Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More Project Appendix D Promote the inclusion of diverse voices in K-12 classrooms with a unique model for culturally responsive text selection and a growing list of teacher-recommended titles. A Tool for Selecting Diverse Texts Appendix D: A Tool for Selecting Diverse Texts walks users through four distinct—but interconnected—considerations: complexity, diversity and representation, critical literacy, and reader and task, modeling the method we used to identify texts for our K-12 anti-bias curriculum, Perspectives for a Diverse America. Traditionally, tools that aid text selection have focused on quantitative and qualitative measures, giving teachers the means to select based on inherent text complexities; for example, word and sentence length, text cohesion, language features and knowledge demands. These tools have not provided ways for teachers to include diversity and representation, critical literacy and reader and task considerations in their text selection process. A List of Diverse Texts
The Jungle Book (1967 film) The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Inspired by the Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, it is the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the last to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production. The plot follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear try to convince him into leaving the jungle before the evil tiger Shere Khan arrives. The Jungle Book was released on October 18, 1967 to positive reception, with much acclaim to its soundtrack, featuring five songs by the Sherman Brothers and one by Gilkyson, "The Bare Necessities". Plot Mowgli, a young orphan boy, is found in a basket in the deep jungles of Madhya Pradesh, India. They leave that very night, but Mowgli is determined to stay in the jungle. Mowgli now wants to stay in the jungle more than ever. Cast Production Casting
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The Poetics of Aristotle, by Aristotle By Aristotle (350 B.C.E) A Translation By S. H. Butcher Contents Analysis of Contents I propose to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each; to inquire into the structure of the plot as requisite to a good poem; into the number and nature of the parts of which a poem is composed; and similarly into whatever else falls within the same inquiry. Epic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy also and Dithyrambic: poetry, and the music of the flute and of the lyre in most of their forms, are all in their general conception modes of imitation. For as there are persons who, by conscious art or mere habit, imitate and represent various objects through the medium of colour and form, or again by the voice; so in the arts above mentioned, taken as a whole, the imitation is produced by rhythm, language, or 'harmony,' either singly or combined. There are, again, some arts which employ all the means above mentioned, namely, rhythm, tune, and metre.
Collection of Awesome Things (63 pics) | Redrif - StumbleUpon Dec 14/11 Collection of Awesome Things (63 pics) Another collection of some very creative and awesome stuff. Which one of this would you like for Christmas? A Poem A Day by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Now, dear, it isn’t the bold things,Great deeds of valour and might,That count the most in the summing up of life at the end of the day.But it is the doing of old things,Small acts that are just and right;And doing them over and over again, no matter what others say;In smiling at fate, when you want to cry, and in keeping at work when you want to play—Dear, those are the things that count. And, dear, it isn’t the new waysWhere the wonder-seekers crowdThat lead us into the land of content, or help us to find our own.But it is keeping to true ways,Though the music is not so loud,And there may be many a shadowed spot where we journey along alone;In flinging a prayer at the face of fear, and in changing into a song a groan—Dear, these are the things that count.
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20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare No high school English curriculum is complete without a mandatory dose of William Shakespeare, and no American teenager makes it to graduation without whining about how boring it is to learn about iambic pentameter. As contemporary speakers of the English language, however, they might be interested to learn how much the Bard of Avon had in common with the generations that popularized the acronyms LOL and OMG and reinvented the 1940s slang term “hipster.” Endlessly imaginative and not overly concerned with grammatical convention, Shakespeare’s scripts contain over 2200 never-before-seen words—a diverse collection of loan-words from foreign languages, compound words from existing English terms, nouns turned into verbs, and creatively applied prefixes—many of which have entered into everyday language. 1. If not for that noble and valiant general and his playwright, our celebrity news coverage might be sorely lacking. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. “What, lamb! 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.