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Communication Skills is designed to guide college students in developing the vital communication skills that are necessary to succeed in the modern workplace. It is written in the reader-friendly style of a professional email between colleagues.

Word Count: 147987

ISBN: 978-0-9699813-5-0

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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to: Model a situation; make sensible, realistic assumptions and estimates; and use assumptions and estimates to create a chain of reasoning, in order to solve a practical problem.

Music and sound are two different concepts that share much in common. Determining the difference between the two can sometimes be difficult due to the subjective nature of deciding what is or is not music. The goal of this activity is to take something constructed by students, that would be normally classified as just sound and have the class work together to make what can be perceived to be music. Students construct basic stringed instruments made of shoeboxes and rubber bands. This activity aims to increase student understanding of what distinguishes music from sound.

Julia Alvarez was born in 1950 in NYC. Shortly after her birth, she and her parents returned to their home country, the Dominican Republic (Chicago Public Library, 2004). 10 years later, Julia Alvarez along with her family was forced to flee to the United States because of her father’s involvement in trying to plan to overthrow the dictator, Trujillo (Chicago Public Library, 2004).
Julia found it difficult to fit into her new life in the United States and she found it challenging to learn the English language. Julia experience alienation from her peers and prejudice because she was an immigrant (Chicago Public Library, 2004).
Julia said, “I consider this radical uprooting from my culture, my native language, my country, the reason I began writing” (Alvarez, 2020).
Alvarez earned her undergraduate degree from Middlebury College in 1971 and a master’s degree in creative writing from Syracuse University in 1975 (Chicago Public Library, 2004).
Julia Alvarez has published many books in her career as a writer; many in both English and Spanish. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents was published in 1991 as Julia’s first novel. It told the story of four immigrant sisters from the Dominican Republic adjusting to life in the United States. It was the first novel written by someone from the Dominican Republic in the English language. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents was the winner of the 1991 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for works that present a multicultural viewpoint (Lit Lovers, 2022).
Another wonderful book, published in 1994, Time of Butterflies, told the story of the brave women who did not survive the dictatorship. It was a finalist in 1995 for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a notable book by the American Library Association in 1994, and was chosen as one of the Best Books for Young Adults by the Young Adult Library Services Association and the American Library Association in 1995 (Chicago Public Library, 2004).
In preparing for this video, I read the book Where Do They Go? It is a book for children that explains the death of a loved one. The children want to know where did their loved ones go and through wonderful poetic words and illustrations, a soft answer is given to the children in a way they can understand (Julia Alvarez, 2016).
In addition to writing award-winning books, Julia Alvarez has earned the Pura Belpre and Americas Awards for her young adult books, the Hispanic Heritage Award, and the F. Scott Fitgerald Award. At a ceremony in 2014, Julia received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama (National Endowment for the Arts, 2013).
Julia Alvarez is a wonderful storyteller and author because she writes from her own experiences as an immigrant and embraces multicultural identity. She authors books for children, young adults, and adults. Julia Alvarez writes with poetic words and teaches tolerance of immigrants. Her stories feature characters who have had to show strength when met with alienation, prejudice, adversity, and oppression. She knows how difficult it can be to navigate between two identities; two cultures; She shows how difficult it was for her and for many others how to learn a new way of life and hang on to one’s own culture. She does all of this with poetic words in beautiful stories. Julia Alvarez’s stories are important for people of all ages to read to grow empathy for people of other cultures.

Julia Alvarez is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College (National Endowment for the Arts, 2013).
Julia Alvarez and her husband founded an organic coffee farm promoting sustainability by using sustainable methods in the Dominican Highlands as a tribute to the women who were killed during the dictatorship. The profits from this farm go to the Alta Garcia Foundation, which promotes literacy programs for the local population (The Mariposa Dr. Foundation, 2021).

This activity is about the study of planetary samples. Learners will use samples of crustal material to sort, classify, and make observations about an unknown planet. From their observations, students will interpret the geologic history of their mystery planet and make inferences about past life or the potential for life on the "Mystery" planet. The lesson models scientific inquiry using the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes and vocabulary.

In this hands-on activity rolling a ball down an incline and having it collide into a cup the concepts of mechanical energy, work and power, momentum, and friction are all demonstrated. During the activity, students take measurements and use equations that describe these energy of motion concepts to calculate unknown variables and review the relationships between these concepts.

This activity shows students the engineering importance of understanding the laws of mechanical energy. More specifically, it demonstrates how potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy and back again. Given a pendulum height, students calculate and predict how fast the pendulum will swing by using the equations for potential and kinetic energy. The equations will be justified as students experimentally measure the speed of the pendulum and compare theory with reality.

Students conduct experiments to determine what environmental factors favor decomposition by soil microbes. They use chunks of carrots for the materials to be decomposed, and their experiments are carried out in plastic bags filled with dirt. Every few days students remove the carrots from the dirt and weigh them. Depending on the experimental conditions, after a few weeks most of the carrots have decomposed completely.

The intent of clarifying statements is to provide additional guidance for educators to communicate the intent of the standard to support the future development of curricular resources and assessments aligned to the 2021 math standards.  Clarifying statements can be in the form of succinct sentences or paragraphs that attend to one of four types of clarifications: (1) Student Experiences; (2) Examples; (3) Boundaries; and (4) Connection to Math Practices.

Poster showing Uncle Sam about to write on a blackboard with chalk. Caption: Sign up today at any branch, Pennsylvania Division, Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense or local office Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety.

In this activity students analyze a political cartoon, a presidential speech and an anti-immigration pamphlet from the early 20th century. After analyzing the documents, students write about why the United States passed immigration quotas in the 1920s.

The purpose of this task is for students to select 2 numbers from a set of 3 that sum to 9. The task can be completed for sums equaling any number. Teachers may choose to ask students to write the simple equations they select.

こんにちは！ Konnichiwa!
たどくツリーハウスへようこそ！Welcome to Tadoku Tree House! Are you looking for free Japanese Tadoku (Extensive Reading) books? Our fun and original Tadoku books were created by Smith College students under the supervision of their language professors. Check out our online library of resources for language learners of all levels! Happy reading!

The introductory topics will cover various approaches to the study of animals and their behavior. Key concepts in studies of animal behavior, emphasizing ethology, are covered in class and in the assigned readings from Scott (2005), supplemented by selections from other books, especially from classics in the field as well as selected videos. Next, key concepts in sociobiology are covered using readings from Alcock (2001), supplemented by selections from additional books and some video presentations.

This goal of this course is to introduce learners to phonological awareness, a foundational component of reading development in young children.  This unit is meant to introduce pre-service teachers to the concepts of phonological awareness and how to work with English Learners in their oral language development.  Phonological awareness is often misunderstood, therefore not addressed accurately in classroom settings.  The course is intended to supplement an existing course in foundational reading development. 

In this engaging unit, students will design and plant a square-foot garden that will be their central tool. Through the growing season, they will explore nutrition content in their everyday lives and see how it relates to what they are growing.

This lesson is designed to apply Common Core State Standards and facilitate a comparison of informational texts and primary source material from the Scottsboro Boys trials of the 1931 and 1933, and the fictional trial in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird (1960).

Born in San Francisco in 1930, world-renowned poet, essayist, and environmentalist Gary Snyder has published sixteen books of poetry and prose, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for Turtle Island. Snyder has traveled widely and lived for extended periods of time in Japan, where he studied and practiced Rinzai Zen. He is currently a professor at University of California, Davis. (29 minutes)

Since the publication of Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon' in 1930, San Francisco has been recognized as the birthplace of modern crime fiction. Join a distinctive panel as they examine the Bay Area as a popular setting for mystery and detective novels. Panelist are Bay Area authors Lucha Corpi, Eddie Muller, and Kelli Stanley and is moderated by Janet Rudolph. This panel was held in conjunction with an exhibit in Doe Library, highlighting the richness of UC Berkeley's collections for the study of genre fiction. (59 minutes)