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Title: It's Not Hard to Make a Card!
This lesson on poetry and rhyming integrates technology and student creativity. The students will use what they have learned about poetry to create their own piece of work through a project. This lesson can be facilitated in flipped classroom style or classical lecture style. Students will be able to view a presentation that I have created on poetry using the Educreations application, create a card including a poem written by them using Greeting Card Maker, an application available on Android devices, and then send the card to a parent or friend of their choice.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 26: With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. [W.2.6]
Title: Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 21: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. [RF.2.4]
Title: The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts
Frogs often appear as the main character in fiction stories, but what do students really know about frogs? Students find out in this lesson in which they research real-life frogs.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 6: Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud. [RL.2.6]
Title: Using Web-Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research
The important thing about this lesson is that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide students to appropriate sites on the topic, and a graphic organizer helps them focus their research.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 31: Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue. [SL.2.3]
Title: Ferocious Fighting Fish: An Ocean Unit Exploring Beginning Word Sounds
Focus students attention on alliteration in this ocean-themed unit. Students explore alliteration in framing texts then compose their own class book to explore figurative language in their own writing.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 4: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. [RL.2.4]
Title: A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 25: With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing. [W.2.5]
Title: You're a Poet, and You Know It!
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Poetry Idea Engine Web Address URL:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/poetry_engine.htm# Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (4) 5: Explain major differences among poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text. [RL.4.5]Digital Tool Description: This tool provides assistance with creating haikus, cinquains, limericks, and free verse poetry.
Title: Become a Poet with Technology
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ReadWriteThink Tool Web Address URL:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/acrostic-poems-30045.html Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 4: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. [RL.2.4]Digital Tool Description: This interactive activity challenges students to use a graphic organizer and write an acrostic poem.
Title: Race to Win - Do You Know the Words?
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Bluster! App for iPad Web Address URL:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bluster!/id416160693?mt=8 Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (2) 38: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies. [L.2.4]Digital Tool Description: This app allows students to work alone or with others to practice important word skills such as rhyming words, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms, homophones, adjectives and more.
Title: Read Across America Day celebrates Dr. Seuss.
After sharing The Cat in the Hat and other patterned books with students, groups brainstorm sets of rhyming words and crate a story using these words.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (2) 4: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. [RL.2.4]
Title: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
Students are introduced to a Silverstein verse and asked for their impressions. They then draw that they imagine when they read one of his lines and then write a line or two to continue the passage.
Standard(s): [ELA2015] (9) 33: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. [SL.9-10.4]


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Serving Size: 8.5 fl. oz. Servings per Container: 1.5 Amount per serving: Calories: 100 Total Fat: 0g Sodium: 1mg Potassium: 420g Total Carbohydrates: 25g Sugars: 22g Vitamin C 100%
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Posted: Feb 25, 2001 at 6:26 AM (Last Updated: May 31, 2001 at 6:09 PM)Fairlee Pure Squeezed Orange Juice is 100% pure pasteurized juice. It contains no sugars or preservatives. As a result, the flavor is sweet, natural, and absolutely refreshing. The shelf stable packaging makes this product a great treat no matter when you drink it.

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Jonathan Hwrote a review of Giro Surface S Helmet on February 22, 2012
Nice Helmet
Overall, a nice helmet. I feel that it runs quite large though, making your dome piece look pretty big. From the sizing chart, I was on the small end of the "Large" size, which is what I purchased. In hindsight, I should have purchased the medium helmet as the internal adjustement will allow you to open it up. I later tried on a medium in a store and was able to get my head in their comfortably. My only real complaint is the clip for the chin strap. On most helmets, the clip is offset to allow for a chin pad. On this helmet, the clip falls directly under the chin, which does not allow for any padding and can cause some minor doscomfort. I eventually got used to it, but I think that Giro should consider this in future designs.


text: Wanted to share the queen size quilt I made December 2012. It is my first bona fide scrappy. It is a Thimbleberries pattern entitled "Up North" I had to add two additional rows to make it wide enough. A special thanks to JenniePenny who was my personal cheerleader and mentor through the process. She even was kind enough to send me some fabric to include if I wished. Needless to say, the warmth of her friendship made the quilt even more cozy and memorable to me. The fabric I had leftover from this project I turned into a large lap quilt. I will post when it comes back from the LAQ, who also did this quilt. She is a local lady named Betty Sue who I think did a lovely job. Thanks for looking.


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Summary of the Oxfam Review of Bangladesh flood response
Food Distribution in Bangladesh '98
Between July and October last year Bangladesh suffered severe flooding regarded as the worst in living memory: two-thirds of Bangladesh was affected resulting in widespread disruption and damage to homesteads and crops. The Oxfam Bangladesh Office (OBO) responded to the crisis by supporting flood relief and rehabilitation activities in charland (river eroded areas) through eight core partners (non-government). Oxfam also supported long-standing partners to deliver health services, food supplements and livelihood support in other severely affected urban and rural areas.
Oxfam commissioned a review* of this programme which was carried out over a two-week period. It focussed on three key areas: targeted food distribution, supplementary feeding and emergency health services.
Some of the main findings of the review that relate to the targeted food distribution and follow up rehabilitation activities were as follows: activities in the relief phase of the flood response programme included targeted distribution of food and non-food items and a supplementary feeding programme.
The rehabilitation phase involved a continuation of the above as well as:
- Provision of interest free loans
- Cash-for-work
- Agricultural rehabilitation support
Targeted food distribution
Core partner organisations, because of their longstanding work in disaster preparedness and management with char communities, were quickly able to update the ongoing 'distressed persons list' (DPL) which groups households according to predefined criteria for poverty and vulnerability in relation to flood impact and food insecurity. The criteria were:
- Severely flood affected
- Level of household food stocks (< 4 days, 5-10 days and 10 days)
- Employment status i.e. landless households normally dependant on daily paid labour given priority
- Female headed household
- Pregnant and lactating mothers
- Households with malnourished children
- Disabled
- Elderly
Although food distribution was primarily determined by the level of contingency funding immediately available to OBO and the capacity of the partners to purchase and distribute food, the DPL was the basis for targeting initially limited food assistance.
During the flood, it was apparent that access to food, although limited, was possible. Markets were functioning and fishing was being widely practiced (there was an abundance of fish in the early stage of the flood). OBO decided therefore to distribute food parcels containing approximately 80% of calorie requirements (based on Kcal requirement of 2,100 per day) over a three week period. The food parcel also contained essential non-food items and Taka 100 cash for the purchase of other food and non-food items. Households with pregnant and lactating mothers were given additional food support of 1 litre of oil and where possible, pumpkins.
Initially, 15,000 families were targeted in core partner areas during August. In September, funding for 50,000 more parcels was proposed which included targeting households in long-standing partner areas (urban and rural). Food parcel distribution continued throughout the rehabilitation phase giving a final total of 130,219 parcels distributed.
It was clear from meetings with beneficiaries that there was a high level of perceived transparency within the food distribution programme. The community based disasters committee worked with core partners in the identification of households for food targeting and were closely involved in food distribution. Those who received priority targeting were also those viewed by the communities to be most poor and food insecure
Loan taking
All women participating in the discussions reported having to take out consumption loans within 10-15 days after the flood. Loan taking followed strategies to reduce food consumption and requesting food/financial help from less affected relatives or community members. According to Helen Keller International (HKI), loans were taken by over 50% of those affected by the floods and this was significantly higher among vulnerable households (defined as landless and dependent on daily wage labour). Loan taking is a coping strategy normally adopted in the 'lean' seasons. During the flood however, this was more a crisis strategy as the value of the loans taken was much higher, the proportion of households taking loans increased and the levels of interest repayment were exorbitant (up to 200%). The timing and limited initial coverage of the response could have been an important contributing factor to the high levels of loan taking.
During the rehabilitation phase, OBO responded to the high level of loan taking by assisting 8,000 households with access to interest free loans (average of £45) to re-start income generation activities. This was targeted at group-members of core-partner agencies only because of the need to ensure repayment schedules. In recognition of this limitation, OXFAM also assisted mainly non-group members with cash for work. Over 31,000 people (mainly women) were paid at the rate of Taka 60 (£0.75) per day for re-building activities. Pregnant and lactating women were also targeted through this activity and were given only very light work.
The review concluded that overall, the response by OBO and core-partners to the health and nutrition problems arising from the 1998 floods reflected a very high level of commitment, motivation and organisation enabling them to respond effectively to the demands placed on them. The response undoubtedly helped to protect the short and long term livelihoods of those assisted.
*Oxfam Bangladesh ,Emergency Flood Relief and Rehabilitation Programme, Health and Nutrition Review, DRAFT, Carmel Dolan, Consultant
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Summary of the Oxfam Review of Bangladesh flood response. Field Exchange 8, November 1999. p25. www.ennonline.net/fex/8/oxfam


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