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| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Why I Write George Orwell, 2021-01-01 George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: When Kids Call the Shots Sean Grover, 2015-06-03 If you want to fix your rebellious and disrespectful child, you need to start by fixing yourself. Are your kids pummeling you with demands and bossing you around with impunity? Have your once-precious preschoolers become rebellious, entitled, and disrespectful to authority? While there are plenty of so-called experts who might try to validate your convictions that you have done all you can to “fix” your “difficult” children, the hard truth is, they’re not doing you any favors by placing the responsibility solely on your children. Parenting struggles rarely originate from just one side. Instead, they erupt at the volatile intersection of a child's personality with a parent's own insecurities and behaviors. In When Kids Call the Shots, therapist and parenting expert Sean Grover untangles the forces driving family dysfunction, and helps parents assume their leadership roles once again. Parents will discover: Three common bullying styles used by kids Parenting styles that contribute to power balances Critical testing periods in a child’s development Coping mechanisms that backfire Personalized plans for calmly exerting authority in any scenario The solution to any problem begins with learning to control what you can control. In parenting, you’ve already learned how impossible it is to control your kids. Begin by controlling you! |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Unbroken Brain Maia Szalavitz, 2016-04-05 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and in equally outdated treatment. Challenging both the idea of the addict's broken brain and the notion of a simple addictive personality, The New York Times Bestseller, Unbroken Brain, offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention and policy. Like autistic traits, addictive behaviors fall on a spectrum -- and they can be a normal response to an extreme situation. By illustrating what addiction is, and is not, the book illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery- and why there is no addictive personality or single treatment that works for all. Combining Maia Szalavitz's personal story with a distillation of more than 25 years of science and research,Unbroken Brain provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about addiction. Her writings on radical addiction therapies have been featured in The Washington Post, Vice Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, in addition to multiple other publications. She has been interviewed about her book on many radio shows including Fresh Air with Terry Gross and The Brian Lehrer show. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: The Art of Screen Time Anya Kamenetz, 2020-07-14 Screens have become an essential part of modern childhood. This book will show you how to parent with them instead of against them.--Page 4 of cover |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Glow Kids Nicholas Kardaras, 2016-08-09 We’ve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses—and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces—the Glow Kids—are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence or fad like some sort of digital hula-hoop? Some say that glowing screens might even be good for kids—a form of interactive educational tool. Don’t believe it. In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology—more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity—has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain’s pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young person’s developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can. Kardaras will dive into the sociological, psychological, cultural, and economic factors involved in the global tech epidemic with one major goal: to explore the effect all of our wonderful shiny new technology is having on kids. Glow Kids also includes an opt-out letter and a quiz for parents in the back of the book. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: O Pioneers! Willa Cather, 2024-07-15 When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Hawk Tony Hawk, Sean Mortimer, 2010-09-21 For Tony Hawk, it wasn't enough to skate for two decades, to invent more than eighty tricks, and to win more than twice as many professional contests as any other skater.It wasn't enough to knock himself unconscious more than ten times, fracture several ribs, break his elbow, knock out his teeth twice, compress the vertebrae in his back, pop his bursa sack, get more than fifty stitches laced into his shins, rip apart the cartilage in his knee, bruise his tailbone, sprain his ankles, and tear his ligaments too many times to count.No.He had to land the 900. And after thirteen years of failed attempts, he nailed it. It had never been done before. Growing up in Sierra Mesa, California, Tony was a hyperactive demon child with an I44 IQ. He threw tantrums, terrorized the nanny until she quit, exploded with rage whenever he lost a game; this was a kid who was expelled from preschool. When his brother, Steve, gave him a blue plastic hand-me-down skateboard and his father built a skate ramp in the driveway, Tony finally found his outlet--while skating, he could be as hard on himself as he was on everyone around him. But it wasn't an easy ride to the top of the skating game. Fellow skaters mocked his skating style and dubbed him a circus skater. He was so skinny he had to wear elbow pads on his knees, and so light he had to ollie just to catch air off a ramp. He was so desperate to be accepted by young skating legends like Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, and Christian Hosoi that he ate gum from between Steve's toes. But a few years of determination and hard work paid off in multiple professional wins, and the skaters who once had mocked him were now trying to learn his tricks. Tony had created a new style of skating. In Hawk Tony goes behind the scenes of competitions, demos, and movies and shares the less glamorous demands of being a skateboarder--from skating on Italian TV wearing see-through plastic shorts to doing a demo in Brazil after throwing up for five days straight from food poisoning. He's dealt with teammates who lit themselves and other subjects on fire, driving down a freeway as the dashboard of their van burned. He's gone through the unpredictable ride of the skateboard industry during which, in the span of a few years, his annual income shrank to what he had made in a single month and then rebounded into seven figures. But Tony's greatest difficulty was dealing with the loss of his number one fan and supporter--his dad, Frank Hawk. With brutal honesty, Tony recalls the stories of love, loss, bad hairdos, embarrassing '80s clothes, and his determination that had shaped his life. As he takes a look back at his experiences with the skateboarding legends of the '70s, '80s, and '90s, including Stacy Peralta, Eddie Elguera, Lance Mountain, Mark Gonzalez, Bob Burnquist, and Colin Mckay, he tells the real history of skateboarding--and also what the future has in store for the sport and for him. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Dolphin Song Lauren St. John, 2008-05-01 The second exciting adventure in the dramatic Legend of the Animal Healer series! Martine is just getting used to her new life on the game reserve with her grandmother and the white giraffe, Jemmy, when she must go away. Her class is going on a trip?an ocean voyage to watch the sardine run, a spectacular natural phenomenon off the coast of South Africa. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Martine and several of her classmates are thrown overboard into shark-infested waters! They are saved by a pod of dolphins and end up marooned on a deserted island. Now the castaways must learn to work together, not only to survive but to help the dolphins who are now in peril. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Poor Little Stephen Girard Mark Twain, 1981 The narrator hopes to follow in the footsteps of an ambitious young boy who became a wealthy Philadelphia banker. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: The White Giraffe Lauren St John, 2010-05-14 The first book in the heart-warming White Giraffe series by Lauren St John, featuring the African adventures of Martine and her magical white giraffe. When tragedy strikes on a winter's night in England, Martine is sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa. Her wild, beautiful new home is riddled with secrets, but lonely Martine finds comfort in the legend of a white giraffe and in mysterious Grace, who believes Martine has a powerful gift. Defying her grandmother by entering the reserve alone, Martine is plunged into a world of danger, mystery and adventure. Who can she trust? And how far will she go to save the only friend she has ever known? |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: The Challenger Explosion Heather Adamson, 2006 Tells the story of Christa McAuliffe and the six other NASA astronauts who lost their lives in the Challenger space shuttle disaster on January 28, 1986. Written in graphic-novel format. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: My Name Is Maria Isabel Alma Flor Ada, 2009-12-15 A third grader realizes the importance of her name in this classic story of heritage and self-identity. For María Isabel Salazar López, the hardest thing about being the new girl in school is that the teacher doesn't call her by her real name. We already have two Marías in this class, says her teacher. Why don't we call you Mary instead? But María Isabel has been named for her Papá's mother and for Chabela, her beloved Puerto Rican grandmother. Can she find a way to make her teacher see that if she loses her name, she's lost the most important part of herself? |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: First Moon Landing Thomas K. Adamson, 2011-04 Recounts in graphic format, the story of the first moon landing in 1969. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Lou Gehrig David A. Adler, 1997 Designed for teachers to easily integrate career awareness into their daily lesson plans. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Chasing Vermeer (Scholastic Gold) Blue Balliett, 2012-12-01 Chasing Vermeer joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has stumped even the FBI? |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Thunder Ice Alison Acheson, 1996 In 1880, twelve-year-old cousins Oliver and Bert were once friends but are now in dispute, just like their two towns - Prince Arthur's Landing and Fort William. Their struggle, eventually successful, to understand and overcome their differences and disputes are not only realistically told, but forshadow the eventual joining of these two frontier towns into the modern city of Thunder Bay. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Does My Head Look Big in This? Randa Abdel-Fattah, 2014-05-01 Don't panic - I'm Islamic! Amal is a 16-year-old Melbourne teen with all the usual obsessions about boys, chocolate and Cosmo magazine. She's also a Muslim, struggling to honour the Islamic faith in a society that doesn't understand it. The story of her decision to shawl up is funny, surprising and touching by turns. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: The Babe & I David A. Adler, 1999 While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth. Full-color illustrations. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Song and Dance Man Karen Ackerman, 2013-01-30 A beautifully nostalgic picture book about one grandfather's younger days that shows you're only as old as you feel! In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes. Grandpa once danced on the vaudeville stage, and as he glides across the floor, the children can see what it was like to be a song and dance man. Gammell captures all the story's inherent joie de vivre with color pencil renderings that leap off the pages. Bespectacled, enthusiastic Grandpa clearly exudes the message that you're only as old as you feel, but the children respond--as will readers--to the nostalgia of the moment. Utterly original.--(starred) Booklist. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Defining Dulcie Paul Acampora, 2008-05-29 From a debut author comes a story of finding oneself in a place all too familiar. After Dulcie Morrigan Jones's dad dies, her mom decides they need to find a new life in California. But Dulcie doesn't understand what's wrong with her old life back in Newbury, Connecticut. So she heads across country and back home in her father's red 1968 Chevy pickup truck. When she arrives, she meets Roxanne, a girl whose home life makes Dulcie see that her own situation may not be all that bad after all. And as the summer comes to an end, Dulcie realizes that maybe it's necessary to leave a place in order to come back and find out who you really are. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema, 1986 Find out how Ki-pat the herd boy ended a dreadful drought. An enjoyable and vividly illustrated rhyming story. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Ghost Brother Carole S. Adler, 1992-09 Wishing to be like his older but dead brother, who often materializes to give Wally advice and support, Wally enters a skateboarding competition and finally gains the confidence to be himself. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Children of Flight Maria Armengol Acierno, 1994-01-01 Ten-year-old Maria and her younger brother Jose face an uncertain future as they arrive at the home of a Miami relative in 1961, sent by their wealthy parents to escape Fidel Castro's Cuba following the 1959 revolution. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: My Visit to the Aquarium Aliki, 1996-04 As only she can, Aliki brings the splendor of aquatic animals and their habitats to life in this dazzling picture book. Filled with amazing fish facts and brilliant full-page spreads, this is a visit to the aquarium that kids will want to make again and again. Full color. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Jose Canseco Nathan Aaseng, 1989 A biography emphasizing the career of the star outfielder of the Oakland Athletics. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Sports Great David Robinson Nathan Aaseng, 1998 As a youth David Robinson had little desire to play basketball. Robinson attended the U.S. Naval Academy so that he could further develop his talents for mathematics and electronics. While there, Robinson grew to seven feet tall and began to dominate basketball games. Since entering the NBA, Robinson has won almost every major award including Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Most Valuable Player. Much new information has been included in this revised edition. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: The Cat that was Left Behind Carole S. Adler, 1981 Chad doesn't think his new foster family will be any better than the others, but after getting to know them during a summer at the Cape and after meeting a stray cat, he begins to change his mind. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Circle of Gold Candy Dawson Boyd, 1984 Ten-year-old Mattie copes with the loss of her father and her mixed feelings towards her mother who is under pressure to support the family. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Sports Great John Stockton Nathan Aaseng, 1995 Most people still are not familiar with basketball's John Stockton of the Utah Jazz, one of the NBA's best-kept secrets. The life and career of the league's best passer are brought forth through anecdotes and quotes which bring the thrill of the sport to the reader. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Sports Great Michael Jordan Nathan Aaseng, 1997 Michael Jordan is one of the greatest professional basketball players ever and is a legend in his own time. This revised edition is updated to include the major events of Jordan's life since the book's original publication. Since then, Jordan has won an Olympic Gold Medal in Barcelona and three more NBA World Championships. Following the murder of his father, Jordan retired from the game. After a brief stint at a minor-league baseball player, Jordan made a triumphant return to the Chicago Bulls and is once again on top of the game. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Good-Bye and Hello Jennie Abbott, 2003-08-01 With rich content that captures children's imaginations and built-in reading and vocabulary instruction, your child will not only be learning, he'll be preparing for success while learning the responsibilities of citizenship at every grade level. Captivate your child with numerous colorful visuals and activities that will engage their interest in social studies. Connect, Experience, Understand Connecting is all about activating prior knowledge and jumpstarting your child's journey into social studies. Essential Questions help students see the âeoebig ideasâe theyâe(tm)re learning about, and activate prior knowledge. They allow students to engage in an active discussion of what they already know about the topic, but also encourage them to think further. Scott Foresman Social Studies offers a variety of ways for your child to think critically about key concepts so they actively experience the world they live in. Developing true understanding means that students donâe(tm)t simply memorize facts, dates, and places. It means taking what theyâe(tm)ve learned and transferring that knowledge to new content, situations, ideas, and to their own lives. The goal is to help students become successful learners who will remember not only what they have learned, but how to learn more!  |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Are You a Snail? Judy Allen, Tudor Humphries, 2000 This introduction to the world of the snail aims to bring this familiar, small creature sympathetically to life. Young children should be fascinated by this tiny life found just outside their back door. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Are You a Spider? Judy Allen, 2003-05-16 Did you know that when a spider's web is damaged, a spider will often eat the remaining silk before making a new one? Young children will make many amazing discoveries about spiders in the captivating Backyard Books: Are You a Spider? by Judy Allen with illustrations by Tudor Humphries. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Life in Ancient Rome Simon Adams, 2005-05-12 History comes alive in the tales of bloody battles and the ingenious inventions that continue to influence our lives today. This eye-opening book will serve as an unbeatable guide to Ancient Rome -- from its legendary origins to the eventual decline of the empire. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Love in Bloom Frank Schaffer Publications, Globe Fearon Educational Publishing, Jennie Abbott, 1987 Marcie must choose between two attractive men. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Are You a Ladybug? Judy Allen, Tudor Humphries, 2003-05-01 Introduces the life cycle of a ladybug, showing how it changes from an egg to an adult ladybug. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: My Thirteenth Winter Samantha Abeel, 2008-09-18 Samantha dreads school and begins having anxiety attacks. She finds the courage to confront her problems--and is diagnosed with a learning disability. Slowly, she discovers that she is stronger than she'd ever thought possible. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Who Comes with Cannons? Patricia Beatty, 1992-10-19 In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: That Horse Whiskey Carole S. Adler, 1994 Disappointed when her father cannot fulfill his promise of buying her a horse for her thirteenth birthday, Lainey throws her energy into training a neighbor's cantankerous horse, with whom she soon falls in love. |
| commonlit screen addiction answer key quizizz: Navajo Code Talkers Nathan Aaseng, 2002-03-01 Describes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language. |
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