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Health and Family Life Education - Introduction | Grade 7

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This is likely the first time that you have taken a class on H.F.L.E, and you might be wondering what it's all about. H.F.L.E stands for Health and Family Life Education, and it is my goal as an H.F.L.E teacher to help you master life skills - skills that you will need now, and skills that you will need when you become an adult. These "Skills" that I am talking about aren't what you usually think of when you hear that word, instead I will teach you how to:  go about dealing with and solving the problems in your life.  think critically and filter out wrong information. manage your feelings (stress, depression, attraction, jealousy) understand yourself as an individual and care for your body. negotiate and communicate with people. care for the environment and use resources responsibly. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines life skills as: "abilities which help us to adapt and behave positively so that we can deal effectively with the challenges of everyday li...

Assonance & Alliteration | Week 5, Lesson 3 | Grade 9

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  Assonance and Alliteration are two features of language that writers, especially poets, use.  They are meant to engage a reader’s auditory (i.e, listening) skills while also making the writing they are used in sound musical and fun to read. Assonance and Alliteration are mainly different in terms of what letter type is repeated and where.  Since poetry and prose use them heavily, they can be a little hard to distinguish to most people. What is Alliteration? Alliteration is a literary style that deals with the repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds. (All letters of the Alphabet, other than Vowels, are consonants) It makes a line fun to read and usually repeats the consonant sounds in a word, usually in the beginning those words, but may occur at any point. You may be familiar with this famous example of Alliteration from the old tongue-twister "Peter the piper".   E.g #1 - " P eter p iper p icked a p epper; p ut it in a p epper p ot", is the Guyanese ...