A teacher conducts a science class and discusses America’s retired space shuttle program and its replacement, a private sector Dragon spacecraft.
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Take 10 – Common Psychology Terms
Let’s learn some common psychology terms: fetish, hypochondria, intelligence, mania, narcissism, neurosis, pathological, psychosis, schadenfreude, subliminal.
Movie Club: Blade Runner
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
TED Talk: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success.
Movie Club: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
When Jacob discovers clues to a mystery that stretches across time, he finds Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. But the danger deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers.
TED Talk: The riddle of experience vs. memory
Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy — and our own self-awareness.
TED Talk: The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory
Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy — and our own self-awareness.
Movie club: Passengers
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Building a New Home
Role Dialog Narrator A couple, Nathan and Sheila, have hired an architect, Allan, to build them a new home according to a blueprint that they provided him. The new home is under construction and the couple have just arrived at the work site to see how things are going. Allan
Sentence Writing – Step 7 (Adverb Clauses)
Introduction Do you remember “Sentence Writing – Step 4 (Compound and Complex Sentences) when we learned about subordinating conjunctions? Guess what? Clauses that begin with subordinating conjunctions are adverb clauses. What Are Adverb Clauses? An adverb clause is a group of words that function as an adverb. The clause can
Sentence Writing – Step 6 (Adjective Clauses)
Learning how to use adjective clauses is an essential skill if you wish to form advanced English sentences and express complex thoughts. Let’s learn and practice.
Sentence Writing – Step 5 (Noun Clauses)
Learning how to use noun clauses is an essential skill if you wish to form advanced English sentences and express complex thoughts. Let’s learn and practice.