Daffy Definitions For Seniors

Here Bernadette offers sage and humorous advice to all who feel the pinch of old age and all the aches, pains, and problems that come with it. She offers prayers that focus on the positive aspects of aging--and a laugh is always part of her prescription for a better life. The artwork by Chris Sharp adds just the right touch of whimsy to her "daffy" definitions.

Silly definitions for words from aardvark to zookeeper. E.g., Dead giveaway - a cancelled quiz show.

Imaginative ideas and hands-on activities for integrating the teaching of mathematics with 29 of your favorite children's books, including Color Zoo, Fish Eyes, Frog and Toad Together, Jumanji, The Relatives Came, and A Chair for My Mother.

Word Fun! consists of challenging and humorous exercises of homonyms and cliches which enrich students' vocabularies while sharpening their reasoning skills and reinforcing their spelling skills. Through a wide variety of formats including word definitions, match-ups, creative writing, mini-stories, puzzles, and poems, students utilize their creative and logical reasoning abilities.

Daily Learning Drills provides complete daily practice for essential fifth grade skills. Topics include grammar, vocabulary development, prepositional phrases, working with fractions and decimals, area and volume, government, and many more. --Daily Learning Drills provides complete daily practice for essential school skills. Learning activities support the Common Core State Standards and cover English language arts and reading, math, science, and social studies. A review section reinforces skills for each subject area. With Daily Learning Drills, students will find the skills and practice they need for school success.

The essays in this collection give voice to the plurality of approaches that scholars in the field of rhetoric and composition have when they set forth to assimilate Bakhtin for their varied purposes. The collection is arranged in three major sections. The first attempts to capture the most important theoretical extensions of Bakhtin's ideas, and does so with an emphasis on what Bakhtin might contribute to the present understanding of language and rhetoric. The next section explores the implications of Bakhtin's work for both disciplinary identity and writing pedagogy. The final section looks at how Bakhtinian thought can be used to bring new light to concerns that his work either does not address or could not have imagined addressing concerns ranging from writing across the curriculum to feminism, and from computer discourse to the writing of a corporation annual report. Together, these essays demonstrate how fruitfully and imaginatively Bakhtin's ideas can be appropriated for a context that he could not have anticipated. They also serve as an invitation to sustain the dialogue with Bakhtin in the future, so that researchers may yet come to realize the fortuitous ways that Bakhtin will continue to mean more than he said.

Offers unusual definitions using puns and illustrations including "Finite: Lovely evening" and "Beriberi: A double funeral".