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Ways to Invest Part 1 - Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds

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The Great 1929 Stock Market Crash Reflection

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The Great 1929 Stock Market Crash Reflection

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Trade Wars: A Look at the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

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Want to try investing? SMG InvestQuest is SIFMA Foundation's newest free, fun, and informative investing experience emphasizing diversification and long-term investing over a simulated 5-year period. Company-specific and market-wide news that may impact returns helps you manage a pretend portfolio of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, across beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.

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Shadows of 1929: Is the Trump economy on track for a crash?

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Mutual Funds Explained: A Smart Way to Grow Your Money

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Capitalism Explained Simply | Lemonade Stand Capitalism Explanation | Easy -to-understand Capitalism

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What the 1929 Stock Market Crash Can Teach Us About Markets Today

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Key Terms

Principal (P): Your initial deposit or current balance.

Rate (R): The annual interest rate (APR).

Time (T): The period in years.

Compounding Frequency (N): How often interest is calculated and added (e.g., daily, monthly, annually).

Simple Interest (Less Common for Savings)

Formula: Interest = P x R x T.

Example: $1,000 at 5% for 3 years = $1,000 x 0.05 x 3 = $150.

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I don't remember much, but it was good. I liked the ships, also, no one likes Quaker's. Kit was in the story, too.

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The book was excellent. I liked the drama. And I liked that Nat and Kit got together. I feel bad for Hannah, whose house was burnt down. I hate William and Judith, though.

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I loved it a lot, mostly because I liked how everybody got a happily-ever-after kinda thing and got together with the people they wanted to. I also liked that they found the cat and that Hannah was safe.

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I really liked the book. It was really good, and I liked it because of the storyline and what happened with Kit, Nat, Hannah, Mercy, and John.

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I liked how much drama and how she got out of the trials because of Prudence, and how Mrs Cruff was really mad.

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond Chapter Eight

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond Chapter Seven

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"That first night I was here," confessed Kit, "Judith said if only I had been a boy-"(Speare 81).

This moment marks a turning point for the household members. Why? Support your answer with an in-text quotation.

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond Chapter Five

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Question: There are several statements in Chapter Three that suggest the reader knows Kit came from a wealthy family. Using in-text citation, please write one sentence that indicates her wealth.

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Question: There are several statements in Chapter Three that suggest the reader knows Kit came from a wealthy family. Using in-text citation, please write one sentence that indicates her wealth.

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Example: "Water! For breakfast" (Speare 34)!

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Why Are More Than a Dozen Girls in Upstate New York Twitching?

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Last August, 16-year-old Lori Brownell passed out while head-banging at a concert. A month later, she lost consciousness again at her school’s…

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Anarchy is a state of disorder, lawlessness, and confusion that happens when there is no government or ruling authority to enforce rules and laws. The word comes from the Greek words "an" (without) and "arkhos" (leader), literally meaning "without a ruler". While sometimes used to describe a political philosophy of a stateless society, anarchy more often refers to chaos, disorder, and a lack of control in a society or group.

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Is the aunt going to be ok, or is she going to be used as an emotional torture??????????????

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What is the name of the little girl who dropped her toy?

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I wonder what Nat thinks of Kit, the way he is described confuses me what about ya'll?

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Why did she think her aunt would be there?

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Why did she get called a witch?

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Question: What connections are in the first two chapters of The Witch of Blackbird Pond to the Salem Witch Trials?

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Question: What connections are in the first two chapters of The Witch of Blackbird Pond to the Salem Witch Trials?

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Define the following terms in your notebooks:

Historical narrative

Bigotry

Puritan

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Question: What connections are in the first two chapters of The Witch of Blackbird Pond to the Salem Witch Trials?

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Who is the main character?

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Historical Narrative is the practice of writing history in a story-based form.

Bigotry is an unreasonable attachment to a belief or opinion about a group.

A puritan is someone having or displaying censorious moral beliefs.

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Historical Narrative is the practice of writing history in a story-based form.

Bigotry is an unreasonable attachment to an opinion about a group.

A Puritan is a person having or displaying censorious moral beliefs.

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historical narrative: a story about past events that combines factual accounts with interpretation and context to create a coherent understanding of history

bigotry: an obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, bigotry against a person or people based on their membership of a particular group.

puritan: a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th. very religious

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Historical narrative: narrative history in a story based form

bigotry: unreasonable prejudice of their membership of a particular of their groups

puritan: a member of a 16th and 17th-century Protestant movement in England that sought to "purify" the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices and create a more devout society based on their religious ideals

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historical narrative: a story about the past that presents events in a coherent, often chronological order, combining factual accounts with interpretation to explain the significance of what happened

Bigotry: obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

puritan: a member of a 16th and 17th-century Protestant movement in England that sought to "purify" the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices and create a more devout society based on their religious ideals

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Twinkl Teaching Resources - United States

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What are the Salem Witch Trials? for Kids | Twinkl USA

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History Brief: The Red Scare in the 1920s

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Communism Vs Socialism Vs Capitalism | What's the difference between Communism Socialism Capitalism?

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CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM & COMMUNISM EXPLAINED SIMPLY

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Kit Tyler surveys her new hometown with dismay: she left a vibrant, colorful Barbados community for a somber, Puritan New England town. Barbados, warm literally and figuratively, seems so far away from colonial Connecticut, which is cold literally and figuratively.

Colonial New England was a harsh place in which to eke out a living with its unforgiving climate and superstitious culture.  As Kit struggles to adapt to the rules and standards of the strict colony, she constantly makes mistakes and gets in trouble. Despite her desire to honor her uncle and aunt, she somehow manages to make things worse. The proverbial straw is her friendship with an old Quaker woman and her reading lessons for a young girl in the town.

Nearly 60 years after its first publication, The Witch of Blackbird Pond continues to delight new readers. The colonial setting is a draw for those studying early American history, but the themes of the book transcend its setting. Every community has moments where it lets superstition, gossip, and misunderstanding govern instead of kindness, rationality, and truth-telling.

Kit’s story is one many adolescents resonate with as she is caught between the unswerving obedience of childhood and the more mature decision-making of an adult. When is it right to disobey those in authority? to choose kindness? to stand up for your beliefs? How do we balance mercy and justice? These are questions we never really outgrow, and the Bible has much to say about them!

This is a terrific book to prompt thought-provoking discussions as well as to encourage us to look closely at history; we can learn a lot from the mistakes of those who’ve gone before.

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Retro Reads: *The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a modern classic: young Kit Tyler faces the questions all adolescents face even as she lives in colonial Connecticut.

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"The Witches: Salem 1692," Pulitzer Prize winning author reveals what's real

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The Salem Witch Trials, McCarthyism, and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible

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Edpuzzle video lesson. Make any video your lesson. Take a video and crop it, add your voice or embed questions at any point.

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Is the family starting to accept Kit? Please support your answer with one in-text MLA citation.  Also, rate your classmates' posts.

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Is the family starting to accept Kit? Please support your answer with one in-text MLA citation.  Also, rate your classmates' posts.

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Example: "Water! For breakfast" (Speare 34)!

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"Shame, Judith. The child tried her best, you know that" (Speare 49).

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"A five year old could do better. As if things weren't bad enough here in this house. If we had to have a cousin at all why couldn't it have been a boy" (Speare 49)?

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"A boy!" Rachel's answer was a long sigh. "Yes, a boy would have been different, that's true. Poor Matthew" (Speare 50)!

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"When Judith came to bed she was already under the covers, huddled far over to one side of the wide bed, her face hidden against a damp pillow" (Speare 50).

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50 Socratic Seminar Questions and How to Plan a Socratic Seminar

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A comprehensive list of 50 adaptable Socratic seminar questions for teachers looking to get started on this type of discussion in their classrooms.