For specific instructions on how to write loglines, visit my post onwriting a story's premise. This post also includes apremiseworksheet to help you nail the three elements mentioned above. 2. Write a Treatment: Your First Sketch Also primarily a marketing document, a treatment gives executives...
That little Iraqi boy slumped over a book written in Arabic while the rest of the class reads the same story in English. Those twin girls blinking back memories of the Bosnian War as they try to underline possessive nouns on an English worksheet. That brown-skinned boy compulsively rocking ba...
7. Writing 1. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY –Habits and routines: a flip book –Making the right choices: “Lean On Me” –Greg is grateful for those great green Greek grapes –From “pakkeleg” to “ordleg” (or how a Danish tradition became an effective English language game) –Reported spee...
At a time when volunteering in the Middle East is becoming a little riskier due to political circumstances, IVHQ is able to use its expertise and resources to offer comprehensive volunteering opportunities in Jordan on a weekly basis, up to 12 weeks. These projects include special needs support,...
Natalie C. Anderson is a writer and international development professional living in Boston, Massachusetts, but you can also often find her in Kenya and the mountains of North Carolina. She has spent the last decade working with NGOs and the UN on refugee relief and development, mainly in Afr...
“I’ve always been hyper-vigilant, if you like. It feels like a bit of a superpower, this ability just to see the world a little bit more vividly than other people. For everything to be interconnected.” Buchanan has a couple of theories about why he is like he is, both going ...
Frankly, I wasn’t ruffled in the least. Judging by their fashion and hair choices alone, I knew I didn’t have a whole lot to worry about. Although the lesson I was about to teach wasn’t as drill-and-kill/worksheety as they probably hoped for, I was a dutiful soldier because I...
Keep the danger out there so that the little ones can grow up and inherit a better world? But we don’t even try to do that anymore. We’ve given up trying. No more pushing for better laws and safer regulations. Just look the kids straight in the eye and tell them that death may...
It does not make me special that I am trying to do what little I can about that. It just makes me human. That’s it. I am not perfect. I am no better than anyone else. But I am trying to do the right thing. When I first became a teacher, I had the chance to go to the ...
There is a possibility that this occurred in the Afghan refugee settlements studied by Bouma and Rowland [10] where people who kept cattle had higher malaria rates than the general population. In this situa- tion, animals would have two effects: a general effect sim- ulated by this model ...