Comments on: Separate but equal http://www.lukewrites.com/travel/china/separate-but-equal who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Teaching With Source Documents: The Declaration of Independence — Teaching English as a Second Language http://www.lukewrites.com/travel/china/separate-but-equal#comment-1303 Teaching With Source Documents: The Declaration of Independence — Teaching English as a Second Language Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:40:48 +0000 http://www.lukewrites.com/2007/03/12/separate-but-equal/#comment-1303 [...] Instructions: When I’ve taught the Declaration we’ve first gone through the Introduction and Preamble sentence by sentence to talk about the meanings of the words and what the ideas in the document are. Afterwards, we usually discuss the following: 1. The Declaration calls “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” “unalienable rights”. Do you agree that they are rights? What other rights do you think are (or should be) unalienable? 2. What parts of the Declaration do you especially like? What parts do you dislike? 3. The difference between ideals and reality. (Is America living up to the ideals of the Declaration?–This is something my kids love to get to talk about.) [...] [...] Instructions: When I’ve taught the Declaration we’ve first gone through the Introduction and Preamble sentence by sentence to talk about the meanings of the words and what the ideas in the document are. Afterwards, we usually discuss the following: 1. The Declaration calls “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” “unalienable rights”. Do you agree that they are rights? What other rights do you think are (or should be) unalienable? 2. What parts of the Declaration do you especially like? What parts do you dislike? 3. The difference between ideals and reality. (Is America living up to the ideals of the Declaration?–This is something my kids love to get to talk about.) [...]

]]> By: Scott http://www.lukewrites.com/travel/china/separate-but-equal#comment-53 Scott Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:59:26 +0000 http://www.lukewrites.com/2007/03/12/separate-but-equal/#comment-53 Hey bud! Sounds like your kids speak English waaaay better than mine do! --The Declaration of Independence! By the way, I`m heading your way (well, as much as Mongolia is "your way") in the last week of July and will probably hop on the trans-siberian sometime during the first week of August. Want to come play in the Gobi Desert with me? Hey bud! Sounds like your kids speak English waaaay better than mine do! –The Declaration of Independence!

By the way, I`m heading your way (well, as much as Mongolia is “your way”) in the last week of July and will probably hop on the trans-siberian sometime during the first week of August. Want to come play in the Gobi Desert with me?

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