Teaching students the doubling rule helps them spell words that cannot be spelled exactly as they sound. For example: hop + ing = hopping vs hope + ing = hoping star + ing = starring vs stare + ing = staring In words in which the accent is on the second syllable, the consonant must...
A dramatic question is something like, “Is he going to make it?” or, “Is she going to get the man of her dreams?” By putting your protagonist’s fate in doubt, you make the reader ask, what happens next? To do this well, you need to carefully restrict the flow of information...
I had a good friend, Heather, who worked with me on the Alzheimer's ward. Like me, Heather was struggling with the Whys of life. I invited her to attend a Wednesday evening church service with me. She eagerly accepted. Both of us agreed we were going to do this "God thing" together...
I stare into a luminating screen all day long, with minimal breaks, and even when I do break, my mind maintains the intense focus as if I’m staring at a screen that’s now transposed in the interior of my mind. I have been working on this deal. Potentially $10M. Could also be $...
ANATOLY Do you see it? I don't see it... there! Out of the darkness, like a ghostly apparition, the bow of the ship appears. Its knife-edge prow is coming straight at us, seeming to plow the bottom sediment like ocean waves. It towers above the seafloor, standing just as it lande...
Parents can help by giving simple acknowledgments. “Your bucket is ¾ full.” Or, “You gave me two blocks and you kept one.” But interrupting a baby’s inborn desire to explore and discover to give a lesson in letters, numbers or reading is like painting a house before the foundatio...
Just get to the site so we can feed you an ad. Fuck the rest. I don’t like what the internet has become, which is fine, because I don’t want to spend my life staring at a screen anyway. It had potential, but it has gone off the rails. Share this: Facebook Tumblr Email...
!!! Also what about all the times that we did make a move and you shot us down like shooting a poor dog on the street. Now a particular guy might have been and *sshole and richly deserved what he got but if I witnessed you do this and I had wanted to approach you but this ...
5. Stare Upwards This simple technique involves sitting somewhere comfortable and undisturbed and staring at a certain point or object above your level of sight. As you focus on this single point, become aware of the walls or objects in the periphery of your vision and focus on the point and...
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