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High schoolers are developing high flying ambitions thanks to aviation programs that teach students the basics of piloting an airplane. A free lunch program called Lunch at the Library is keeping kids fed, and well read. Meet a school bus driver for special needs children. A mobile agricultural classroom inspires students to think about their food.
Global 3000 is Deutsche Welle's weekly magazine that explores the intersection of global development and the environmental and social conditions of the diverse cultures of the world. In each program, host Michaela Kufner presents three to four video-rich segments that profile a different part of the planet where man's quest for economic and industrial strength is jeopardizing the ecosystems and the social and economic structures of people thousands of miles away. The program not only documents where those struggles are taking place - but how some groups and individuals are finding solutions to the growing problems of global development.
How do ideas change the world? This unit traces the impact of European Enlightenment ideals in the American and Haitian revolutions and in S outh America. It also examines the revitalization of Islam expressed i n the Wahhabi movement as it spread from the Arabian peninsula to Afri ca and Asia.
Modern medicine, atomic energy, computers, and new concepts of time, e nergy, and matter allnhave an important effect on life in the 20th cen tury. n
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How did the many paths of human migration people the planet? From thei r origins on the African continent, humans have spread across the glob e. This unit explores how and why early humans moved across Africa, Eu rasia, and the Americas, based on recent studies in archaeology and li nguistics.
Vocabulario: numbers (100-1000); food groups (meat, fish, fruits, vege tables, others); writing and written works.nGram
This episode of GED Connection is about drama. Plays, film and televis ion are all forms of drama. In drama, stories are told through actions and spoken word called dialogue, and all drama starts with a written script. On the GED Language Arts Reading Test you'll be asked to read and answer questions about a passage from a script. This program explo res the unique format of scripts and what to look for when you read th em. The majority of the program takes a look at a GED playwright class where the students are reading and writing scripts. The various forma ts of the script such as dialogue, stage directions, cast of character s, and description of setting are all discussed. We also take a look a t a group of actors as they perform a scene from George Bernard Shaw's play "Heartbreak Hotel." It is important to know about the elements o f drama for the GED test, questions may be about the setting, the plot , and the characters. Questions on the test may also be about deeper m eanings such as theme, the motivation, or the conflict.
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