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Day 28/67 of GED in 5 Months, Equitable Triangles, and Adulting Education

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

The skill of translating ideas into other terms, or of translating mathematical terms into social ideas, is a crucial part of Adult citizenship responsibility,  and is thus part of any democracy movement.  

four assorted colour triangles Photo by Magda Ehlers on Pexels.com

Understanding sets of power relationships is also a crucial part of being an Adult in a democratic society.  Mathematics helps with that, as does reading novels, from your local public librarians list of recommendations!

 Start of week 8/18
Lesson Plan, Day 28

Grammar: write your Introductory Paragraph

and then: Reading… (accessed Sunday, May 9th, 12021 HE)

Three kinds of triangles
Day 28 ExitSlips
(Day 27 … Day 29)

From the reading, what does this sentence mean to you?

“Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and, therefore, also half of its potential.”

So, since students were using a set of Master the HiSET books in the classroom, if…

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Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 – “N”

Words from Walden

N is for Neuroplasticity

“Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.” -Naveen Jain-

Simply put, Neuroplasticity is the way our brain changes.

The easiest way to explain this is an example of someone who never ran before and decide’s that they are going to run a marathon in 6 months.

Their brain is already molded a certain way from everything they have seen and experienced in their life up until the moment they decide to run a marathon.

On day one they may tie up a new pair of shoes and run for 5 or 10 minutes. A week later they could be up to 30 minutes and by the end of the first month, they can run for 45 minutes.

This daily process will slowly change their…

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Meet- Conhecer

Coisas da SIL

Quero te encontrar mesmo quando sei que não vai dar. Alimento um dia quem sabe talvez essa seja a minha sina. Não só o Brazil mais além devo ir. O legal que mesmo longe sei onde posso te encontrar. Tem muitos outros lugares pra viver e querer entender como tudo faz acontecer. Tem Paquistão onde já sinto sua mão. Tem a Espanha onde não me vejo estranha. Quanto ao Chile acho um nome muito chik. Tem a Venezuela e a Argentina já sinto sua brisa. Também penso na Holanda e na Alemanha quanta esperança. Realmente o mundo é gigante e existe um montante de lugares onde eu possa encontrar sobre algo pra conversar… Com carinho: Coisas da SiL

Meet- dreams- I belivie

Meet

I want to find you even when I know it won’t work. I’ll feed one day, who knows, maybe that’s my fate. Not only Brazil  I must…

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Parashat Bo, and when Come really means Go

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

     This week’s Torah portion, “Parashat Bo / פָּרָשַׁתבֹּא”  is the 15th sedra (portion) in the annual Jewish cycle, and the third portion in the book of Exodus/Shemot.   The entire Torah Portion is: Exodus 10:1-13:16

      This week, traditional congregations (and maybe a few Masorti/Conservative Movement folks) will read the entire portion, from ‘the last three plagues on Egypt to the first Passover’ or, in the words of Zorba, “The full catastrophe.”   

       I was invited, when I lived in Izmir, to eat the first Seder with a family who chose to treat me as a man, handing me the walking stick with the bundle tied over it, as we used to picture Hobos carrying their things, ready to ride the rails, hopping trains during the Great Depression.  That impressed me deeply, both being treated as a man, while the women of the family watched…

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Day 27/67, GED in 5 Months, more relationships, & Adulting Ed.

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

Understanding how to see how various shapes, quantities, people, or policies relate to each other is a crucial part of Adult citizenship responsibility,  and is thus part of any democracy as well.

The relationship between squares, rectangles, and triangles may be simpler than the relationship between slavery, racism, and Manifest Destiny, but understanding both sets of relationships is part of being an Adult in a democratic society.

week 7/18
Day 27 lesson plan
Grammar: commas in intro./direct address
How to find the height of a triangle
Perimeter and Area of Triangles
Day27ExitSlps

( Day 26 … Day 28)

Action Prompts:

  Share your  thoughts on why is it important to understand relationships between historical ideas, and current events,  do you think?  And write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and then, please tell us about it!   If you write a book, once it is published…

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This Speech Might Cause Leaders to Do More about Climate Change — FunWritings

Mia Mottley the Barbados Prime Minister is telling the other leaders about the people who are facing serious challenges in so many ways When Global Warming cause them to struggle more and wonder if they will ever see a brighter day It was good to see a leader who seemed to be speaking for the……

This Speech Might Cause Leaders to Do More about Climate Change — FunWritings