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Internal Processes * Qualify for a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) * Communications – (entire staff) – with a quarterly staff meeting * Improve comfort levels with ICD-10 diagnosis coding

Tony Mirabelli, in his article, “Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers”, discusses how members of the food service community, whether it be the consumer or the worker, interact and mediate activity through language and texts (298). He talks about the everyday literacies of a diner and how the threshold concept is used on a daily basis. The threshold concept is very straight-forward; texts and language mediate activity and interactions.

At 9:00 pm on July 10, I took my first steps in the country that would change my life forever. As my sister, grandma, and I stepped outside the airport into the hot, humid, and dark place, talking with my (simply put) cousins, Chicho and Mirza, I realized I was in the country my grandma and her family had grown up in; Panama. I met my grandma’s aunt, Luz, who made food I never tried before such as, yuca frita, plátanos, chicha de arroz con piña, arroz con gandules, arroz blanco, and chicken. There are different types of food Panama, including many I have never heard of. I learned words in Spanish I had never heard before, differences and similarities between the United States and Panama, and they way people live. Panama City is much cleaner

This year, I was a volunteer for Rosemead’s One City Tutoring Program. As a tutor, I went to the Rosemead Community Center every Saturday morning and tutored elementary and high school students. Most of the time, I would help students with their math homework. I would also occasionally tutor students with reading and grammar homework.

It is a known fact that every human being communicates through language, but perhaps a little known fact that we communicate even through the food we eat. We communicate through food all the meanings that we assign and attribute to our culture, and consequently to our identity as well. Food is not only nourishment for our bodies, but a symbol of where we come from. In order to understand the basic function of food as a necessity not only for our survival, we must look to politics, power, identity, and culture.

Heads or Tails In the short story “Me Talk Pretty” Sedaris tells its readers about the difficult time he had while in Paris. It’s no secret that everyone at one point has had to experience this difficulty while in a foreign country. You take a language class to have some knowledge before your arrival to the country but even that isn’t enough, it’s never enough. Sedaris “…took a month-long French class before leaving New York…”

“There are over 600 single mothers in Bradford County” (Admin.). These women struggle daily with having to raise their children, having to work, and going back to school if they so choose. These women need a helping hand. With the collaboration of The Wise Ones, the What-a-Hoot-Tutoring-Program will be able to give them the help they need. This program will be a helping hand to single moms who have difficulties in their classes. The will be tutored in between their classes and this program will help them to go through school while being less stressed. The Wise Ones is a babysitting program for single moms who can’t find someone to watch their children while they go to class. After the moms drop off their children they have a choice to stay after their class to get extra help with the choice of a tutor. What-a-Hoot-Tutoring-Program is a great way to help single mothers succeed in school.

In Charles Dickens's “Great Expectations,” a coming-of-age novel, Miss Havisham is a wealthy character of high class status with a tragic past filled with heartbreak and betrayal from men, specifically her fiance. All her trauma causes her to seek revenge on every man and to raise her daughter Estella to be heartless and malignant towards men, including the young protagonist Pip. Although some readers may say Miss Havisham is fortunate, she can really be seen as unfortunate because she struggles with recuperating from her past; she had a bad experience with one man, which caused her to be revengeful on the entire male sex; and she acts malignant and tough towards others due to her wounded, cold heart. To begin with, Miss Havisham struggles

Coming from a foreign country where english is a second language, I didn’t know how to communicate. How was I going understand the information in school? How will I create new friendships without speaking? All these questions plagued me. As I sat quietly everyday trying to avoid making a sound, hoping not to get called on to answer a question or speak out loud in the class, I was trying to make clear of what these people were saying. I realized that just sitting there and listening wouldn't help me better speak English; I had begun trying to speak english with my father so I can become more fluent. After months of dedication, I was understanding and speaking a language completely different to mine. That was by far the most difficult

Intro-The average American voter. Typically the claim or reason a person votes is because of agreement with a candidate or policy. General knowledge about the issues in this country and current running candidates is extremely abundant. As I mentioned voters will vote for a politician who they believe “knows” how to fix these issues. Yet in a recent Newsweek survey 1,000 random U.S. citizens were asked to take America’s ‘official’ citizenship test, 29 percent could not name the vice president. 73 percent could not identify why we fought the Cold War. 44 percent were unable to define what the Bill of Rights are, and 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar. If American people/voters cannot even identify

This final part of the K-W-L activity gives students a chance to ask questions about concepts or words that they didn’t grasp through the activities. If students have unanswered questions or new questions, the class will have a discussion. This allows students to self-monitor their work to ensure its completion (Ogle, 1989). Students should ensure all their questions from “what I Want to know” have been satisfactorily answered, and that they have filled out as many new or interesting facts as they can in the “what I Learnt” column. Recaps and summaries of lessons are useful as students reiterates what they have just learnt, reinforcing the acquired knowledge. It also allows the teacher to check that all students understand the text. EAL/D and low literacy students are also encouraged to copy the formulated answers from their margin questions directly into the Learned column. Answers from the margin questions activity may overlap with questions students created for the Know column. By completing this activity, students will have an easily accessible worksheet containing all of the information learnt from this class. Both activities (Appendix C and D) give the students an opportunity to express their prior and learnt knowledge in various modes of communication. The range of literacy activities provided to the

I go through, rushing around the backstage set as I read over my script. They had called me in early due to this emergency. I moved hastily through wardrobe in preparation to go on. The producers tell me we have contact with a few of our reporters out on the field and what they are telling us is horrific. The gruesome details the reporters used to describe the attack were blood curtailing, with each word sending another chill down your spine.

When studying food in its entirety: its classification, structure, and the way it’s utilized, it becomes obvious that food is closely tied to food-getting strategies; social, democratic, and political constitution; intimate ties of social relationships; ecological vigor and vitality; and the physical and mental wellness of an individual and group. Besides water, food is the most fundamental element of life that we need for our species to survive and thrive; everybody has an appetite for food. Food is a cultural artifact that is central to human life, identity, and bonds we share with our communities. As an artifact, food plays a significant and meaningful role in our everyday connections with “nature through culture,” that translates

During the first week of class, four readings were assigned. One of the readings, “Food and Eating: Some Persisting Questions,” by Sidney Mintz, discusses the paradoxes of food. Although food seems like a straightforward concept, it is actually extremely complicated. According to Mintz, there are five paradoxes, including: the importance of food to one’s survival, yet we take it for granted, how people stick to their foodways, but are willing to change, whether the government should allow people to freely choose food or if they should protect the people through regulations, the difference in food meanings according to gender, and the morality of eating certain foods. All of these paradoxes give people questions to think about, making this an extremely philosophical look at food studies. It also mentions that food must be viewed through the cultural context that it is in, which became important in “The Old and New World Exchange”, by Mintz, and “Maize as a Culinary Mystery”, by Stanley Brandes. These discuss the diffusion of foods after 1492 in different ways. The Mintz reading gives an overview of all of the foods spread from the Americas to the Old World, and vice-a-versa, but does not go terribly in depth on the social changes and effects of specific foods. Brandes focuses on the cultural impact of specifically maize on the European diet, noticing that most Western Europeans shunned it. He studies the cultural implications of this, concluding that maize was not accepted

Using Technology for Phonics Instruction in Kindergarten is an article written by Rita Suh and Victoria Gerson which can be found in The California Reader in the SPRING 2013 VOL. 46, No. 3 issue. Suh and Gerson are both graduates of the Masters in Reading/Language Arts according to https://www.ced.csulb.edu/readinglanguage-arts-grads-rita-suh-and-victoria-gerson-published-california-reader. They document through the article, their advantages to having technology in their classrooms and how it enhanced their classroom instructions.