Sentences with phrase «idea of a story instead»

But when they analyzed what teachers and students were doing and saying, they noticed that teachers opened their lessons by summarizing the main idea of a story instead of challenging students to identify it.

Not exact matches

What matters, in these cases, is that someone on your team is brave enough, vulnerable enough, to use a sentence that starts with, «The story I'm making up right now is...» The idea is to reach the truth as quickly possible, instead of wandering around with your made - up explanation, which more than likely consists of your own shame triggers, and has little relation to reality.

But, instead of dwelling on the mistakes or disappointments of the last «new product launch,» Star Wars» producers are reinforcing the idea that this time around is a whole new story — new director, new characters, new villains and new reasons to watch.

Aside from also starting to post more photos on my blog (which idea I see you gleaned from monitoring my brainwaves as well), Dean and I were just talking about this story yesterday and how the point is not doing vs. being, but never being distracted from being a disciple; which is really just being close to Jesus, doing what he does, listening to what he says and going with his agenda instead of ours.

I like the idea of sharing stories instead.

Hatched from an idea Burton had while originally employed at Disney (hence their ownership of it), the story centers around the spindly and depressed Jack Skellington, a Pumpkin King tired of his reign, who wishes instead to spread the joys of Christmas.

Like previous Pixar worlds we've visited in Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Inside Out and Monsters Inc., there feels like there were some good intentions here in terms of creating ideas for the world of The Good Dinosaur The idea that dinosaurs have evolved past the point of humans and are now living in this Western landscape is never explored fully, and is instead sacrificed for the tried and tested «find our way home» story that has been a Pixar staple since Toy Story twenty yearsStory, A Bug's Life, Inside Out and Monsters Inc., there feels like there were some good intentions here in terms of creating ideas for the world of The Good Dinosaur The idea that dinosaurs have evolved past the point of humans and are now living in this Western landscape is never explored fully, and is instead sacrificed for the tried and tested «find our way home» story that has been a Pixar staple since Toy Story twenty yearsstory that has been a Pixar staple since Toy Story twenty yearsStory twenty years ago.

Instead, it is all about mood while telling the rise - to - fame story through its sharp and unique editing style — the film's co-directors earlier work includes The Tree of Life, Moneyball and 28 Days Later, which should give you a good idea how Jimi: All Is by My Side feels vitally different from your standard musical biopic.

Even though there's something refreshing about the director's idea of what sounds like a quirky and whimsical take on the Ranger story (as opposed to the now standard «dark and gritty» approach), the idea of the main hero being presented not as a noble and idealistic figure, but instead a possibly delusional cowboy, has not seemed all that appealing to most longtime fans of the Lone Ranger.

Instead, it's just a rotten, unfunny mess, with a whiff of contractual obligation from almost everyone: It's a movie because everyone involved «hey, that sounds like an idea for a movie,» rather than because of any burning desire to tell a story.

We're wasting too much time in those reading blocks on ineffective practices, like teaching kids to look for the «main idea» of a story instead of teaching them about the world.

While Selman and Elizabeth point out that the traditional view has been to steer students away from the movie version of a book, for fear that they'll watch the movie instead of reading, the two researchers hypothesize that creating a deep and thought - provoking connection between a movie and a book could actually increase students» interest in reading that book and that the very act of comparing and contrasting the way a story is told in two media could lead to a deeper understanding of the ideas in the story and of the characters and the choices they make.

I mean some of these matters tend to accumulate over time and so we're talking to people about getting together collegially and having some structures to talk about sustainability and recovery and not just exchanging stories or, having a bit of a complaining session and saying what a tough day it is, but instead really examining things and coming out with positive ideas about going forward.

I think he's wrong with some of it — indeed, Kelly even provides a link to an article with an opposing viewpoint — but the basic idea is that a «true fan» doesn't want a vast selection of who - knows - what from the book store or Amazon; he wants a Jeff Duntemann story, or a Larry Correia story, or a Robert Heinlein story, and instead of passively purchasing whatever alternatives are presented, he'll actually go off and LOOK for more Duntemann, etc..

Instead of «Idea for a story about the CIA and KGB» you'd get more interest with «New evidence uncovers controversial CIA and KGB collusion.»

Instead, you're going to build yourself a «framework» for your story that's open and flexible, with plenty of room for playing, experimenting, and checking out new ideas off the beaten path whenever the inspiration strikes you.

Writer Dan Thompson doesn't waste any time taking the premise or story seriously and instead revels in the complete insanity of the idea while happily ignoring any pertinent questions that you might have, like doesn't the Moon going missing have a pretty major impact on the workings of the Earth?

With Rose & Camellia, we came up with the idea for the game first, and we argued over what story - based reason there would be for the ladies being polite enough to take turns slapping each other instead of going all - out and having a wrestling match.

Instead of giving a straight up easy to digest story, Bungie seems to have gone with the idea of leaving questions to be answered later down the road.

Instead of the story Wii U-like titles or Smash Bros idea of Pac - Man, this title returns to the early idea of the arcade genre.

I love the idea of a side - story to the main console game instead of the usual attempted translation too.

The main content outside of the relatively linear story mode is a full set of arcade modes where you can play a single mechanic for a high score, play a time attack run where the gems give you extra time instead of points, play a time attack run where you swap characters every now and again, yeah you get the idea.

«We really liked the idea of creating a world, instead of just a string of levels,» said Jonas Byrresen, lead game and story designer for Bedtime Digital Games» Figment.

The panels can easily tell a story similar to a history book, but a story Mokgosi wouldn't dictate out loud during the talk, instead he wanted the viewer to interpret their own story of it based on their ideas, and personal judgment.Other works on display throughout the School were part of the «Status Quo» group presentation.

The exhibition of the same name at CCA is not a direct response to the narrative of this story, but, instead, stages a number of artworks that explore similar ideas of how our perceptual and physical behaviours are transfigured by objects, images, and new technologies.

With Décor: A Conquest, Marcel Broodthaers moved beyond ideas about the resonance of objects to focus instead on the stories those objects can tell.

Other remarkable works include the installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), a portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall; Peripeteia (2012), a fictional drama on the lives of individuals in two 16th century paintings by Albrecht Dürer, and Mnemosyne (2010), which tells the story of migrants in the UK, questioning the idea of Britain as a promised land, where financial worry and casual racism can instead be real threats.

Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?