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10 mindframes for visible learning5/11/2023 These powerful mindframes, which should underpin every action in schools, are founded on the principle that teachers are evaluators, change agents, learning experts, and seekers of feedback who are constantly engaged with dialogue and challenge. The notion that learning needs to be challenging Įngaging in dialogue and the correct balance between talking and listening Ĭonveying the success criteria to learners Working collaboratively and the sense of community The importance of assessment and feedback for teachers Thinking of and evaluating your impact on students' learning In Ten Mindframes for Visible Learning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer define the ten behaviors or mindframes that teachers need to adopt in order to maximize student success. The original Visible Learning research concluded that one of the most important influencers of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role.
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It seems that Moira is related with Tekmor (proof, ordinance) and with Ananke, who were primeval goddesses in mythical cosmogonies. In Plato's Republic the Three Fates are daughters of Ananke (necessity). Later they are daughters of Zeus and Themis, who was the embodiment of divine order and law. In the Theogony of Hesiod, the three Moirai are personified, and are acting over the gods. In the Homeric poems Moira or Aisa, is related with the limit and end of life, and Zeus appears as the guider of destiny. The gods and men had to submit to them, but in the case of Zeus he is portrayed in two ways: as the only one who can command them (the Zeus Moiragetes) or as the one who is also bound to the Moiras as incarnation of the fates. They were independent, at the helm of necessity, directed fate, and watched that the fate assigned to every being by eternal laws might take its course without obstruction. They controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal from birth to death. Their number became fixed at three: Clotho (spinner), Lachesis (allotter) and Atropos (unturnable). In Greek mythology, the Moirai ( Ancient Greek: Μοῖραι, "apportioners", Latinized as Moerae)-often known in English as the Fates-were the white-robed incarnations of destiny ( Roman equivalent: Parcae, euphemistically the "sparing ones", or Fata also equivalent to the Germanic Norns). Old National Gallery, Berlin Greek deities Relief, grave of Alexander von der Mark by Johann Gottfried Schadow.
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Hellraiser boom studios5/11/2023 Was this change inevitable, or is this a case of corporate greed and burnout? Introduction to Clive Barker’s HellraiserĬlive Barker’s Hellraiser is a sequel to the first three films of the Hellraiser franchise. All of it surrounds the dynamic between two of the franchises’ main characters Kirsty Cotton and Elliot Spencer. As for the other two-fifths, it goes from being a horror-thriller to an apocalyptic story. The first three-fifths of the series do so well because they know the spirit of the Hellraiser franchise. So what happens when something going so well takes a nosedive! Barker himself is one of this comic series’ co-writers and has support from his usual editor. Clive Barker’s Hellraiser is a case of retroactive sequels with potential.
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Mastering the art of soviet cooking5/11/2023 "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy-and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generationsīorn in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen.
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Buddha in the attic julie otsuka5/11/2023 Otsuka's keenly observed prose manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences' Marie Claire 'An understated masterpiece. the distaff equivalent of a war memorial' Daily Telegraph 'A haunting and heartbreaking look at the immigrant experience. Otsuka's haunting, heartbreaking conclusion, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, is faultless' Daily Mail 'A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women. Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply foreign land. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic, the follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012.
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A good marriage king5/11/2023 He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. It was published in his anthology Full Dark, No Stars (2010) a surprisingly fruitful collection that has also furnished the stories that became the basis for other films such as Big Driver (2014) and 1922 (2017), leaving only the story Fair Extension unfilmed at present. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. A Good Marriage was a novella from Stephen King. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr.
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Hard reboot django wexler5/10/2023 For a more entertaining future dystopian epic that begins with battle bots, larger than life gals, and sharper dialogue, I recommend Jay Kristoff’s Lifelike trilogy. Random annoyance: there’s a recurring use of “yeah?” to end sentences, as in “we’ve got to win this fight, yeah?” Reminded me of Canadians ending their sentences with “eh” except nowhere near as charming. There’s barely any character development. Underwhelming: This ended up being a mild FF romance with a fade to black HEA (again, oddly mismatched with the crass cussing). I would have enjoyed this more if the author leaned into gritty, adult sci-fi or kid friendly, Real Steel B movie pulp. The first few minutes felt like the movie Real Steel, except starring two teen girls as competing robot pilots instead of the Hugh Jackman-kid combination. The F bombs start dropping (4 in the first 10 minutes), and there are a few oddly raunchy exclamations, which play like a scratched record in this otherwise YA to kid-friendly book about a far future universe of robot gladiator gambling. Uneven: “F me with a neutronium strap on and leave me to dry on a throne dome pulsar.” Yeah.
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Carlotta adams poirot5/10/2023 Although reluctant to carry out such a task, a reluctant Poirot is charmed by the actress into committing this deed. She has plans to marry her current beau, the Duke of Merton. In “LORD EDGEWARE DIES”, Belgian-born detective Hercule Poirot is approached by celebrated stage actress, Jane Wilkinson aka Baroness Edgeware, to approach her rather unpleasant husband on the possibility of a divorce. The most recent was a 100 minute television adaptation that aired in 2000 on the ITV series, “AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT”. There have been at least three movie and one radio adaptations of the novel in the past seven to eight decades. The worlds of Britain’s upper-crust and artists mingled in Agatha Christie’s 1933 novel called “Lord Edgeware Dies aka Thirteen at Dinner”. Glady Ercolano on “JACK REACHER: NEVER GO… More information on “JACK REACHER: NEVER GO… Ten Favorite OLD WES… on Ten Favorite OLD WEST Movies a… Five Favorite Episodes of “LOIS AND CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN” – Season One (1993-1994). Top Favorite Episodes of “CHUCK” Season One (2007-2008).
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Plutarch greek lives5/10/2023 We see how Greek politics changed as Macedon's power grew, and we learn of the warlords who followed Alexander. Plutarch's biographies of eminent politicians, rulers, and soldiers combine vivid portraits of their subjects with a wealth of historical information they constitute a uniquely important source for the period. This selection of ten Lives traces the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to the arrival of the Romans. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public HealthĪlexander * Demosthenes * Phocion * Eumenes * Demetrius * Pyrrhus * Agis and Cleomenes * Aratus * Philopoemen * Flamininus.The European Society of Cardiology Series. Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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Utter tosh! I really don’t see the point of this nonsense. A book about two wastrels getting wasted and pretending they are cool is of no interest to me. So in this book the author (this is a fictionalised account of a true event) and his lawyer take loads of drugs and drive about as if they are cool hipster gods when they’re just a pathetic waste of space. If this is typical of his work I have no idea why. Thompson spoken about in revered tones like he is some kind of God. Along with his best-known novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, several of his works have been adapted into films that demonstrate Thompsons unusual lifestyle and view of the world. I’ve never seen the movie and now I know why. PART 4 April 2005, ebook, 91 pages, borrowed from #PrimeReading)īoy, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a rancid turd. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. Thompson’s musings on the collapse of the American Dream. It brings to a new generation the hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror of Hunter S. Thompson’s iconic masterpiece, a controversial bestseller when it appeared in 1971, features the brilliant Ralph Steadman illustrations of the original. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded maybe you should drive …”’ ‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. |