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39. Create a collective School Guide giving tips and information for incoming students to the school. Publish on the school website or give to school to provide copies to students.
40. Family Memoirs: Have students interview and write memoirs based on family member’s or mentor’s story. Invite these family members in for a day to read the stories.
46. Musical Chairs—students leave their writing on their desk, students walk around until music stops, they read and provide feedback.
48. Most Highlighted Sentence—Have students read each others’ writing, highlighting their favorite sentences. The last student to read a students’ writing copies the best sentence and writes it on a piece of paper, then tapes it around the room or in the hall.
50 – 53. Google Slide Excerpt—Students paste their favorite piece of writing on a class Google Powerpoint (you may want to chop it up into groups, or just have them do it individually…), with their name or no name. Have students add pictures, decorations, etc.
Share powerpoint in groups, partners, or as a whole class.
*Non-tech version: Have students write their favorite sentence from their writing on a colored piece of paper and allow them to decorate it and post around the room.
Finally, here are some ways you can set up opportunities for students to publish their writing on their own to be read at any point in the year.
55. Ask school administrators for permission to read 1-3 sentences of powerful student writing every day during announcements. Students could have the option of submitting their own or being nominated by classmates.
56. Have each student maintain an individual website with their writing throughout the year, acting as a portfolio.
If you try one of these out, let me know in the comments below! And if you have other ideas, I know we’d all love to hear them.
My Slam Poetry Mini-Unit takes students through brainstorming, drafting, planning, and performing a meaningful slam poem, all in a week. It’s the perfect chunk of lessons to add slam poetry into a poetry unit, or to fill a week with engaging, meaningful content for students.
Want even MORE slam poetry lessons? This Slam Poetry Unit Plan includes a full 3 weeks of lessons similar to this one, taking students through drafting and revising multiple poems with a student-planned performance at the end. It uses a variation of this lesson plan to help students prepare for their performance at the end.
You’d probably also like this Peer Conference/Feedback lesson plan. It’s good to use for ANY type of writing and designed to lift both student’s academic conversations and writing. Swoon.
20 Ways to Help Reluctant Writers in your Classroom–a list of ways you can make your classroom more friendly to students reluctant to write, as well as trouble-shooting ideas for students who refuse to write.
Teaching Writing Pinterest Board–My spot to collect all the most useful resources I can find for teaching writing–if you like this post, you’re sure to like this collection.
ELA Resources Pinterest Board–A collation of engaging, best practice resources for ELA teachers.
My Teachers Pay Teachers Store–I’ve taught writing to grades 6-8, 10, and 12, so that’s my store’s specialty!
Barcelona are reportedly planning a fresh approach to sign Willian after failing with a bid during the previous summer transfer window.
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Arsenal are understood to face direct competition from AC Milan in the race to sign Malcom from Barcelona at the end of the campaign.
Maxi Rodriguez with an unstoppable drive into the top left corner for Argentina.
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Certainly one of one of the most typical electrical wiring issues is on how to wire a switch. While applying switches at home is very uncomplicated, wiring one may well not be that effortless for everybody. An ON-OFF switch is really quite simple to wire. There are actually different types of switches, but for this example, let us say you will be putting in a single-pole toggle switch, an exceedingly prevalent change (along with the most straightforward).
You'll find a few hues of wires in a very usual single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and eco-friendly. Splice the black wire in two and hook up them on the terminal screws - one particular on top along with the other on the base screw of your switch. The white wire serves for a supply of uninterrupted ability which is usually connected to a light colored terminal screw (e.g., silver). Link the eco-friendly wire to the ground screw of one's change.
These measures would usually be sufficient to make a standard change perform with out a trouble. Nevertheless, should you are certainly not self-assured that you can execute the process adequately and properly you better permit the pros do it as a substitute. Immediately after all, there is certainly a purpose why this endeavor is one of the commonest electrical wiring issues questioned by the majority of people.
For a few motive, ways to wire a ceiling fan is also considered one of one of the most prevalent electrical wiring thoughts. To simplify this endeavor, you should use a single change for the single ceiling fan. To wire the lover, it is merely a matter of connecting the black wire on the ceiling fan to your black wire of the switch. If there is a light, the blue wire need to be related towards the black wire in the switch also.
You'll find motives why they are by far the most typically requested electrical wiring issues. 1, quite a few assume it's straightforward to do, and two, these are the frequent electrical jobs at home. But then you certainly shouldn't place your protection at risk in your purpose to economize. The stakes could even be much greater in case you try and get monetary savings and do an electrical wiring position devoid of ample information or knowledge.
The Town of Jamestown has an agreement with GRW, Inc to perform all building inspections and permitting. Links to the applications are below. Those applications are also available via email and in person at the Jamestown Municipal Building. Please contact the Jamestown Municipal Building with any questions regarding the application process. Permit Fees and other information are included in the permit application packets. Below you will also find the Jamestown Unified Development Ordinance and the Zoning Map for the Town of Jamestown.
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goin' RV Boondocking: Yeah It's Smoky... But This Time It Ain't The Truck!
Yeah It's Smoky... But This Time It Ain't The Truck!
We hauled out of Longview yesterday morning rolling a short ways up I-5 to make our turn east at Hwy 12. Bound for Idaho, Lolo Pass and Montana!
At first I just thought it was just cloudy and foggy, but after a bit it started to sink in, these clouds aren't grey... these suckers are blue... and then, the occasional faint scent of burnt pine trees. Yeah... forest fires.
Got a text from some friends down near Cottage Grove in Oregon. We apparently went through southern Oregon just before a surge of fires erupted all through there.
Up where we're running now, it turns out there's a good sized blaze north west of Yakima and another south west. Maybe it's just me, but when there's enough smoke to have my delicate ol' eyes burning, it takes the shine off a mountain trip.
No problem right? Just keep her pointed east and drive away from 'em! Not so easy. There's six fires straddling the country we were heading for... and four more down below those! I pulled it up on the smartphone... and there's Icons for fires all the way to Yellowstone.
A lot of the same country that was on fire when I rode through in September last year. I guess I/we should get used to it. There's many millions of more acres that have to burn to erase the mess built at the Sierra Clubs et al. behest... The woods themselves are beyond saving. Gonna take a few years to burn all that up so we can start over with a clean forest. Our only hope can be that few more men sacrifice their lives fighting the inevitable blazes.
You either CHOOSE to do proper logging operations to do the work that natural fire does or you CHOOSE to let natural fire burn... or you are CHOOSING to have the forest grow to a thick, sickly, badly overgrown mess that burns with catastrophic rage.
I admire the WISH to nurture a "Natural" forest. It's a pretty fantasy. There's only one problem with it. There are few, if any, natural, un-impacted by man, forests remaining on this continent. 370,000,000 people have a way of spreading their "Impact" around a bit. That means, we have a responsibility to "Manage" the land we live on properly. To make it as abundant and healthy as is possible.
That doesn't mean leaving it to the "whatever happens happens" mindless Disney World fantasy of Fire Fighting Grizzly Bears playing with Rabbits in a sunny meadow. It means realizing that using the products of a forest for the betterment of mankind is NOT an evil, and doesn't require the destruction of the forest either.
Ahhhhh... In the mean time... in an effort to climb out of the smoke we're taking advantage of that bit of hardware we've got on this rig, a steering wheel. So, when we hit the boundaries of Yakima sometime early today I'm gonna cut it hard to port? I think that's sailor talk for left? and roll up the eastern face of the Cascades a ways. Likely cut back east again along Highway 2.
It's a rough life when your back-up travel option is Glacier!
Since your "miserable back up plan" takes you near Glacier, don't miss Polebridge. Go in the morning, if you can, baked goods are incredible. I also understand they make the best steak dinner in Montana--or at least used to. The road runs parralel to Glacier--dirt road. Lots of wildlife.
I don't have a TV, but I do check www.inciweb.org - it lists all of the active wildfires in the country.
Some mighty nice CG's and boondocking sites around Hungry Horse reservoir. Agree with Jack. Don't miss Polebridge.
Agree with everyone else about Polebridge! And continuing on to Bowman Lake, if you can stand the "jiggling"! Promise you won't be disappointed though!
The Sierra Club has been advocating for sensible, sustainable logging for years as opposed to the logging companies who were and probably still are all for Clear Cutting.It's taken a long time and many clear cuts to change the status quo Brian. You should get your facts straight.You seem to talk both sides of the aisle. You loved the Redwoods, at least the %5 that are left thanks to indiscriminate clear cutting.
I enjoy reading your blog but sometimes your rants are misguided imho.
HA! Don't know if I beat ya'll... but we been goin' to Polebridge Mercantile, and the lake beyond for near ten years. And Your ALL right. The Bakery is The BEST!
Dennis; Hmmmmm... I don't know where you might have got the idea I stand in support of the logging companies. I believe I have spoken the words "Improper Logging" in multiple places... but just as logging has been and can be Improper... swinging to the opposite extreme, as the et als. have done is equally, if not more damaging. How-some-ever... it's far more complicated than mere forest husbandry might seem and can't be addressed in a comment or a reply. BOTH of those extreme sides are and have been Wrong. They have been the source of Today's disaster in the woods... but a proper response shall come at a later date. As for my 'Facts'... they come from having lived most of my adult life on the receiving end of the litigation interference, as a hand, pushing cows on many of those forests from Arizona to Montana. I didn't read about it in a book or see a report on TV. I was there. I heard the words and saw who done what to who. I'll put what I believe I know together and dedicate a post to that. And then? I'm gonna just let it lay. Because truth be told? It's too late now to change what is going to happen. The conflagrations will continue and grow. Too many egos refusing to admit they were wrong,and too far gone to fix other than with fire.
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Trees help decrease cooling costs during the summer, and keep your home warm during the winter. They can provide screening, a noise barrier, draw moisture from the ground, and help support a natural habitat (squirrel or human).
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Bailed-out mortgage backers Fannie and Freddie had an astounding $39 bln quarter. That sort of performance won’t last forever, and it doesn’t erase the companies’ past misdeeds. But as Congress mulls fixing the housing system, it might have trouble slaughtering two cash cows.
U.S. housing finance company Freddie Mac announced on Nov. 7 a record $30.5 billion in earnings for the third quarter. It will pay roughly that amount to the Treasury as a dividend. Much of the windfall stems from a $23.9 billion release of its allowance against net deferred tax assets. The company also saw gains on mortgage-related securities, multifamily mortgages and proceeds related to mortgage litigation.
Fannie Mae, the other large mortgage company bailed out by the U.S. government in 2008, announced a profit of $8.7 billion on Nov. 7. Its performance was driven primarily by rising home prices reducing loss reserves, a lawsuit settlement award from Bank of America and fewer delinquent home loans.
The Senate Banking Committee also held a hearing on housing finance reform on Nov. 7. Both chambers of Congress have been considering bills that would reduce the portion of the market backed by government-sponsored entities like Fannie, Freddie, and the Federal Housing Administration. Presently, Fannie and Freddie back about two-thirds of new home loans. Along with the FHA, the government stands behind around 90 percent of all new mortgages.
The Service Access Controller (SAC) is the overseer of the server machine. It is started when the server machine enters multiuser mode. The SAC performs several important functions as explained below.
When sac is invoked, it first looks for the per-system configuration script /etc/saf/_sysconfig. sac interprets _sysconfig to customize its own environment. The modifications made to the SAC environment by _sysconfig are inherited by all the children of the SAC. This inherited environment may be modified by the children.
The -t option sets the frequency with which sac polls the port monitors on the system. This time may also be thought of as half of the maximum latency required to detect that a port monitor has failed and that recovery action is necessary.
The Service Access Controller represents the administrative point of control for port monitors. Its administrative tasks are explained below.
The port monitor is currently running and is accepting connections. See sacadm(1M) with the -e option.
The port monitor is currently running and is not accepting connections. See sacadm with the -d option, and see NOTRUNNING, below.
The port monitor is in the process of starting up. STARTING is an intermediate state on the way to ENABLED or DISABLED.
The port monitor was unable to start and remain running.
The port monitor has been manually terminated but has not completed its shutdown procedure. STOPPING is an intermediate state on the way to NOTRUNNING.
The port monitor is not currently running. (See sacadm with -k.) This is the normal “not running” state. When a port monitor is killed, all ports it was monitoring are inaccessible. It is not possible for an external user to tell whether a port is not being monitored or the system is down. If the port monitor is not killed but is in the DISABLED state, it may be possible (depending on the port monitor being used) to write a message on the inaccessible port telling the user who is trying to access the port that it is disabled. This is the advantage of having a DISABLED state as well as the NOTRUNNING state.
When a port monitor terminates, the SAC removes the utmpx entry for that port monitor.
The SAC receives all requests to enable, disable, start, or stop port monitors and takes the appropriate action.
The restart count specified for the port monitor when the port monitor was added by sacadm; this information is included in /etc/saf/pmtag/_sactab.
The number of times the port monitor has already been restarted.
sac uses pam(3PAM) for session management. The PAM configuration policy, listed through /etc/pam.conf, specifies the session management module to be used for sac. Here is a partial pam.conf file with entries for sac using the UNIX session management module.
If there are no entries for the sac service, then the entries for the "other" service will be used.
Sets the frequency (sanity_interval) with which sac polls the port monitors on the system.
I woke up this morning to check on Willow, and I found that her hoard was completely gone! She has put it all in her food bowl and in the place where the hoard was is a mountain of substrate. Is this normal?
Just let her do whatever she wants.Maybe offer a second bowl with new food instead of trying to completely remove her preferred hoard location.
Okay, I'll do that. Thanks!
Hmm - whenever I've found a mountain of substrate it's usually on top of a hoard lol! To bury it. It sounds like she has been doing some housekeeping. Maybe she has discarded the stuff she put in the bowl. Sometimes I'll find a bit mound of substrate full of bits of food outside the front door of Charlie's house - he chucks it all out when he wants it taking away! I once found it piled up in front of the door and it was quite stinky so maybe he wee'd on it and decided he didn't want it in there any more.
Thank you for the explanation Serendipidity - Willow's very fussy so wouldn't be out of the ordinary for her!
UPDATE: The naughty girl has now taken to putting her food in her wheel - looks like the bits she normally refuses to eat (bright orange pellets from Harry Hamster) so I'll probably take them out.
Ha ha - maybe that's so she can stop for a snack while she's running - or maybe she just discarded them while she was running. You could try leaving those bits there maybe - sounds like laziness to me (ie why leave the wheel to get food when you can just stop for a snack). They'll probably fall out when she runs in it anyway.
Oh yes - if it's noisy take it out lol.
Lol! It's so funny when they put their food in their wheel.
LOLOLOL. That's always loads of fun! For the hammy, not us. So many times I've had the pleasure of getting out of bed to remove bits of food from an exercising hammy's wheel.
Panic and mayhem seem to be raining down on the HVAC streets of California as contractors scramble to interpret the new regulations and changes to bypass systems with the passing of the 2013 version Title 24. Title 24 is the building and energy code standard in California, which ensures building construction, as well as system design and installation, reach at least a minimum level of energy efficiency and maintains environmental quality. These standards result in lower energy costs, greater comfort, more dependable system service, and a better environment.
Yes, these changes do only apply to California currently, but the HVAC trends in the west coast state seem to set the standard for the industry. So what do we need to know about Title 24?
Zoning systems with bypass dampers and ducts are still allowed.
The CEC (California Energy Commission) has approved certain compliance software packages to help design and submit systems with bypass dampers. Depending on the system, you can choose the Performance Compliance Method or the Prescriptive Method.
There are airflow and fan efficacy requirements associated with zoning systems.
There may be different airflow requirements when zoning systems are used versus systems without zoning.
Multi-stage cooling equipment may have fewer restrictions.
If a system meets the requirements of a zonal control system, an energy credit is allowed.
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