Sentences with phrase «sets of texts books»

Not exact matches

By not entering these lucrative fields, women are «setting themselves up for a lifetime of inequity before they even crack open a text book,» argues Berger.

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Using books of the Bible as their primary texts, and following a set pattern, one person would read the text in Hebrew, and another would interpret it into Greek, and then the text would be explained and applied (cf. Acts 2:42; 13:14 - 15; 14:1 - 3; 15:21; 18:4; 19:8 - 10; etc.).

I recall the reaction of a priest friend to a text setting out the conservative version of Anglicanism, one which espouses fidelity to the monarchy, to the liturgical tradition of the Book of Common Prayer, and to the rural pastoral tradition, of such great comfort to the people.

For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts — the «great books» — as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when demands for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of study.

If your child is not interested in facts and non-fiction, there are plenty of fiction books based in particular historic settings which (in my experience) give a better understanding of history than many text - books.

We have also seen the success of the pension fund industry as a text book example of where government policy set clear parameters for participation, led by example and enforced legal obligations.

And they have organised the large format book well, with results of running programs set out directly beside the text, while Logo commands stand out boldly so that you can easily try them on your own computer.

In context with its decade, the book's setting could be roughly described as «near future England,» and Wheatley, a director with a keen sense of time and place across all of his films, has kept the period of the text's publication intact, fleshing it out with alternately lush and dreggy mise en scène.

Viz Media has announced that it is set to release two new Studio Ghibli Picture Books this December, capture the magic of the legendary studio's animated films Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke with easy - to - read text and full - color pictures taken direct from the films, presented in a family - friendly oversized hardcover format.

Great set of resources that can be used alongside the Minimus text book as an introduction to Latin.

She chooses a variety of text types and lengths — from short stories, picture books and poetry to novels, autobiographies and historical diaries — sometimes reading a complete book over a period of time or just an extract, opening chapter, or description of a character or setting.

Microsoft Excel required Years 3,4,5 Tests the 4 basic operations Look at the Letters and substitute the Numbers to solve New set of questions on a spreadsheet every time the file is opened No more photocopying from a text book!

Ticks all the boxes in supporting your Maths curriculum and schemes of work New set of questions on a spreadsheet, every time you open the file No need to photocopy pages from a text book again!

A district that didn't need new textbooks, for example, might still be forced to spend more money on instructional materials, or lose it, because the state had set aside a pot of money for the purchase of new books after it was disclosed that the massive Los Angeles Unified School District had many campuses where the students lacked basic texts.

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The sections themselves are brought to life in comic - book form, using our 4 - text - level system of: Original Text - The full Shakespeare script for the set sections Plain Text - The set sections translated into plain English Quick Text - With reduced dialogue for rapid, easier reading No - Text - With empty speech balloons for you to fill in the dialogue Each document puts the set sections into the context of the whole ptext - level system of: Original Text - The full Shakespeare script for the set sections Plain Text - The set sections translated into plain English Quick Text - With reduced dialogue for rapid, easier reading No - Text - With empty speech balloons for you to fill in the dialogue Each document puts the set sections into the context of the whole pText - The full Shakespeare script for the set sections Plain Text - The set sections translated into plain English Quick Text - With reduced dialogue for rapid, easier reading No - Text - With empty speech balloons for you to fill in the dialogue Each document puts the set sections into the context of the whole pText - The set sections translated into plain English Quick Text - With reduced dialogue for rapid, easier reading No - Text - With empty speech balloons for you to fill in the dialogue Each document puts the set sections into the context of the whole pText - With reduced dialogue for rapid, easier reading No - Text - With empty speech balloons for you to fill in the dialogue Each document puts the set sections into the context of the whole pText - With empty speech balloons for you to fill in the dialogue Each document puts the set sections into the context of the whole play.

This proven set of instructional tools doesn't change WHAT is learned — the text books or curriculum standards — but HOW students learn and HOW teachers plan.

Almost everyone agrees on the importance of giving students books that they can read and want to read, explaining and modeling how to make sense of text, and setting aside time for students to practice reading.

That students and their teachers continue to demonstrate understanding and appreciation of set texts in now closed - book exams and a myopically - shaped, prescriptive range is a credit to their hard graft [and the latter, vocation!].

Support close reading of texts with a carefully curated set of 76 field - tested books.

This example is from my cell phone book report projects, so the text area and drawing areas are a bit different than they are in this set of teaching resources.

Teachers also get lists of text sets, groups of books or excerpts all focused on a particular subject, like astronomy for first - graders.

It also calls for districts to shift to high - quality openly licensed educational materials as opposed to traditional text books, meet connectivity goals, and set an expectation of equitable access to technology for all students both inside and outside of school.

Simple weekly and daily lesson plans guide the use and order of the books in each text set.

Pearson, with headquarters in Great Britain, owns the publishing companies Scott Foresman, Penguin, Harcourt and Prentice Hall, setting text book prices, controlling content, and «franchising» the curriculum in thousands of K - 12 schools and colleges across the country.

Then, they can simply ask Siri for a number of requests, including to make a phone call to an address book contact, look up phone numbers for restaurants or other points of interest, set a reminder or alarm, retrieve weather information, select music to play, send and receive text messages by voice, and get directions from Apple Maps, according to Ford.

The staccato lines of the picture book's text tell a quiet, satisfying story, but its artwork transports readers to the unusual setting, which children might find difficult to imagine on their own.

The device supports Text - to - Speech and can read books in a set of languages.

The e-reader supports 19 popular text and image formats and provides a set of pre-installed ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries, which makes it easy to read books in a foreign language.

Text - to - speech is one of the features that sets Kindle books apart from the likes of Kobo and Nook.

There is a common misconception that CIP is a number but it is actually a block of text (usually found on the copyright page of a book) that describes the book using a very specific set of vocabulary and structure.

One could argue that many of these problems can be avoided by using the same way throughout the entire document, but let's face it, in the real world, very few people are so disciplined and organized that they apply the proper style setting every time they italicize text or want to create an indentation, particularly over the period of time it usually takes to write an entire book.

«Next year we will launch a national electronic library, set to be the largest collection of online texts, books, magazines in Russia» Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky told regional governors.

In two interviews, one video and one text, Ann Napolitano discusses her book A Good Hard Look, set in Milledgeville, Georgia, home of celebrated author Flannery O'Connor.

Click the image of font icon button to set a text alignment for your books and determine their line spacing.

There's the obvious issue of being able to change font sizes (my 56 - year - old eyes suck), but in addition: I like the compactness of the reading experience; I seem to be able to scan a story better (that is speed up and slow down the reading process); it's also awesome to set up a catalog of highlighted text with book apps; and I can jump from my phone to my iPad to my Kindle and then to my laptop, meaning that wherever I am whatever I want to read is always with me.

A book would become a continuous text file instead of a set of pages, with caps for the terms in italic, bold or underlined of the print version.

Honest and conscientious professionals, Siliconchips Services completed the setting of my 649 page foreign language book with diligence and care; a difficult task given the technical nature of the text.

Interwoven with Laura's first - person narrative is the text of the book she's writing: a fictionalized account of her grandparents» meeting in Aleppo, Syria set against the backdrop of the Armenian genocide and during the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

Futura is one of my most beloved fonts but I'd never set the text of a book or magazine using it.

Design simplicity, efficient use, the choice of millions of users: * Multiple - line stacks, hundreds of thousands of novel / newspaper / magazines free read (Note: All stacks are built by third parties) * depth optimization of novel to read txt * visual experience set, all the background color to support several real - time visibility * Page mode * Smart layout, to create the most comfortable reading experience of paper flip effect * real * support for voice input, attack with half times * strong local book file Find (supports wildcards to retrieve and import), a full range of book content search (support regular expression) * free copy like text, and can be sent to microblogging — Format: TXT, HTML, EPUB, UMD, OPDS Official Website: http://anyview.net official micro-Bo: http://t.sina.com.cn/3637250 official QQ group: 161 462 668 readers, e-books

Some of these add - ons include narration of the text by actor Matthew Crawley (Downton Abbey), historically accurate scenery from the setting of the book, and an Ask the Author feature that allows readers to contact Mason with questions or discussion, as well as social sharing options.

Pullman's new book, La Belle Sauvage is no different; Godstow Priory, which plays such a large role in shaping the plot and setting of the text, is based on a real place: the Godstow Abbey or Nunnery.

While publishers are the ones who set the price of digital editions of children's books, it's disconcerting that a fixed - page children's ebook costs so prohibitively more than some of the app books that smaller publishers are developing for children that include such features as human - narration, highlighted read along text, touch - screen word pronunciation and foreground spelling, interactive word games, and more.

The sets of books are intended for readers between grades 4 and 7 and range in level of text complexity.

In both interfaces, you can tap on the screen in order to toggle the display of various reading controls, including text settings, a link to the book's table of contents, and a slider that lets you jump anywhere in the book.

Publishers set the price, and they can sell multiple editions of the same book with different «features»: one might have an audio track or special text - to - speech voices, while another could be plain text.

The author has made changes of the standard settings, which, in his opinion, will get a picture on the screen, which is close to the text of the paper book.

While font, margin, brightness, theme, text alignment adjustment and ToC access will leave plenty of rooms for avid readers to customize their best reading environment, the additional features will set Google Play Books apart from the rest of the pack.