"Araby" can be read as a story about a rite of passage or a shift from innocence to experience. Discuss Joyce's choice of narrator in relation to the shift from innocence to experience.
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(1) Research has shown that when teachers are asked to nominate their best students or those with the
most potential, they are more likely to nominate boys than girls. (2) They are especially likely to name boys as most skilled in mathematics. (3) Even when the differences between boys and girls is minimal, teachers who are asked to think of students who excel in language or social skill are more likely to name girls. (4) Boys receive more disapproval from teachers than girls do during preschool and elementary school, even when boys and girls engage in similar amounts of disruptive behavior. (5) Teachers pay more attention to a girl when she sits quietly in the front of the classroom, whereas the amount of attention paid to a boy is high regardless of where he sits. (6) Within elementary school classrooms, teachers tend to call on boys more often than girls and give them more explicit1 feedback regarding their answers. (7) When girls answer, they are more likely to receive a simple acceptance from the teacher ("okay"), whereas boys tend to receive more praise, constructive criticism, or encouragement to discover the correct answer. (8) Thus, boys receive more explicit academic instruction and tend to dominate classroom interactions. From BUKATKO, Child Development, 5E. © 2004 Cengage Learning. The subject of sentence 6 is a. elementary school classrooms. b. teachers. c. boys. d. feedback.
Fill in the letter of the word that best fits in each sentence. Use each letter only once
a. bifocals e. posthumous i. prehistoric m. triple b. bilingualf. postoperative j. premonition n. uniformity c. bisectg. postpone k. prescription o. unique d. posterity h. precedel. triathlon p. unison All the spark plugs are made in the same way, so there is _____ in the way they are manufactured.
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Read the following passage about Dolores and her sister Alicia, then indicate whether the sentences that follow most likely describe Dolores, Alicia, or both. ? Mi hermana Alicia y yo vivimos juntas (together) en un apartamento pequeño porque estudiamos en la misma universidad en Caracas, Venezuela. Mi hermana estudia ingeniería. Alicia va a ser ingeniera química porque en Venezuela el petróleo es muy importante. Tiene muchas clases de matemáticas. Ella y sus amigos son muy estudiosos y pasan mucho tiempo hablando de ingeniería en la biblioteca y en la cafetería. Alicia no tiene mucho interés en las humanidades, pero yo sí. Soy estudiosa pero para mí los números son muy complicados. No me gusta tomar clases de matemáticas. No sé (I don't know) cuál va a ser mi especialidad, pero leo mucho y me gusta escribir. ? ? Le gustan las clases de cálculo, estadística y computación.? A. ?Dolores B. ?Alicia C. ?both
Which one of the following words is not a coordinating conjunction?
a) and b) for c) however d) so