question: Nature Love

Yolanda loves nature. She loves trees, flowers, grass, singing birds, the sky, and even the wind. She spends a lot of time lying on the grass, looking at the sky, and listening to the birds.

One of Yolanda's favorite things to do is to look at the shapes of the big, fluffy clouds. "That one looks like a flower. And that one looks like a boat. There's one that looks like my dog!" she says to herself. She is always surprised and happy to find a new shape.

Yolanda's most favorite thing to do is to look at the flowers and bugs that visit her place. She watches and studies all the butterflies, bees, ants, spiders, and even worms that are in her backyard.

Yolanda has a wonderful backyard. Her mother has a big, beautiful garden that she helps to take care of. This is how Yolanda is learning to grow and take care of plants. The garden makes the whole yard look beautiful and smell wonderful. And the garden brings in all kinds of amazing birds and insects.

Yolanda has lots of pictures of the birds and bugs that come into her backyard. She feels like a kid scientist. Someday, she wants to become a real scientist. Then she can learn all about plants, bugs and nature.
1. Where is one of Yolanda's favorite places to be?
2. What does she like about it?
3. What does she do with it?
4. What is attracted to the garden?
5. Is she afraid of any of the insects?
6. What else does she like to do outside?
7. Why?
8. What game does she play when she looks at them?
9. What does she want to be when she grows up/
10. Why?
11. What insects does she like to explore now?
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answer: 1. her garden
2. it's beautiful
3. learns and takes care of plants
4. birds and insects
5. No.
6. She spends a lot of time lying on the grass
7. because she likes the clouds
8. find the shape
9. scientist
10. learn about plants, bugs and nature.
11. butterflies, bees, ants, spiders, worms

At a primary school in a small town in the east of South Carolina, second-grade teachers Carneau and Lynne are convinced that separating primary boys and girls produces immediate academic improvement in both genders

David Chadwell, South Carolina's coordinator of single gender education says, " Boys and girls learn,hear and respond to their surroundings differently. We can teach boys and girls based on what we now know."

Male and female eyes are not organized in the same way,he explains. The composition of the male eye makes it sensitive to motion and direction. " Boys interpret the world as objects moving through space," he says.

The male eye is also drawn to cooler color1s like silver and black. It's no accident that boys tend to create pictures of moving objects instead of drawing the happy color1ful family,as girls do in class.

The female eye,on the other hand,is drawn to warmer color1s like red, yellow and orange. To attract girls, Chadwell says, the teacher doesn't need to move as much as in boys' class. Using descriptive phrases and lots of color1s in presentations or on the blackboard gets their attention.

Boys and girls also hear differently. " When someone speaks in a loud tone,girls interpret it as yelling, " says Chadwell. " They think you're mad and can shut down. " Girls are more sensitive to sounds. He advises girls' teachers to watch the tone of their voices. Boys' teachers should sound more forceful, even excited.

A boy's nervous system causes him to be more cautious when he is standing, moving, and the room temperature is around 6.Stress in boys,he says, tends to increase blood flow to their brains, a process that helps them stay focused. Girls are more focused when they are seated in a warmer room around 75degF. Girls also respond to stress differently. When exposed to threat and conflict, blood goes to their guts ,leaving them feeling nervous or anxious.

These differences can be applied in the classroom, Chadwell adds. " Single gender programs are about maximizing the learning." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What are the names of the two teachers?
2. What grade do they teach?
3. What do they think is a good idea.
4. What color attracts boys eyes?
5. What are boys more likely to draw?
6. What about females?
7. Do boys and girls see the world the same?
8. What is one color female eyes are attracted to?
9. What is another color?
10. Does the instructor need more movement to keep girls attention than boys?
11. Do both sexes hear things the same?
12. How do girls interpret loud speech?
13. Who is David Chadwell?
Answer: 1. Carneau and Lynne
2. second
3. separating primary boys and girls
4. silver and black
5. moving objects
6. happy color1ful family
7. no
8. red,
9. yellow
10. no
11. no
12. They can shut down.
13. South Carolina's coordinator of single gender education

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XXXII

THE DAWN

M. le Comte de Stainville only shrugged his shoulders when M. de Belle-Isle and young de Lugeac brought him milor's reply.

"Bah!" he said with a sneer, "he'll have to fight me later on or I'll hound him out of France! Never fear, gentlemen, we'll have our meed of fun very soon."

On the whole Gaston was not sorry that this stupid so-called "affair of honour" would not force him to rise before dawn. He had no special ill-will against _le petit Anglais_, for whom he had always tried to cultivate a modicum of contempt. He had not always succeeded in this praiseworthy endeavour, for milor as a rule chose to ignore M. de Stainville, as far as, and often more than, courtesy permitted.

The two men had not often met since the memorable evening when milor snatched the golden prize which Gaston had so clumsily cast aside. Their tastes were very dissimilar, and so was their entourage. Milor was officially considered to belong to the Queen's set, whilst Gaston clung to the more entertaining company of Madame de Pompadour and her friends; nor had M. de Stainville had the bad grace to interfere with his wife's obvious predeliction for Lord Eglinton's company.

The memorable day which was just drawing to its close had seen many changes--changes that were almost upheavals of old traditions and of habitual conditions of court life. Gaston had deceived and then hideously outraged the woman whom long ago he had already wronged. A year ago she had humiliated him, had snatched from him the golden prize which his ambition had coveted, and which she made him understand that he could not obtain without her. To-day had been his hour; he had dragged her down to the very mire in which he himself had grovelled, he had laid her pride to dust and shaken the pinnacle of virtue and integrity on which she stood. 1. what is the chapter title?
2. who received Milor's reply?
3. who brought it to him?
4. what was his physical reaction?
5. had the two men met recently?
6. had anything happened when they last met?
7. whose was it?
8. who hung around with Madame Pompadour?
9. and what was Milor?
10. Would you say that Gaston is Lord Englinton?
11. what did Gaston do to the woman?
12. and what did she do to him a year ago?
13. how?
14. and what did she make him know?
15. what did he do to her today?
16. was he happy about this?
17. what else did he do to her?
18. were Gaston and Milor similar?
19. who did Gaston not have ill will against?
20. what did he always do?
numbered_answers:
1. THE DAWN
2. M. le Comte de Stainville
3. M. de Belle-Isle and young de Lugeac
4. he shrugged his shoulders
5. no
6. milor snatched the golden prize
7. Gaston's
8. Gaston
9. he was officially considered to belong to the Queen's set
10. no
11. Gaston had deceived her
12. she had humiliated him
13. had snatched from him the golden prize
14. that he could not obtain it without her
15. he had dragged her down to the very mire in which he himself had grovelled
16. unknown
17. he had laid her pride to dust
18. no
19. _le petit Anglais_
20. tried to cultivate a modicum of contempt