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What I love about the Netflix series The Crown

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November 20, 2018 by ES Ivy

I know WAY to much about the British Royal Family. So I’ve been thrilled to watch the Netflix series The Crown.

Claire Foy and Matt Smith as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip in Netflix The Crown

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Have you seen the Netflix original series The Crown?

Never seen The Crown before?

You’ve been missing out!

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Best Romantic Comedies for mothers and daughters to watch together

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November 3, 2017 by ES Ivy

I love a good, happy chick flick! And my teen girls do too! Romantic comedies are our favorite. No tissues and tears for these girls. Teens have enough drama in their life already.

A list of the best rom-com movies for teen girls, for mothers and daughters to watch together on girls night. 13 favorites of my teen daughters, the best romantic comedies from the 90's till now.

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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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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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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

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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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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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Emma – SAT movies

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August 18, 2016 by ES Ivy

Watching movies to improve your SAT score? This past summer I’ve been watching movies with my daughters to work on their reading comprehension for the SAT.

Emma is a great movie to watch to improve your SAT reading vocabulary score. It is by far our favorite of the Jane Austen movies. As luck would have it, or maybe because we started with this one, it was the first of many literary movies we’ve watched with SAT prep in mind. My girls loved it!

Emma is a great movie to watch to improve your SAT reading vocabulary score.
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SAT study hack – A movie list to improve your SAT score – SAT movies

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August 16, 2016 by ES Ivy

SAT study hack - You learn more when you're engaged when you read. Watching these great movies based on great literary novels can help raise your SAT score.…

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Queen of Katwe – chess and success

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August 12, 2016 by ES Ivy

What can be learned from the roll chess can play in teaching success in Disney's movie the Queen of Katwe? An inspirational movie for teen girls.The trailer during the Olympics for Disney’s Queen of Katwe caught the attention of my teen girls!…

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