![]() Formative Assessment :-įormative assessment strategies are used to collect evidence of achievement to identify where our learners are, where they need to go and how to get them there. Descriptive Feedback:-įeedback that moves student learning forward and helps students know what to do next to improve their learning. ![]() If they know where they are going it is more likely that they will end up there! Visible learners see themselves, peers and teachers as co-teachers and co-learners. Students achieve better results when they understand what it is they are meant to be learning and what it looks like if they are successful. ![]() Clear Learning Intentions and Success Criteria:. The Visible Learning Principles that all classrooms engage in are: 1. Visible Learning draws on John Hattie’s International research meta – analysis about what educational leaders and teachers do that has the most positive impact for each student’s learning, progress and achievement. St Catherine’s believes in building quality relationships and is committed to the principles of Visible Learning. Notes and Rules for Active and Public Transport.Notes and Rules for Drop and Go Passenger Loading Zones. ![]()
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He has also written several comics, including such iconic characters as Superman, Wolverine and Captain Britain. ![]() He started out writing Doctor Who novels in the early nineties, and since then he has gone on to write extensively for television, including Coronation Street, Casualty and the revived Doctor Who TV series. Paul Cornell has had a rather diverse career. This article first appeared in The Oxford Student on. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Accustomed to my verbal ticcing, he didn't I could barely make out the words-"My mouth is full"-both truthful and a joke, lame. "Maufishful," said Gilbert Coney in response to my outburst, not even turning his head. But that itch is soon a torrent behind a straining dam. The urge to shout in the church, the nursery, the crowded movie house. My words begin plucking at threads nervously, seeking purchase, a weak point, a vulnerable ear. Reality needs a prick here and there, the carpet needs a flaw. ![]() Only-here's the rub-when they find too much perfection, when the surface is already buffed smooth, the ducks already orderly, the old ladies complacent, then my littleĪrmy rebels, breaks into the stores. Everywhere they're smoothing down imperfections, putting hairs in place, putting ducks in a row, replacing divots. They're an invisible army on a peacekeeping mission, a peaceable horde. The cornucopia of my brain to course over the surface of the world, tickling reality like fingers on piano keys. (If I were a Dick Tracy villain, I'd have to be Mumbles.) In this diminished form the words rush out of The noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks empty of breath and tone. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. ![]() ![]() ![]() Īccording to her website, she is married and has a toddler. She then began to publish her manga on the Internet. After she emigrated to Canada at the age of 16, she graduated from the Sheridan College Classical Animation program in 2002. Previously, she created The Adventures of CG for CosmoGIRL! magazine and the webcomic Chasing Rainbows for Girlamatic.Ĭhmakova was born in Russia where she was first exposed to comics after she found ElfQuest at a Moscow book stand. She has been nominated for an Eisner Award twice. Her other original work includes Nightschool and Awkward for Yen Press. She is best known for Dramacon, an original English-language (OEL) manga spanning three volumes and published in North America by Tokyopop. October 7, 1979) is a Russian-Canadian comic book artist. Joe Shuster Comics for Kids Award, Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids' Comics ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun–but no Katherines. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The tale of his redemption by three spirits (the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) has become a defining tale of the Christmas holiday in the English-speaking world.ĭickens describes Scrooge thus early in the story: "The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice." Towards the end of the novella, the three spirits show Scrooge the errors of his ways, and he becomes a better, more generous man. At the beginning of the novella, Scrooge is a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas. Ebenezer Scrooge ( / ˌ ɛ b ɪ ˈ n iː z ər ˈ s k r uː dʒ/) is the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now we have six, only they’re less sympathetic, and less funny. One Ethel Mirman in It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was enough. They run the gamut from annoying to infuriating. ![]() How did people miss the rampant, creepily Freudian misogyny? Every woman is a relentless nag, constant scold, loud whiner, or castrating bitch. Perhaps being generous in thinking it a product of its time, I can forgo the grimly ignorant portrayal of homosexuals as fey, kinky, hedonistic deviants. Racism (don’t be fooled by Percy’s introduction, Jones is a minstrel)Īnd its homophobia. The detractors of A Confederacy of Dunces point to its uncomfortable Reilly about being quiet Miss Trixie nags Mrs. Reilly about her son Ignatius nags and whines about everything Miss Annie nags to Ignatius and Ms. (Non-spoiler examples: Lana nags Darlene about performance Jones nags Lana about wages Mrs. A majority of the dialogue here is just an infuriating onslaught of relentless nagging. Narratives wherein flat characters nag the shit out of each other in identical ways. A Confederacy of Dunces is a mostly-shitty pastiche of interweaving ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when her cousin is murdered and his twin brother is accused of the gruesome crime, Charlotte immediately turns to Wrexford for help in proving the young man's innocence. She thought a bit of space might improve the situation. Quill is safe with the Earl of Wrexford, she's ill prepared for the rippling effects sharing the truth about her background has cast over their relationship. Though Charlotte Sloane's secret identity as the controversial cartoonist A.J. Wrexford and Sloane must unravel secrets within secrets-including a few that entangle their own hearts-when they reunite to solve a string of shocking murders that have horrified Regency London. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cyrus might have laid down an ultimatum once, but now it's turned into a vow-he's never going to let Weber out of his life again. With the help of his sister's newly broken family, he’s ready to show Weber that the home the man’s been searching for has always been right there, with him. Now Cyrus has one last chance to prove to Weber that it's not Weber's job that makes him Cyrus's perfect man, it's Weber himself. But watching Weber walk out on him keeps getting harder, and he’s not sure how much more his heart can take. ![]() He spotted the prince in a broken-down bull rider's clothing from day one. Or at least in San Francisco, where Weber stops to see him one last time before settling down to the humble, lonely life he figures a frog like him has coming.Cyrus Benning is a successful neurosurgeon, so details are never lost on him. Weber Yates's dreams of stardom are about to be reduced to a ranch hand’s job in Texas, and his one relationship is with a guy so far out of his league he might as well be on the moon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her husband is a plumber who has had trouble finding work. Dee is married to Liam and has a young son. She flits from house to house cleaning the grime and keeping the secrets of her employers. Charlie is a schemer, a dreamer, a charmer, and a con-man.ĭee Eastwood is the town’s cleaner. ![]() Loved by all, it would seem, except maybe by his wife… Investigations reveal that he was a man with secrets and that he had reinvented himself. ![]() She spends most days sitting in front of the window of her small house watching the townsfolk become more and more tense as crime visits their small Sussex town.Ĭharlie Perry, a local man in his seventies has gone missing. Now, still on sick leave and irrevocably changed from the debilitating treatments, she is wary of returning to work. Her longstanding partner, Hugh, has left her for another woman – then, she received a diagnosis that she has breast cancer. Detective Inspector Elise King has had her world turned upside down. ![]() |