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Interview an ELL instructor from a Title I school about how assessment is used for placement. You may interview one of the instructors that you have observed during your observations for this course. Inquire also about how placement is determined for both special education and gifted ELLs. Your questions might include (but should not be limited to) the following:

1.What are the indicators of exceptionality a classroom teacher should look for when a student also has a language barrier?

2.How can informal as well as formal assessment results factor into placement?

3.What role do parents and teachers have in placement?

4.What are some primary factors that are exhibited in underachievement that may not necessarily signal special education needs?

5.How are changes among individual ELL proficiency levels over the course of the school year accounted for?

6.How are diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments integrated for ELLs in mainstream classrooms?

7.What are the benefits of the SIOP protocol for native English speakers as well as those for whom English is an additional language?

 

Consolidate your findings in a 750-word essay, supporting your findings with at least three current sources from your readings and the GCU library to support your reasoning.

 

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

 

This assignment uses a grading rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Prepare a 3 – 4 page double-spaced paper that evaluates and recommends distribution channels, pricing, and competitive differentiation. Support your discussion with three academic sources, which may include your textbook, and/or credible business journals such as Barrons, Wall Street Journal and Business Week. Your analysis should include:

Distribution Channels:

• Identify two (2) or more potential distribution channels for your product or service, and discuss three (3) advantages and three (3) disadvantages of each channel; support your analysis with two or more academic sources. Select and justify which channel is best and why.

• Discuss how you would use e-business to support and enhance your chosen channel. Be specific as to what you would do and how you would do it; support your analysis with data.

Pricing:

• Describe why your product or service is price sensitive or price insensitive • Identify and discuss three (3) factors that would influence how to set the price for your product or service, and recommend a competitive pricing structure supporting your analysis with data.

Competition:

• Discuss how the distribution channel, e-business and pricing strategy will differentiate your product or service from your closest competitor; be specific supporting your analysis with data.

MPR professionals need to persuade connectors to use their message. It must be positioned as newsworthy. Common themes defining newsworthiness often include the following:

• Firsts
• Trends
• Local, quirky personalities
• The underdog
• Impact on the audience
• Something of an unusual nature

Part 1: Pre-Pitch 

Using one of the companies that you began developing in the Unit 2 Individual Project, create a story that you wish to shop to a media outlet. Use the following guidelines:

• Provide a brief overview of the company.
• Describe the media outlet being pitched. Include information on its target audience (the media outlet must be real).

Part 1 of the Individual Project should be 1 page in length. Be sure to cite your resources.

Part 2: Writing an Effective Pitch Letter 

• Write the pitch letter, which should include the following:
  • An attention-grabbing opening
  • The “hook”
  • Background information supporting the pitch
  • Support materials
  • The action step

Part 2 of the Individual Project should be 2 1/2 pages in length. Be sure to cite your resources.

Part 3: Follow-up and Other Considerations 

• Describe your follow-up plan.
• Discuss the special considerations for pitching a blogger.

Part 3 of the Individual Project should be 1 1/2 pages in length. Be sure to cite your resources.

Your assignment should contain a cover page, an abstract page, and a reference page in addition to the body. The body of the paper should be 5 pages, starting with a brief 1-paragraph introduction and ending with a short conclusion. The entire submission will be 8–10 pages in length.

Please submit your assignment as a Word document in APA format using the attached TEMPLATE. 

Notice that the grading criteria components match up with the headings provided in the template. Do NOT change the font, page breaks, or margins. Using the template without deleting the headings ensures that you cover each segment of the assignment.

Both Stalingrad and D-Day have been called turning points of WWII, one on the eastern front, and one on the western front. First, in about 4 slides, describe and explain if you agree with this assessment, and then, in about 2 slides, identify which battle you think is more significant to the outcome of the war. Defend your answer with specific examples while also evaluating and explaining how and why the battle you chose was more important.

This discussion focuses on the importance of branding. As Winer (2012) suggests, if you are dissatisfied with the present position, the brand needs to be repositioned and the value proposition may need to be changed.

Topic 1:

Over the years, many famous brands have been repositioned. Some include KFC, Friendly’s, Radio Shack and JC Penny. Using the online library or other scholarly resources, give several examples of brands that have been recently repositioned. How has this been implemented and for what reason?

Topic 2:

Being up to date with current events is an important part of becoming a business professional. In marketing, it is part of an important responsibility to continuously scan the external environment for opportunities and threats.

 

THIS IS NOT A PROJECT, BUT A DISCUSSION POST wtih CITED WORK (500 words min). NO TITLE PAGE.

The Pre-Solicitation Notice” Please respond to the following:

•  Analyze the importance of the pre-solicitation notice to the success or failure of the contracting process. Speculate on the consequence of a contracting process without the employment of the pre-solicitation notice.
• Recommend at least three approaches in which the pre-solicitation notice process could be improved to better assist first-time contract bidders. Support your recommendation

Instructions: Complete this worksheet using the information you read in the assigned readings for this week, including Figure 1.1 in Ch. 1 and Hurricane Katrina Case Study of Writing for the Government.

 

1) Define the term cultural context. Why it is important to understand thecultural context of communications intended for a particular audience?

 

 

2) Define the term rhetoric. What rhetorical elements should be considered when developing persuasive communications?

 

 

3) Define the term stakeholders. What are some examples of questions that may be asked as a means to identify stakeholders?

 

 

4) Define the terms expert audience and nonexpert audience. What are some of the implications for communications for these two different audiences?

 

 

5) Define the term purpose as it relates to written and verbal communications. What information helps in determining the purpose?

 

 

 

6) Define the terms discourse conventions and discourse community. What information helps in determining the appropriate communication standard?

 

 

7) Define the term style as it relates to written and verbal communications. How might organizations maintain consistency in their communications written by different authors? Why is it important to maintain consistency?

 

 

8) Define the term ethos as it relates to an author of written and verbal communications. Why is it important to consider the author’s ethos in consensus building and when developing communications that seek public input?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9) Define diversity consciousness. Why should diversity consciousness be considered during the development of written and verbal communications?

 

 

10) Define diversity skills. What are some examples of diversityskills?

Instructions: Complete this worksheet using the information you read in the assigned readings for this week, including Figure 1.1 in Ch. 1 and Hurricane Katrina Case Study of Writing for the Government.

 

1) Define the term cultural context. Why it is important to understand thecultural context of communications intended for a particular audience?

 

 

2) Define the term rhetoric. What rhetorical elements should be considered when developing persuasive communications?

 

 

3) Define the term stakeholders. What are some examples of questions that may be asked as a means to identify stakeholders?

 

 

4) Define the terms expert audience and nonexpert audience. What are some of the implications for communications for these two different audiences?

 

 

5) Define the term purpose as it relates to written and verbal communications. What information helps in determining the purpose?

 

 

 

6) Define the terms discourse conventions and discourse community. What information helps in determining the appropriate communication standard?

 

 

7) Define the term style as it relates to written and verbal communications. How might organizations maintain consistency in their communications written by different authors? Why is it important to maintain consistency?

 

 

8) Define the term ethos as it relates to an author of written and verbal communications. Why is it important to consider the author’s ethos in consensus building and when developing communications that seek public input?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9) Define diversity consciousness. Why should diversity consciousness be considered during the development of written and verbal communications?

 

 

10) Define diversity skills. What are some examples of diversityskills?

The Project Paper focuses on a suggested topic related to art, architecture, history, music, or literature. The project will reflect your views and interpretation of the topic. This project is designed to help you stretch your mind and your abilities to be the creative, innovative, and critical thinker you already are!

 

Choose one (1) of the topics from the list of topic choices below. Read the topic carefully. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper (750-1,000 words) that responds to each of the items described in the topic.

 

For the topic you choose:

 

1. Support your ideas with specific, illustrative examples. If there are questions or points associated with your chosen topic, be sure to answer all of the listed questions and address all of the items in that topic. If your topic asks you to do several things related to the topic, be sure to do each of the things listed.
2. While some of the topics tend to lend themselves toward particular writing genres, you are not restricted to the specific format suggested for the individual topic. For example, you may do an “interview,” a “proposal,” a “letter,” a “short story,” a “blog,” an “essay,” an “article,” or any other written genre for almost any of the topics. The project is intended to be fun as well as informative, so feel free to be creative with the delivery of your information.
3. Use at least three (3) good quality academic sources, with one (1) source being the class text.

   Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources. You are highly encouraged to use the Resource Center tab at the top of your Blackboard page.

 

Note:  Your instructor may require you to submit your topic choice for approval before the end of Week 5.

 

Topic choices (pick 1):

 

• Office Art Memo. Memorandum. Your boss, who knows you have been taking a humanities class since he pays for your tuition reimbursement, has tasked you with managing the art budget for your company, expecting you to choose various pieces of art for the new corporate offices.  (Note: Replicas of the works are acceptable since they are more cost-efficient and you are working on a budget.)  Include the following:

1. Identify three (3) examples of 19th century Impressionist painting or sculpture and three (3) Post-Impressionist works. Explain how the six (6) pieces of art fall into these two (2) styles.
2. In a memo, describe the appearance of your six (6) choices to your CEO so he or she will know what the art looks like and where it would be placed in the corporate offices.
3. Explain why each piece is considered to be historically significant.
4. Explain how each piece “fits” your company’s overall (or desired) corporate image. Keep in mind that a piece of art is supposed to “say” something about the owner, so describe what would these pieces of art say about your company.

 

• New Composition. Speech. Your uncle’s birthday is in two (2) months, and everyone knows that he loves almost all kinds of music. As a birthday gift for him, you want to have a special piece of music composed in his honor which will be played at a family birthday celebration. Write a speech that you will make to the composer’s agent. Include the following:

1. Narrow your choices down to three (3) composers you’ve studied in this course. Choose one (1) of the composers and explain why you want him to write the “birthday present” music.
2. Explain why the other two (2) composers were ultimately not selected.
3. Specifically identify the musical elements in the composer’s style that you would like to be included in the new music written for your uncle.
4. Describe what sort of emotion is generated by listening to the works of your selected composer; in other words, what do you want your uncle to “feel” as he hears the music, and why is this composer so perfect for this composition?

 

• Harlem Renaissance Poets. Essay & Poem. Choose two (2) poems by different authors from the Harlem Renaissance. Write an essay that:

1. Describes each author’s role and importance within the Harlem Renaissance.
2. Identify the elements in each of their poems in which you see evidence of the “double-consciousness” being expressed by each author.
3. Fully describe at least two (2) primary themes you see in the poetry written during this time period, referring to specific lines in each of the poems.
4. Write your own poem that expresses these identified themes of the Harlem Renaissance.

 

• Women’s Roles Then & Now.Script. Script a conversation between two (2) notable women from the 18th and / or 19th century on the roles women should play in society. Within the dialogue, include:

1. Biographical information for each woman.
2. The historical status for women in general during the time period in which each woman lived.
3. What opinions each of the women might have on the role the women should play in society during their lifetimes.
4. What each of the women might think about women’s current roles.

 

• Other topic choice recommended and approved by the professor and supported by the grading rubric.

 

The Project Paper will be graded on:

 

• The level to which the instructions were followed.

 

• The extent to which all four (4) parts in the topic were addressed.

 

• The adequacy of information, examples, and details which support the general claim or main  idea.

 

• The clarity and relevance of the explanations and descriptions.

 

• Adherence to standard rules of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

 

• The inclusion of three (3) required references (two [2] additional sources besides your textbook) documented using APA style.

 

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions specific to the selected topic. (Note: Students can find APA style materials located in the Additional Resources section of their Student Center within their course shell for reference)

 

• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic contributions contribute to historical changes.

 

• Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.

 

• Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.

 

• Identify major historical developments in world cultures from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.

 

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.

 

• Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics.

eople often take shortcuts in problem solving and quickly arrive at answers. Known as heuristics, these shortcuts may increase the speed of decisions but may also decrease the accuracy of those decisions. The experiment used in this assignment deals with inaccurate decisions based on the conjunction fallacy, where people think the chance of two events happening at the same time is greater than just one event occurring. However, the chance of one event occurring is greater than two events occurring; hence, the fallacy.

Access the CogLab demonstration Typical Reasoning. Follow the instructions to complete the demonstration. Next, answer the following questions:

• For this demonstration, on average, do participants give higher ratings for single events or conjunctions of events? Based on the demonstration results, did you make your judgments by using objective probabilities? Why or why not?
• What is a stereotype? How do stereotypes relate to the findings of this demonstration?
• Respond to the following two situations:
  • You and two of your coworkers have just interviewed a candidate for a job opening at your law firm. Your boss asks you what inferences you made about the candidate during the interview. What can you do to maximize your likelihood of making a correct inference?
  • John is a young, energetic, muscular, and outgoing individual. Estimate the following for him:
    • • He is tall and likes sports
      • He is tall, likes sports, and has lots of friends

Write your initial response in 4–5 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to