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Day 30/67, 5 Month GED, Similar Triangle Ratios, and Adulting as lifelong language learning

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

The skill of understanding ratios and similarity carries over from triangles to form another part of being an Adult in a democratic society. If mathematics is a logical language that we must all keep current in our memory, and sharp in our understanding, then learning that particular language is also a key part of Adulting, is it not?

SimilarTriangleRatios

And a bit of a change from yesterday’s lesson plan: we now have history readings again! Today’s grammar/history reading is on the Industrial Revolution.

Middle of week 8/18
Lesson Plan: Day 30, Week 8
Grammar: semicolons and colons
Math: solving similar triangle ratios
Day 30, Week 8, ExitTix
(Day 29 … Day 31)

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts with us on why you think that ratios or similar triangles may (or may not) have to do with Adulting?

2.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet…

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Trump Groups Sent Forged Election Docs to National Archives: Report – Rolling Stone

Pro-Trump groups in Arizona and Michigan attempted to fool the National Archives by sending forged certificates of ascertainment declaring Trump the recipient of the state’s 2020 electors. The Jan. 6 committee now has those fake certificates, thanks to the secretaries of State for both swing states, Politico reported on Monday.

The National Archives shared the forged documents with state officials, informing them it would not accept the fakes. Representatives for the officials declined to comment on the documents to Politico, but they confirmed that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and their staff met with the Jan. 6 committee this past November.

Source: Trump Groups Sent Forged Election Docs to National Archives: Report – Rolling Stone

History may repeat itself, but we don’t have to!

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

        Ok,  I have to rant here, instead of working on my bibliography for Do Better:  yes, history does tend to repeat itself, but it damned well does not have to.  Please recall the first part of  this quote:

 

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

–George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.

  (and I guess it’s time to actually find and read that book…)

 

   History matters, and learning history matters, not just so we can say ‘oh, it’s happening again,’ but so that we can stop it from happening again.  We are the most flexible species on this earth, and we are the only ones who use tools to make other tools.  So, let us do that.  Build new tools to solve these difficult problems and prevent history from repeating itself, damn us.

  That is the duty of an…

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Homão da Porra

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“Havia algo de diferente naquele homem, ele fugia dos traços da normalidade. “

Marii Freire Pereira

Você conhece um Homão da Porra? Prazer, eu Marii Freire vou te apresentar ele. Evidentemente que, não estou falando de um homem normal, nem fazendo apelo para o universo ficcional para definirmos um homem espetacular. Falo de um termo usado, ‘lido nas entrelinhas’ inclusive, e que não se confunde com o nosso tradicional modelo masculino. O Homão da Porra – é sem dúvida, um termo que traduz um homem com características distintas, alguém com predicados que excede o que já se conhece em relação aos homens. Um homem comum, ele atrai por muitas qualidades. O Homão da Porra, tem uma característica específica, ele não se reduz à dimensão dada ao homem comum que é dotado a partir de um padrão de beleza. O Homão dito aqui, é aquele ser que é Homem com H…

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Las flores que cultivo

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Cultivé flores en el jardín de la casa, en las macetas, en el bosque, y pronto descubrí que se multiplicaban, envueltas en el prodigio y en el encanto de la vida, igual que mis poemas y mis textos, inspirados en usted. Con cada palabra pronunciada dulcemente, abrieron una mañana y otra, cubiertas por el rocío, tan enamoradas como yo de usted. Al mirarla yo a usted, los colores de las flores -lilis, orquídeas, rosas, tulipanes- pintan nuestras miradas y les dan un sentido, una dirección, un motivo. La textura de los pétalos, la fragancia que desprenden, la elegancia de sus siluetas y la belleza de sus rostros, me recuerdan siempre el parecido con usted, con usted que es de arcilla y de esencia, con usted que es flor y tallo, con usted que cada mañana y en las noches…

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Why We Need to Discuss How We Teach Kids About Racism in United States History

Blind Injustice

In the second part of my two-part blog post on Critical Race Theory (CRT), I said that it seems like the theory has gotten mixed in there with larger, yet important, discussions on how classrooms should navigate through topics of race and racism. I even conveyed in my post that such discussions are needed. This is an opinion I feel strongly about as someone who was a history major in college and is still a self-professed American history nerd.

However, what I didn’t go into in said post was why those discussions are needed.

So, why are these discussions necessary? Why can’t we just go on with history lesson plans that teach about America’s greatness, without even so much as questioning it?

Simply put, not teaching about the parts of America’s past and present that involve racism is not a complete teaching of American history.

How can you have…

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Y también los distraen

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Y también los distraen con la fascinación digital, con cosas que parecen reales y no lo son, con ideas y con conductas estúpidas que los idiotizan, con la “normalización” del mal y lo grotesco, con relaciones sociales que solo se dan en las redes y no en los escenarios cotidianos; además, les enseñan a depredar a la naturaleza, el respeto, la familia, la educación y el lenguaje, sin que se percaten de que se destruyen a sí mismos, mientras les desarticulan la vida y les preparan trampas que alterarán su destino. Les hacen creer que, al acceder a equipos y sistemas de alta tecnología, son generaciones modernas; pero muchos son incapaces de reaccionar y actuar ante los desafíos y los problemas, e incluso al presentárseles retos sencillos. He visto gente que presume títulos académicos, vehículos de lujo, residencias y…

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