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Final Lesson Project

LESSON PLAN PROJECT. Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals: Monsters Inc.: Describing People (Monsters)'s Physical Appearance. This movie is great and this scene is excellent for the students to practice describing people, but this time describing monsters. It is even more fun than describing people and you can use all the vocabulary taught. A. Write down the characteristics we use to describe people under the correct verb column. To Have or To Be. Answer key: To Have: He has ... To Be: He is ... (Fat, Thin, Short, Tall, Chubby, Slim, Heavy, Medium-Built) C. D. Lesson 5. Website Project.

Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine. My 5 Favorite Evernote Features. Finding a replacement for Goodreads. After Goodreads deleted content – both reviews and shelves – of readers as well as indicated that they would continue to do so in the future (only this time they’ll provide notice), many readers feel like Goodreads is not a safe place for them. Ironically, many many authors hate Goodreads feeling that the place is unsafe for them as well. Undoubtedly sites like Stop the Goodreads Bullies which has defamed and doxxed reviewers allowing them to be called at their place of business and at home bu approvingly cited by so many purported reputable journalism sources, ratchet up the tension making both sides targets.

Nonetheless, the question is where can readers go to discuss books they don’t like as well as the ones they do without interference from authors complaining about mistreatment? There really aren’t great options and I’m going to propose an unusual one at the bottom. Before leaving Goodreads, make sure you go to My Books and look on the left hand side for the import/export button. 2.0 Info . . .q.

Riffle: The Pinterest of GoodReads

Finding a replacement for Goodreads. 6 reasons to use Pearltrees. Pearltrees is the first and largest social curation community on the Internet. It’s a place to organize, discover and share all the cool content you find online. However, beyond this basic definition, a question remains: why would I want to use Pearltrees? Well, what I want to share with you are six major use cases (or reasons) we’ve identified as being most popular across our entire community of web curators. In addition, I’ll also share with you a couple of interesting ways in which I have put Pearltrees to use for myself.

Hopefully, you’ll not only get value in learning how the community uses Pearltrees, but also be inspired to find even more clever and creative ways to use our software yourself. 3. The problem is that aside from searching your personal twitter stream to get back to the cool stuff you tweeted there’s no great way to keep those links at hand. Note: For advanced users you can even hashtag the links you tweet with #PT and the name of a pearltree in your account (e.g.