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Skip to main content. The Caldecott Medal: Weighs 3. Has a 2 and one-third inch diameter. A few words about Randolph Caldecott and his illustrations Terms The Medal shall be awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published by an American publisher in the United States in English during the preceding year.
Marked by excellence in quality. Marked by conspicuous excellence or eminence. Next, the teacher provides scaffolds for students as they stretch their new learning into another context. Carefully constructed learning activities in "Share the Reading" provide guided practice with the teacher actively supporting the learning. During the "Readers Theater" experience, children get further guided practice as they work with peers.
Finally children attempt the strategy in an independent way, depending on themselves in "Extend the Learning. Like the gradual release model that underpins Interactive Read-Alouds lesson design, the sample test items in each lesson's "Infusion of Formal Language" feature provide a gentle way to accustom children to the language of tests and, ultimately, to strengthen learners' responsibility for their own performance.
The test questions that characterize standardized tests, end of unit tests, and so on are often written in a formal register that is very different from that of oral speech, and certainly different from most of the literature we read to our students Hoyt, Embedding test-style language into your daily interactions with students and weaving this formal register into your conversations about books will help learners to become comfortable with these often unfamiliar structures.
The "Infusion of Formal Language" section in each lesson will give you sample language to offer your students. The objective isn't necessarily to answer the question correctly. It is to develop a sense of confidence with formal test style language and begin to think of it as "just another way we talk about our books. The samples provided are springboards for you.
You may want to post a list of common test-style stems and then deliberately use them as you talk with students about the books and stories you share. An analysis of traditional interactions between students and teachers reveals that teachers do the majority of the talking while children sit passively.
Those students who do talk are often the predictable few who raise their hands quickly and love to be heard. Just as predictably, teachers know which students have learned to keep their hands down with their eyes averted in hopes that they will not be called upon.
This interaction results in a very small number of learners who share their thoughts. Meanwhile, the struggling learners quickly figure out that if they are quiet long enough, a more verbal peer will speak and let them off the hook. Interactive read-aloud lessons recast this unproductive interaction and raise the level of responsibility for all learners.
Into every lesson I build regular, prompted turn-and-talk moments during which children and their Thinking Partners engage in sharing ideas about the text and the target standard. To set this up, I model my thinking, ask a question or prompt a discussion, and then direct students to talk to their Thinking Partners.
Students are not allowed to raise their hands! The expectation is for quality conversation on the topic in a short burst of seconds so students stay focused and don't have enough time to stray off topic.
I am often asked about how Thinking Partners are chosen. I find that with some groups of learners I can ask them to find a Thinking Partner on their way to our story time area and it works beautifully.
They sit with their partner and expect to have responsible conversations together. With some classes, I need to provide extra behavioral support by pre-selecting Thinking Partners for students. In this case, I would want to ensure that I do not match my highest and lowest achieving students as the higher achiever may have a tendency to take over and do all of the thinking. This is a good time to be sensitive to the needs of ELL learners who may need first language support and consider matching them with another child who speaks their native language.
In all cases, it is important to model Thinking Partner conversations. It is important that children understand that I place high value on quality talk and taking responsibility for thinking together. To help them understand, I often ask another teacher or a student in class to be my Thinking Partner. We sit facing each other while the students fishbowl around us to listen to our conversation and notice the way we look directly at our partners, practice active listening, and are careful to take turns talking.
As they catch on, then. I bring two students to the center of the fishbowl to model quality Thinking Partner interactions. H e has had lonJ.! Although Charlie is a self-described conservative Re publican, chief among his causes is P lann ed Parenthood. H e believes that every child deserves to be born to a welcoming mother.
As the father of eight and grandfather of sixteen, Charlie regards his legacy "It is a grand mistake to think of being as helping future generations inherit a better world. I printing in Ph! Perhaps the lcBain-.
Thus ended the life of Rome's greatest writer, orator 8. I practically went into orbit upon seeing a work by Cicero.. Reopened in present felicity. What moved me But no" I belie' e that a man. Trollope wrote penetrating novels 1 orwithstanding the. Bm in. Precise ly. But what arc we tO. I have alwa ys refused to accept one interpretation of the Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican in the Chri-. Cicero, like me, is tota ll y against refraining from cnjoymenr of this sort of delightful contrast.
T o him. T o which. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus wir:h himself, men who are made happy by pe rforming so wel l for so long. For example, he says God, I thank thee, that I a m not as other meu of one of the great St:ipios, " Had his life been protracted a hundred year GiYen such Roman power, would not any wise person no" approach the l'. Senate with delight? And perhap-. Cicero, learned man that he was, believed in self-improvement so long as breath lasts.
To thi-, end, he points out that Agamemnon in the war on Troy "never once wished for n. Cict:ro counsels that the study of philo.. Archimedes ? Cicero counsels that the study ofphilosophy An ancient Greek m. Jthematician, physicist, engineer, aSLronomer and philosopher, Archimedes is an ideal activity, usually serviceable for old had one of the greateH minds in antiquity. He discovered principles of density, buoyancy, opl'ics, and, most famomly, leverage. Of this Ian people all the way to the grave.
For instance. Cicero argues against mi'! In general, Cicero did not appraise the last part of life as inferior, constituting a poor residue of a better life when young. To Cicero, ifyou live right, the inferior part oflife is the early part. Pythagorean Philosophy Cicero belie' ed in the displa of great re-.
More germa ne co Cicero's discou rse,. Cicero, -;rill in hi-. Cicero point-. So al-. As Censor difficult. The expulsion of L Quincrius Flami ninus for wanton cru elty was an hope for is to get old before he dies. The most celebrated passage. And th is happened despite many will. But the men had never been on friendly terms, and their relationship worsened after disadvantages he suffered, medical and otht.
Cicero made it clear he felt Antony was taking unf. Cicero, in a series of speeches called the UPhilippics," attacked Antony and cheerful acceptance of an aged stare, Franklin relished the role of an old man and praised his rivals. Once in power, Antony proclaimed Cicero an enemy of the state and had him executed in 43 BC.
Mark Antony Roman Imperatorials. Franklin on Aging "I guess 1 don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. I should l1ave 1zo objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advarztage authors have, of correcting in a seco11d edition the foults ofthe first.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon ami wise too late. Wlum you're finished cbnnging, you're finished. He continued his career of inventing, writing, and statesmanship and more into old age, developing a phonetic alphabet at age Later that year, he was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States and remained there until After his return, Franklin became an abolitionist, freeing both of his slaves and eventually becoming president of T he Society for the Relief of Free Negroes UnJawfully Held in Bondage.
At age 81, Franklin served as delegate to the meetings that would produce the United States Constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation.
He is the only Founding Father who is a signatory of all three of the major documents of the founding of the United States: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris and the United States Constitution. On April 17,, he died in his Philadelphia home at age 92, leaving his famous autobiography unfinished.
Carried onJy up to the year , it omitted many of the achievements for which he is best remembered. And his words are o ften made more acceptable thro ug h usc o f insig htful humor. In the modern world, with its increased wealth and longevity, a great ma ny people li ve in to gross impairme nt, and othe rs whil e still in great condition are fo rced away from high worldly power whe n they have much life a head o f the m.
The re fore, some cheerful, no n-Buffe tt-like adjustme nt to a re duced worldly role is usually sensible for the old. And, finally, it is wise for most didactic people ro heed the warning, time d tO George Bernard Shaw's death, that the wo rld rewa rds gadflies, but onl y a few, with those usua lly chosen because , lil-.
Munger, Jr. O n the last day o f a family ski vacation in Sun Valley when I was fifteen or so, my dad and I were driving back in the snow when he took a ten-minute detour to gas the red jeep we were d riving.
H e was pressed for time to have our family catch the plane home, so I was surprised to notice as he pulled into the station that the tank was still half-full. I to notice, if his jeep had less gas than when he left it. My dad asked my dad why we had stopped still didn't skip a point of fairness and consideration.
So I was when we had plen ty of gas, and he taught that day not only how to get a good friend, but also how admonished me: "Charlie, when you borrow a man's car, you to keep one. My freshman year at Stanford, an acquaintance lent me his car, more because friends we had in common tw isted his arm Family Values at the than that he knew me all that well.
H e noticed. We've had My dad often used the a lot of good times since, and he stood as a groomsman at my forum of the family dinner weddi ng. His favorite staying at Rick Guerin's house and driving Rick Guerin's jeep. Hal Borthwick and professional losses. It has been a fascinating and wonderful fifty years nearly His specialty was the Downward Spiral Tale. H e could since Charlie and my mother were married. There were many really warm to the topic of apocalyptic consequences. H e opportunities that I offered Charlie for formative education.
Do the job right the first time. He's in a league of his own when it comes to describing negative outcomes and the lessons to be learned from them.
This story goes back to Minnesota times. One of my jobs as a driving-age teen was to pick up and deliver the housekeeper His Morality Tales were more straightforward. I remember from the town of Cass Lake. This wasn't just a drive down the story my dad told his kids, then ranging from age five to the street; the boat had to be driven across the lake to the twenty-five, about a financial officer at one of his companies marina where I would hop into the car to drive to town, and who made a mistake that resulted in the loss of hundreds of then the process thousands of dollars to the company.
As soon as this officer was reversed. My dad told us that the in the morning president then said, "This was a terrible mistake, and we don't was to pick up a want you ever to make another one like it. But people make newspaper wruJe mjstakes, and we can forgive that. You did the right thing, I was in town. As it is, we'd like you to stay. His oldest children the question, "Where's my paper? Be responsible. By working on the tennis version each summer. When she was there, we used her car for of golf's short game, which few others could be bothered to errands.
There was but one set of keys, and while I was playing practice, Father, as he's done throughout his life, gave himself w ith friends in a sailing boat on the lake, the keys fell out of a fair if maddening competitive advantage.
I went home and playing against him , especially in doubles where the netplay confessed. Of course, in the Great N orth Woods, there aren't really counts. Thank God it was tennis, not business. The solution, again in about a second, was: "Go out with your friends and keep diving till you get those keys, and don't come home w ithout them. T here are a lot of these gems from Minnesota because, in those days when Charlie worked so hard and so long, that was the only meaningful time we spent with him.
Thinking about Father made me remember a long-ago humorous TV beer ad in which a smartly dressed man at a table is so engrossed in his glass of beer as to be oblivious to From David Borthwick a rampaging bull charging a bullfighter right in front of him. H e doesn't flin ch even w hen the bull smashes the table in to Many years ago, Father decided our Minnesota lake cabin matchsticks.
The announcer's tagline was "Try. While he certainly wanted the children to groove their groundstrokes, there was Take away the beer and substitute the financial market a bit more to it than that.
For it was Father who was out on listings, architectural plans, or a scholarly biography of Keynes, court more than anyone, with the machine positioned so he and you have a dead-on comedic take on Father night after could endlessly practice-volley close by the net. Before long, night in his favorite chair poring over something, aiJ but deaf.
Even when not reading, Father was often so deep in In Minnesota, he found a way to hard-wire the same contemplation that a routine drive to take Molly and Wendy message into our very bodies. H e had arranged for the old back to Pasadena could have turned into an excursion to San Larsen Boat Works to make us an "aquaplane," a heavy wooden Bernardino without Mom calling out the correct freeway affair we stood on as he towed it behind the boat.
He would turnoffs. Whatever was on his mind, it wasn't the outcome of a make sharp turns to see if we could hold on, and the only way football game or a botched golf shot.
Father's ability to Ch inese to avoid the disgrace of a fall was to keep shifting weight to wall off the m osr intrusive distractions from whatever mental compensate for the extreme angles. When I went to college in , I was very lucky to have children to raise, worked in.
In an angry and a seedy part of Spring Street,. But h e saw Tl1. People were occupying the dean's office, going to jail. I was in the basement of the Lamont Library learning how to He sent me the allowance of a much richer father, keeping me. From 3, miles away, he continued to help me Daddy raised us to be skeptical, even contrarian, and that keep my balance.
Suffice it to say that our father has always maelstrom of the late sixties. Over many years, sitting in the known what he was doing, as a parent as in so much else. I still do. I looked at My fa ther holds a perfect chicken egg. We've won the him, a little stunned, not by fath er-daughter egg toss, earning me one of my favorite the comparison, bu t by his possessions: a marble cube sprouting gilt acanthus leaves, w ith telepathy.
I had been devising a life-size golden replica of an egg on top. T his trophy sits on a short piece about my father, my desk, remindi ng me of the sunny day when my dad was so and the very subject had been on my mind.
I had already noticed that m y oldest son's hands are like his grandfather's, with fin gertips slightly square, and nail My father's hands know the tensile strengtl1 of different. But it's something fi shing lines by feel. They tie on a chartreuse jig or a plain old. His hands rise to his lips where he cinches his knots. My father, my son, and I all cross our hands with his teeth and bites off the extra line. His hands get wet. They pinch twisting black. In Minnesota, he there. His fingers wooden bellows.
With tl1e fire lit, he might cook blueberry are curled, and his thumbs are pointing at each other, like buckwheat pancakes on the Ben Franklin wood stove, using an handles on a bike. I reach my girl arms up straight, and I grasp old wood-handled spatula with chipped red paint.
And when one child is too Bu t if you play Password and give the clue "Charlie big for "thumbs," there is always another, on down through the Munger's hands," anyone will first answer, "books. One might also answer ''graph paper," for the if he's not known for his discernment about produce, does not buildings he's been designing. Reading it somehow conjures my father for me, When T think of my father's hands, 1 also see them up on even though in the broad outlines of his life, my father has stage, in front of thousands in Omaha every year.
H e did not regard a long drive in a car or a fi shing outing as an opportuni ty to "catch up. His son eventually came to marvel at and guiding story, have molded me as mrely as a sculptor's. Abe Trillin regarded thrift as a moral virtue, sending his messages. If he doesn't like the way his bridge paid his bills the day they arrived , and got up at four in the partner plays ou t a hand, for example, he might say, "You morning, six days a week, to pick the produce for his stores.
H e was skilled at message in an anecdote, preferabl y deli vered in a group setting cards. H e was sardonic, but had an underlying optimism that so that no one is singled out. In both instances, he appears one coLud get along in the world w ith the proper outlook and blunt and avuncuJar- that inimitable Charlie- but at the card character. He's this amusing," my father wrote.
A friend of mine recently began When I finis hed the Trillin book, I sen t i t to my father. The book is written Rushmore At the very least, J thought the book might summon up the image reassure my fath er that his messages were being received, even if of a 5,foot granite they were not always heeded.
T here but my father can. AJJ of the Mu nger children have at one time was no note, so J wasn't sure whether he had read the book or another approached Rushmore to make a request and felt or rejected it. It seemed untouched, so I concluded that my like Dorothy approaching Oz, except that Oz was more voluble.
Rushmore did not always respond. Sometimes my father Not much escapes my father, however. It turned out that he made a low steady noise from somewhere around his larynx, as had simply instructed his secretary to send copies to the whole though Rushmore had gone volcanic, but that was not so easy family. Can you be more subtle than silent? Unlike Abe Trillin, perhaps, my father really does send messages, in the form of speeches he has written, letters he has From Philip Munger received and sent, and articles from varied sources about social pol icy, psychology, busin ess ethics, and law, among other topics.
Some of my most affectionate m emories of my father are Many of them appear in this book. What doesn't appear is the of shopping for clothes at Brooks Brothers and Marks and note my father scrawled on the enclosure.
The note is usually Spencer. Most people already know that Father is not a big extremely brief, and often just a "send to" list, but every once fashion man. H e once said that h e was nonconformist enough in a while the note wiU have a wry fi llip, like this one from in his behavior and opinions that it made sense to chart a very , which was appended to a long appreciative letter from a straigh t course in attire.
His going along wi th normal social Berkshire H athaway shareholder in Sweden. Durabili ty has always other people. H e never had a desire to change his primary habits, I vividly recall going sartorial or otherwise, once he had, like Franklin, acquired with my Father to them.
Brooks Brothers, when it was still housed Tstill shop at Brooks, partly because each year at Christmas in that beautiful Father gives every child a gift card, which is perfectly timed old wood-paneled for the winter sale.
But I always end up going more often building in downtown than that. One year,! My fath er looked at them askance and said, "Do my first serious suit. I think of my father about eleven or every time I go; I'm very attached to the place. When I went twelve. I can see to study at Oxford, in winter , he gave me an old Brooks those polished brass coat of his, dating from the forties, of a sort of tannish-olive elevator doors opening.
We looked through the racks. Father hue, I think, with a warm zip-in lining. As I walked home from picked out a pin-striped charcoal grey suit. When J was sixteen , the Bodleian Library each night, that nasty damp penetrating we went to buy another suit, this time a three-piece, which I English cold would not get through.
When I returned to the wore religiously during my debate days. It kept the icy wind United States, r realized I had left the coat on a bus. I wept at blowing off the lake at Northwestern, during a tou rnament, the loss. Even now 1 wish 1 had that coat.
We bought, at the same time, a pair of wing-tip shoes for my summer stin t at the Daily journal a coming of age ceremony required by Father for each boy , shoes which have lasted till this day.
There is another theme here. W hen we bought a brown tweed coat at Marks and Spencer in London, Father said, "This will always keep its crease.
Maybe th ey're right. Roy Tolles, friend and business associate since H e wants to get to the bottom of everything, whether it's something of serious interest to him or not. Anything that comes to his attention, he wants to know more about it and understand it and figure out what makes it tick. Glen Mitchel, friend since People will come into the room and pat him on the back or offer him another cup of coffee or something, and he won't even acknowledge their presence because be is using one hundred percent of his huge intellect.
I remember that when we were negotiating with Cenfed to have them take over our savings and loan business, Charlie and I went over to their offices to meet with their CEO, Tad Lowrey. We had a perfectly wonderful meeting-Charlie can put on the charm if he puts his mind to it-and we were winding things up very satisfactorily. Just as we got there, the elevator door opened, and Charlie walked directly inside. He never said goodbye, never shook hands, nothing. Tad and I were left standing there, smiling and speechless.
We had come out of the building and were standing on the sidewalk, discussing what had transpired at the meeting. At least, that's what I thought we were doing, for suddenly I realized that I had been talking to myself for some time.
I looked around for Charlie, only to see him climbing into the back of a taxicab, headed off to the airport. No goodbye, no nothing. Nik Pisclovephy.
David Arndt. More From Evan Husada Sidrap. Popular in Technology. Science and Tech. Rajesh Yenugula. Hari Ram. Winnie Cai. Mehar Asif Ibrahim. Sumardi Fnu. Archit Lohokare. Since it is accidental, the random error is often called unmeasurable error or accidental error. Statistical analysis can also measure random sources of error in lab, unlike systemic errors; and it can also determine the effect of random errors on the quantity or physical law under investigation.
To solve random errors, scientists employ replication. Replication repeats several times a measurement, and takes the average. Although, it should be noted that in the usual physical and chemical testing phase, which has some inevitability, both the systematic error and the random error do exist. The disparity in results caused by the inspection process mistake of the usual physical and chemical inspection personnel, incorrect addition of reagents, inaccurate procedure or reading, mistake in measurement, etc.
Example for distinguishing between systemic and random errors is; assuming you are using a stop watch to calculate the time needed for ten pendulum oscillations. One cause of error in starting and stopping the watch is your reaction time. You may start soon and stop late during one measurement; you can reverse those errors on the next.
These are accidental errors , since all cases are equally probable. Repeated tests yield a sequence of times, all slightly different. In random they differ around an average value. The human error in laboratory experiments and lab tests primarily refers to the mistake in physical and chemical inspection phase caused by the factors of the inspector ; particularly in the following three aspects:.
Operational error applies to the subjective factors in regular activity of the physical and chemical inspectors. For instance, the sensitivity of the inspector to observing the color would result in errors; or there is no effective protection when weighing the sample, so that the sample is hygroscopic.
When washing the precipitate, there is an error in the absence of appropriate washing or extreme washing; Throughout the burning precipitation, did not regulate temperature; Unless the burette is not rinsed in the physical and chemical testing process before the liquid leakage, the liquid hanging phenomenon will occur which will allow the air bubbles to linger at the bottom of the burette after the liquid is injected; Inspectors looking up or down the scale at the time of the degree would cause errors.
Subjective errors are caused mainly by the subjective considerations of physical and chemical test analysts. For example, because of the difference in the degree of sharpness of color perception, some analysts believe the color is dark when the color of the titration end point is discriminated against, but some analysts think the color is brighter;.
Because the angles from which the scale values are read are different, some analysts feel high while some analysts feel low in situations. A individual can, for example, record an incorrect value, misread a scale, forget a digit while reading a scale, or record a calculation, or make a similar blunder.
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