123_16.ppt

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This document appears to be notes and feedback from a group assignment on creating a presentation. It includes draft summaries, peer and teacher feedback, and notes on changes made between drafts. The group changed their presentation topic and genre multiple times based on the feedback, settling on a psychological thriller about a girl with schizophrenia. They provided examples of successful thriller films to support their chosen genre.

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To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the Southern United States during the 1930s Great Depression era of racial prejudice and legal segregation. The novel explores themes of racial injustice, gender roles, and social class through the eyes of 6-year-old Scout Finch. Her father, Atticus Finch, defends Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman, in a trial that is stacked against him due to the prejudices of the time. The 1930s setting is important as it was a period of economic hardship, racial tensions, and limited rights for women and black citizens that impacted the legal issues and injustices faced by characters in the story.

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Tim Whiteford discusses constructing meaning in counting and numeracy. He outlines two types of knowledge - procedural and conceptual - and two types of understanding - fragile and robust. Whiteford then provides examples of using manipulatives like arrow cards and base-ten blocks to build conceptual understanding of place value, number names, and the four basic operations. He suggests activities like board games, toys, apps, and sports that apply mathematical concepts in meaningful ways for students like Andrew.

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The document contains information about measuring various objects including tables, computers, circles, tennis courts, and iPods. It provides the specific measurements for length, width, height, diameter, radius, and circumference. Examples given include a computer being 361mm long, 276mm wide and 38.6mm high. A circle is described as having a diameter of 5cm and a radius of 2.5cm. An iPod is listed as 10cm long, 6.5cm wide, with a 5cm display and 60GB of memory. Various measurement terms are defined such as high, tall, wide, thick, long, length, weigh, and weight.

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The document contains information about measuring various objects including tables, computers, circles, tennis courts, and iPods. It provides the specific measurements in terms of length, width, height, diameter, radius, and circumference. Examples given include a computer being 361mm long, 276mm wide and 38.6mm high. A circle is described as having a diameter of 5cm and a radius of 2.5cm. An iPod is listed as 10cm long, 6.5cm wide, and 2cm thick.

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The document provides instructions and examples for describing objects based on their measurements, appearance, and other attributes. It includes questions asking students to estimate or measure attributes like height, width, thickness, weight, distance, temperature, and more. Examples are given for describing the size, shape, color, parts, and other details of objects like a classroom table, English textbook, clock, coin, pencil, and game controller.

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The document discusses ecological footprints and resource consumption. It provides statistics on topics like world population, oil and CO2 production, food consumption, and waste generation. Specific data is given for resources used in countries like the US, India, and Japan. The ecological footprint is defined as the area of land and sea needed to sustain one's lifestyle. A footprint survey is presented to measure individual and household resource use and compare it to other countries and cities. Reducing consumption and waste is recommended to lessen humanity's footprint on the planet.