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The Jane Schaffer method is a formula for essay writing that is taught in some U.S. middle schools and high schools.Developed by a San Diego teacher named Jane Schaffer, who started offering training and a 45-day curriculum in 1995, it is intended to help students who struggle with structuring essays by providing a framework.
Field trips allow students the opportunity to apply their class-based learning more concretely in their own community. School-family-community engagement resources: [18] Support of parents and community members can practise actively shaping a society in which everyone can live peaceful, just, safe and fulfilled lives.
The Konza Tallgrass Prairie in Kansas hosts 250 species of native plants and provides habitat for 208 birds, 27 mammals, 25 reptiles, and over 3,000 insects. [17] Some of the dominant grasses of prairies are Indian grass, big bluestem, side-oats grama, Canada wildrye, and switchgrass. [18] Prairies are considered to be fire-dependent ecosystems.
Before that the region was almost invariably called the High Plains, in contrast to the lower Prairie Plains of the Midwestern states. [7] Today the term "High Plains" is used for a subregion of the Great Plains. [8] The term still remains little-used in Canada compared to the more common "prairie".
The North America Prairies is a large grassland floristic province within the North American Atlantic Region, a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom. It lies between the Appalachian Province and the Rocky Mountains and includes the prairies of the Great Plains .
Margaret Anne Bryant was born in Lincolnshire in 1871, the daughter of T. W. Bryant. [2] She worked as a high school teacher until 1901, when she joined the staff of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. [4] She went on to edit The Daily News Year Book, and contributed to the Manchester Guardian and The Observer. [4]
MacArthur Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt on the poetry of small-town life, PBS NewsHour, Mary Jo Brooks October 21, 2015; MacArthur ‘Genius’ Ellen Bryant Voigt: ‘Poetry Is An Intelligence’, WBUR, October 12, 2015 "Interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt by Monica Mankin. Fugue Literary Journal, University of Idaho. Winter 2003/2004.
The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada. It includes the Canadian portion of the Great Plains and the Prairie provinces, namely Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. [2] These provinces are partially covered by grasslands, plains, and lowlands, mostly in the southern regions.