Sentences with phrase «by her eighth grade class»

She paired her brother up for a school dance and was voted «The Next Ann Landers» by her eighth grade class.

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By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Once got his foot stepped on by Vin Scully in the Candlestick Park press elevator... sat next to Teri Hatcher in eighth grade algebra class... Once went to a school called «Mango».

The day after the treatment and control exercises were administered, the primary dependent variable was measured: students» food and drink choices for a «snack pack,» announced by the principal as a reward to the entire eighth grade class for their hard work during the state testing period that had just ended.

Utah parents seek criminal penalties against teacher who they say went too far in sex ed class: «The Jordan School District is investigating allegations that a seventh - and eighth - grade health teacher violated the sex education statute by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.»

Inspired by a letter he received from an eighth grade class, Coppola turned The Outsiders into a devouring CinemaScope fever dream: an homage to Robert Wise and Nicholas Ray that took its chief inspiration from the timeless backlit twilights of Gone with the Wind, which the boys read to pass their time in self - imposed exile.

This K - 8 school, one of the first public schools inspired by Waldorf methods, infuses music, art, and movement into lessons and offers student - directed learning and what public schools refer to as looping, a process in which a teacher follows her class, ideally, from first grade through eighth grade.

Before reading on, please take a look at this example of a VoiceThread from Megan's eighth grade class based on the novel The Red Kayak, by Priscilla Cummings.

Meanwhile, Kozlek has posted two lesson plans inspired by her eighth - grade yearbook class and has borrowed other teachers» curricula as well.

Marcia Corby, an eighth - grade math teacher in Phoenix, keeps her students» minds sharp by making sure they are on their feet as much as possible during her forty - five - minute class periods.

In eighth grade, I had the good fortune of being taught history by Paul Murray, who was not only gifted at making the learning interesting, but also showed how much he cared about me — far beyond my performance in his class.

By the time students are in eighth grade, each class has a full stock portfolio and students are able to create a small - business plan.

Florida classrooms are also dealing with a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2002 limiting class sizes in certain subjects, such as math, science and language arts (18 students in prekindergarten through third grade; 22 students fourth through eighth grades; and 25 students in high school).

Ninety - eight percent of KIPP reading classes and 90 percent of KIPP's math classes outperform their surrounding districts by eighth grade.

Fordham today released a paper by Michael Hansen projecting the impact on student learning if excellent eighth - grade teachers — those in the top 25 percent — were responsible for six or 12 more students per class.

The Arizona Education Progress Meter, which represents key metrics that support a shared vision for world - class education in our state, includes eighth grade math as one of eight indicators by which to measure the health of education in Arizona.

This video, developed by the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at the University of Texas at Austin as part of the Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies, demonstrates use of the Frayer model in an eighth grade math class to increase students» understanding of math concepts.

«By the time they're taking the PSAT, it's much too late to determine whether they should be taking algebra in the eighth grade, biology, and other important gatekeeper classes needed for college,» he said.

By the time our kids left eighth grade, whether by staying with us for high school or going elsewhere, they had taken upper level classes and four high school examBy the time our kids left eighth grade, whether by staying with us for high school or going elsewhere, they had taken upper level classes and four high school examby staying with us for high school or going elsewhere, they had taken upper level classes and four high school exams.

R Character Council is a 48 - minute elective class that is taught by our team of three regular classroom teachers: Ann Asher (eighth grade English), Brandi Owens (art), and Ryan Wideman (seventh grade science).

School leaders hope to add an eighth - grade class in the coming years, with enrollment of more minority students likely made easier by the school's new location.

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