help them earn their freedom and rights. They might end up losing their lives, but it would be worth it in the name of freedom. The quote that I found especially profound is, “If there is one silver lining in this tragic situation, it is the growing role of human rights discourse as a weapon for society to fight against such extra-legal violence against even its most marginal members” (Levine 328). I choose this quote because it speaks people in general facing a similar situation...
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...Rainie et al. (2012) found that portable electronic reading devices have been gaining popularity in the last few years. e-books and e-readers have a wide range of technological enhancements that offer readers a more immersive, and realistic reading experience. The additional enhancements and features e-readers provide to students increase reading comprehension and motivation to read, while also making struggling readers feel safe. Few would argue that students today are not the same as students five, ten, or fifteen years ago. Sandra Wright and April Prensky claim that the activities and lives of children are more technologically driven than ever before, and that technology captivates their minds more than any other type of entertainment. Because...
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...Jack In “The Dark Psychology of Being a Good Comedian,” Olga Khazan discusses the relationship of darkness and light in humor. Throughout the article she reinforces the idea multiple times that a twist is needed in jokes. The arguments she offers to support her thesis that comedy requires just as much shadiness as it does enlightenment rely on her research, studies, and experiences. I will argue that Khazan’s argument succeeds because of the overflow of the compelling evidence she provided in support of her claim. Olga Khazan believes that majority of people find jokes with a little controversy in them to be funnier than those without it. In order for people to laugh at someone’s joke there needs to be some kind of wicked jerk. Peter McGraw believes the best jokes “take something awful and make it silly. Go purely light-hearted and you risk being toothless. Too edgy.. you’ll make people uncomfortable” (Khazan). With this McGraw is saying that it is okay to offend people to a certain degree with jokes. It should be part of the joke. But it should have an equal amount of “feel-good” to it. For example, when the attacks on September 11th happened the whole country stopped. People needed ways to cope. Comedy was nowhere to be found because no one wanted to offend anyone and they did not think anyone would appreciate any comedy. But The Onion thought differently and began to print articles joking about the terrorists. They were not sure how it would go but the issue was a smash...
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...We have been retained to represent Local 4940, Nicole Miale and Kim Sousa in connection with the enclosed charge of discrimination. Kim is the Union President and Nicole is a member of the Executive Board. I met with Kim on January 27 and she advises me that Della Nimely is a Career Resource Specialist previously employed by the Collaborative with a date of hire of September, 2014. On or about August 11, 2015, the Collaborative notified Della that it was laying her off. The lay-off letter was dated in July. Della told Nicole who referred Della to Kim. Around this time, Della went out on a sick leave of absence due to one (1) or a series of car accidents and she ran out of sick time. Della applied to the sick leave bank and Kim assisted her in getting her an extension to 48 days of sick leave and helped her fill out the application. Della had only deposited two (2) days in the bank because she was a short term employee. Around the end of August Collaborative Director Joe Nasif called Kim and Della into the office. At that time Della did not know who Kim was. Kim thought that the meeting was about the layoff. It turns out there was an employee who was Jr. to Della by the name of Casey Reagan, and Casey, who is a white female, had been retained while Della had been laid off. Kim pointed this out to Nasif, who was not aware that Della and Casey held the same position. Also, Casey had been transferred to the Collaborative’s South County location and had subsequently resigned....
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...My second document is the persuasive argument on my own personal opinion on the concussion protocol and its effects on the game. For the introduction of this document, I used a example of change. When you wake up in the morning, you have a basic routine, you brush your teeth, get changed, prepare breakfast, finish any last school assignment, then you head out the door. But if any of these were alter such as you run out of underwear or toothpaste, you would be upset. I concluded my introduction by asking the audience why no one can accept these rules changes in support of player health and safety. I then included a picture of David Bruton Jr who is holding his head in pain after a dirty hit by the Pittsburgh Steelers. This relates to the question concluding my introduction paragraph and this would create emotion to the reader that another human being is in pain. Next, I started to create my argument on how we all meant to believe that football is a dangerous sport that can do serious damage to the human body, while this is true the sport we know it is changing as well. I started to prove my point in another direction of the NBA, on one of sports biggest controversies today, who is the greatest of all time? Michael Jordan or the king Lebron James. We stated that it’s hard to compare them dued to the different era they played in, were Michael Jordan era in the 90’s was more “physical” and today generation of basketball is “soft”. 90’s basketball had less rules or maybe the induction...
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...The word "slave" never appears in the Constitution directly. However, slavery is mentioned and protected in the document, even though the term is never specifically used. The infamous three-fifths clause counted 0.6% of the slave population in allocating representation, which granted the South extra representation in the house. The Constitution also forbade Congress from condemning the Atlantic slave trade. Additionally, the Constitution granted the federal government the power to quell any local uprisings, which could, of course, include violent slave rebellions. If Northerners demanded the removal of any mention of slavery from the US Constitution, the South would only act negatively and the entire situation would be detrimental to the building of the United States of America. The framers of the Constitution feared the reaction that might come out of such a decision. For example, Southern colonies may not join the new union. Back then, a main source of the South’s earnings was from cash crops produced through slavery. If the South saw that any mention of slavery was removed from the constitution, they could be led to believe that their institution may not be “right”, or even lost. Essentially, they would lose the protection of their practices in slavery. This would lead to disagreements and quarrels at the federal, state, and local level. It’s the question of economic benefit versus moral acceptability. The demand for the removal of the mentioning of slavery in the Constitution...
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... The one to elect Sanders is the one to elect, for these elections in my opinion for all the following reasons. Sanders believe that Federal Reserve give too much money to big businesses and that money should be given to small business which I am in favor of, not only does it give an opportunity for small business to expand but it can also help our economy if this business succeed. Also he believes that when it comes to civil rights women should work and should be payed as same, as men(equality to all no matter their gender) and is against racism, homophobia and sexism(supporter of same-sex marriage) I agree with his argument on equal pay for woman and on same sex marriage everyone has the right to be treated equally no matter their religion, or color of skin (Equality for all). In addition when it comes to Education he promises on giving $18 billion to the state government, so colleagues can reduce tuition cost by 55%, in my opinion education is a very important factor in our world today about 65.9% enrolled in college in the us in 2014 , that percentage (should be higher) and for those that enrolled they will be in debt for many years which is not fair, colleagues should be free for all or at least reduced like Sanders is promising to do.Besides education he believes that Social security such as Obamacare should be strengthen with the help of the federal and state government.I am a strong supporter of Sanders vision on Entitlements and the benefits it can bring to the people...
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... At the front, and at home, another New Year dawned bleak. There were many who wondered if their lives would ever be normal again. After the destruction that had gone before, and in a year that would bring victory and peace, ironically, Britain would lose more men than in any other year of the war. 1916 had seen the government tighten its control of land with the very nature of rural life undergoing profound and far-reaching change. The government had asked famers to increase their yield and were pushing the use of tractors and steam ploughs. Mechanisation was the order of the day and, as with most new ideas, some were keen to embrace these ‘new fangled machines’ while others railed over the passing of traditional practices. Whatever an individual’s point of view, what was not in dispute was the need to continue increasing food production. Planned yields for corn and potatoes added 1,000,000 acres to land under cultivation. The government forged ahead with voluntary rationing and backed this up with an active campaign to secure its observance. It received a mixed response. The second quarter of 1917, saw an additional 135,000 women added to the number of those already in employment. Those who cared to look back to the heady days of August 1914 knew the war had changed their lives forever. There would be no way back to that former life! In January, Arthur Pearson, President of the National Institute for the Blind, wrote to Mrs K. Newborn to thank her, and the people of Epworth...
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... The reconstruction phrase was lots of violence among slavery all over the south.The Reconstruction land-grant plan “Forty acres and a mule”, this land would be divided up between slaves to restart their way of life. The Reconstruction phrase should have help guarantee equal rights and freedom for all americans. The Thirteenth Amendment was finalized in 1865 in which it abolishment of slavery within the United States.The Fourteenth Amendment (18680 extended “equal protection of the laws” to all citizens.The Fifteenth Amendment (1870 )guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied on the account of race and color.The term Freemen was the term used given to those slaves who became free men after the U.S Congress passed the Confiscation act of 1862. During the freeman bureau area this movement was responsible for the welfare of newly free slaves, in which it was suppose to help build schools and help blacks African Americans get their own lands.The Freedmen's Bureau agent monitored State and local legal affairs and often intervene on behalf of blacks. The rights of former slaves should have been;Health care was needed, getting paid wages for their harvest work, before Civil War all crops; rice, corn and cotton was chief money-makers that's why slaves owners didn't want blacks to be free they would lose lots of money and profits. Therefore, if they were to get paid for their work they would beat them off their lands without getting paid. The right to vote, trade of business...
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...Introduction Schizophrenia is a long-term mental illness that affects nearly 1 in 100 of the population. It usually emerges in late adolescence or early adulthood and is characterized by a combination of positive (ex. hallucinations and delusions), negative (ex. loss of motivation and social withdrawal), and cognitive (ex. deficits in attention and memory) symptoms (Gruber et al., 2015, Opler, 2011, De Jong et al., 2013). From the negative symptoms generally comes a decline in social and occupational functioning, making this a highly disabling mental illness (Meyers et al). The course and outcome of schizophrenia is remarkably variable, with only a small percentage of patients following a chronic, deteriorating course (Parnas, 1999) despite enduring symptoms or functional deficits in most patients (Gruber et al. 2015). A variety of environmental and genetic susceptibility factors have been proposed as potential causative agents, however the etiology of schizophrenia is still unclear (Ellison-Wright, 2010). There are two fundamentally contrasting theories currently debated. The neurodegenerative theory, the older of the two theories, originated from the observation of morphological alterations in the brain of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia such as reduced frontal and temporal lobes and the enlargement of the ventricles. Further support for this theory comes from the apparent fact that antipsychotic medication slows down the progress of the disease as well as the morphological...
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...There have been a few positively attempted initiatives that have used technology to improve healthcare for both the patient and physician with the intent of easing stress for both parties. One well-known initiative is the OpenNote initiative which is a reporting tool that works as part as a quality improvement response to web access to their medical records. OpenNote initiative allows patients access to notes from visits written by nurses, clinicians, physicians or health care workers. The patients have the freedom to freely read the entire notes on their visit and voice their comments on notes, which were written by the health care staff. They were urged to report discrepancies in their records or submit feedback on notes that they may...
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...The voices of freedom that I chose was on the topic of slavery and what the word “freedom” meant. The Union and Confederacy used the same words but different meaning. In a letter, written on April 17, 1861, from Thomas F. Drayton to his brother Percival, an officer in the U.S. Navy, defends his support to the confederacy cause. He was a South Carolina plantation owner and ally for the confederacy succession. He explains that the confederacy is not fighting to defend slavery, instead, it is fighting for their own freedom. Abraham Lincoln was an United States president from the spring of 1861 to spring of 1865 when he was assassinated. He made an address to Sanitary Fair, Baltimore that discussed the different meanings of freedom on April 18,1864. Throughout history, we have seen multiple societies have slavery play an important role. From the civilizations of ancient Greece, 1754 BC. (Wikipedia, 2016) to American slavery in the 17th century. American slavery overtime grew to be one of the major forces that divided the United States, especially in the American Civil war in the 1860s. Prior to the United State’s independence in 1776 , slavery was not really thought about if it was right or wrong. It was done in order to keep up with the economic necessities that the rise in tobacco cultivation had made. Once the Declaration of Independence in 1776 stated that “all men are created equal, [and] that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these...
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...The word multitasking connotes a way where a person can complete many tasks successfully in little amounts of time, where in reality “someone can do two things at once, but they can't focus effectively on two things at once” (Keller 3). Despite what many believe, it can be demonstrated that multitasking is terrible for the brain. While some argue that it’s beneficial to multitask, research proves that it’s detrimental to focus on many tasks simultaneously. A person wishing to increase the amount of free time they have will argue that multitasking allows you to combine tasks and get the job done faster. Many who support multitasking will say “rather than doing one thing after the other, a person can combine tasks so they can more quickly get everything done (Source 3). However rather than increasing productivity “evidence from psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience suggests that when students multitask while doing their school work, their learning is far spottier and shallower than if the work had their full attention” (Source 2). Multitasking may be convenient for saving time however, if comprehension of the subjects being learned is affected negatively, then students and employees shouldn’t be encouraged to use this method of learning. Unfortunately people pick up on this bad habit early as demonstrated by “a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and published in 2010, stating almost a third of those participating in the survey say that when they are doing...
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...I find McCloskey to be presumptuous when he implies that evolution has displaced the need for a designer. For the sake of argument we will assume that the theory of evolution is true. Evans and Manis argue that even if evolution is true, it does not necessarily displace the idea of God as the designer behind the creation of the universe. They make the statement that evolution is a process by which God realizes His purposes (6). Evans and Manis point out that the laws of nature and physical constants seem to be contingent. They could have occurred differently, but yet they did not. It does not seem rational to believe that the laws of nature are governed by chance. The laws of nature remain unchanged. If it were true that nature was governing itself, then why have those laws not changed over the course of human history? The has to be an ultimate designer guiding these processes. McCloskey uses one of the most common arguments held by atheists when he ventures into the problem of evil in the world. He uses the problem of imperfection and evil in the world to argue against a divine purpose in the world. We realize that there are limitations to the cosmological argument. That is why we say it is defeasible. We know we could be wrong, and we also are aware that it has its shortcomings. It is hard to draw a definitive line between good and evil. There are many gray areas on this subject. As mentioned earlier, the problem of evil in the world has long been used by atheists to object...
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