Sentences with phrase «of my classmates held»

All 30 or so of my classmates held a rope together and stood in a circle.

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She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

I remember when I got baptized in Israel, one of my classmates nearly held me under.

Among the seven names sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as candidates for chief judge of the Court of Appeals are a former Manhattan US attorney, Westchester's current DA, a former law school classmate of the governor and the state's chief administrative judge — the same position current Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman held before his appointment.

Among the seven names sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday as candidates for chief judge of the Court of Appeals are a former Manhattan U.S. attorney, Westchester's current district attorney, a former law school classmate of the governor and the state's former chief administrative judge — the same position current chief judge Jonathan Lippman held before his appointment.

Morrow joined 170 of her classmates at the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience's Brains Rule Neuroscience Expo, held April 24 at Zoo Atlanta.

The new Footloose, it turns out, is not all that different — in plot, characters and themes — from the original, which was a box - office hit and made a star of Kevin Bacon, playing a spirited city teenager who moves to a small town where dancing is banned and who endeavours to overturn the law so he and his classmates can hold a proper senior prom.

So Ren develops a reputation as a bad boy, even dating the daughter (Julianne Hough) of the local preacher (Dennis Quaid) before he and nerdy best friend Willard (Miles Teller) try to compromise by changing the system so his classmates can hold a traditional dance.

He is held in distain by many of his classmates, who think he lied about Cedric Diggory's death and the return of Lord Voldemort (Ralph Finnes).

So I can immediately relate to the bullying scene depicted in this movie where a young Alan Turing (Alex Lawther) is shoved under the floorboards of his classroom and held captive by his fellow classmates.

And it surely did not quiet the critics, who continued to complain that children are too young to be penalized for reading struggles, that retention has a potentially negative effect on children's love of learning, and that the stigma attached to being held back while the rest of your classmates move on is not worth it.

A small but growing number of lawsuits around the country are seeking to hold school districts responsible for the sexual harassment of students by their classmates.

The object of the game is for each student to identify the word that goes with the meaning on his / her card; then the student must find the classmate who holds a card that has another meaning for the same word.

By situating important academic concepts and skills in the context of projects and internships, High Tech High gives Morikawa and his classmates what John Dewey, the great pragmatic philosopher and educational reformer of the early twentieth century, called «both magnet to attract and glue to hold» their learning.

Money Math Match Students hunt for the classmate who holds a bag of coins equal in value to theirs.

Zooming in on the face of fellow classmates, three members of Bob Schroeder's video communications class concentrate on holding their cameras with steady hands.

Ask for someone to start the web, by holding the end of the string / wool, calling out the agreed starting point (e.g. trees) and throwing it across the circle to a classmate.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 requires schools to include students with disabilities in the general education curriculum to the greatest extent possible, and the No Child Left Behind Act requires educators to hold these students to the same academic standards as their classmates.

Because when they do buy in, they actually become part of the process of holding themselves and their classmates accountable.

You may need to hold students accountable for their assessments of a classmate's work by having them sign off on the rubric they use.

For example, teachers might hold informal and verbal celebrations by asking all students who gained 0.5 points for a specific learning goal to stand and be acknowledged by a round of applause from their classmates, then all students who gained 1.0 points, and so on.

A relatively light curb weight also helps the Mazda turn in with authority and hold the line without too much body roll, and the CX - 5 is certainly more effective in the corners than any of its similarly - priced classmates.

The CM1 tablet PC is actually based on the 4th generation Classmate design that Intel has launched at the Cebit electronics show held in Germany in March this year and is going to be introduced in the Japanese market in the start of August 2010.

Classmates and friends of the late Dr. Emily Champion ’08 will hold a 5K run / walk, «Run Like a Champion,» on Sunday, Oct. 23.

You hold yourself out as if you know something, but you graduated from law school last spring and you've maybe settled a couple of DUIs for your cousins and classmates.

Anthony Borges, 15, saved the lives of more than 20 of his classmates when he threw his body against a door and held it shut while the gunman tried to enter.

Gun violence was fresh for some in the DC crowd: Ayanne Johnson of Great Mills High School in Maryland held a sign declaring, «I March for Jaelynn,» honoring Jaelynn Willey, who died Thursday two days after being shot by a classmate at the school.

I had to hide behind desks and hold the hands of my classmates, shaking and praying, hearing the gunshots outside of my door,» said Mei - Ling Ho - Shing, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, telling the 28 other panelists about her experience inside the school as Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 of her schoolmates and school staff.

Joe Cannon, a senior at Woodland Hills High School, holds a sign listing the names of classmates killed in gun violence before a walkout held at the school on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Churchill, Pa..

Ira Jaffe, a parent whose son couldn't make it to Tallahassee because he was attending two of his classmates» funerals, held the door as the students filed into a room.