The method of presentation will consist of small group work, work with a partner, whole group work, and individual work. Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences. Students apply reasoning and problem solving skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing. Furthermore, it seeks to help teachers learn strategies for reinforcing and facilitating work in some of these areas. In the course of the presentation, participants read and compare the Louisiana Standards and Benchmarks for mathematics and English language arts, explore the relationship of ratio to analogy, and write a formal proof for a proposition in geometry.
Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
The purpose of this seminar is to provide primary resources of historic information and terminology to create a knowledge base of Vietnam and U.S. relations. Such information will enable the participants to write first person narratives. Participants will learn character roles as they generate their first person narratives. The methods of presentation will include a hands-on examination of the equipment and gear used by soldiers in the Vietnam war, an interactive lecture, group reading of articles related to and written by Vietnam Veterans, and role playing. Students read, comprehend, and respond to a range of materials using a variety of strategies for different purposes.