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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

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.

Wise says that digital learning starts with teachers, whose performance is enhanced by technology—not the other way around. That's also the idea of Digital Learning Day, which the Alliance is spearheading.

"Yes I want to learn but can't when I work all the time.

boys and girls were so small they had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads and to put back the empty bobbins

boy had shown him the marks on his arm where his father had bitten him for not selling more papers. He (the boy) said, "Drunken men say bad words to us.

I suppose we'll be going to your wedding one of these fine days with your young man, eh? "

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