English 102 - Spring 2009

Descriptions of dialects for different areas of the United States, their origins, and some pronunciation and slang guides, usually referring to doughnuts, oddly enough.

This article is about the "Oprah effect" and how much influence her book club has made on American reading habbits. It talks about how she has made reading popular again. This article has a lot of useful information about how exactly Oprah has effected American reading.

A public school in the Bronx is experimenting with teaching single sex classes. It details a New York City public school's experiment into single sex classes. It may be helpful because it lists some of the arguments for and against this method and gives examples of other places where the same thing is being tried out.

Many different dialects found in England- not the whole of the British Isles, but only in England, including Cockney. Gives the differences in pronunciation and slang terms for some of the different dialects.

This article talks about how race and ethics differs the way parents talk to their children. It shows that white mothers are more likely to talk and read to their children every day than black and hispanic mothers. It talks about how this affects the childrens readiness and there is a 20 to 25 precent gap with children that are white and other minority.

This article talks about how Harry Potter has made an impact on students and their reading. The Harry Potter books have made young students want to return to reading again and truly enjoy it. Students are begining to choose reading over television thanks to the new Harry Potter books being released.

This article is from EBSCO. Research was done to find relationships between ethnicity, gender, fast food walk-ability and physical activity in regards to obesity. The relationships show that there is significant variability among gender and ethnicity in regards to obesity. This article may be helpful for students seeking information on fast food and obesity relationships.

This study tested the feasibility of using the Transcendental Meditation technique to reduce stress and anxiety as a means of reducing symptoms of ADHD. They tested students aged 11-14 were taught this technique and practiced it twice a day in school.

Meditation helps to calm hyperactive pupils in US

This article is from EBSCO. Researchers examine the relationship, if any, between fast food restaurant density and obesity. This article may be helpful to students who are seeking information about health, specifically obesity.

This article is about how harry potter has encouraged and influenced reading among young students and how reading helps them to learn better and understand quicker.

Simple description of 1337 speak.

Whether it be leaping, resisting, or being gently shoved, the field of early childhood education continues moving into the age of accountability. Young children are expected to exhibit many requisite skills prior to kindergarten. Thus, the advancement of pre-reading and writing skills development become one of the many areas of focus for early childhood teachers. This study focused on the advancement of young children's emergent literacy and letter recognition skills through developmentally appropriate instruction and need based adapted activities using the Early Literacy and Learning Model (ELLM) curriculum. The results suggest that mindfully adapting activities to children's needs advances children's emergent literacy development.

+|-|15 516|-|+ 15 t3h 1337! But seriously, this sight shows how full of a dialect 1337speak is. Google has it as one of the languages you can search for articles in. It goes to show how common this new dialect has become.