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1, 2, 3...
Miss Palomine references day 11’s lesson of order of events to instruct the student to learn the order of numbers: 1, 2, 3. She teaches the student the terms, “first,” “second” and “third.”
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Parts of a Story: Beginning
"Parts of a Story: Beginning" models how to identify what happens at the beginning of a story.
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Author’s Purpose
Author’s Purpose determines the importance of writing for purpose by reading passages and identifying the author’s purpose for writing.
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Theme, Setting & Plot
Theme, Setting & Plot explains how the structure of the text contributes to its theme, setting, or plot.
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Sequencing a Story
"Sequencing a Story" explains how to sequence key ideas in chronological order.
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The Plot of a Story
"The Plot of a Story" explores how to recognize the three elements of plot in stories: problem, climax, and resolution.
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Unfolding Plot
Unfolding Plot describes how a given story's plot unfolds by retelling the story and citing events.
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Ending of a Story
"Ending of a Story" models understanding of story structure by explaining how to identify what happens at the end of a story.
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If You Thought This Inflation Was Bad...!
The last time we had inflation this bad in the U.S. was the 1970s--and it was much, much worse. Could history repeat itself?
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Nonfiction
This video discusses the nonfiction genre as well as qualities, types of pieces, and characteristics of the genre.
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Complex Characters
“Complex Characters” will break down the different characteristics of a complex character.
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Compare and Contrast Text Structure
Compare and Contrast Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the compare and contrast structure of informational text.
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Parts of a Script
Parts of a Script explores the structure of a script by explaining the four main parts: list of characters, description of setting, stage directions, and dialogue.
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Elements of Plot: A Guilty Conscience
Elements of Plot: A Guilty Conscience identifies elements of plot, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, found in the short story, A Guilty Conscience.
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A Gift for Sam: Plot
A Gift for Sam: Plot describes the sequence of events that take place in a story, called the plot.
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Bob Grows a Garden: Conflict
Bob Grows a Garden: Conflict describes the challenge that a character faces in a story, called the problem or conflict, as well as the resolution, or how the problem is resolved.
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Non-barking Dogs
University of Oxford historian John Elliott describes how one intriguing avenue of historical scholarship lies in trying to develop an understanding for why some historical events didn’t happen.
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High Five Facts - Ancient Roman Religion
This video explores five fun facts about ancient Roman religion.
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Ser vs Estar - Using Both with a change in Meaning (intermediate)
Hola. In this lesson we'll be covering when we can use both Ser and Estar with a change in meaning.
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Theme
“Theme” will help students evaluate the concepts of theme and main idea within a piece of literature.
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Components of Plot
Students will take a closer look at the elements of a successful narrative plot.
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Google Calendar: How to Use Google Calendar Search
A quick look at the search function on Google Cal, so you never lose sight of the things most important to you
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Google Calendar: How to Create & Manage Secondary Calendars
In this lesson, you'll learn to create secondary calendars for yourself so you only see the events most relevant to you at all times.
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Google Calendar: How to Share your Google Calendar
Whether you're hoping to share your account with your spouse, students or coworkers, you'll need to know how to do it first! In this video, Mitchell teaches us how to share our google calendar with others.