Sentences with phrase «on narrative construction»

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Their focus is not on imaginative construction but on what they call the «realistic narratives» in scripture that render characters and circumstances in mutual interaction.

So while Gladwell himself isn't a character in the narrative, its construction proved to be a remarkable personal journey for him.Aside from the section on David, three chapters of the book deal with the stories of people who drew on the extraordinary reserves of their Christian faith to defeat seemingly insurmountable odds.

With its latest adventure, The Good Dinosaur, a charming tale focusing on a family of green apatosauruses, there is an undeniable emphasis on graphics rendering over narrative construction.

Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated) Would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction.

Suitable for KS2 (as the lesson is fully differentiated 3 ways) This lesson would fit neatly into a grammar or narrative unit based on sentence construction.

Back in class, maybe the assignment was to write a narrative demonstrating membership in a community, and the guy at the head of the class has elicited chuckles with his account of life as an underachieving painter on a construction crew.

Includes a Teacher's Resource Guide (full - color, 120 - page guide for professional learning and explicit instruction), CD - ROM (features activities, ThinkSheets, language supports, models, and assessments), Writing Prompt Bank (100 cards, 25 each of narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive writing prompts, Writing Resource & Journal (6 copies; 72 - page book includes space for students to build graphic organizers, a mini thesaurus with Tier 1 and Tier 2 words), Reading Rods Kits (1 Vocabulary Individual Student Kit and 1 Sentence - Construction Individual Student Kit), Reading Rods Vocabulary Activity Cards (48 additional activities reinforce strategy instruction), and Sentence Activity Strips (6 blank write - on / wipe - off 3» long strips).

Wilcox's work is characterized by a fascination with personal narrative and the ways in which history is always under construction, woven from fact, myth, memory, associations, and the bombardment of information we all receive on a moment - to - moment basis.

Gander is an inventive polymath, a creator of worlds and teller of tales, whose making takes forms as varied as a lecture series entirely based on «loose associations,» a nonlinear narrative of wildly disparate ideas and images found and collected by the artist; re-creations of children's tent - forts sculpted in marble; the construction of complex mechanisms to generate a gentle breeze that wafts through a gallery; a conveyer belt carrying sculptures that can only be seen through one window; or detailed designs for an art school that may never be realized.

Infrastructural mistakes, environmental campaigns, unreliable figures of Irish construction labour and seemingly out - of - control trees all spur on his narratives and investigations.

Her lexicon focused on the gesturing female figure as the protagonist, moving across space and defying the strictures of linear time by mixing historical narratives, drawing equally from ancient working processes and formats with her activist orientation and an ongoing questioning of the formation and construction of memory and representation, particularly the representation of women.

The Fall is a short meditation on the construction of cinematic narrative and homage to Andrei Tarkovsky.

And so, Raad's astringent performance and sizable exhibition of works associated with the long - term project Scratching on Things I Could Disavow (2007 — ongoing) delve into the after - effects of violence in the Middle East that are not only political but also economic, such as the creation of a retirement fund for artists that blithely hops across the major fault line of the Arab — Israeli conflict, or the construction of new museum projects in the Gulf, or the movement of Raad's own work in relation to art - historical narratives in different places and times that exert various pressures on him, which at one point appear to drive the artist - as - performer insane.

The narrative structure of the videos focuses on the simultaneous construction of both the couple's relationship and the set of the café.

The exhibition brought together a selection of Kilimnik's new and historical works from the past three decades, evoking the history of painting through the construction of fantastical narratives which drew on a rich pastiche and personal flights of fancy.

Interlacing different times, geographies and imaginations, juxtaposition hopes to transform The Pyramid into a complex meditation on the construction of narrative within art practice.

Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks on the construction and translation of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the feeling of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu tales to speak upon the magic of childhood and the power dynamics of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.

American Night (2009) is a homage to the medium of film and a reflection on the construction of fictional narratives using cinematographic and iconographic references.

«The selection is aimed at giving consistency to the construction of the exhibition narrative, with the focus on the artistic quality of the works and on the fact that these women exercised active independence as creative, thinking beings, in a quest for complete freedom,» he adds.

Not being a criminal lawyer, I can't use my own experiences to square those two accounts (and, admittedly, my exposure to crowns is Toronto - centric, experiences may vary elsewhere — based on recent events, I'd have concerns about the Alberta courts), but the fact that certain proponents of the critical narrative characterized Marie Henein's masterful conduct of the Ghomeshi trial as a case of «whacking» the accused (rather than the complainant's «whacking» the crown) did nothing to enhance the credibility of that narrative (and, if nothing else, suggests that your construction of the «critical narrative» is not at all a straw man).

Once this narrative is in place and we feel confident in its content, we can then move on with what many mistakenly believe to be the perceived first step in the job search process: the construction of the professional resume.

Grounded in theory and research on family resilience, FOCUS - EC aims to support parents as leaders of the family by providing developmental guidance and psychoeducation on deployment and reintegration, facilitate the construction of a family narrative, and enhance parenting strategies and the parent — child relationship.

Students with higher baseline internalizing symptoms benefited significantly less from TGCTA during the first phase (focusing on psychoeducation and skills - building) compared to students with lower internalizing symptoms, and benefitted significantly more during the second phase (focusing on trauma or loss - focused narrative construction).