Mid-Atlantic Appalachians Backpacking&Environmental Service Leaders
Are you ready to take a journey that will change your life? You won't look at day-to-day drama the same way after you've reached the top of a high mountain. Joining the journey changes you. Your crew, your instructor, and your adventures will have a lasting impact(影响)on you as you rise to meet thrilling natural challenges in some of the country's wildest places.
__________：Learn and practice wilderness, teamwork and leadership skills. Find connections with your crewmates based on support and respect (and fun too), and in the thick of challenges, discover there is more in you than you know.
Value strengths and strengthen values: Uncover your unique character strengths, develop your leadership abilities and learn how to let compassion(同情心)in to everyday life by pushing your own limits and working alongside those of your age.
Show mastery: As you gain confidence in new skills, take on more decision-making responsibilities. Work together to achieve team goals, solve problems and succeed both as individuals and as a group.
What you'll learn: For high school students, the opportunities to carry more weight and make impactful decisions with accompanying consequences fills the journey as you go through numerous trials and victories. It's all about independence.
After you come home, many of the character, leadership and service traits(特征)you uncovered on your journey stay with you, helping you plan and direct your daily life with more success.
START DATE:07/06/2020 END DATE:08/08/2020
AGE RANGE:16-18 COST:$3, 674(Life insurance is optional. )
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In this special school, Lisa Elder doesn't have a lesson plan or an attendance book. She does have her walkie-talkie(对讲机). When the hallways are secure and the teachers ready, the call comes over the radio: Students are on their way up.
Three teens, two boys and one girl, entered Elder's classroom. "Why don't you guys have a seat and I'll tell you what we're doing, "she tells them.
Today, they're going to cut out leaves from construction paper and write life skills on them:
"Patience. ""Hygiene(卫生)."
Then, Lisa notices a boy named Brandon. He's hunched(躬身)over his desk and he's got his fist against his chest-it's shaking. Lisa tries talking to him but gets no response.
It doesn't look like anything to me: just a boy who's not participating in class. But Elder has seen this behavior in his file, and she knows it's a warning sign.
She radios for backup:" Could I have a youth worker up in life skills?"
By the time the youth worker comes in, Brandon has turned his desk to face the back wall, and he's getting more and more agitated. He's still not responding.
"OK," she tells him. "Here are the choices: If you want to stay in my classroom and participate, I would love you to. I will do anything I can to help you. But if all you're going to do is turn your back and avoid everything people are asking of you, then I'm going to have you brought down to the office."
She pauses for a moment. "I would like you to make the better choice and stay with me."
That's not the choice Brandon makes. It's becoming clear: He could lose control at any moment.
Elder leaves the room, 20 minutes before class is over. As we walk down to the residential unit, she tells me, "So when I tell you that I don't know what the day is going to bring, that's a perfect example."
Most people who go on diets soon gain back any lost weight, a UCLA study suggests.
Traci Mann, PhD, associate professor of psychology at UCLA, was teaching a seminar on the psychology of eating when she noticed something odd(奇怪的) about diet studies. Few of the studies followed up on dieters for more than six months. Even fewer followed dieters for a year or more.
Mann wondered what, in the long term, really happens when people go on diets. So she and her students tracked down 31 studies that, one way or another, had at least one year of follow-up data. They were interested in just one number: the percentage of dieters who, over time, gain back more weight than they lose.
"We found that the average percentage of people who gained back more weight than they lost on diets was 41%," Mann tells WebMD. "In each of the studies, a third to two thirds of the subjects gained back more weight than they lost. "
Does this mean that most of the people in the studies actually lost weight and kept it off? No, Mann says.
"This is actually bleaker(更不乐观的)than it seems-even though most people would find that 41%number to be pretty depressing(令人沮丧的)," she says. "We have strong reasons to feel that this number underrepresents the true number of participants who gained back more weight than they lost."
Mann and her colleagues report their findings in the April issue of American Psychologist.
A decade ago, at the end of my first semester teaching at Wharton, a student stopped by for office hours. He sat down and burst into tears. My mind started cycling through a list of events that could make a college junior cry: His girlfriend had left him; he had been accused of plagiarism(剽窃). "I just got my first A-minus, "he said, his voice shaking.
Year after year, I watch in dismay(郁网) as students go all for straight A's. Some sacrifice their health; a few have even tried to sue(控告)their school after falling short. All hold the belief that top marks are a ticket to best graduate schools and high-paying job offers.
I was one of them. I started college with the goal of graduating with a 4. 0. It would be a reflection of my brainpower and willpower, revealing that I had the right stuff to succeed. But I was wrong.
The evidence is clear: Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the connection between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and unimportant within a handful of years. For example, at Google, once employees are two or three years out of college, their grades have no bearing on their performance. (Of course, it must be said that if you got D's, you probably didn't end up at Google.)
In a classic 1962 study, a team of psychologists tracked down America's most creative architects and compared them with their technically skilled but less original matches. One of the factors that distinguished the creative architects was a record of grades. "In college our creative architects earned about a B average, "Donald MacKinnon wrote. "In work and courses which caught their interest they could turn in an A performance, but in courses that failed to strike their imagination, they were quite willing to do no work at all. "
This might explain why Steve Jobs finished high school with a 2. 65 G. P. A. , J. K. Rowling graduated from the University of Exeter with roughly a C average, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. got only one A in his four years at Morehouse.
Language expresses our identity and reflects who we are, and who we want to be. Every time we speak, we give listeners information about ourselves and where we're from. When we travel around the United States we often hear people ask: Oh, are you from New York/Chicago/Texas? Their guesses might be based on our phonology(also called accent)or on our choice of particular vocabulary.
Interestingly, many of us consider our way of speaking to be neutral(无倾向性的). It's hard for us to hear features of our own speech that might be obvious to people who speak other dialects(方言). Language experts use the term dialect to mean" a variety shared by a group of speakers". Bus drivers, teachers, your neighbors, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and you(whether you know it or not)speak a dialect, too.
And why? The answer depends on who you are and where you live. We all recognize that some language sounds pleasant or correct or cool to us-and some sounds" uneducated" or just plain bad.
Learning what we feel about language is important to society for a number of reasons. Often, children who speak non-standard dialects may be inaccurately classified as" not knowing much English "or even" having a speech defect(缺陷)", with terrible consequences for them. Or people who regularly mix words or phrases from more than one language within sentences are thought to be unable to speak the languages very well. (But usually the opposite is true.)
Studying language helps us learn about the remarkable resources of the human brain. It also helps us examine a form of social stereotyping we may not have been aware existed.
A. There are also many other reasons.
B. Or at least, where are you from?
C. It helps us learn more about social organization.
D. Clearly, they know everything about us.
E. With so many dialects, which one is the best?
F. By this definition, everyone speaks a dialect.
G. But one person's thumbs down is another's thumbs up.
Lisa is a world-class speaking coach now, but even she didn't know she had a voice once. It was 1 when she first started out. At school, she was2 every day. At one point, a classmate told her that she was "God's 3".
She auditioned(试演)to be in Charlie' s Angel and the Bionic Woman, but she was4, though she won every event in the 5. Since then, for the next 15 years, Lisa6 herself, "Why am I here? Why me this skin?" And she dealt with 7self-respect problems. She sat inside self-blame and 8 and tried her best to prove that she was9enough.
Her day came when she received a10applause from an audience of 15, 000 people after her poem recital(朗诵会)at church-one of the11 being TV's Bionic Woman, Lindsay Wagner. Lindsay told her, "Sweetheart, I'm 12 in Hollywood. You with your journey, you are the 13Bionic Woman. "
It was then that Lisa realized, the14was not in trying to find validation(验证)in others-it was in 15. Though it took her 15 years to learn this, it was a journey she had to16. And because of that journey, her 17became so much more powerful.
Each of us has a voice. But how many times have you 18your brilliant ideas? Your voice makes a 19-and you don't have to wait to get on a stage to use your voice. What do you 20wish you could share with the world? Be brave and speak your voice!
The one-week event, which started on October 28th, was held on a farm in Guangdong Province. After an(hour) drive, about 500 students arrived the countryside and began to live, eat and work with the local people.
"It was my first time to be here, "said Huang Ziteng, 16."I was afraid that the living conditions might not be (comfort) for me. "However, the fresh air changed his mind, and he quickly (throw) himself into hands-on work in the fields. A whole afternoon, he harvested crops, tied them up and moved them to a warehouse (仓库)"I now understand far it travels from the farm to the plate. I'll cherish food and (absolute) not be too picky(挑剔的)about it anymore," he said.
But the outdoor experience was not all about hardship. (live) in a quiet village was a real pleasure as well. "Escaping from the electronic world, I could have great time with my friends, "said Pei Fangzhou, a 16-year-old girl.
Farming(activity) have become a required course in Chinese schools. Students(encourage)to practice on farms so they can develop more hands-on skills that highlight the value of labor.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
There are many important people in my life, and one of they I'll never forget.
I met him the last summer. He, about twelve years old, short and sun-burnt. He was selling balloons on the sideway when I met him. I was curiously and asked him," Why do you do business at such a young age?" He said he was not doing business but raised money. He wants to donate the money to the poor villages there children needed help. I was surprised and ashamed. I bought much balloons from him and asked him to keep the changes. I should learn from him to being a helpful person.
1）整体介绍；
2）推荐几种美食；
3）其他信息。
注意：
1）词数100左右；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom,
Yours,
Li Hua
