They could warn others in the school or in other buildings by texting someone. ... If the student/students were sick they could text someone in the group. ... Distractions could be in the form of students playing games, laughing (out loud) at jokes received in text messages, or spending time socializing on Facebook. ... Although this can go on away from school, students might be tempted more to send a message or post some type of threat when at school and pressured by other students. ... If a student is texting or posting when they should be paying attention to the teacher, then the phone sh...

• Word Count: 811
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Using word walls, message centers, student's writing samples, lots of books from every genre, learning centers, and real world objects that inspire study and reflections. 2.) ... Expressive language is when the sender of a message encodes his or her thoughts into the symbol system of the language. Receptive language is when the receiver of a message decodes the symbol system (oral speech or print) of the language into meaning. 5.) ... This is important because if readers are to busy decoding text they will not comprehend what it is they are to be learning. 6.) ... Basal Block:...

• Word Count: 598
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Cell phones aren't just used for texting and calling anymore. ... Cell phones can be a distraction in school and that is when drama is started with texting in school, also when students are on social media, sites and are getting distracted and not completing their schoolwork. ... If we were aloud to have our phones out and check a text message here or there it would be less of a fight with students everyday and teachers could focus on the students learning. ...

• Word Count: 641
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The writer's purpose in this text is to motivate as a result but his main purpose is to inform about his experience and about the prison that changed his entire life through his narration and discription for the details he lived and showing that dedication and hardwork will lead to a gleaming point.He used simple vocabs"bunk,corridor,tablet,inmates"and phrases "I was so fascinated that I went on-I copied the dictionary's next page."(paragraph 8 p.73) that are familiar to his audiences.The style of his text in addition to the tone of his language is greatly optimi...

• Word Count: 681
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There may be texts, videos, and audio materials available through the Internet, all of which aid in the benefit of implementing it. ... Communication on the Internet, whether it is via email, chatting, or message posting, can and will help their communication skills. ...

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Both essays also stress the importance of how we communicate our message to our audience in writing is key. ... " display this concept by discussing the need of active thinking to read, comprehend, and write complex texts. ... After listing off the overall message of each essay, it is easy to see their differences. In conclusion, there are differences between the essays, such as their main message, or using the pathos appeal, and there are similarities such as the concept of active and free thinking, university writing, and the use of the logos appeal, amongst these essays. ...

• Word Count: 1107
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Due to the excessive amounts of emailing, instant messaging, and texting, students' writing skills have declined tremendously as it is believed they have virtually forgotten. ... One example of how students can work towards grade-level reading skills is by using computer programs that either read the text digitally or present it at a lower grade level for students with reading disabilities or visual impairments. ...

• Word Count: 1137
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In our society, the people in power (in this case the parents) always lead by example and if the parents are not active participants in the child's education, the student could receive the mixed message that education is not too important. ... (p90) Also, by maintaining well balanced educational materials such as text books, library books, supplemental readings, and curriculum lesson plans that features people of all different races we show to the students and parents that no single group is more important than the other in our classrooms. ...

• Word Count: 767
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Related Objectives • read a variety of texts and analyze their rhetorical situations (i.e. context, audience, and aims) • write papers with a clearly developed thesis and support designed to appeal to various audiences and contexts • read for various purposes Outcome 4: Rhetorical Strategies Students will read and write a variety of nonfiction expository and argumentative genres. ... • recognize fact, opinion, inference, and bias in texts Outcome 5: Discourse Conventions and Effective Style Students will produce coherent, organized, effective, readable aca...

• Word Count: 6229
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

It contained easy, well flowed text. ... According to this writter this book sends out a message about how our schools are in dire need of reform, to say the least. ... The message by Dewey through his book was "that a democratic society must provide equal educational opportunity not only by giving to all its children the same quantity of public education--the same number of years in school -- but also by making sure to give all of them, all with no exceptions, the same quality of education (pg. 4)." ...

• Word Count: 1922
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The way that the University would keep its students alerted was through texts, calls, emails, and through social media. This proved that the administration wanted to make sure that everyone would get the message of the school closing so they wouldn't try to come up here and maybe crash on the slippery, icy roads. ...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Classroom of America 2 Classroom of America: Inequality in the Educational System The United States of America has long been referred to as the "land of the free,"" a place where "all men are created equal."" But how united is America in the classroom? Within America there is a large population of peoples who have been, and continue to be, oppressed in this land of the free. They are not treated as equal, and are sometimes treated inferior in comparison to the dominant culture. Indeed, this cycle of inequality can begin at a young age, through the experiences...

• Word Count: 2650
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate