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This would be fun for any get-to-know you activity.

If a red candy is picked up, you would share a quality you look (or looked) for in your “Mister Marvelous”. An orange candy would have you share a marvelous quality you hope to cultivate in yourself. Blue is for sharing ways we can be united in our spiritual progression. Green is for things that we would enjoy learning with a spouse. Yellow is to share a silly story about anything, and brown is to share an idea for how to resolve conflict or overcome a trial or hardship.

The teachers agreed on a system that gives students credit simply for reading. To encourage participation, 30-40 minutes during each 52-minute class period was dedicated to the activity.

These electronic readers, which cost approximately $9,000 total

Ideally, Zach said, each English period would be lengthened to allow for designated reading time, but that's something that must be discussed with administration first.

Izapa is a large Formative site located in the far southeastern corner of the State of Chiapas, Mexico,

Although I first noted that the entire ceremonial center was oriented to the Volcán Tacaná (4093 m, or 13,425 ft.-- the mountain shown in the photo at the top of this page

Subsequent field work and map investigation revealed that more than thirty of Mesoamerica's most ancient and important ceremonial centers were likewise solsticially oriented to the highest mountain within view

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By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.

To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. Muriel Spark

to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge

Overview "… then there is nothing left me but to go and see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths…" --Robert E. Lee, April 9, 1865 The Civil War still holds the distinction of being the bloodiest in American History. It all came to an end, however, in the parlor of Wilmer McLean’s home at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, in April, 1865. While the war may have been bloody, the terms given by General Ulysses S. Grant to Robert E. Lee for the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia were extremely generous. In this activity, students will analyze these terms, as well as the events leading to Lee’s surrender, by investigating Grant’s own memoirs of this time.