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The ISIL Takfiri militants have executed two physicians in another gruesome act of terrorism in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
"Elements of the organization (ISIL) executed physicians Tareq Jassim and Adil Ayham working in the Department of Surgery of the Republican General Hospital in Mosul," Doctor Firas al-Hamdani, the head of the hospital's emergency section, said .
According to Hamdani, the doctors were executed for their refusal to join hospitals under the control of the terrorist group or to treat the wounded members of the Takfiri group.
"The bodies of the doctors arrived at the hospital morgue this evening after being executed by [the] ISIS (ISIL) firing squad," he added.
The terrorist group arrested the doctors in September. The Takfiri group has threatened to punish the doctors and nurses who refuse to treat injured militants.
The ISIL terrorist group has also forced the doctors at the Mosul Health Department to work around the clock to provide medical services for the members of the Takfiri group, officials at the medical center say.
ISIL took control of the country's second largest city in June before sweeping through parts of the country's Sunni Arab heartland.
The Takfiri militants have been carrying out horrific acts of violence, including public decapitations and crucifixions, against all Syrian and Iraqi communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians and Izadi Kurds.
The West and its regional allies, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, are giving financial and military support to the militants.


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Not everything, but a start.
I'm an artist and designer with a steady job in the theme park and resort world. I spent my childhood on the island of O'ahu just inland from Waikiki, at a time when Hawai'i had just become a state. It was not your typical childhood, nor your typical neighborhood, but it was a good start on a strange path. From there, we moved to Southern California, where I've lived in one place or another for almost half a century. All my life I've been around the world of theater and illusion. My father was in the film industry. My mother trained as an actress. I have drawn and painted since I was younger than I can remember. I've traveled extensively in Europe, Africa and Asia, a bit less so elsewhere.
About This Blog
This site is my personal space, in which I hope to explore aspects of my life which lie apart from my position as a design leader in a major entertainment company. Good teachers rescued me from delinquency and I am grateful. Once, I was a teacher myself, and have never overcome the urge to transmit information I consider valuable. Through these images and ideas, I hope to offer what knowledge, opinion, and insight I can to those who are interested.
Lots of stuff will happen here. I hope to test the waters as an artist and see if my vision can sustain itself independently. I will tell stories. My stories are not all harrowing travel adventures, but some are. I will talk philosophy. My philosophy of design is a philosophy of behavior as well. I believe that others would benefit from it and I will share as I go along. There will be editorials, tales, pictures, paintings, ideas. This site is not an extension of my professional life, but an alternative. We'll see how that goes.
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Club 3:30 After-School Program
Each school day, 25-30 latch-key children from Hickory Hills and A.L. Burruss elementary schools attend Club 3:30. They are tutored, fed, and loved on by volunteers from our church and community. This program is housed here at FPC and has been serving the community for over 25 years. Volunteers are needed to help with homework, provide snacks, and host birthday parties and Christmas festivities.
For more information about volunteering, contact Karen Stickel at (770) 427.0293 x228.
MUST Ministries
More than 6,000 volunteers serve through MUST, a multifaceted community ministry connecting people who have a desire to help with those who need help the most. Volunteer opportunities include after school tutoring and mentoring; manning the thrift shop or volunteering at the homeless shelter; giving food, clothing, and other items; running in the Thanksgiving Day Gobble Jog; or getting involved in the summer lunch program. First Presbyterian Church is a MUST Summer Lunch distribution site.
Blue Skies Ministries
Blue Skies is a Marietta-based organization offering retreats in Port St. Joe, Florida, to bring the hope of Christ to families living through pediatric cancer. Volunteers are needed in a variety of roles including family hosts at the retreats and raising financial support to help cover the families' costs to attend.
Learn more at blueskiesministries.org.
Celebrating Families
Celebrating Families is a program of the National Association of Children of Alcoholics. It is a support group for families in which one or both parents have a serious problem with alcohol or other drugs and in which there is a high risk for domestic violence, child abuse, or neglect. FPC is one of the session sites. A way to support this vital initiative is to provide a meal for participants.
Contact: celebratingfamilies.net
Interfaith Children's Movement (ICM)
ICM is founded on the conviction that people of all faiths can, and must, work together to improve the lives and well-being of all children. Through its Faith in Action program, ICM focuses on eight work areas that affect the well-being of all children: Poverty, Education, Health Care, Juvenile Justice, Child Care/Child Protection, Parental Nurture, Child Advocacy (Public Policy) and Immigration. ICM also focuses on Human Trafficking.
For current volunteer needs, contact Kay Vaughn, Janice Wolf, or Pastor Joe Brice.
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Woodland Trust & National Trust; Who are they?Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Since working at the Woodland Trust I have started to love the outdoors again and become quite passionate about getting the younger generation more engaged with what we have left with regards to the woodland coverage. But most importantly get them outdoors, exploring and playing rather than being stuck inside all day.
If that wasn't enough, I also have a huge passion for the National Trust and thank my parents for this. School holidays would be spent in a caravan, visiting the nearest National Trust house, from dressing up in period costumes at Fountains Abbey to finding Jemima Puddleduck's egg at Beatrix Potter's home in the Lake District.
|Fabulous fashion choice. My brother is going to kill me! Haha
Woodland TrustIn 1972, Kenneth Watkins and a group of friends where getting increasingly worried with what was happening with native woodland that was very sparsely covering the UK and rapidly decreasing. Fast forward many years and we have the UK's only and largest charity in the conservation of trees. The vision of theirs is to increase the woodland coverage by planting more trees, 64 million to be exact by 2025. Achievable, we hope so! At the moment the UK is covered by 13% of native woodland, this is pretty low when you compare this to the 37% which is the average in Europe!
With over 1000 sites across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland you are never too far from a woodland and I hope to visit and share some of these with you along with some big news that we have. Take a look on their website to find your local woodland! The charity also put on events, which I will hopefully be attending as not only as a supporter but as an Events officer as I actually work for the trust.
Membership with the charity means that you can pay as little as £3 per month to help the charity, protect, restore and create new woodland for future generations.
|Tring Park, Hertfordshire
(Photo Credit: Becky Brown)
|Tring Park, Hertfordshire
(Photo Credit: Becky Brown)
|Tree Planting at Heartwood Forest
(Photo Credit: Judith Parry)
National TrustSlightly different to the Woodland Trust, the National Trust was founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwick Rawnsley. It is now the UK's largest charity for preserving historic properties and countryside. Fast forward 120 years and the National Trust own over 500 historic houses, castles, ancient monuments gardens and parks and nature reserves.
From Knole Hall to Woolsthorpe Manor (Isaac Newton's house) all these properties have been preserved for many years, all down to their members. Just like the Woodland Trust you can sign up and support the National Trust with £5.25 a month.
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Don't worry, I won't share too much information as this may ruin your visit as well to the numerous sites.
**I would like to lastly mention that I have not been endorsed to write these posts, I have done this on my own back and personally believe in what the two trusts are doing.**


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We are Evolve
Our passion pushesteams and projects forward
To begin with, our name sort of speaks for itself, regarding our basic philosophy. And we are proud to maintain a culture where everybody fits in and has a voice.
We are a software company. And an investment company. Also consultants. And strategists. But we've managed to put the best of everything above into a hybrid that stands firm and ready for whatever challenge we come across. We invest in good people, good ideas and long lasting relationships that gives a positive impact.
That's how we evolve.
Last – but definitely not least – we're in this for the long run. The time of burning people out (and away) is as far as we are concerned long gone.
We've already touched it a bit, but our culture is the single most important part of us. Everyone has a voice, and everyone is always encouraged to use it. That's something we hold high and value. A lot. We want to act and adapt after the individual and form new ways of thinking and be passionate about changes, new directions and feel a strong togetherness reaching and pursuing dreams, goals and new standards. And all of the above gives us the collective culture – and knowledge about one another – that flattens hierarchies and paves the way towards great work for all involved.
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We all come from a supportive culture, in all aspects, that shares knowledge, experience and common sense. When working with Evolve you get the whole package of our collective knowledge and, dare we say, wisdom. All of our backgrounds may vary regarding education, previous professions, gender and age. And that's our strength. We can put a team together that matches any project, and benefits both of us in the end.
Our knowledge will help you with incremental improvements that makes your software and product more flexible, erase the sticking points and make your business grow. We have experience delivering quality code and working features to software systems of all sizes. We help you to meet demands, develop workflows, scale, grow user base and increase the overall efficiency.
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Our First WPF End-To-End Reference Sample: Family.Show
The first three days of next week are going to be crammed full of announcements as MIX gets under way (click the hyperlink above to view the virtual conference site, where you'll be able to keep up-to-date on everything that's going on). In any big week like this, it's easy for some of the smaller announcements to slip out unnoticed, so I couldn't resist the opportunity to share this one now!
Today, in collaboration with Vertigo Software, I'm pleased to announce the launch of a brand new end-to-end reference sample for WPF. Available for download immediately, Family.Show is a genealogy explorer that allows you to create or import a family tree and explore, annotate or save it to XPS.
We've shipped the source code for a number of demos before, but the bar for a reference application is somewhat higher. The goal here is to show best practices for the construction of an application and to try and include as much reusable code as possible that others can use both to understand the framework and to "borrow" for a real application.
Getting the right scenario is a critical element - it has to be realistic, applicable, provide scope to hit a lot of commonly-used feature areas, and of course, it has to be interesting in its own right. I think we've done that pretty well with this sample:
- It's realistic because there are shrink-wrapped applications for sale today that offer similar functionality;
- It's applicable because it's a data-centric scenario, because the idea of a hierarchical tree is pervasive in many business scenarios (CRM and HR to name just two), it covers data visualization (also a key requirement for many modern business applications), and because it has a well thought out model that keeps data and presentation separate.
- It covers many feature areas: data binding, styling and templates, animation, XML serialization, resources, rich text editing, image manipulation, Windows Vista integration and XPS output.
- It's interesting: everyone has a family story to tell, and having a great tool that imports the GEDCOM standard interchange format for family trees and provides a great way to view that data is something that even passes the "mother test" (does my mother yawn within five seconds of me talking about what I'm doing at work).
The Vertigo guys worked really hard with this application: although they've constructed many reference applications for us before, this was actually their first WPF project. They did a great job with it, and their creative thinking and combination of design and development skills really added to the quality of the finished work.
I won't go through an exhaustive feature list, but I do want to highlight my favorite feature, which is the time slider on the bottom left hand corner of the window. This allows you to go back in time and see the family tree as it existed at an earlier point in history. As people are born or marry into the family, they fade in, which makes this really powerful as a way to share your own family history with others.
The source code is definitely something to peruse in detail. I've often thought that you can tell a really well-designed application because the source code looks more like a work of art than a work of engineering. Here again, Vertigo have delivered really well: from the factoring of the code (check out the class diagram in the solution) to the code itself, this is some of the nicest-looking WPF code I've ever had the pleasure to see. You'll learn more about the way WPF works and the smart ways to use WPF from dissecting this code than you could from reading any book. Check out the class diagram that's included in the Visual Studio solution for a great entry-point into the code.
There's a video coming out shortly (on their site) in which they will talk through their experiences of using the application, and Scott Stanfield (their CEO) is presenting a session on this application at MIX. With the slightly alarming but amusing title of "I See Dead People", it should be a blast - if you're at MIX, make sure you're there!


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Visit the restaurant website: www.bisoucreperie.com Nested in the Passage des Panoramas, in the heart of the Grands Boulevards in Paris, Bisou gives a fresh look to a traditional cuisine. Goodbye checkered tablecloths and ubiquitous, obnoxious kitchen tiles. The front store is simple and the inside decor is partly retro, partly inspired by Scandinavian design, with stylish tableware. A clean, refined yet cozy venue where you feel welcome to stop by anytime, inside or on the terrace. Long live the neo-crêperie! On the food side, a good crêpe, whether sweet or savory, starts with high quality products above anything else. That's … Continued
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Twenty years ago, travelers didn't have many choices for booking hotel rooms. If you needed a room, you either booked directly through the hotel of your choice or worked with your preferred travel agent. But the growing prevalence of online travel agents has revolutionized how consumers search for and book hotel rooms. Today, hotels must strike a balance between enticing guests to book directly and maintaining a presence on an array of third-party booking sites. And, in the face of sluggish demand and slumping revenues, lowering the cost of acquisition is a top priority. The key to doing it all … Continued
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Getting guests to book directly on a hotel's website rather than through an online travel agent (OTA) is a key challenge that hoteliers are gearing up to tackle in 2018. When OTAs first rose to popularity in 2008 during the economic downturn, hotels viewed them as saviors for their ability to fill hotel rooms that otherwise would have remained empty. Today, that view has shifted dramatically. Popular third-party search engines are raking in more bookings than ever and charging significantly higher commissions, too. In fact, momentum toward convenient aggregate websites has grown to such a fever pitch that in 2016 … Continued


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I have spent almost the last 40 years becoming ME…
It has NOT been an easy road.
At times I have felt like giving up..and at times I did.
I spent years trying to be who someone else wanted me to be and more time than I want to admit trying to quiet who I really was.
I have arrived at a place of truly loving myself. It is not a place of conceit or over confidence but a place of self awareness, self acceptance and a whole lot of I don't give a damn!
I will no longer shrink my existence to make another person feel more capable. I will no longer apologize for having a life that I'm proud to live, one that God designed ME for.
I will no longer let ANYONE put me into a box, labeling me or asking me to pick a side, a team or a color!
Recent events have attempted to pin me into a corner begging me to choose between being a black women OR being the wife of a white police officer.
I have been recommended books on what it means to be black in America and actually told that my mixed children would be seen as black therefore I had better choose wisely!
After yelling, crying and being on the verge of shrinking back to become a quiet observer, I took a hard look at myself in the mirror and reminded myself that NO ONE can make me choose unless I allow them to!
You may see that I'm a black women married to a white police officer but I know that doesn't even begin to describe "ME".
There is no way in HELL I'm choosing a side because there is no side to choose!
Its only when we stop basing someone's entire being on what we can see that we will truly move past the issue of race.
When I look at my family I see and feel God's love!
When I look at my family I see answered prayers and dreams fulfilled!
When I look at my family I see integrity, honor, compassion, transparency and acceptance!
When I look at my family I see two little girls that look to me to be their guide, their compass, their model! They will have the confidence to be BOTH black and white at the same time without feeling the need to choose one over the other. They will have that confidence because THAT is what we teach in this house!
We don't choose sides in this family and we don't make divisions that GOD didn't intend for us to make.
We are ONE and I'm ME!


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A Day in Our Shoes
For three years now, I have been a part of a unique world of people. I was raised in Memphis, but I was never really aware of the live music scene around town. When I was younger, I sang in the choir, played piano, and taught myself how to play the clarinet. My mom always had several genres of music playing around the house, so I was exposed to all types of music. Classical always had a very special place in my heart, though. I loved the sound of a full orchestra, how that orchestra came together to make one song a magical experience for the audience. The right piece could invoke so many types of emotions without a word ever being sung. It was not until I met my husband that I got exposed to the true life of the everyday professional musician.
When Jeremy and I began dating, he played at a few different venues on Beale Street. Most of these venues (smaller bars and outside venues) pay the musicians a small percentage of nightly bar sales and the musicians are responsible for gathering tips to pay themselves. When you think about Beale Street, you think, "It shouldn't be that hard to make money down there. Thousands of people pass through Beale Street every week." Well, when you are relying on those tourists to pay you on their own, combined with the competition for money from the other 16 venues on the street, it can be hard to make a living. Many tourists come to Memphis because they are trying to save money. They want an affordable vacation. Keep in mind, whatever tips are made are split 3-6 ways, depending on the size of the band. Tipping $1 to a 4 piece band gives each of them .25 cents. So, in order to make a decent living as a musician in Memphis, it is a must that you play with more than one band. Jeremy has played with the Juke Joint Allstars, Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars, the Memphis Bluesmasters, Darrell Wilson and the Soul Outsiders, the Eric Hughes Band, Carl Sims, the Ghost Town Blues Band, and Darren Jay and the Delta Souls, just to name a few. He also fronts of his own band with Suavo, which is taking off now. You may think that is a lot of music to learn, and you would be correct, but it is a must if you are striving to make it doing nothing but playing music.
It is a rough life. That is for sure. There are late nights and long days. Sometimes Jeremy will have 3 gigs in one day, starting around lunch time and playing until 1 or 2 am. If I was not as involved with his career as I am, I would probably never see him. On weeks when his daughter is with us, it is even more stressful. We wake up around 8-9 am when she is home and 10 am or later when she is not. We usually grab breakfast, get dressed for the day, and are out of our house by 1-2 pm. On some days, Jeremy starts playing one gig at 1 pm, breaks his equipment down to go to the next gig at 3, and will have another gig around 8 or 9 pm. We don't leave Beale Street most nights until 1 or 2 am. Some nights it has been 3 or 4 am. Some gigs give a guarantee pay to the bands, although that gets split and is normally barely enough to cover daily expenses. It is almost impossible to save money with what you make on one gig. You have to play several to pad the rest of the income you have coming in. Several times out of the week, a band will call Jeremy to fill in for someone who couldn't make it to the gig. Normally, there is no refusing a gig. We can't afford not to go, although some days and nights I have seen musicians play for 4-5 hours and walk out with less than $5 in their pocket. It can be rough. They are right when they say you truly have to love music and have a passion for it to do what the musicians I know do. I wish everyone who came to Beale Street could see just one day in the life of one of the young musicians trying to earn a living on Beale Street through their eyes. It would open so many eyes.


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I like food. But then again who doesn't? My life would be far less fun, creative, messy, explorative, exciting and of course tasty without it. I always struggle with the question: What's your favourite food? But if you reeeaaaaaally pushed me for an answer I'd have to go with ice-cream. Mmmmmm… even thinking about it sets me off. If I could I would eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. Sadly my mum cares too much about my teeth, heart and insulin production to ever let this dream become a reality. Sad times.
As much as I love its coolness, melty-ness, smoothness and ability to be eaten by the tub, the thing I love the most about ice-cream is the flavours it carries in its creamy base. Ice-cream has the ability to take on literally any sweet flavour – and there aren't many other foods you can do that with so successfully; It's special. Ice-cream makes eating raw cookie dough and cake-mix socially acceptable. That's cool with me. What saddens me a little is that some of the flavour combinations used in ice-cream never seems to get the wider exposure they deserve. Like where else is rum and raisin really used? Or mint choc chip? Such a beautiful colour and fresh cooling sensation, with a depth of flavour brought from the dark chocolate. Super yum. So why restrict that to ice-cream alone? Let's make macarons!
I know this may scare you a little, and that's OK, they are a little scary, but it's nothing that you can't overcome. I believe you can do it. It's quite easy to make bad macarons and it's the little details in the process that make them good. It's totally worth taking the time. A good macaron's like nothing else you'll eat. Pure delight in a mouthful.
You should separate your eggs at least 24 hours before you plan to use them and bring them up to room temperature just before. They will last in the fridge for up to a week.
To get a good meringue you need to have a very clean, grease-free bowl and beaters, and absolutely no egg yolk in your whites.
When you fold the almond/icing sugar mixture into the meringue you need to do it gently and with cutting motions so as not to knock all the air out. When you're done you'll have a macaronage – go on, wow your friends with that fancy word, they'll think you know what you're talking about.
I'll let you into a secret: even the posh Parisian macarons don't come out of the oven as beautifully soft on the inside and crisp on the outside as when you eat them. They go through 'maturation' which blends the flavour of the filling with the shell, adjusting the texture and balancing the sweetness. The shells are baked almost crisp the whole way through and then left to take in moisture from the filling. For the science geeks, a sort of osmosis takes place between the filling and the shell which absorbs the humidity from the filling, making the inside soft but leaving the outside crisp. Your macarons will be at their best 24 hours after they're made.
Go on, take a leap of faith, separate those eggs, whisk that meringue, fold that sugar, pipe those circles and sandwich those bad boys. You'll do great. Your mum will be so proud.
Mint choc chip macarons
100g (about 2 ½ eggs worth) "aged" egg whites, at room temperature
1/4 tsp. cream of tartar, lemon juice or white vinegar
35g caster sugar
100g ground almonds
180g icing/powdered sugar
3 tsp. peppermint flavouring
Green and blue food colouring paste
Chocolate buttercream filling
115g unsalted butter
200g icing sugar
45g cocoa
3tsp. peppermint flavouring
2 tbsp. double cream/milk
Take 3 pieces of baking paper large enough to fit your baking trays and using a pencil, draw 11/2 inch circles 2 inches apart across the sheets. This will give you a guide to help you keep the macaron shells the same size.
Using an electric whisk (or a conventional whisk if you really fancy a workout, I guess!) whisk the egg whites until foamy. Add the cream of tartar/lemon juice/white vinegar and continue to whisk until they hold really stiff peaks but don't 'break'. Then whisk in the caster sugar to make a stiff peaked meringue. Then in three additions fold in the icing sugar and ground almonds gently, using careful cutting motions to ensure most of the air's kept in. Follow this by folding in the peppermint flavouring and food colouring. I advise mixing up a turquoise green food colour in a glass first and adding it in a few additions to ensure you end up with 'mint green' macarons and not fluorescent blue ones.
Take a piping bag with a 1/2 inch nozzle and fill it with the mixture. Using your circles as a guide, pipe 1 1/2 inch circles onto the baking paper. Gently tap each tray on your work surface to release any air bubbles that can ruin the final appearance. Leave your macarons on a flat surface for 30-60 minutes until their surfaces have formed a tacky skin. Preheat your oven to gas mark 4/ 180°C. Place each tray into the oven to bake for about 14-16 minutes or until you can just about separate the macarons from the baking paper. If they leave behind their middles they're not yet ready. Leave them to cool on the trays and then remove to a cooling rack using a spatula.
To make the buttercream, whisk the butter until paler in colour and airier. Add the icing sugar and cocoa and slowly mix (yes s-l-o-w-l-y; learn from my mistake, don't cover yourself in a cloud of sugar) until there's no visible sugar. Add the peppermint flavouring and milk/cream, and beat until the buttercream's airy and stiffer in consistency. If it's too thick to pipe add a little more milk/cream; if it's too thin, add more icing sugar.
Fill a piping bag fitted with a ½ inch nozzle with the buttercream and pipe a circle slightly smaller than the shells on the underside of ½ of the macaron batch. Fill in the circles you've piped with more buttercream and sandwich with the other ½ of the shells. Eat, eat more, share and feel a warming sense of achievement. YOU just made macarons.


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Home of the Leopards
Mike Torres, Principal
1602 Second Avenue, Zillah, WA 98953-9682
Phone: (509) 829-5565
Fax: (509) 829-5285
Zillah High School
Parent Involvement Plan
This plan has been developed to support Zillah High School's Goal: To continue efforts to work on enhancing communication.
1. Annual Meeting: An annual meeting will take place at Zillah High School to inform parents of the parent involvement plan.
a. This meeting will occur at the first scheduled Parent Association Meeting of the year. It will be in the evening so the parents will be available to attend.
b. It will be held in September
c. Items to be shared:
1) Student/Teacher/Parent Compact
2) Methods of communication to be used throughout the year
3) Calendar of events for the school year
4) Input for activities at ZHS
2. Methods of involving parents: this includes the different ways that parents can be
involved with their student and their education.
a. Parent/Teacher Conferences
b. Volunteers in classrooms
c. School Activity Nights
d. ZHS Parent Association
e. School Field Trips, class projects, activity events
3. What the school will provide for parents:
a. Timely information about school programs
b. Weekly email letter/school information to parents
c. Monthly newsletter of school events and happenings
d. Curriculum information/Grade level expectations
e. Forms of assessment
f. Information on special programs/school opportunities
g. Online parent access for report card data, attendance, food service
h. Proficiency levels students are expected to attain.
4. Shared responsibilities for student success:
a. A Student/Teacher/Parent Compact outlining:
1) Shared responsibility for improvement of student achievement
2) Supporting school discipline policies and rules of behavior
3) Monitoring attendance
4) Monitoring homework completion
5) Participating in activities with child when appropriate
6) Maintaining communication between school and parents on an ongoing basis
7) Monitoring positive use of child's time to help meet school responsibilities
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5. To build capacity for parent involvement at ZHS:
a. Will provide assistance to parents as appropriate to understand:
1) State academic achievement standards
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5) Graduation requirements
6) 4-year Academic Plans
b. Will work with parents to give them opportunities to help improve their students achievement at school
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*Parent Association membership
*Involvement in their child's academic achievement
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*Involve parents in building teams where appropriate
*Collaborate with community based organizations to provide opportunities for our parents
Describe the activities planned to carry out the strategies.
All parents are encouraged to participate in school wide activities and programs. We will do our best to have available staff to provide interpretation and translation services for parents. Written information will be provided in English and Spanish as needed.
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I enjoy living with a lot of big ideas and knowing the struggle, well challenges to see them materialize – for the hardships are just guiding me along the way to see the big picture one day completed.
Everybody relates to the world differently, yet it is in that, our language, identity forms our culture. At what vantage point do we perceive the best that a city can be civil, creative, conscious? The desire is a choice – I hope comes from a cooperative culture, a wisdom of crowds.
I wrote this poem, inspired by a note I wrote about the experiences of a faustian man dreaming a renaissance – while living in a despotic City.
experience this connexion
with a composite of
contrition and confusion
crimey and crap
the cloak and dagger
a creature of collective
and corrupted consciousness
courage to dream is gome
the callous crowds commune
our culture is compromised, compartmentalized
our arts are commercialized
chivalry is scape goated
the faustian ,man in the city
the spirit of the cant
communication: exquisite corpse
credulous creeps
clay and gray cornerstones
canary in a cage confessions
a creed is called
the creed is cynicism
the cold, cold waters
for the creative community pulse
a story of this city's claim
of the achievements that never came


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The Sound & The Fury: The First Round Of The 2013 NHL Entry Draft Unedited
by J.R.
As I did for the lottery, today I give you my unedited thoughts on the draft as it happened.
As I did for the lottery, today I give you my unedited thoughts on the draft as it happened.
From the Hawks' Instagram, Daniels Carcillo and a couple Canadians:
It's five past 5 across Conference III (leave work early, Colorado — you have our permission), time to hit bricks and get that freakin' weekend started, am I right?
Of course I am.
It's been a tough week for some of you so loosen your belt, pop a top, grab a spoon and stop being such a sourpuss. III Communication's got good news for everybody.
Every Thursday we bring you the III Communication's Conference III Power Rankings, the Thursday Thirteen.
This week, we offer the final rankings of the 2013 season and prepare for the coming glory of Conference III.
The very first Threero of the Week Rich Clune just joined Twitter.
In addition to his thoughts on Pride Week and celebrating his sobriety, Rich Clune is amping up the Conference III heat.
Thanks to our good buddy Chris Cieslak for doing the photo-manipulation wizardry on the raccoon attack from the Taiwanese Stanley Cup video. It joins the coat of arms and the Black Flag in the header rotation:
This is Zoë. Zoë is my daughter. She was born midway through the first period of what is probably the No. 1 game in Nashville Predators history — the Game 5 victory over Detroit in the first round of 2012 playoffs.
Things haven't gone so well for the Predators since then — Radulov left, Suter left, Weber tried to leave, the team had an abysmal season, Brandon Yip got power play minutes — but I don't think her mom and I are going to be all Buffalo '66 with Zoë.
Zoë likes hockey — and not just Predators hockey (though that's her favorite; the only thing she says more than "Gnash" is "Mama," "Dada" and "Dog," and she's never even met David Backes). She had the good sense to make it to the world just in time to see Nick Lidstrom play, for example. And though she almost always sleeps through the night, she woke up, with no explanation, five minutes before the end of the lockout was announced, as if to say "Daddy, check Twitter."
So those NMA animation cats from Taiwan did one of their wackadoodle videos about the Stanley Cup Finals:
As you know, the motto of the city of Detroit is "Oh yeah? How many Cups have you won?"
Predictably, the good people of the Motor City had their own unique way of congratulating the Chicago Blackhawks on their Stanley Cup win.
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About the Ledger
The history of The Ledger dates to Aug. 22, 1924, when Sam Farabee started The Lakeland Evening Ledger under the Ledger Publishing Co. Three years later, the Lakeland Ledger Publishing Co. bought one of its competitors, The Star-Telegram, which continued as a morning newspaper. A year later, when the owners figured out that running two papers from one plant wasn't profitable, they merged the newspapers to form The Lakeland Ledger and Star-Telegram. In 1941, the name was shortened to The Lakeland Ledger. It was shortened further to The Ledger in 1967.
Several owners controlled the newspaper until 1970, when The New York Times Co. purchased it, newspapers in Ocala and Gainesville, and other media interests. It was sold again in January 2012, when Daytona Beach-based Halifax Media Group bought it and the other newspapers in The New York Times Regional Newspaper Group chain.
The newspaper went through many changes through the years, returning to a morning edition in April 1979. In 1998 it started its website, www.theledger.com � the same year it moved into its new building on Lime Street in Lakeland.
Two years after moving into the new building The Ledger added color to all of its section fronts, thanks to increased capacity on two printing presses. It now uses those presses to print products for a variety of outside sources, including The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Since then, the newspaper has purchased its competition to the east, the News Chief, which now falls under the Ledger Media Group umbrella along with print products such as Inside Polk magazine. It also owns a host of newspaper-related web sites, such as TimeoutPolk.com, Polkpreps.com, PoliticsinPolk.com, and its newest, Polkcollegesports.com.
The Ledger has a long history of award-winning journalism, most recently winning top state awards given by the Florida Society of News Editors and the South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. It also has won several national awards in recent years for courtroom and breaking-news photography, and a series on the death of a middle-school student by a fellow student.


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Whilst pontificating on the nature of fear, Batman jumps out of his plane, suits up into his Bruce Wayne attire, before giving a speech at a charitable function associated with homelessness.
What a cool guy!
Now at this event, Bruce speaks to a congressmen about they way that the Wayne Foundation is trying to help unemployment in Gotham City, as he is then accused by Police Lieutenant Forbes, of Internal Affairs, of aiding Batman and his 'allies' with dodgy financing.
What an unlucky guy!
Thankfully, though, Bruce is saved from this confrontation by the host of this event, Jaina Hudson, whom tries to seduce him in the process.
What a jammy git!
However, later that same evening, things turn a shade darker for Batman – as he is called to Arkham Asylum because the lunatics have broken free. So what does Batman do about this disastrous turn of events? Correct – kick ass and takes name – and one in particular is on his list to keep within this domicile, Two Face. And does Batman find Two-Face? Err – yes – a Two-Face of sorts – one pumped up to the nines and ready to rumble.
Now I am sure that this comic book series should be in the Guinness Book of Records or something, because it has had two number ones within the space of a year. However, is this second number one like a number two? (If you get my gist) Moreover, is it something well worth the re-boot treatment? Errr – neither I suppose – as in essence, this issue just feels like a continuation of what happen last issue (if you get my gist again).
Granted, the art on this book by David Finch is of a very high standard. And to a certain extent you can say the same thing about David Finch's and Paul Jenkins words too. But (yes, there is a but), I have to admit, something does not feel right within this tale all in all – and I guess that is all to do with what this 'Dark Knight' Batman series is all about.
Well, if the 'Batman' title is about 'Batman stories', 'Batman and Robin' is about... err... Batman and Robin tales, and 'Detective Comics' is about detective mysteries, what does 'The Dark Knight' stand for? How mysterious Batman can be? How Knightly Batman looks if drawn by a cool artist? How DC can scam a few more bucks out of their Bat-fans?
OK, fair dues, my last comment was a bit bellow the belt. Still, it would be nice if this series could highlight the direction that it is going in. Fair enough, the art is great – the story is clear – and the overall presentation is just out of this world. Nevertheless, I feel that it needs some substance to make the package that much more complete.
Anyway, as a first issue goes, this wasn't a bad one in the execution – as the narration was nice – the story felt fractured yet clear – and as for the art, well, just look at the picture above, isn't it perfect.
Nice start – fair story – no direction.
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Tina Fey recently did an incredible job co-hosting the Golden Globes last month with Amy Poehler, but now it looks like she'll be tackling something a bit more dramatic for an upcoming film. The Wrap reports that Fey is attached to star in and produce an adaptation of Kim Barker's memoir The Taliban Shuffle, which recounts the journalist's time in Kabul trying to do the "Taliban Shuffle" between Afghanistan and Pakistan. As Barker delved deeper into the hapless countries, her love for them grew along with her fear for their future stability. Fey's longtime 30 Rock executive producer/collaborator Robert Carlock will pen the Paramount feature film adaptation, and Lorne Michaels will also produce.
Fey balanced drama quite well in last year's Admission, and she'll be tackling the same kind of tone in Shawn Levy's upcoming dramedy This Is Where I Leave You. Barker's book is described as darkly comic, so one assumes Fey is a fine fit for the lead role. The actress will next be seen in Muppets Most Wanted. Read a synopsis for The Taliban Shuffle after the jump.
Here's the synopsis for The Taliban Shuffle:
When Kim Barker first arrived in Kabul as a journalist in 2002, she barely owned a passport, spoke only English and had little idea how to do the "Taliban Shuffle" between Afghanistan and Pakistan. No matter—her stories about Islamic militants and shaky reconstruction were soon overshadowed by the bigger news in Iraq. But as she delved deeper into Pakistan and Afghanistan, her love for the hapless countries grew, along with her fear for their future stability. In this darkly comic and unsparing memoir, Barker uses her wry, incisive voice to expose the absurdities and tragedies of the "forgotten war," finding humor and humanity amid the rubble and heartbreak. [Amazon]


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Parks and Recreation
Filmed in a mockumentary style and led by a stellar cast featuring Inside Out's Amy Poehler, Jurassic World's Chris Pratt, Step Brothers' Adam Scott and I Love You, Man's Rashida Jones (just to name a few), Parks and Recreation centres around do-gooder bureaucrat Leslie Knope (Poehler) and her department, who spend their days hopelessly trying to improve their town of Pawnee, Indiana through various absurdly put-together projects.
While the overall plot makes for an endearing show and it's deadpan humour can't help but make you laugh, it's the amazing cast and well-written characters that make it fantastic.
A lot of them are exaggerated: Knope is overpoweringly optimistic and sweet, April Ludgate (played by Aubrey Plaza) is rude to everyone she meets, Andy Dwyer is the lovable buffoon that everyone wills on to do well, Tom Haverford is the flashy but nerdy failed lothario, and Ron Swanson is unlike any character you've ever seen on a sitcom before. Imagine a matter-of-fact Eeyore with a wildly impressive moustache and even more wildly impressive one-liners, and you've got Ron down to a tee.
There's a progressively growing amount of in-jokes that feature as the series goes on, making you feel like you're really one of the group. That insider feeling will certainly make you want to keep watching, so go ahead and treat yo self and watch a few episodes! (You can report back to us when you can find the in-joke in that sentence.)
Watch this if you enjoyed: The Office, Modern Family, 30 Rock, Community, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Arrested Development, Veep.
Available on Netflix US.
If you fancy something a little more hard-hitting than the sweetly funny Parks and Recreation, Defiance might be your best choice. It stars Daniel Craig, Liev Shreiber and Jamie Bell as three Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Germany during the Second World War. They team up with Russian resistance fighters to build a village to protect themselves and the rest of their group – which consist of around 1,000 Jewish civiliansm – while also trying to carry out their own personal act of vengeance.
Unlike some war movies, Defiance shies away from glamourising war but instead shows the intensity of being directly involved in it – most of the time against people's will – and the raw emotion behind many's actions at that time in history. But it juxtaposes the grim nature of battle against subtly beautiful backdrops of authentic weaponry, snow-covered forests and war-torn uniforms, not to mention the rich and colourful Lithuania in which it was filmed.
Watch this if you enjoyed: The Pianist, Cold Mountain, The Grey, Blood Diamond, Valkyrie, Schindler's List, The Monument Men, Fury.
Available on Netflix UK.
A Young Doctor's Notebook
Adapted from the book of short stories of the same name, A Young Doctor's Notebook sees Mad Men's Jon Hamm and Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe come together in this darkly comic drama series that tells the story of the same doctor, but at different times in his life simultaneously. Only the two different versions talk to each other, making this show slightly odd yet enjoyable.
It's fair to say that most hospital and medical shows tend to depict the doctors as some sort of hero-type characters, but A Young Doctor's Notebook doesn't fall into this tradition – and its a refreshing change. Older Doctor and Younger Doctor, as they're simply known in the show, aren't necessarily dislikeable but they are far from perfect, what with Young Doctor's growing morphine addiction and Older Doctor's often selfish and cowardly ways making for much more interesting characters than your run-of-the-mill good guys.
Hamm and Radcliffe are on top form here, bouncing off each other with ease and equal physical expressibility, and the jokes are always written in the most inappropriate places, having you giggle at the inappropriateness of certain situations and conversations.
Set in the early 1900s, the surgery scenes are somewhat gruesome, so those with a weak stomach might want to look away whenever those segments crop up. But again, the show's humour helps to awkwardly balance out the uncomfortable feeling you get when you're watching someone get hacked up on an operating table. So not to worry, the ill feeling never lasts long.
Watch this if you enjoyed: Nurse Jackie, Fargo, Royal Pains, Agent Carter, Alphas, Sirens, Peaky Blinders, The Knick, Black Mirror.
Available on Netflix US.
Penguins of Madagascar
The penguins from Madagascar share an obvious similarity to Despicable Me's minions – and it's not just because they are small, round and quite often have dopey expressions on their faces. No, the penguins are like the minions because they're the most memorable things about the franchise they were first seen in. So, as with the minions, it was only a matter of time before they had their own movie devoid of the likes of Ben Stiller's Alex the lion and Chris Rock's Marty the zebra.
Penguins of Madagascar centres around the four flightless birds made famous by the first three movies – Skipper, Kowalski, Private and Rico – as they team up with undercover organisation The North Wind to take down villainous octopus, Dave, who is on a personal vendetta mission to destroy penguins all over the globe. His reasons? They are cuter than him, and he can't quite get over all the times he was passed by zoo-goers when the fluffy things were nearby.
The new voice cast is impressive too, featuring the likes of Ken Jeong (The Hangover), Arrow's Peter Stormare and Oscar-nominated Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich. But really, who are we kidding? You're going to watch it for the cute and funny penguins, right? Penguins are the best.
Watch this if you enjoyed: Madagascar, Shrek, Mr Peabody & Sherman, Big Hero 6, Despicable Me, How To Train Your Dragon.
Available on Netflix US.
Optimistic videographer Aaron, on a quest to find some work, is led to answer a job on Craigslist that requests someone to work for just one day. Thinking it will earn him quick and easy money, Aaron accepts and goes to help the person who posted the ad, Josef. Upon meeting him, Josef tells Aaron that what he wants him to do is discreetly film him throughout his day as he is compiling a series of videos for his unborn son to watch, in order to give him a sense of what his father was really like, as Josef explains that he has a terminal illness and won't live to see him grow up.
However, as the day goes on, Aaron realises that Josef isn't exactly what he initially seemed and discovers that he's a rather off-kilter individual.
The eerie film only stars just two actors throughout – Patrick Brice (Aaron) and Mark Duplass (Josef) – which only adds to the uneasy feeling you get while watching it: it feels intimate, but not necessarily in a good way, and you're afraid of what you might see if you continue immersing yourself in Aaron and Josef's less-than-typical day.
It's predominantly shot in a found-footage style, so if you can't endure a little shaky-cam, then stay well away. However, it has to be stated that this movie is arguably one of the best-executed "found footage" films of late, and it never feels like you're watching a film that cost about £10 to make.
What might surprise some, though, is that despite the sinister-sounding plot and unnerving imagery, Creep isn't just a straight horror film... it's got moments of comedy in it too. So if you like your funnies on the weird side, what are you waiting for?
Watch this if you enjoyed: Unfriended, Slither, Housebound, Mockingbird, Mr Jones, A Haunted House, You're Next.
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Obesity and type 2 diabetes are epidemic health care problems that have both lifestyle (diet, inactivity) and genetic (familial risk) components. Metabolic syndrome is the presence of multiple risk factors for cardiometabolic disease that often leads to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Greater than 85 percent of obese adolescents will become obese adults, contributing to escalating adult disease rates. We are working to identify genetic and molecular causes of childhood and adolescent obesity, and design interventions to reverse unhealthy weight gain in the nation's children. The overarching hypothesis of our research is that genetic variations driving obesity will be more easily identified in younger populations that have fewer confounding disease co-morbidities than older, sicker populations. Furthermore, the early identification of individuals at higher risk for obesity and diabetes due to their genetics and lifestyles can lead to better prevention and treatment strategies.
A series of population-based interventions for inactivity, obesity, and type 2 diabetes in children and young adults is underway within the department. Recently, a systems biology initiative for obesity was funded by the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation. Monica Hubal, PhD, a faculty member with dual backgrounds in exercise physiology and genetic medicine, is working with Evan Nadler, MD, who performs bariatric surgery on extremely obese adolescents. Their projects include identification of genetic variations associated with successful health improvements after surgery and understanding the physiological changes that occur across organs (muscle, liver and fat) after surgery. Dr. Nadler also heads up the scientific team for the Obesity Program at Children's National Hospital, a multidisciplinary initiative with the goal of combating obesity through informed and comprehensive prevention and treatment programs.
Eric Hoffman, PhD, continues a series of NIH funded studies of genetic predispositions to metabolic syndrome and endophenotypes of type 2 diabetes in children and young adults. The AIMM Young Study, a study of metabolic syndrome in African American Washington, D.C., college students, has been highlighted by the NIH National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities P20 Centers, with impressive recruitment. The AIMM Young study goal is to identify young people who are at risk for metabolic syndrome, with the intention of developing intervention programs to foster lifestyle changes that lessen their chances of developing metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Hoffman and Joseph M. Devaney, Ph.D., also continue work on the FAMUSS study, a multi-institutional cooperative study of young adults (average age 24 years), that seeks to identify genetic variations responsible for effects of strength training on muscle, bone, and fat mass. The FAMUSS study uses MRI, muscle strength testing, and response of these variables to 12 weeks of progressive supervised resistance training. The FAMUSS study has resulted in >16 peer reviewed publications, including recent findings of genetic associations between variations in BMP2, INSIG2 and PPARA with muscle and fat mass.
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He is the town's archaeologist who works at the Excavation Site with his assistant Flora. Carter will let you dig at the dig site and help him find archaeology wonders. The only items that he will keep are tablets, potential pieces of an ancient civilization. The rest of the items are yours to do with what you please. They typically sell for a high price at Van's Shop.
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2019-2020 �����а����Ӣ����� 1Module1MyfirstdayatSeniorhigh6 ��ʱ��ѧ��� a)Self-introduction b)Vocabulary and speaking c)Everyday English and function
1 Teaching aims and demands
a) have the students to introduce themselves b) have the students to know what you except from them c) have the students get familiar with some words of subjects d) have the students to learn the Everyday English and function
2 Teaching methods
a) speaking b)discussing c)pair-work& group-work
3 Teaching steps
Step1 Self-introduction
(I) This is the first English class in Senior high, you are fresh to the students , so are the students. So it is necessary for you to introduce yourself to the students and get them to introduce them to you and other students , you must stress that the students must introduce them in English. If necessary, you can make an example first.
eg : My name is Liyingxu , I am your new English teacher ,you can call me Mr.li. I was born on April 16th in a small village in Hebei province. I graduated from Northwest Minorities University , I have taught English in this school for three years. I am a friendly teacher , I am usually ready to help everyone of you. I like sports very much ,but I am not good at it. I don��t like music so much ,especially pop music, in my opinion, it is so noisy and meaningless. In my spare time, I like reading. I hope we can get along well with each other and I will try my best to teach you how to learn English well more than the grammar & vocabulary & drills. I will be strict with every student, so you must follow my words, or you will be punished.
(some drills needed to be written on the black board) a) My name is ���� b) I am a ���� c) I was born on/in ���� d) I graduated from ���� e) I like/ am good at / am fond of ���� f) I hope/ think/ want ���� g) ���� (II) Get the students to introduce them to their partners in group of four, then ask some volunteers to introduce them to all the students in English. or Ask them to introduce them one by one.
Step2 Vocabulary and speaking
(I) Vocabulary Ask the students to tell you what subjects they learned in Junior High school and what other subjects they will learn in Senior High school, ask the students to express them in English as possible as they can, then write the words on the Bb, teach the students to pronounce the words they don��t know. eg : Chinese English Mathematics Physics Chemistry Biology Politics History Geography Arts Music IT (Information Technology) PE(Physical Education) GT(General Technology) Japanese Russian French (II)Dialogue (pair-work)
T: How many subjects are science subjects? S: ���� T: How many of them are languages? S: ���� T: Which languages do you study at our school? S: .��.. T: Which subjects do you like best? Why? S: ���� Ask the students to imitate the dialogue to get which subject their partner like and why by using the following drills. Which subject do you like best? Why? Which subject do you like better between ...and ��? Why? I like �� because �� I think �� is important because �� I would like to study/learn �� because �� In my opinion �� is �� so I ��.. Ask some of them to show their dialogues to the ss. Step 3 Everyday English and Function
(I) T: After we have talked about the favorite subjects you like
best, now lets turn to another part. Every day when we have a
break between classes we may meet some old friends, you may
talk about your classes , now please turn to P8 , let��s learn the
dialogue in Everyday English and Function .
Ask the students to listen to the tape ,then to read the dialogue in pairs. (explain some difficult words and teach ask them to pronounce them by looking up them in the dictionary)
Ask the students to read and analyze these sentences.
1 How are you doing? 2 Oh really? 3 Is that right? (II) Work in pairs. Make a conversation about one of your classes . Use the conversation in activity 1 to help. Ask some of them to report and act their dialogue out.
Step4 Summary
The teacher summary the whole class for the students and tell them what they should do to improve .
I Review the drills we learned in this class. II Preview Reading and vocabulary & Cultural corner.
Period 2
Teaching content
a) Reading and vocabulary b) Cultural corner
Teaching aims and demands
a) get the students to understand the texts well b) get the students to know the school life in other schools ( at home and in the USA) c) help the students to improve their reading ability
4 Teaching methods
a) speaking b) reading c) discussing d) pair-work& group-work
Teaching steps
Step 1 Revision
I Revise last class by ask them which subject they like best and why. II Revise everyday English by asking which class do you have before our English class and talk about it with the help of Everyday English and Function on P8
Step 2 Lead-in (Discuss and compare)
T: Everybody , we have studied in a new school named Pingluo Middle School . Before you come here , all of you studied in different schools, now I will give you some time to think what the main differences and similarities between Junior High school and Senior High school.
And ask them to discuss these two problems: 1 Do you think that work at Senior High school is harder than that at Junior High school? 2 Are Senior High teachers similar to Junior High teachers? T: After we have compared Senior High school and Junior High school, now we will learn something about Likang��s First day at Senior High . before we read the text let��s learn some words first.
Step 3 Vocabulary
Deal with the vocabulary on P2 by finishing the questions in the part. Step 4 Reading I Scanning Read the text quickly and try to find the answer to these questions:
a) What are the differences between Likang��s Junior High school and Senior High school?
b) What are the two things the English teacher thinks important to do in class? c) What are the two things that the English teacher want to improve? II Understanding Play the tape for the students and ask them to listen & read following the tape in a low voice. Then finish the forth part in Reading and Vocabulary on P3. III Careful-reading Ask the students to read the passage again and find out which word in the box in the fifth part of Reading and Vocabulary on P4. And ask them try to guess the meaning and explain the words in English according to the text. Ask the students to read the three summaries of Likang��s opinion about the new school in the sixth part in Reading and Vocabulary on P4. Decide which is the best. IV Discussion T: We have known the Likang��s life at Senior High, is your English classroom like Likang��s? is your class the same size as his? Is the number of boys and girls the same? Are you looking forward to doing your English homework? Now please discuss with your partner and compare your school life with Likang��s.
Step5 Cultural corner
T: we have learned likang��s school life at senior high, do you want to know the life of the teenagers in the similar age of you in other countries? Now please turn to P9, let��s read the text in cultural corner and learn something about the Senior High school life in the US.
I Ask the students to listen to the tape and read the text. II Ask the students to answer the following questions: a) What are the differences between the grades in China and the US?
b) How is the school year divided ? c) How long does the Summer Vacation last? d) When do they start and finish school? e) What do they do after school?
III Ask the students to prepare a short reply to introduce the school system , vacation, study time & after-school activities in China by imitating the letter in Cultural corner.
Step6 Summary
The teacher summary the class by comparing the school life in China and the US. Homework: I Write a reply to Rob Marshall II Read the text for as many times as they can III Preview the language points in these two passages.
Period 3
Teaching content
a) the language points in the two passages
b) the important and difficult drills in the two passages
Teaching aims and demands
a) get the students to master some useful words or expressions
b) get the students to master some important drills
c) get the students to do some exercises about the language points.
d) to improve the students ability of using English
Teaching methods
a) Explaining
b) Discovering
c) Practicing
Teaching steps
Step 1 Revision
Revise last class by checking home work and analyze the students�� replies. You can also
ask some the students to read the good replies for the students
Step 2 Language Study
I Underline the useful expressions
science subject
academic subject
be similar to��
differences between A and Bthe attitude to��
method a city not far from �� write down��
on the computer
the screen
information from websites a woman called��.
be nothing like
speak a lot in class
have fun
introduce oneself
in groups
give sb instructions
work by oneself
improve one��s spelling in a fun way
in other words
for one��s homework
a description of
look forward to doing��
be impressed with�� A is the same size as B
the number of
the American school systems
secondary school
cover 7 years
receive the high school diploma
go to college
September through December
take part in
be free to do��
without the help of sb
become friends
last a long time
There is a popular belief
They say that
have similar life experiences under the same roof
Thanks for doing��
ask sb about��
do experiments
have dinner
stay on at school
take a bus home
school daybe fluent in Chinese
speak Chinese with fluency
make a lot of progress
at the beginning of
write to sb
all over the world
the smell of
paint the wall
move to��
have the biggest smile
II Analyze the language points
A) Words
1 information noun facts or details telling sth about a situation, person ,event, etc information about/on sb/sth ����ij��/ı�µ���Ϣ
a piece of information һ����Ϣ�� һ���鱨 ask for information on/about �������ڡ�������Ϣ 2 instruction n (pl) sth that sb tells
you to do ָʾ
(pl) information on how to do or use sth ˵�� follow the instructions for ���ء�����ָʾ
instructions on(how to do ) sth ���������ij�µ�ָʾ instructions to do sth ��ij�µ�ָʾ
on sb�� instructions ����ij�˵�ָʾ be under instructions to do sth ��ָʾ��ij��
instructions in �йء�����ָʾ
3 embarrassed adj. feeling nervous and uncomfortable and worrying
be embarrassed to do sth ������ij��
be embarrassed about/at �ԡ����е�����
4 attitude n sb��s opinions of feelings about sth, especially as shown by their
attitude to/towards sth/sb ��ij��/ij�µ�̬��
5 behaviour n way of treating others ; manners behaviour towards/to �����ԡ�����̬��/��Ϊ
be on one��s good/best behaviour ѭ�浸�أ���Ϊ��� put sb on his best behaviour ��Ȱ/����ij��Ҫ���ؾ�
6 previous adj happening or existing before the event or object you are talking about ��
the previous day ǰһ�� previous to �ڡ�����ǰ
previously adv ��ǰ����ǰ 7 impress vt. to have a favourable effect on sb ; to make sb feel admiration and respect impress sth in /on sth impress sth on/opon sb impress sb with sth be impressed at/by/with impression n. make an impression on sb 8 cover vt to include or deal with sth ���� be covered by/ with ������������ cover for sb ����ij�� cover (a distance) �ߣ�һ�ξ��룩 cover (sth new )��������Ϣ�����ţ� cover sth up/over ��סij�� Step 3 Practicing Ask the students to do some exercises about the language points just learned Homework I Remember the usages of the words today II Preview and try to analyze the difficult sentences in these to passages
Period 4
Teaching content
a) the language points in the two passages b) the important and difficult drills in the two passages
Teaching aims and demands
a) get the students to master some useful words or expressions b) get the students to master some important drills c) get the students to do some exercises about the language points. d) to improve the students ability of using English
Teaching methods
a) Explaining b) Discovering c) Practicing
Teaching steps
Step 1 Revision Revise the words learned yesterday by doing some translation exercises.(C to E or E to
C). Step 2 language study 1��The teacher is a very enthusiastic woman called Ms. Shen. ����dz������Ů��ʦ������ʦ��
called Ms. Shen �ǹ�ȥ�ִʶ���������������εĴ�֮����������ϵı�����ϵ�� �൱�ڶ���Ӿ� who/that was called Ms. Shen�� �磺
We visited the new library built three weeks ago. ���Dzι�������ǰ���ɵ�ͼ��ݡ�
The first textbooks written for teaching English as a foreign language came out in the 18th century.
Most of the artists invited to the party were from South Africa. ���������μӾۻ�Ĵ�����Ϸ������ҡ� ע������һ����ڱ����δ�֮������ȥ�ִʷ��ڱ����δ�֮ǰ 2��And we have fun. I don't think I will be bored in Ms. Shen's class! �����Ͽ��ϵúܿ��ģ�����Ϊ�Ҳ��������ʦ�Ŀ��ᷳ�ġ� ��1��have (great) fun ��ÿ��� =have (a lot of) fun = have a wonderful time =enjoy oneself �磺 The children were having a lot of fun with the building blocks. ����������ľ��úܿ��ġ�
You're sure to have some fun tonight. ������һ������úܿ��ġ�
They had a lot of fun chatting on the net. ���������������ĵúܿ��ġ� fun/,�Dz��������ʣ������� be fun �ṹ�У��൱�� interesting���� Seeing monkeys in the zoo is great fun. �ڹ������ӷdz���Ȥ��
What fun it is to play a game after work! ����֮��һ�¶�ô��Ȥ�� ע: �˴��� what fun ������ how funny ���棬��Ϊ"funny"�ǡ������ģ���Ц�ġ�����˼�� ����չ��for fun=in fun ����Ц�� make fun of ��Ц��ȡЦ���� I'm not saying such a serious thing for fun. ��˵����������������ǿ���Ц��
It's bad manners to make fun of the blind. ȡЦä���Dz���ò�ġ� ��2������Ҫע�Ȿ��Ӣ�����������Ӣ������Щ���ʣ��� think, believe, expect, suppose, feel, guess, imagine �ȣ������Ǻ����һ�����з�����ı���Ӿ�ʱ��ͨ��Ҫ������Ķ� �ʱ�Ϊ��ʽ��������Ӿ��е�ν�ﶯ���ÿ϶���ʽ�����������Ϊ��ת�ơ��磺
We don't think there is anything interesting in your pictures. ������Ϊ��Ļ���û��ʲô��Ȥ�ĵط��� I don't believe what he said is true.����Ϊ��˵�IJ����滰�� I don't suppose they will object to my suggestion. �������Dz��ᷴ���ҵĽ��顣
He didn't imagine that she would go abroad. ����������������ˡ�
I don't feel the food can last us through the winter. ����Ϊ��ʳ���Dz������ǹ����ġ� ע���ڷ������ʾ��У������������ǵ�һ�˳ƣ�think �ȴ���һ�����ڽ������ɲ����� ����Ӿ��е������ν�ﱣ��һ�£�����Ҫ������������ν�ﱣ��һ�¡��磺
I don't think it's going to rain tomorrow, is it? ����Ϊ���������꣬����
You don't think I have made mistakes, do you? �㲢����Ϊ�ҷ���ʲô��������
3 In other words, there are three times as many girls as boys. ���仰˵��Ů�����к��������� ��1��in other words ��Ϊ�����仰�����ھ�����������ɷ֡��磺 In other words, she must give up singing. ����֮��������������衣
I'm not used to the way you speak to me. In other words, I don't want to continue our conversations.
Beethoven wrote many world-famous musical compositions. In other words, he was a great musician.
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The street is twice the length of that one. �������������ֵ��������� Ten is double five.ʮ����Ķ����� This pencil is a quarter as long as that one. ��֦Ǧ������֦���ķ�֮һ���� Our room is 60�� the size of theirs. ���Ƿ������������Ƿ�������� 60%�� 4 I'm looking forward to doing it���ҷdz�����ȥ���� look forward to sth./doing sth. ��˼�ǡ��ڴ���ij��/��ij�¡������С�to���ǽ�ʡ� I look forward to hearing from you as early as possible. ���ڴ��������յ�������š�
Boys and girls are looking forward to Children's Day. �����������Ŷ�ͯ�ڵ����١�
I'm looking forward to his return just as much as he himself seeing me.
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look forward to ��������
turn to �����ڣ�ת��������
pay attention to ע�⡭��
stick to ���
get down to ��'����ɡ���
object to ����
belong to ����
refer to ̸�����漰������
point to ָ��
see to ����������
come to ���ƣ�����
reply to ��
agree to ͬ��
add to ����
devote��to�� ���ס���������
5 The school year is divided into two semesters, the first of which is September through
December, and the second is January through May.
��1��be divided into ���ѡ����ֳɡ���������:
Our class is divided into four groups. ���ǰ�ֳ����顣
America is divided into over 30 stales. �����ֳ� 50 ����ݡ�
��2��the first of which���Ƕ���Ӿ䣬���� semesters. �磺
We live in a house, in front of which is a small river.
6 I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing
��1��far from a) Զ�� b) ������Զ�ǣ�һ��Ҳ�� ��2��away from & far (away) from , �������ﶼ�������������״��ͺ��ö���� �У����� away from ���ڱ�ʾ�������Ĵʺ���ʱ����Ϊ���롭������Զ���� be away from ��Ϊ���뿪���� far (away) from ͨ�����;���ľ���Ĵ����ã���Ϊ����ij�غ�Զ���� We were sitting ___________(�롭��̫Զ)the stage to be able to see very much. The Smiths live ___________( 20 Ӣ������)the city of New York. He works in a company ________________(Զ�����ļ�)�� 7 ��and Ms Shen��s method of teaching is nothing like that of the teachers at my Junior High
school. Nothing like ��Ϊ ��û��ʲô�ܱȵ��ϡ��� ��˿������ something like ��Ϊ����Լ���� ��������
It looks nothing like a horse.
In summer there is nothing like swimming as a means of keeping fit. It must be something like seven O��clock.
8 Today we introduced ourselves to each other. Introduce sb to sb ��ij�˽��ܸ�ij�� Introduce sth in/ into ��ij������ Introduce sb to sth ���������ij�˽Ӵ�ij�� Introduce sth to sb ���������� Introduction n ���ܣ����������� An introduction to �ԡ����Ľ��ܣ�����������
9 Oh really? So have I. ��so +������/��̬����/ϵ����+�����ʾ������һ���Ҳ������
He is interested in physics and so am I If you can finish it in time, so can I . ��ʾ������ʱ�á�neither/nor +������/��̬����/ϵ����+�������Ϊ������һ��� Ҳ��������
Bob wasn��t at school last Friday, and neither/nor was Jack. ��so +����+������/��̬����/ϵ���ʡ���ʾ��֮ǰ��Է���˵�������ʾ��ͬ��֤ʵ���� Ϊ��ͬһ���˻����ȷʵ������ ------You have dropped a word here. ------Yes, so I have. 10 At the end of twelfth grade, American students receive the high school diploma. at the end of �ڡ���������ʱ���ڡ����ľ�ͷ�� �ڡ����Ľ�β�� in the end (at last; finally)���գ����� by the end of ����������ʱ at the beginning of (at the start of ) �ڡ�����'��ʱ�� at the beginning (in the beginning ; at first) �������'ʱ 11 I take part in all kinds of after-school activities�� take part in join in join Step3 Practice and summary Ask the students to revise the language points just learned, the teacher should make a short summary to help them.
I Remember the points learned today II Preview Grammar 1 , Listening and vocabulary , Pronunciation III Read the passages as often as possible.
Period 5
Teaching content a) Grammar 1 b) Listening and vocabulary
Teaching aims and demands a) to revise the present tenses b) to help the students to learn some forms of one word ,in order to introduce something about
word-formation Teaching methods a) Discovering b) practising c) listening and speaking d) imitating
Teaching steps
Step1 Revision Revise the important points learned in last class by translating some Chinese sentences
into English. Step2 Lead in There are two sentences in the passage ��My first day at Senior High�� 1)I live in Shijiazhuang, a city not far from Beijing . 2)I am writing down my thoughts about it. What are the tense differences are there between these two sentences? Ask the students to analyze the tenses. Step3 Grammar study T: Today we will revise the uses of the present tenses. One is the present simple tense, the
other is the present continuous tense. Now let��s look at some examples: (I) She visits her parents everyday. What is the time by your watch? The moon goes around the earth. The train leaves at seven and arrives at nine. We will go to the park if it doesn��t rain tomorrow. Please tell him about it as soon as he comes back. (II) All the students are looking at the blackboard carefully. We are learning New Standard English. Now we are leaving the classroom and approaching the playground. She is always thinking of herself. Ask the students to analyze the examples and try to find out the principles of the uses of
the present simple tense & the present continuous tense. The teacher summarize the uses of the two tenses. Ask the students to read the passage again and choose sentences in the present simple
tense and in the present continuous tense. Say which uses they show. Step4 Listening and vocabulary (I) Vocabulary T: We have learned something about grammar ,now let��s revise some old words learned in
Junior High English. Explain Explanation Pronounce Pronunciation Encourage Encouragement Understand Understanding misunderstanding
Now finish the chart with the words in the box. Complete these sentences with a suitable form of each word in the box., then check the answers with the students. Ask the students to read the sentences in activity 2 again and answer the questions in activity 3. (II) Listening T: I really don��t know if your answers are correct or not, so let��s listen to the conversation to check your answers ,and you must try your best to get the general idea of the conversation. Play the tape for the students, then ask the students to tell you what they have learned from the conversation.
T: Yes , most of you have known something about the conversation ,but you didn��t get the details clearly. I will play the tape for you after you read the questions in activity 4. Now please read the questions quickly.
Play the tape for the students and ask them to make some notes which will help them to answer the questions by write down some key words or phrases.
Check answers with the students and write down the difficult points. Play the tape for the third time , stop when and where necessary, repeat the difficult parts. Step 4 Summary The teacher summarize the class by revising the word-formation. And ask the students to read the sentences in activity2 in Listening and vocabulary. Homework I Remember the words and the sentences in Listening and vocabulary. II Try to find some other principles of word-formation. III Preview Grammar 2 , Pronunciation &Writing. Speaking
Period 6
Teaching content
a) Grammar 2 b) Pronunciation c) Speaking d) writing Teaching aims and demands a) get the students to master the uses of �Cing form and �Ced form b) help the students to improve their ability of talking about the school life. c) to improve students�� pronunciation by listening and summarizing d) to teach the students something about how to write an E-mail reply. Teaching methods a) discovering and summarizing b) listening and speaking c) imitating d) discussing and writing Teaching steps Step 1 Revision a) Ask the students to repeat the uses of the present simple tense and the present continuous tense. b) have a dictation about the words and sentences in activity 2 in Listening and vocabulary. Step 2 Grammar
I Lead in by doing exercises: 1 I was ________ when I saw the _______ news. (exciting & excited) 2 The dog was ________ in playing _________ games, such as playing balls, wires and
plates. (interesting & interested) Now please look at these two questions, can you fill in the blanks?
II Discovering and summarizing Read My First Day at Senior High again and underline the adjectives with �Cing or �Ced
endings. After you have found out them try to find out the different uses of words with different endings.
Ask the students to choose the correction explanation in activity 2 in Grammar 2. Finish the excises in activity 3. Step 3 Pronunciation T: I found some students could not pronounce the words with �Ced endings correctly, now let��s have a look at these words: 1 amazed bored tired 2 embarrassed 3 disappointed excited interested Play the tape for the students and ask the to find the differences and try to imitate the pronunciation . Ask the students to find out the principles. Step 4 Speaking T: We often take part in many after-school activities , now let��s look at the pictures in Speaking part to find out what the US high school students do after class. 1 What can you see in the picture and what are they doing . 2 Is the school similar to ours? Explain why it is or isn��t. 3 Do students at our school do things like this ? 4 How do you think about the after-school activities? Are they good or bad? How can we make best use of after-school activities. Give the students some time to discuss the questions and try to report their own ideas. Then the teacher make a summary. Step5 Writing T: We have sorrows and happiness in our school lives, sometimes we want to exchange our feelings with others, so we write a letter or make a call. Now we will read a letter from an American girl who likes sharing her memories of her first year at school. Ok, please turn to P8 and read it. Give the students some time to read the letter. Go through the letter and deal with some important or difficult points. T: Do you want to write a letter to her and tell your memories of the first year at school. Now , can you tell me what should we write this reply and what will you write in it. Ask the students to tell their own ideas and collect them and write down them on the black board. The teacher give the students some suggestions. Ask the students to write the reply in the class if enough time is left. Or, leave it as home work.. Homework I Ask the students to write and correct their reply. II Remember the uses of �Cing&-ed endings. III Finish the exercises about this module.


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Sylvester Stallone narrowly avoided being shot while filming John Rambo on the border of Burma.
The 61-year-old actor was left shaken after witnessing "horrifying" scenes while shooting on the Salween River between Thailand and conflict-ridden Burma, also known as Myanmar.
Stallone told USA Today: "We had shots fired above our heads. We were told we could get seriously hurt if we went on.
"I witnessed survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land-mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off. We hear about Vietnam and Cambodia but the results of this conflict are more horrific.
"This is a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams."
Burma's army has waged a long-running brutal war against ethnic groups in which soldiers have destroyed villages, raped women and killed innocent civilians.
Stallone returned to the US eight days ago having spent six months in the region, mostly in the Salween River region – the only route into Burma from Thailand.
The crew left the area shortly before the vicious crackdown last week against the largest pro-democracy protests in Burma in two decades.
The film, which Stallone directs and stars in, sees Rambo taking a group of mercenaries up the Salween River in search of missing Christian aid workers in Burma.
Stallone is now editing John Rambo, which will be released in January 2008.