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Great Expectations – SAT movies

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September 7, 2016 by ES Ivy

Great Expectations is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills.

Great Expectations (2012) isn't as gloomy as the preview suggests and a good movie to inspire the reading of the novel to improve your SAT vocabulary.

Watching Great Expectations to improve your SAT reading score

Great Expectations (2012) is not as gloomy, grungy, and violent as the first scenes and trailer suggest. …

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The Accumulation of Gold Stars for Success – Excellent Sheep Part 2/5

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September 6, 2016 by ES Ivy

Excellent Sheep - William Deresiewicz says Ivy League schools perpetuate the idea that “The purpose of life becomes the accumulation of gold stars.”In my previous post, I talked about how William Deresiewicz starts out Excellent Sheep, the Miseducation of the American Elite & The Way to a Meaningful Life, with the assertion that mental health problems are on the rise among college students. Deresiewicz thinks the problem lies with education, especially elite universities.

Excellent Sheep talks a lot about how the desperate race to collect accolades for acceptance to an elite college affects students.

How it doesn’t stop after high school.

It continues on through college with the accumulation of multiple majors.

“The purpose of life becomes the accumulation of gold stars.” (Excellent Sheep, page 16)

As evidence…

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Becoming Jane – SAT Movies

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September 5, 2016 by ES Ivy

Becoming Jane is about Jane Austen's young romance that may have inspired her books. It's a great movie to learn vocabulary to improve your SAT score.Becoming Jane, about Jane Austen’s young romance with a Mr. Lefroy that may have inspired her books, is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills. It’s based on the book Becoming Jane Austen, by Jon Hunter….

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Social media image size and blog images

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September 1, 2016 by ES Ivy

One image size for all social media - A social media image size that will also work for photos on a blog or website, so that each photo is processed only once.Image sizes (photo sizes) for blogs and social media change all the time as screen resolution gets better. This can make it hard to know what size to upload photos to a blog. And since some social media you can share from a blog post, you’ll want to include images that are the correct size in your posts. But I want to streamline it. I’m searching for one image size for all social media.

One image size for all social media

Choosing an image size for blog posts

Since I personally like to use Pinterest, I’m still going to make a main image for my blog posts that will look good on Pinterest and will display decently on Facebook and Twitter. But I’m going to start trying to share images on Instagram or possibly Snapchat. When I have a post with a lot of images, like my post about Maui[link], I’m going to make the additional images a size and dimensions that will work well on the photo social media platforms….

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Excellent Sheep review and discussion – Excellent Sheep Part 1/5

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September 1, 2016 by ES Ivy

Excellent Sheep examines why it appears students are effortlessly over-achieving, when actually we have “an epidemic of depression among younger people.”You’ve read about them. Those super-start students who’re valedictorian, took 7 AP classes and tested out of 3 more AP credits, played in the school marching band, got accepted to Harvard, and started up their own non-profit on the side. All while making it look easy. But was it easy? William Deresiewicz starts out Excellent Sheep, the Miseducation of the American Elite & The Way to a Meaningful Life, by pointing out that the easy super-star student is a myth.

He goes into all sorts of statistics to show that while it appears students are effortlessly over-achieving, when you look at the numbers, what we have — according to one college President — is “an epidemic of depression among younger people.”

Of course, it’s just numbers, and just because it’s written in a book, doesn’t mean it’s true. But when what I’m reading matches my own experiences, I start to take notice….

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Pride and Prejudice BBC – SAT movies

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August 31, 2016 by ES Ivy

The Pride and Prejudice BBC mini-series is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills.

The Pride and Prejudice BBC mini-series is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills.

Watching movie to improve your SAT reading score

There’s a reason that this Pride and Prejudice BBC mini-series is the iconic Jane Austen movie. …

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US education system compared to Finland – Finland Phenomenon Part 3/3

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August 30, 2016 by ES Ivy

The US education system compared to Finland has less testing, less homework, and encourages entrepreneurship. From the film The Finland Phenomenon.Finland’s education system ranks at the top of the world by almost every measure, in all sorts of rankings. How do they do it? How is the US education system compared to Finland? To get more information, I watched The Finland Phenomenon:Inside the World’s Most Surprising School System, from the Robert Compton Documentary series on Global Education, directed by Sean T. Faust. In my first post, I looked at the differences between Finland’s school system and our school system and then at how the Finnish educational system structured.

How else do Finnish schools differ?

US education system compared to Finland

Less testing

In Finland, they actively try not to punish students for mistakes and there’s very little testing….

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Pride and Prejudice – SAT movies

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August 29, 2016 by ES Ivy

Watch Pride and Prejudice to improve your SAT reading skills. The acting really helps understanding the eighteenth century dialogue and vocabulary.Pride and Prejudice is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills.

Watching Pride and Prejudice to improve your SAT reading score

My main impression looking back on this movie is “brown,” like the entire movie had a brown tone. But, that’s not to say it wasn’t a good movie; it will keep your interest and the plot is easy to follow. It’s just not as colorful as our favorite, Emma.…

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Finland’s education system’s structure – Finland Phenomenon Part 2/3

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August 25, 2016 by ES Ivy

Finland's education system is the best in the world by almost every measure How is the Finland education system structured? From: The Finland Phenomenon.The Finland education system is the best in the world by almost every measure, in all sorts of rankings. How do they do it? To get more information, I watched The Finland Phenomenon:Inside the World’s Most Surprising School System, from the Robert Compton Documentary series on Global Education, directed by Sean T. Faust. In my last post, I looked at the differences between Finland’s school system and our school system.

Regardless of whether or not we could completely copy the Finnish school system, what can be learn from it? How is the Finnish educational system structured? In addition to some small new pieces of information, I found that if I listened between the lines and looked at what was I saw in the video, I picked up on a few more nuances.

The Finnish Educational System

Teacher training in Finland

There are high entrance requirements to even start teacher training, much less get your certification, which is a masters degree. …

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Emma BBC – SAT movies

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August 24, 2016 by ES Ivy

Watching the Emma BBC miniseries to improve your SAT vocabulary and reading skills.The Emma BBC mini-series is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills.

Watching Emma BBC to improve your SAT reading score

The Emma BBC television mini-series doesn’t seem to stick as closely to the original as the Pride and Prejudice BBC series. …

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