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There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is “UP.”
It is listed in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when [...]
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Graphic organizers are a great way to help simplify material. However, if they are too complicated, they can actually distract from the concepts you are trying to teach. Here are a few tips that should help you get the most out of using graphic organizers.
Keep the structure of the organizer simple. Try to make the [...]
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It’s is a contraction of the words it is. If you prefer not to write it is, you would write it’s.
Its is the possessive form of it. Normally one uses an apostrophe when showing possession. The rule for pronouns, however, is never use an apostrophe in a personal possessive pronoun (except with the word one’s).
Directions: [...]
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Directions: Write a paragraph with 6-8 sentences using these quotes. Which one do you most agree with? Why? Cite at least one of the quotes in your answer.
“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.” – Horace (Roman poet)
“Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.” [...]
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The tagline on this blog is “Daily Teaching Ideas.” Well this video is NOT a recommended daily teaching idea, but it is funny. The teacher in the video overlooks the misbehaving student for a time then the eraser flies.
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I first saw this post on Carla Beard’s blog.
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A sentence must have a subject (the doer) and a verb (the action). Without both, the sentence does not express a complete thought, and it is a sentence fragment.
Identify each as fragment or complete.
The mouse in the corner.
The last thing I had to do.
Angel read last night.
Over the hills and through the woods.
They took out [...]
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves [...]
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Farther refers to distance
Further refers anything else other than distance and the continuation of something. It usually means in addition to or moreover
Sometimes, however, the words are interchangeable, for example, when the idea of distance is unclear as in this example: I was further/farther into the story than I realized. In this case either could [...]
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Directions: Write a paragraph with 6-8 sentences that explains which life philosophy best describes yours? Give examples of how you live your life in this way.
Life is great.
Life is unfair.
Life is what you make it.
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