special times. In “The Tally Stick”, Jarold Ramsey introduces us to a couple who use a tally stick rather than pictures to represent what is important in their lives. Ramsey takes us from the beginning of the relationship, when the stick is bare, to the end when it is carved end to end. We learn of the outside events that build their love, as well as internal measure, upon which their love is built. According to Ramsey the stick is a part of the couple’s relationship. The tally stick shows that love can
will know how to collect data using tally marks and what a tally mark is. • Students will know basic addition and subtraction. TEKS: list and state 3.8.(A) summarize a data set with multiple categories using a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals; and 3.8.(B) solve one- and two-step problems using categorical data represented with a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals. Vocabulary: • Tally Marks: a quick way of keeping track
people share. Jarold Ramsey’s poem “The Tally Stick” is a great example of the commitment that two people share. The speaker says, “Here from the start, from our first days, look: / I have carved our lives in secret on this stick” (1-2). Starting with their marriage, the first notch is “Near the butt, this intricate notch where the grains / converge and join: it is our wedding” (6-7). The couple uses the stick as a symbol of their love for each other. The stick symbolizes how committed they are in their
improvements in the way we as Americans see math. Inventions such as the Ishango tally stick and the Lembambo tally stick, which were used as one of the first counting tools. When found, the bone only had 29 markings engraved into the Lebombo bone. This bone is about 35,000 years old, and is said to probably have been used to keep track of lunar or menstrual cycles, or could have been used for something as simple as just a measuring stick. The Lebombo bone is actually the fibula bone of a baboon and was used
This book introduces different types of polygons through objects we find around us everyday. Shape Up! uses cheese slices, pretzel sticks, a slice of bread, a pencil, and more to introduce various polygons, flat shapes with varying numbers of straight sides. Children can learn simple geometry with this playful but informative math concept book that takes the fear out of math and puts the fun back in. There 's a wisecracking cartoon kid who accompanies readers throughout and makes silliness and math
out that his mother is on drugs and is being supported by his sixteen year old brother. Many of the students that I have observed in the classroom have had behavior problems and issues with their academics especially reading, but Ja’Von seemed to stick out more than the other students did. While the other students would be engaging in reading activities, Ja’Von would constantly disrupt other students that were engaged in their reading lessons. He also seemed to have issues with their cooperating
measuring heart rate • Vinegar • Spring water • Baking soda • Sodium hydroxide • Clear plastic cups • Computer • Go link • pH sensor • Logger pro • Timer • Pipettes • pH solutions • Concavity slide • Black rubber rings • Chap stick • Light Microscope • Daphnia • Tally Clicker When making the acidic pH solutions, vinegar and spring water were used. For making the basic pH solutions sodium hydroxide, baking soda, and spring water was used to make the different pH solutions. For the higher basic
means that they do not know what Luke has seen and done. They have little knowledge of the reasons behind Luke’s behavior because they do not know the horrors he has seen. One time when Luke keeps a secret is when he decides to not tell his father and Stick, the town sheriff, that he is a witness to a fight between Hank and the Sisco boys. He can only see no way that telling the truth will help his family so he keeps his mouth shut. “At first, I wanted to tell my father about the fight, but I couldn’t
measuring heart rate • Vinegar • Spring water • Baking soda • Sodium hydroxide • Clear plastic cups • Computer • Go link • pH sensor • Logger pro • Timer • Pipettes • pH solutions • Concavity slide • Black rubber rings • Chap stick • Light Microscope • Daphnia • Tally Clicker When making the acidic pH solutions vinegar and spring water were used. For making the basic pH solutions sodium hydroxide, baking soda, and spring water is used to make the different pH solutions. For the higher basic
a wooden stick as a basis of account-keeping. Twice a year, at Easter and Michaelmas (September 29), the various county sheriffs were called before the Exchequer at Westminster. At Easter, a sheriff would pay about half of the total annual assessments his county owed. In accepting a sheriff's payment on account (the proffer), the treasurer would have a wooden tally stick prepared and cut as a record of the transaction. Used even before the introduction of the Pipe Roll, the tally stick was a nine-inch