High School Improvisation

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Michael Grace
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Jazz Improvisation ◽  
Sequential Process ◽  
Active Process ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Guiding Principle

What is the essence of jazz improvisation? Performing jazz musicians will answer in many ways, but there is one guiding principle, which is widely accepted, especially when teaching beginners: express the tonality of the piece. Tonality includes the basic key, and any other keys in the composition, and the chords within those keys, which need to be addressed in a recognizably tonal fashion. The active process of improvisation is tonicization. To tonicize a piece with improvisation is to play closely related scale tones, chord tones, and melodic and harmonic structures which amplify those chord progressions and express the form of the composition. This chapter outlines a sequential process whereby jazz teachers can provide students with the tools to successfully express the tonality of compositions that use II min7 → V7 → I Maj7 (II-7 V7 I∆7) chord changes and their alterations with major, minor, dominant, bebop scales and chord tones. Exercises for learning these scales and chord tones are presented, as well as a step-by-step process for showing students how to apply those scales, chord tones, and bebop permutations appropriately to II-7 V7 I∆7 chord progressions and 12-bar blues progressions with increasing levels of sophistication.

Sex-Typing of Tasks and Occupations

1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 696-698
Author(s):  
Mary F. Chewning ◽  
William E. Walker
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Students ◽  
Sex Typing ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Males And Females

A Task Index and an Occupations Index were each generated in a three-step process including general solicitation of tasks and occupations, solicitation of specific tasks and occupations, solicitation of specific tasks and occupations associated with one of the sexes more often than the other, and validation of the sex-relatedness of these same tasks and occupations. Means for each sex as well as for separate administrations which utilized different sets of directions provide an objective sex-related value for each item. Generally males and females ( n = 300 college students, 150 high school students) adopted similar values whether asked for expectation of performance or association on the Tasks Index or for desirability or qualifications on the Occupations Index.

Water Bears & Pillbugs: Two Invertebrate Models That Offer Authentic Opportunities to Explore Research Methods in Biology

2010 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 345-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwynne S Rife
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
Research Cycle ◽  
Invertebrate Models ◽  
Water Bears

Biological research entails myriad techniques and considerations for proper experimental design and data collection. The duality of field-based research techniques and laboratory protocols makes introducing this topic to high school and undergraduate college students a challenge. Two invertebrate models that serve as wonderful tools to support an inquiry process to balance techniques in the field and in the laboratory are terrestrial isopods and water bears. Both are easy to collect and rear, are relatively little-known species, and offer the chance for students to work directly with aspects of natural history, ecology, and biology. The 10-step process presented here offers an outline to follow in guiding students through a research cycle in the course of a semester (16 weeks).

Etching Process of Al Oxide on Si Surface with HF Treatment

1997 ◽  
Vol 492 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Hoshino ◽  
Y. Nishioka
Keyword(s):  
Potential Energy ◽  
Ab Initio ◽  
Reaction Path ◽  
Theoretical Calculations ◽  
Sequential Process ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Etching Mechanism ◽  
One Step ◽  
Probable Reaction ◽  
Al Oxide

ABSTRACTab initio theoretical calculations have been performed to reveal the etching mechanism of HF with Al metal oxide on Si surfaces. The following sequential process has been revealed to be the most probable reaction path. HF + AlO-Si surface → HO-Si surface + AlF (1), HF + HO-Si surface → F-Si surface + H2O (1'). Both of the reactions have potential energy barriers of 0.8∼1.0eV, and are exothermic by 0.3 and l. leV, respectively. Another reaction path that proceeds with one-step process, HF + AlO-Si surface → F-Si surface + AlOH (2), is also found to be probable for AlO etching.

scholarly journals Descriptive Analyses on English Test Items based on the Application of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Imanuel Kamlasi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Bloom's Taxonomy ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Active Process ◽  
Test Sheet ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy ◽  
Bloom’S Taxonomy ◽  
Wh Questions

<p>This investigation analyzed the English test items based on the application of revised Bloom’s taxonomy. This study was categorized as descriptive qualitative research. The instrument of this study was English test sheet which was used in final semester test in senior high school. In analyzing the data; the researchers applied four steps: codifying; classifying; analyzing and discussing. Anderson, et.al. (2001) revised the Bloom’s Taxonomy that thinking is an active process<strong> </strong>so verbs were used rather than nouns. The findings showed that remembering taxonomy made 22 items or 44%. Understanding taxonomy presented 2 items or 4%. Applying taxonomy made 21 items or 42%. Analyzing taxonomy made 5 items or 10%. While there was no item found in both evaluating and creating taxonomy. Therefore; creating taxonomy was not used to ask the students in the English test. Regarding to the findings of this investigation; teachers need to distribute the revised Bloom’s taxonomy in constructing test items. Furthermore; teachers need to use WH questions in the test items.</p>

Cosmetology treatments on human hair: An SEM study

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 940-941
Author(s):  
D.F. Bowling
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Human Hair ◽  
Optical Microscope ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Brightness Contrast ◽  
Sem Study

High school cosmetology students study the methods and effects of various human hair treatments, including permanents, straightening, conditioning, coloring and cutting. Although they are provided with textbook examples of overtreatment and numerous hair disorders and diseases, a view of an individual hair at the high resolution offered by an SEM provides convincing evidence of the hair‘s altered structure. Magnifications up to 2000X provide dramatic differences in perspective. A good quality classroom optical microscope can be very informative at lower resolutions.Students in a cosmetology class are initially split into two groups. One group is taught basic controls on the SEM (focus, magnification, brightness, contrast, specimen X, Y, and Z axis movements). A healthy, untreated piece of hair is initially examined on the SEM The second group cements a piece of their own hair on a stub. The samples are dryed quickly using heat or vacuum while the groups trade places and activities.

Mechanisms of ethylene biosynthesis and response in plants

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul B. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Plant Growth ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Ethylene Biosynthesis ◽  
Unsaturated Hydrocarbon ◽  
Flower Senescence ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Plant Growth And Development ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Ethylene Response ◽  
Ethylene Signalling

Ethylene is the simplest unsaturated hydrocarbon, yet it has profound effects on plant growth and development, including many agriculturally important phenomena. Analysis of the mechanisms underlying ethylene biosynthesis and signalling have resulted in the elucidation of multistep mechanisms which at first glance appear simple, but in fact represent several levels of control to tightly regulate the level of production and response. Ethylene biosynthesis represents a two-step process that is regulated at both the transcriptional and post-translational levels, thus enabling plants to control the amount of ethylene produced with regard to promotion of responses such as climacteric flower senescence and fruit ripening. Ethylene production subsequently results in activation of the ethylene response, as ethylene accumulation will trigger the ethylene signalling pathway to activate ethylene-dependent transcription for promotion of the response and for resetting the pathway. A more detailed knowledge of the mechanisms underlying biosynthesis and the ethylene response will ultimately enable new approaches to be developed for control of the initiation and progression of ethylene-dependent developmental processes, many of which are of horticultural significance.

Articulatory Intervention for the Visually Impaired

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
Cheri L. Florance ◽  
Judith O’Keefe
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
School Students ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Paired Stimuli ◽  
Visually Handicapped ◽  
Parent Program

A modification of the Paired-Stimuli Parent Program (Florance, 1977) was adapted for the treatment of articulatory errors of visually handicapped children. Blind high school students served as clinical aides. A discussion of treatment methodology, and the results of administrating the program to 32 children, including a two-year follow-up evaluation to measure permanence of behavior change, is presented.

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