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Scholastic Reading Inventory screener and is also working with Rachel Loersch, a literacy expert, to refine tier two work. 6-12 English Language Arts staff will be considering new curriculum materials for the 2016-17 school year to align with the Kansas College & Career Ready Standards. We are continuing to offer Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) training throughout the year and will adding a training for

The move to Fort Scott, Kansas was one of the weirds days of my life so I thought. You see, I had never in my whole life been outside of the Kansas City area until I was forced to leave my grandparent’s home. Kansas City was the only place that I knew. The sounds of police cars going up and down the streets all night with sirens. To the waking in the middle of the night with red and blue lights flashing though the curtains and every now and then to the sound of gun shots or even the smell of BBQ

Introduction: Syrian refugees in Kansas On September of 2015, the image of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi went viral. “The toddler’s lifeless body on a Turkish beach had reverberated across the globe” (Parkinson & George-Cosh, 2015). Aylan’s family had “fled the brutal civil war in their native Syria and only attempted the boat crossing after Canada denied their application of admission as refugees. The image led to an astonishing outpouring of support for Syrian refugees” (Hein & Niazi, 2016). President

Mass murders portrayed and embodied the simplicity of being human. Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood, devoted his life to give his audience every glimpse of the horrid murder of the Clutter family. Not to give a history lesson or a news story, but to present how two men of different backgrounds, ethnicities, and personalities joined together to kill an innocent family for riches. Never seen as monsters, but humans. Never seen as murders, but victims of deranged minds. Capote allows different

Almost everyone knows that “perfect” family that they perceive never has any conflicts within it, and they often use that family as a cookie cutter to shape their own. What people frequently don’t know is that behind the closed doors of that household, there are rebellious teenagers and fighting parents. In the case of the Clutters they are the town’s icon for a flawless, midwestern family. If the town of Holcomb dug just a little bit deeper into their rolemodels’ lives, only then could they notice

Oscar Wilde once said that, “[t]he books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame,” characterizing books that challenge our societal views and convey an unacknowledged view of society as controversial (Oscar Wilde). No matter how they are perceived, I believe that good books should challenge our beliefs and show us new ways to view society. Novels that are relevant to our world and do not simply reinforce our beliefs progress society by representing new viewpoints

University of Missouri University of Missouri’s alcohol policy for their tailgate functions is comparable to Missouri State University’s. Mizzou’s Rules and Regulations handbook states under the alcohol policy on page 8 that “Students and their guests are not permitted to consume, manufacture, use, possess, sell, or distribute alcohol in or on the premises of the University-owned or –operated residential or dining locations, regardless of their age.” As well, stated under Mizzou’s tailgating policy

decisions that Perry Smith and Dick Hickock make that effect the good Clutter family. In In Cold Blood, Capote shows the theme of good vs evil throughout the book. It starts to show the evil building by Capote writing “they had celled together at Kansas State Penitentiary” on page 22. This caused the reader to feel that Dick and Perry were felons. Capote showed the good side by talking about how the whole town knew the Clutters and how Mr. Clutter was a great man, he treated Floyd Wells like everyone

When placed in stressful or uncomfortable situations, people often create lies to validate acts of escapism that provide momentary relief from the reality of their problems. This is act is typically known as self-deceiving. In Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, the use of self-deception as a form of escapism is evident in Perry Smith, one of the Clutter murderers. In the book, Perry’s self-deception manifests itself in his delusional dreams, his fatalistic beliefs, and his addiction. Perry Smith’s past

Although Truman Capote recognizes the duality of Perry, he uses language complexities to demonize Dick; therefore he argues people with mental health issues deserve help while those who choose their behaviors deserve harsher punishments. Amplification embellishes the artwork that Capote illustrates. In the beginning, he paints the picture of Perry as naive and gentle, which contrasts with Dick who was heartless and arrogant. Later, a picture of Dick’s past as a teenager is elaborated: “‘An outstanding