Sentences with phrase «students place characters»

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The particulars of the text: its words, phrases, categories, characters, literary forms, context, writer, readers, date, place — each separately and all together demand attention and contribute to the student's conclusion as to the meaning of the passage.

Other characters include a meth - using teacher (Jillian Bell of «Workaholics») who dreams of making love to a student, an inefficient security guard (Kumail Nanjiani), a buttoned - down teacher with a dark side (an out of place Christina Hendricks) and a coach (Tracy Morgan) who buys skinny jeans in an effort to save his job.

Then there's exchange student Tracy Walker (Greta Gerwig) who's character is fun and whip smart and a go - getter but she sadly falls right into the «white savior» trope that is just beyond tired and is just a bad look when it's a white guy using another culture to tell that story in the first place.

It focuses on only a half - dozen characters — the nameless protagonist (Jet Li), three legendary rebel assassins (Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and Donnie Yen), a student (Zhang Ziyi), and the king they're all plotting to kill (Chen Daoming)-- but it mostly takes place in a massive palace, surrounded by hundreds of armored guards ready to fire arrows like a cloud of locusts.

Supporting males characters such as two student athletes played by Emory Cohen (Place Beyond the Pines) and newcomer Anthony Kelley - or an enforcer played by The Wire's Dominick Lombardozzi - feel even more like devices than characters, though given their small roles in the story, that's a bit more understandable.

Taking place at Barden University — populated by perfectly coifed students who apparently never study — the movie's about Beca (Anna Kendrick), a cute sort - of loner and would - be music producer who finds a home with The Bellas and with what one character scornfully refers to as «organized nerd singing.»

These concerns are legitimate and have occupied a storied place in the critical academy since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978, and certainly, the character of Tracy, the white American foreign exchange student, leading the pro-dog uprising amongst the indigenous Megasaki citizens can easily be interpreted as reflecting the white saviour trope from Hollywood films such as Blood Diamond and Avatar.

Designed to be used with the students favourite cartoon character etc (places indicated where to insert character pictures and character names).

Many school personnel get creative in using our books; they substitute their own students» names in place of the book characters» names.

These Book Projects with Grading Rubrics include: - Introduction - student reading record - new book jacket - pyramid diorama - act it out - letter to the author - dress - up character - salesperson - book critic - letter to friend - radio or television broadcast - comic strip - sing a song - character puppet - mobile - new words - Venn diagram - poster board - map with key places - make a web - create a new page - story sequence - advertise - story flip book - character map - book award - new ending - story chart - story map - postcard - story flag - letter to the author questions - character feeling - real or make - believe - character Venn diagram - fact finder - cause and effect - fact and opinions - event timeline - story quilt - book news - grading rubric These are GREAT for reading workshops.

We must carefully re-examine the relevance of what we teach, curate the traditional disciplines, add relevant modern disciplines, and place emphasis on more holistic «whole student» learning — not just knowledge but also skills, character, and meta - learning.

How To Use Your Work Pack: Make sure the child / children know that stories must be planned Read the model story in the pack Ask the child / children to write down the names of the characters in the story Ask the child / children to write down where the setting takes place Ask the child / children to write down what the plot is Identify the most exciting part of the story (the climax of the story or suspense) Ask the child / children to plan a similar story - with a beginning, a middle and an end Ask the child / children to rewrite their own version of the story Ask the child / children to read their version of the story aloud Creative Story Writing work packs are essential for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations.

Students fill in the character profiles and design costumes on the templates (examples are given), once the templates are brimming with information, cut out, laminate and place on a key ring.

And, quite apart from striking the right balance among academic subjects, do schools place enough emphasis on cultivating students» character and creativity, educating them about global warming, and taking steps to prevent bullying?

Inside one of the boxes, students draw and color a picture of a place that they visited with the main characters in their books.

As reported in Schools Week on March 6, the 11 to 18 free school, which opened in 2012, issues students with «King's passports» in which character education is logged, and a «seven pillars» policy is in place.

Imagine Schools places a strong emphasis on each child's character development and measures progress in student behavior and overall school culture.

Here's a good place to start: Plan to have students imagine themselves as different characters, professions, facilitators, or experts.

Bottom line: Students feel that parents place a higher value on achievement / success and individual happiness than kind and empathic character.

The Code of Conduct, Character, and Support places equity front and center by creating policies that help eliminate discriminatory disciplinary responses to different groups of students and reduce exclusionary punishments and lost instructional time.

Through character education, «students learn how to be their best selves and how to do their best work while making school a place where students and educators feel comfortable and able to work.»

Other strategies include: (1) establishing and using a time - out or cooling - off place (even an informal time - out activity like having a child take a message, book, or box of chalk to another teacher could give the student the space and time he or she needs to maintain or regain composure); (2) applying role plays, simulations (for example, Barnga, Living in a Global Age, Rafa - Rafa, and Broken Squares) and moral dilemmas to teach students how to resolve conflicts, make collective decisions, appreciate different perspectives, weigh consequences, identify right from wrong, and check impulsive behavior; and (3) suggesting or assigning literature with characters who face similar challenges to that of the disabled student.

Whether we relinquish or retain the nomenclature, though, it is vital that we work to decouple most of what takes place under the banner of «character education» from the enterprise of helping students become ethically sophisticated decision makers and caring human beings.

Students write about the main character, setting, their favorite part of the book, and why this book deserves the 1st Place Trophy Award.

We know that character education is working when students want to be in school because it's a warm and welcoming place so attendance numbers are high, volunteers want to support our work so volunteerism is off the charts, teachers work with students to connect as a school family so discipline referrals are decreased, students are taking responsibility for their own learning so state scores are up, and they want to give back so service learning is alive and well.

For part of their character speeches, my students present «1st Place Book Awards» to their favorite books and they complete a project shaped like a trophy for this assignment (shown below).

«Schools of character are places that bring out the best in everyone — students, staff, and even parents and community members.»

I give my students a graphic organizer to help them track how the historical events taking place during the book's historical time period impact the characters and storyline.

Ask students to use text evidence to support their decisions about where to place characters.

The characters in my book draw a lot from the Amsterdam Student Group, an organization of young people who worked to rescue children from the Schouwburg and place them in safe homes for the duration of the war.

These following details are translated by Perfectly Nintendo... - Subaru Asato receives a mysterious package from an unknown sender - there's a book without a title, and a letter that says «You can not cut or burn this book» - when Subaru invites two friends to her place, and tries to burn the book, they find out that the person who sent the package lied: the book can be burned - when Subaru wakes up, she immediately notices the book she and her friends burnt the previous day is actually sitting by her bedside, as if it had never been burned - has a bad feeling about this strange phenomenon, but comes to the conclusion that it must have a been a prank by one of her friends - from that day, strange things start happening around Subaru and her friends - characters: Subaru Asato: a high - school student (3rd year), who receives a mysterious book.

Taking place almost exclusively in an All - Girls school, main character Hinako is pulled into a space known as «The Common» by her adjacent classmates Yuzu and Lime - a supernatural plain where alien - looking creatures roam freely - to collect the «fragments» spawned by the woes of the other students.

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The game takes place within the pages of the notebook of a high school student, and so the characters and environments are portrayed as hand - drawn.

Angela Molina, evening student, commented that she learned what each of the seven character places meant specifically from the workshop, which she did not remember hearing in class.

Although the book deals only fleetingly with formal schooling, Brooks does have two suggestions for educators: School leaders should recognize that formal organizational structures are less important in determining school climate than are the complex personal relationships among students, and schools should place more emphasis on character education.

Positive education represents a paradigm shift away from viewing education merely as a route to academic attainment and towards viewing it as a place where students can cultivate their intellectual minds while developing a broad set of character strengths, virtues, and well - being.