The summer before I started, the dean had the arriving students read the Iliad and memorize the Greek alphabet.
Furthermore, if the students had read the history chapter that afternoon, chances are they would recall it better than I did, not having a chance to review it before class.
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During an early scene in the 1989 film, Dead Poets Society, Keating (played by Robin Williams) sets the tone for the rest of the movie when he asks his students to read the introduction to their poetry textbook.
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Like the best students, he read for passion, and for the pleasure and pursuit of intellectual stimulation.
Distribute copies of Backgrounder: The Electoral College. (Depending on the reading level of your students, you may want to choose the short or the long version.) Allow students ample time to read the information presented in the Backgrounder.
The university claims to be the only one in Wales where students can read degrees in the Chinese language and culture.
The six students' scripts were read out by anchorperson Bashine, 14, who also wrote the links.
It is set up to spread the awareness of preventing devastating fires and students simply need to read the online essay on the use of fire sprinklers (which is good information to have anyway) and answer an online test and then are entered into a drawing for a scholarship.
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Earlier this year, I was in Cecil County, Maryland, a very conservative area, and they came right to the brink of suggesting that students read alternative texts that would put evolution into question.
The university later amended the course so that students would have an option not to read the book - although those who objected would have to write a paper on why they chose not to.
And atop the 200 year old dining tables can be read the carved names of past students--including, most incredibly, Bismarck himself.
Before their shock and dazzle fades, he races on to discuss the success of mosquito nets in Africa, how Indian students read more (and thicker) textbooks than their European counterparts, and the latest trends in cancer rates in Vietnam and mobile-phone innovation in Sudan.
Ida Lou assigned prose and poetry to her students, then had them read the work aloud.
The teaching of literacy primarily focuses on reading, writing, speaking and listening, in order to encourage students to read, comprehend, reflect on their social experiences and use the language as an instrument of knowledge-seeking.
The overall goal is to have students who are able to read complex technical documents as well as poetry and prose.
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Ms Bokova toured several classrooms with the Secretary-General and Mr Brown, listening to young students read and show basic science experiments.
However, because college and career readiness overwhelmingly focuses on complex texts outside of literature, these standards also ensure students are being prepared to read, write, and research across the curriculum, including in history and science.
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The book was the result of a project started in 2010 when students from Cartagena, while learning how to read and write, were invited to submit traditional recipes from their region.
Most of the students went into the sessions generally believing that intelligence was fixed for life, but the group that read about the brain's growth emerged from the experience with much stronger notions about improving intelligence with effort.
"Go back and read history of the Algerian war and the French, " Mr. Kerry told the German students in Berlin on Tuesday.
Students said it helped in daily life, too, enabling them to read people by detecting the slight hesitation or rapid blinking that signals a bluff.
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Dr. ANDERSON: Well, as I understand the bill - I haven't read it in detail - but what it will do is to reduce the financial burden for students in repaying education loans.
Many of California's Latino students, who make up by far the biggest share of children in bilingual classes, leave school unable to read or write English.
These are open during the hours when students are aloft and foraging for food, coffee, companionship, as well as a place to read or study outside the too-familiar dorm or too-formal library.
Moreover the tail of underachievement is long and cannot be explained away by immigration: around a fifth of British students cannot read properly and a similar number are flummoxed by simple sums.
The Department of Education has also posted generic lessons online, but they don't help students who can't read words, only pictures, Ms. Schwartz-Nyitray said.
Every day for two years, students are given three cases a day to read and analyze, and then discuss with their fellow classmates the next day in class.
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