Activity: Reading II

I got this wonderful book as an audiobook from this website https://librivox.org/.
I read the book in Arabic, and now I am going to listen to it in English.

Activity: Reading

This is a website that allows you to read an ebook by getting 

parts of it send to your email. I am really excited to read The 

Karamazov Brothers in English by this website because I 

loved it after I have read it in Arabic.

https://dailylit.com/book

Activity: Build your own low tech kit part 1: writing

I went to Walmart days ago, and I found out some low price writing technology tools that might help others. Here are they. 

Activity: AutoSummarize

I download Moby Dick Ch 1, and I tried to do an auto summary to it by Microsoft Word. Unfortunately, Microsoft had moved this feature from Office 2010, which I have on my computer. Therefore, I did the summary with 2 websites.

Moby Dick; or The Whale Chapter 1 summary by http://www.textcompactor.com/

and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. and this is the key to it all.

Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger. and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; "BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN."

Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces- though I cannot tell why this was exactly;

Moby Dick; or The Whale Chapter 1 summary by http://www.tools4noobs.com/summarize/

Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies- what is the one charm wanting?- Water- there is not a drop of water there! Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.

Activity: Make your own font

Activity: Creating Templates

This is a template I created to help who wants to take notes

Name:

Date:

Use this paper to help you write your wonderful notes about our lecture, but first answer this question.

What was our previse topic? And how is it linked to today’s topic?

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Activity: Re-paragraph for reading ease

Activity: Re-paragraph for reading ease

How something is written changes how it is read. In this activity you will first write a paragraph, then rewrite it to increase the reading ease.

1.     Write a content-based paragraph that you would use with your students.

2.     Copy the paragraph and then paste it to your page an additional four (4) times.

3.     Change paragraph #2 to a larger font (as appropriate to grade level).

4.     Change paragraph #3 to a cleaner font (san-serif based).

5.     Change paragraph #4 to increased spacing between the words.

6.     Run a readability analysis of paragraph #5

7.     Copy the results of the readability analysis (Alt-Print Screen) and paste the results below paragraph #5

8.     Use the Tools -> Language -> Thesaurus (or Shift F7) to change the text to make it simplified.

9.     Run a new readability analysis on the adjusted paragraph #5.

10.   Copy the results of the readability analysis (Alt-Print Screen) and paste the results below paragraph #5

1.     From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

2.     From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

3.    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

4.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

5.     From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It records the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing of any value in the world and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl, however, begins the man on a journey that re-instills a love for his fellow man.

2^nd readability analysis

spell checkers

Having spell checkers is something I highly support over not having them. English is not my first language. Therefore, I have been facing difficulties with spelling from the moment I started learning English. However, I see myself improving by time, and I think that one of the things that helped me the most was using spell checkers.
I understand that some people are afraid that using spell checkers might lead to lack of spelling in general; however, I think that is not true