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3 Comments Category: Literacy Activities
Tags: Activities, Home, Nursing, sorority

Our philanthropy is literacy, mostly with children, but we wanted to reach out and do something with the elderly in the nursing home. It doesn’t have to involve reading, but we would like it to. I know that we might could set apart an hour to read small books to the patients who have bad eyes, like one on one, but what is an activity that we can do together as a group? I’ll take any ideas, literacy related or not.

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2 Comments Category: Literacy Activities
Tags: Class, Health, Help, Need, Wellness

I made a studyguide, but I don’t know some of the answers? Most of it is just definitions…Here’s a Copy of it:

Health and Healthy Life Long Behaviors:
Health Literacy:
Health Triangle:
-A.
-B.
-C.
Factors that influence your health:
1.
2.
3.
Reliable Sources for health information:
Skills for Effective Communication and Conflict Resolution:
1. 1.
2.2.
3.3.
4.
5 steps to successful decision- making skills:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Long Term and Short Tem goals:
Steps to accomplish goals:
Terms:
Prevention:
Heredity:
Environment:
Culture:
Advocacy:

Physical Fitness:
Steps to take before, during, and after physical activity:
R.I.C.E.: Rest. Ice. Compression. Elevation.
F.I.T.T.:
5 elements of fitness:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
BMI:
Factors that influence BMI:
3 Tests to measure your body fat and muscle ratios:
BMR: Basil Metabolic Rate
Terms:
Dehydration:
Hypothermia:
Frostbite:
Dislocation:
Fractures:
Muscle strains:
Sedentary Lifestyle:

Nutrition:
Simple Carbohydrates:
Complex Carbohydrates:
Benefits of a high fiber diet:
A.Lowers cholesterol level
B.HDL…

1 Comment Category: Literacy Activities
Tags: calling, Grade, Help, History, Lovers

1. Which of the following is not associated with the black power movement?

a. malcom x
b. the black panthers
c. the mississippi freedom decomcratic party
d. stokely carmicheal

2. Which of the following is an example of de facto segregation?

a.a voter in literacy test given to african americans in the south
b. poll taxes
c. jim crow laws
d. a concentration of urban african americans in slum aeras

3. in the summer of 1964 thousands of white college students took part in

a. a furenal procession for martin luther king jr.
b. a campaign to registerafrican americans voters in mississippi
c. a demonstration in support of integrating southern colleges
d. riots in…

3 Comments Category: Literacy Activities
Tags: Answers, check, checked., geography, Help, Just, looked, Need, Please, Them

Which of the following is NOT one of the types of forests that grow in Northern Eurasia?

Mid-latitude deciduous forest
Mixed forest (deciduous and coniferous)
Coniferous forest
Chaparral
B??

Question 2
The rivers of Siberia, when not frozen, have been used for centuries to transport

agricultural products.
lumber from nearby forests.
people to nearby factories.
tourists to see the natural wonders.
A??

Question 3
Which two republics did the Chernobyl disaster most directly affect?

Belarus and Lithuania
Lithuania and Russia
Ukraine and Belarus
Turkmenistan and Armenia

C??
Question 4
Which account of an Azerbaijani demonstration for independence that turned into a riot do you think would be the most reliable?

the account in a Soviet newspaper
the account of an Azerbaijani protester
the account…

8 Comments Category: Literacy Activities
Tags: Defined, denominations, Feminism, It's, Many, since, Ways

(Very long Q, my apologies, please spare yourself the trouble of reading it if uninterested. There is NO requirement to read this question nor answer it. There are lots of other questions you can move onto).

How can this user “Jenn” know that my interpretation is unequivocally wrong? Most preeminent modern Feminists (here modern simply means contemporary) can’t seem to arrive at a consensus of what Feminism is all about. Despite what some may think, e.g. Wendy G, I am an avid reader. (Wendy has on multiple occasions questioned my profession/credentials, my literacy and any number of things, but I have,…

2 Comments Category: Literacy Activities
Tags: HELPPPPPPPPPPP

so im going to high school next year and im really excited. but i dont know what classes i should take. i want to take classes that would look good on a college application. i would also want to go to one of the top colleges like princeton or yale. Here are my choices:
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT-
business service tech 1, general business, word processing
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT-
literacy(reading for the real world), speech 1, journalism, yearbook
FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT-
art appreciation, art foundation, drawing fundamentals,drama
FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT-
french 1, french 2, german 1, german 2, spanish 1, spanish 2, japanese 1
INDUSTRIAL ARTS DEPARTMENT-
woodworking, small engine repair 1, design/engineering…

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3 Comments Category: Literacy Activities
Tags: geography, Questions

5. Relatively little economic activity occurs
-along the Indian coast.
-in areas of high population density.
-along the mountainous northern border of South Asia.
-in the southern portion of India.

6. The growth of India’s middle class in recent years has resulted in a(n)
-decline in the birthrate.
-increase in the production of consumer goods.
-lower rate of literacy.
-decrease of urban population

7. Clearing more than half of Sri Lanka’s rain forest for farmland and other development has brought about
-great economic growth in the country.
-conflict between the Sinhalese and the Tamils.
-changes in the island’s weather patterns and subsequent droughts.
-rapid urbanization of the island

8. Which of the following problems is…

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1 Comment Category: Literacy Activities
Tags: Grade, Help, History, Please

1. Which of the following is not associated with the black power movement?

a. malcom x
b. the black panthers
c. the mississippi freedom decomcratic party
d. stokely carmicheal

2. Which of the following is an example of de facto segregation?

a.a voter in literacy test given to african americans in the south
b. poll taxes
c. jim crow laws
d. a concentration of urban african americans in slum aeras

3. in the summer of 1964 thousands of white college students took part in

a. a furenal procession for martin luther king jr.
b. a campaign to registerafrican americans voters in mississippi
c. a demonstration in support of integrating southern colleges
d. riots in…

2 Comments Category: Literacy Activities
Tags: Field, Site, trip

The criteria necessary for evaluating a field site trip is Preparing for the field site trip. When preparing for a field site trip, the children can think about, discuss, and record what they think they will see, which questions they may be able to ask, who they may talk to and what they might bring back to the classroom. A Field site trip may not mean leaving the school but sometimes involves leaving the classroom to investigate some part of the environment more closely.
The class can go to a site which gives them chances to see objects, plants, animals, vehicles,…

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5 Comments Category: Literacy Activities
Tags: abilities, Graders, outside, tenth, Textbook, Writing

I’m trying to think of fun ways to incorporate “literacy” into a mainstream secondary life science curriculum. It was suggested that I could have students write and edit their own text book (jigsaw, group work, etc.). It would include text, diagrams, and anything else they think of. At the end of the year I would have the classes project hard bound for each of them. A lasting memory and quite the intro to a letter of recommendation! There would be one textbook version written by each class.

Students would be required to volunteer to write their chapter(s). First drafts wouldn’t be…

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