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As the wife of a music teacher, I find myself surrounded by a cacophony of musical inspiration each day. Inevitably, this music works its way into my English lessons, as it did this week in the case of The Canterbury Tales. This year my senior British Literature class took about five days to read through the Prologue, and after the first day of reading, I was already sensing some yawns and drooping heads. I decided to break up the monotony with a daily "Canterbury Playlist" for the remainder of the week. At the beginning of each class period, I played a song that reminded me of one of the Canterbury characters, and I picked a lucky student to guess which one. We had a good laugh and tried another song until we had reviewed each of the characters from the previous day. Then I had my students send me links to YouTube songs that reminded them of various Canterbury characters. This is the most fun I have had with Chaucer's prologue in the four years I have taught this unit! Here are the songs I chose for the different characters (I only played about 30 seconds of each): Knight – “Battle Scars” Lupe Fiasco The knight bravely fought in many battles. Obviously, this song is talking about figurative scars, but it reminds me of the knight's courage regardless! Squire – “I Get Around” Beach Boys OR “I Feel Pretty” West Side Story I played "I Get Around" for my students since they seemed particularly amused by the Squire's exploits with the ladies, but next time I might play "I Feel Pretty." This guy was dressed like a meadow, for goodness' sake! Yeoman – “I’m Still a Guy” Brad Paisley Any pilgrim wearing camouflage deserves this song played in his honor. My students caught on to this one right away! Prioress – “Mr. Lonely” Bobby Vinton Because The Canterbury Tales was written in a time when older siblings had to marry before the younger could enter matrimony, unattractive elder sisters were often given to the convent so their younger siblings could marry. The Prioress is described as a very large woman with a forehead the width of an outstretched hand, making this scenario extremely plausible. The poor, lonely, nun. :( Monk – “My Way” Frank Sinatra The Monk is known for breaking all the rules. He does everything "his way." Clever, right? Friar – “I’m Gonna Marry for Money” Trace Adkins This one is more of a stretch, but the Friar is Mr. Charming in any situation that could get him a dime. He sweet talks and gives gifts in order to beg for money. "Marry for Money" follows the same theme. Wife of Bath – “I Do” Colbie Caillat I recommend starting this song right at the chorus. The multiple I dos fit right in with our chatty, gap-toothed wedding addict. Pardoner – “You Lie” Band Perry Here's another song I start playing right at the chorus. The Pardoner is such a slimy liar, and this song puts a humorous twist on the lies. A few of my students suggested "White Liar," sung by Miranda Lambert, and I might actually choose that one next time! Miller – “Mean” Taylor Swift All the Miller will ever be is mean. And mean. And mean. And mean. And . . . Summoner – “Bad Boys” Bob Marley This one cracks me up. Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do when the Summoner comes for you? Parson – “My Story” Big Daddy Weave The parson is one character in the Prologue who devotes his life to following Christ's example and practicing what he preaches. This is where we first see reformation thinking in The Canterbury Tales. I chose a song about a man who follows Christ for this reason. Oxford Cleric – “Quiet” Demi Lovato I'm not a huge fan of this song, but the chorus mentions silence and being quiet, which is one of the qualities I was hoping my students would remember about the Oxford Cleric. Hey, I'll take any chance to remind teenagers that every word counts. Now, if only I could find a song that had that message specifically! Leave a comment with any suggestions! Man of Law – “I’m in a Hurry and Don’t Know Why” Florida Georgia Line Feat. Alabama The lawyer always appears busier than he is. When we talked about this character, I showed my students a Seinfeld clip in which George demonstrates the secret to looking busy: "I just look annoyed!" This song is all about being too busy without good reason, and it is one of the song choices that I am most tickled with. Merchant – “Thrift Shop” Pentatonix First, make sure to play the Pentatonix version of this song to avoid any expletives. Other than that minor concern, I love this song for the Merchant! My students guessed this one right away, as the Merchant's secret debt seemed to meet their fancy. Plow Man – “I’m a Hard-workin’ Man” Brooks & Dunn Our poor pooper-scooper is best represented with this blue-color song by Brooks & Dunn. Actually, I'll take any excuse to listen to some good old-fashioned Brooks & Dunn. I'm still in denial that they have split up! Manciple – “Smarter” Eisley This is another song I wouldn't mind replacing if anybody out there has a good suggestion, but I love that it focuses on the singer being smarter than people think. This seemed to fit the illiterate-but-secretly-intelligent Manciple perfectly. Skipper – “Calypso” John Denver Replace the name "Calypso" with "Maudelayne," and you have a poetic description of the Skipper's life at sea. I used to play this song on repeat as a kid. It just makes me so happy! Franklin – “Party Rock Anthem” Everything about the Franklin screams PARTY! Just don't be surprised if the entire class starts busting a move when this song comes on. :) Doctor – “Stars” Switchfoot My students are usually surprised to learn that the doctor treats his patients based on the positioning of the stars, rather than their symptoms. This song immediately popped into my mind! Reeve – “One Piece at a Time” Johnny Cash I know the Reeve isn't the only thief among the Canterbury crowd, but because he steals from his work stealthily, just as the singer steals from his job at the car factory sneakily, I thought this was a spot-on match. Cook – “Apples and Bananas” Barney and Friends Since none of us wants to listen to a song about chicken cooked with the pus from a knee ulcer, I am a big fan of this more innocent take on a cook's life. Apples and bananas all the way! And opples and bononos! (Did anybody else sing this as a small child?) Host – “Be Our Guest” Beauty and the Beast Need I say more? I would love to hear any suggestions you may have for an updated playlist, as I plan to play this game a few more times with my students before we continue with our unit. For more Canterbury Shenanigans, feel free to check out my Canterbury Tales Speed Dating Printables in my TpT store! I look forward to hearing your spectacular ideas! 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SIGH. Challenging day today. I can't be frank because I will offend. Let's just say I am feeling like I am having to "sell" arts education and that is frustrating. So, I'm not going to grumble, or complain, or yell...I am going to advocate. Here's a poster I made that talks about the benefits that art has on a child... And here are some close-up images of the poster so you can read the info. The images aren't the best, but if I make them too "nice" then blogger grumbles about the file sizes. Great references. Thank you to them for their info. This poster is not for money-making purposes, it was intended as an arts advocacy project for my grad school. Thanks!

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I am new to teaching Writing in sixth grade. It was a subject previously taught by one of my team members, but now I am on my own. I really wanted to use something simple for my kids to use for revising and editing and it seemed like the C.U.P.S. and A.R.M.S. revising and editing was a simple enough place to start. I also wanted to make something that they could glue into their notebooks for a quick reference. Of course, I quickly hopped over to PicMonkey to create something fast and cute. So far, I am still getting my feet wet when it comes to teaching writing, but the kids liked this and seemed to catch on quickly. Thought I would share my little poster with you. UPDATE WITH FREEBIE!!! Turns out, this little poster has become very popular on Pinterest and has received quite a few hits here on my blog. So, for those of you that would like a free, printable version, I have it linked here on my Teachers Pay Teachers store. Enjoy!

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Fun addition card game from Guided Math! Kids line up cards in four rows of five. Then, they flip two cards over. If the sum of the two cards equals 10, they keep the cards and replace the cards with two more from the deck. The game ends when there are no more matches left. A match includes 6 and 4, 7 and 3, 8 and 2, 5 and 5. Whoever has the most cards wins the game! Note: You can change the game and have kids flip ______. Give them a different sum each time they play. For example Flip 5, kids look for 0 and 5, 1 and 4, 2 and 3.

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New research may explain why we sometimes overvalue items we've acquired — to an irrational degree — irrespective of their market or sentimental value. This phenomenon is called the endowment effect, and researchers have long puzzled over why it occurs, and why the size of the effect can vary so much across items when it does. It's important to understand, however, because the endowment effect can lead us to make unpredictable economic decisions, and it has far-reaching implications throughout law, markets and business. Credit: SceneChange New Vanderbilt research suggests that evolution may play an important role, however—namely, that the items we overvalue most tend to have features that aided our ability to survive and thrive in environments our ancestors encountered long ago (for example, something that might help us attract a mate, which today might be a luxury car). In the new study, an evolutionary approach predicted more than 50 percent of the variation in the size of the endowment effect in humans. This is the first study to successfully predict variations in the size of the effect across a large and novel set of items. A psychological relic of the distant past "When you look at human history, modern concepts like money, contracts and even legal systems for enforcing bargains have only existed for a fraction of our existence as social primates," said Owen Jones, the study's main author. "Across evolutionary timescales, exchanging items was very risky because you had no assurances that potential trades would work, and no recourse if they didn't. That's no longer the case, of course, but our brains haven't had time to catch up. There's a mismatch between what they evolved to do and our environment today." That mismatch, Jones said, may explain why we sometimes overvalue what we already have relative to what we might trade it for, even if we could trade it for something a little better. In prior research with our evolutionary cousins, chimpanzees and orangutans, Jones and Brosnan have shown that the endowment effect is especially pronounced when food, or tools to access food, are involved. "The fact that several different ape species showed the same pattern of responses strongly suggested that human endowment effects should also vary in predictable ways across contexts, but no one had tested that question," said Brosnan. "Our research takes that next step, exploring whether humans also show a greater tendency to overvalue things that are related to survival and reproduction." The experiment The researchers developed a list of 24 items, both real and imaginary, covering a wide range of desirability and usefulness. For each item, the researchers created an "evolutionary salience score" that reflected the degree to which the item would directly help its owner survive and thrive. They did this by asking a panel of study participants to rate each object across a variety of metrics, including health benefit, attractiveness benefit, social status benefit, ability to meet basic human needs, value and tangibility. The highest-rated items included a pill that allowed a person to maintain a perfect weight and a luxury car. The lowest-rated items included an annual membership in a video streaming service and a mummy costume. Once the first panel had assigned the evolutionary salience scores, the researchers turned to a different panel to run a standard test for the presence and size of endowment effects. Half the participants were asked to name the maximum price they would be willing to pay for each item, while the other half were asked to name the minimum price they would be willing to sell the item for. Although standard economic theory predicts that the average "buy" and "sell" prices should be the same, sharp differences emerged. The results The average "buy" price was about $54, and the average "sell" price was about $124—a clear overall indication of the endowment effect in action. But at the individual level, the endowment effect was much larger for some items than others. Those with the largest endowment effect ratios related to health and status (such as the weight maintenance pill and the luxury car). By contrast, the items with the smallest effect sizes had little to no effect on surviving and thriving (such as the streaming service or mummy costume.) In this experiment, an item's combined evolutionary salience score predicted 52 percent of the variance between the maximum "buy" price and the minimum "sell" price across items. Compellingly, the seven items with the largest endowment effects were in the top nine in evolutionary salience scores, too. "Reviewing the endowment effect literature, you notice pretty quickly that the size of the effect varies from one item to another," explained Jaeger. "But there hasn't really been a systematic effort to explain why. Our findings suggest that this variance is not random. Rather, it may reflect the evolutionary origins of the effect." "We would have been thrilled if evolutionary salience had predicted even just 20 percent of the variation in endowment effect sizes," added Jones. "The fact that it predicted more than half is quite promising. And it suggests there's real value in using evolutionary perspectives to help explore the origins and patterns of endowment effects specifically, as well as of various other cognitive biases more generally." The research appears in Evolution and Human Behaviour. Author: Liz Entman | Source: Vanderbilt University [May 27, 2020] Labels Anthropology, Human Evolution, Psychology TANN you might also like Newer Post Older Post

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Hi Everyone, Sara here from Sara J Creations with some time saving tips for Powerpoint. Do you use Powerpoint? I made the move to Powerpoint when I started on TpT and learned about the awesomeness of this little program. I always thought Powerpoint was for creating a presentation or slide show. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Yes, it can be used for that, but it can be used for so much more. When I was in the classroom, Word was my go to program. I created worksheets, notes to parents, newsletters, and more. And now I just sit back and wish I had all those hours back where I fought with word to format a picture exactly like I wanted or create a new page identical to one I've already used. Enter Powerpoint! I have 5 tips for saving time on Powerpoint. Whether you are new to Powerpoint, have been using it for years, create and sell products for TpT, or design for your own classroom or house, these tips are for you! Just a note: I use Windows 10 (I'm still getting used to it) and recently updated to Powerpoint (Office) 2013. Your program might look a little different than mine depending on what versions you use. When you open Powerpoint, the slide that automatically pops up is designed for a slide show on your computer. I found myself constantly changing the slide size to print on standard paper. This step was driving me nuts each time I created something. Here's how to solve that - create templates of the sizes you use the most. Under slide size, choose the size that you use frequently (for me it was 8.5"x 11") and just keep the slide blank. Go to File > Save As and switch the file type to PowerPoint Template. It will automatically save this to your documents in a folder called Custom Office Templates. I have a vertical template, horizontal template, square template, brag tag template and task card template. Now, I don't have to start from scratch. I open the template for the product I want to create and it is already formatted for me, no need to adjust the slide size. Have you ever seen that paint brush in the corner of the home screen? This is on Word, too. That is a format painter and I remember learning about this in my computer class in high school and it is a feature I've used ever since. Let's say you format a text (meaning you picked the font, size and spacing) and you want something else that you type to look the same way. In my example above, I wanted Alternate Uses to look just like Directions for Use to keep it consistent on the page. I could highlight Alternate Uses and go up and change the font, size and spacing by myself by using Directions For Use to help me with remembering what numbers. Or I can use the format painter. Highlight the text that you want it to look like, so in this case Directions For Use. Then double click on the format painter. While the format painter is selected, highlight the text you want changed. It will automatically switch it so that it is formatted the exact same way that your original text that you selected was formatted. No need to remember what font you used, how big it was, if you made it bold, if you left justified it, etc. The format painter will do it all for you. Confession : I read about this tip on TpT (in the forums) and updated to Microsoft Office 2013 just for this feature. I had 2010 before and it wasn't available in that version. I HATE change. Updating any sort of technology makes me cringe. I hate getting used to something new. But I did, just so I could use this next tip I'm going to show you. Have you ever tried to match the color of text that you are using to something else in your document like clip art, a logo, digital paper, picture, etc.? I was doing this a lot to match things to the color of my blog. I would just pick something that looked close. Well, with the eye dropper tool, it does all the work for you and the color is an exact match. Let's say that you wanted your text to match some clip art like in the example below. Insert the picture that you are using. Then, highlight the text that you want to color. Go to the Format tab and click text fill. Then select eyedropper. You will get a little eye dropper and a square that shows up close the color that the dropper is pointing to. It will also give you the specific numbers and letters for the color if you need it (but you don't for this trick.) Click once you've found the color you want. Your text now matches the clip art!! Another way that I love to use this trick is when I am starting something from scratch and I'm trying to figure out what colors to use. I have a Pinterest board called Color Combinations where I save different color palettes that I like. If I want to make the text or background in my product using the color schemes I saved, it is easy! Just open up the board, and click on the pin that you want. When you get to this screen, right click on the image and click copy image. Then go back to your Powerpoint document and paste the image. Use the same steps as above to use the eye dropper to select each of the colors you want to use. If you need to repeat a color, it should show up in your recent colors so you really only need to use the eye dropper once for each color if you keep the document open. Just delete the Pinterest image from your document when you are done. I love using this tool because I don't often think of color combinations like this on my own and there are so many colors out there beyond the standard colors that are on the Powerpoint list. This helps me to narrow down what I want to use. This tip is for replacing the fonts in your text. Let's say you have pages of work and realize the font doesn't look right. Or maybe it is something you created a while ago and the font is outdated. You could go page by page, highlight the text and then change it. Or you could use the Replace Fonts feature. In the home tab, on the far right there is a Replace button. Click that, then click Replace fonts. Under Replace there will be a drop down menu with all of the fonts that are in your document. Select the one you want to change. Then for the part that says With: you will select the new fonts from the drop down menu. That menu includes all fonts that are installed on your computer. Click Replace. All the fonts in your entire document will be changed to your newly selected font without you having to go page by page. Another way to use the Replace feature is if you want to change certain words throughout the text. The one time I really use this is to change the date. Sometimes when I'm creating a product, I use an older product to get me set up and then change the content. I put my copyright information on every page and include the year. So I might have a new product that I just created but it was similar to an older product so I used the old version as my template. Now all of my dates say 2014 instead of 2015. Go to Replace again and use Replace instead of Replace Fonts. Type in what the text currently says (2014) and what you want it to say (2015). You can click Find Next if you want it to go page by page and show you the change before it replaces it. This would be helpful if you didn't want to replace every word in the text, only certain ones. Or you can click Replace All which is what I do because I know that I want every date in my product, whether in my cover or my footer at the bottom, to say 2015. Have you ever wanted to reuse a slide that you already created or parts from a different document? You could open both screens and cut and paste, but there is an easier way. Reuse slides!! Under the Home tab, click New Slide and then go down to the bottom and choose Reuse Slides. On the right side, it will show you frequently used documents but you can also click browse and go find the document you are looking for. I like to do this with my terms of use/thank you page because it is something I add to each document and there are a lot of parts and formatting so I wouldn't want to cut and paste it all. Once you've selected the document you want to open, all of the slides in the document will open. Find the one you want and click on it. BUT before you do that, make sure that the box that says Keep Source Formatting is checked. If not, you might lose some of your formatting like the background. An exact copy of that slide is now in the document. It is just like the other slides, you can still move it and change it and it will not change the original document it came from. Another similar feature is the Duplicate Selected Slides feature. This is if you want to use a slide again but it is in the same product. I like to do this when I am making task cards. I spend a lot of time getting the background, clip art and text just right and I don't want to have to do that for each page of cards. Plus I want to make sure they are all exactly the same. To get a copy, go to Home then find New Slide and then go down to Duplicate Selected Slides. Now that same slide will appear again. You just have to change the text that is on it. I start by changing the numbers and then change the text on each card. Wow! Did you catch all of that? Hopefully, this helped you and you learned a few new tricks to speed up your work time. What tip was new to you that you are going to try out soon?

We all have those times when we only have 5 minutes before going to lunch, specials, leaving for the day, etc. Here are some quick GRAMMAR activities you can use to fill that time and still be teaching!!