IDEA requires that special education students be provided free and appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE). Special education teachers are among the decision-makers who identify what is the most appropriate, least restrictive educational environment for each student for whom an Individualized Education Program (IEP) is developed. It is important that special education teachers be aware of the benefits and restrictions of each type of placement setting and know how to provide an individualized, effective education for students with disabilities.

Part 1: Graphic Organizer

Create a graphic organizer outlining the following five placement settings inside and outside of the school setting: inclusion/push-in services, pull-out/resource services, self-contained services, special day school, and residential settings. For each placement setting, provide evidence for how that placement can support students with mild to moderate disabilities including possible accommodations and modifications. Include the possible benefits and drawbacks of each placement setting.

Part 2: Essay

Write a 1,000-1,250 word essay regarding the FAPE requirement of IDEA. Include the following in your essay:

• Based on FAPE, discuss how the LRE should be appropriate in meeting student needs and following legislative guidelines.
• Discuss the factors that should be used to determine the appropriate placement in the LRE, including student behavior, for students with disabilities to ensure they receive a free and appropriate public education.
• Explain reasonable accommodations and modifications that could help students with exceptionalities be successful in each LRE setting identified in Part 1, including justifications for why they are appropriate for that setting.
• Discuss how a student might move through a continuum of placements (inclusion/push-in services, pull-out/resource services, self-contained services, special day school, and residential settings) to best meet their needs and level of support.

Support your findings with 3-5 scholarly resources.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

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

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite Technical Support Articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Tasks summary:

Task1: Write essay analyzing the task of preparing for and participating in an Open House event, including defining all steps, ordering steps, modeling procedures, reflecting on practice outcomes, considering obstacles (diverse groups, technology, translations), and describing benefits for classroom management. 1000 words, APA-style, use at least 3 sources. Attached are the prompts.

Task 2: Design a blueprint of your ideal classroom arrangement (using Microsoft Office templates, Visio, or similar) that reflects your philosophy of classroom management and student engagement, and write paper explaining the strategy behind the seating arrangement and how it is conducive to student engagement. 250 written words plus a blueprint as mentioned.

ATTACHED:-tasks

Please attach a separate file for task 1 and 2 files for task 2.

Tasks summary:

Task1: Write essay analyzing the task of preparing for and participating in an Open House event, including defining all steps, ordering steps, modeling procedures, reflecting on practice outcomes, considering obstacles (diverse groups, technology, translations), and describing benefits for classroom management. 1000 words, APA-style, use at least 3 sources. Attached are the prompts.

Task 2: Design a blueprint of your ideal classroom arrangement (using Microsoft Office templates, Visio, or similar) that reflects your philosophy of classroom management and student engagement, and write paper explaining the strategy behind the seating arrangement and how it is conducive to student engagement. 250 written words plus a blueprint as mentioned.

ATTACHED:-tasks

Please attach a separate file for task 1 and 2 files for task 2.

no AI influence, I had attached assignment 2 for reference to help with full paper. And the necessary info to write paper please let me know if you need more info.

you did the first part

Part # 2

At this point, everyone should have chosen their topic and sacred text. If you have changed your mind, that’s just fine! Just let me know in this assignment and proceed with your new topic/text.

Hopefully you have all started looking for translations of your sacred text as well as a few academic sources that discuss your topic or text.

For this assignment, you will need to submit a list of 2 academic sources that that will help you to better understand your chosen topic in the religious tradition you have chosen, or the sacred text in general. For example, if you are writing about “women” in the Jewish Tanakh, you could find a book/article that discusses women in Judaism in general, women in the Tanakh, or just about the Tanakh in general. What is most important is finding a source (book, article, or website) that is reputable and reliable! There is so much misinformation on the internet, it is really important that we know how to search for information that is objective, academic, and trustworthy.

Your source can be:

1. A book about your topic, religion, or text. I recommend utilizing the Grossmont College Library to assist in your search.

You can also utilize the San Diego Library to look for books on your tradition:

2. You could use a news article that discusses your topic, religion, or sacred text (newspaper article, magazine article – found via print sources or online). Make sure that you are using a reputable news source! If you are not sure, do some research to see who publishes/writes the periodical you are looking at.

3. An educational website – this is where you need to be careful! In general, the best sites are going to have a .edu or .org website – other websites are acceptable, but you need to make sure that this is a RELIABLE source.

For your assignment, please list the 2 sources along with the two translations of your sacred text (including the link to the website if you found them online) formatted in correct APA or MLA format. For help with formatting, please utilize a website (such as ) that will format your sources for you!

For each of your two academic sources, please include a few sentences about 1) what you learned about your topic from the source and 2) why you think it is a reliable source.

Overview of Judaism

1. Who was Abraham? And when did he live?
2. What is the covenant in Judaism? And what are the terms of this covenant?
3. What are the Three Phases of Jewish History? (list 3)
4. What are some core Jewish concepts? (list 4)

Jewish Scriptures

1. What is the Tanakh?
2. What are the sections of the Tanakh? (list 3)
3. What is the Talmud?
4. What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Torah

1. What is the Pentateuch?
2. What are the five books of the Pentateuch?
3. When was the Torah written?
4. When was it canonized?
5. What is the content of the Torah?

Documentary Hypothesis

1. According to the traditional Judaism, who wrote the Torah?
2. Why did some Biblical scholars begin to question whether Moses was the sole author of the Torah?
3. What is a couplet in the Torah?
4. Who are the four authors of the Documentary Hypothesis? (list 4)
5. What are the two Genesis creation stories? And who are the potential authors?

The Talmud

1. When was the Second Temple destroyed? And how does that influence the development of Judaism?
2. Who were the Sadducees? And how did they influence the development of the Talmud?
3. What is the Mishnah?
4. What are the Six Parts of Talmud?

The Talmud

1. What is on a page of the Talmud in Hebrew?
2. How is Talmud Study done?

The Dead Sea Scrolls

1. When and where were these scrolls discovered?
2. How many Dead Sea Scrolls are there?
3. Who likely wrote them?
4. What does this show us about Judaism at the time they were written?
5. Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so important for Biblical scholars?

Christian Scriptures Guided Lecture Notes

Introduction to Christianity

1. Who does the Christian tradition begin with? When does he live?
2. What do we know about Jesus of Nazareth?
3. Who and what did his followers (before and after his death) believe about Jesus identity?
4. How did the Christian tradition change over the course of the first 400 years of its existence?

Introduction to Christian Scriptures

1. What are the two main sections of the Christian Bible and what does each section contain? (list 2)

Canonization of the Christian Bible

1. When were the texts of the New Testament written?
2. What writings did the first Christians use?
3. What does Irenaeus say about what texts should be considered sacred?
4. What does Athanasius say about the canon of the New Testament?
5. What is decided at the Councils of Hippo and Carthage?

Versions and Translations

1. What are the main versions of the Christian Bible? (list 3)
2. What languages were the Biblical texts originally written in?
3. What is the next language it is translated into? When was it translated and by whom?
4. What were the first English translations? Who translated them and what happened to them?
5. What was the first German translation? Who translated it?
6. What invention occurred around this time that helped spread this and other vernacular translations of the Bible?
7. Today, how many languages is the Bible translated into?

The Gospels

1. What is a gospel?
2. When was Mark written and what are some characteristic features of it?
3. When was Matthew written and what are some characteristic features of it?
4. When was Luke written and what are some characteristic features of it?
5. What are the Synoptic Gospels?
6. What is the two-source hypothesis?
7. What is Q?
8. When was John written and what are some unique features of it?

Book of Acts

1. Whose acts are described in the Book of Acts?
2. Who wrote the Book of Acts? How do we know this?
3. How does the Book of Acts start?
4. Whose conversion does it describe? How does it describe this conversion?
5. Whose mission to the Gentiles does it describe? What are Gentiles?
6. Where does Paul travel to on these missions?
7. Why is there tension between Jewish and Gentile Christians at this point? How does the Council of Jerusalem attempt to resolve it?

The Epistles

1. What does epistle mean? Who wrote the majority of the epistles in the New Testament?
2. Why are these epistles important? And what are some important characteristics about them?
3. What are the Catholic letters? What does the word Catholic mean?

Book of Revelation

1. What does the word apocalypse mean and why is it used to describe this text?
2. Who is believed to have written the Book of Revelation? And what were his circumstances when writing it?
3. What had not happened yet that was making Christians anxious? And what WAS happening to them that was making them fearful?
4. What is the style of the Book of Revelation?
5. What are some symbols/images that it uses?

you did the first part

Part # 3

At this point, everyone should have chosen their topic and sacred text. If you have changed your mind, that’s just fine! Just let me know in this assignment and proceed with your new topic/text.

Hopefully you have all started looking for translations of your sacred text as well as a few academic sources that discuss your topic or text.

For this assignment, you will need to submit a list of 2 academic sources that that will help you to better understand your chosen topic in the religious tradition you have chosen, or the sacred text in general. For example, if you are writing about “women” in the Jewish Tanakh, you could find a book/article that discusses women in Judaism in general, women in the Tanakh, or just about the Tanakh in general. What is most important is finding a source (book, article, or website) that is reputable and reliable! There is so much misinformation on the internet, it is really important that we know how to search for information that is objective, academic, and trustworthy.

Your source can be:

1. A book about your topic, religion, or text. I recommend utilizing the Grossmont College Library to assist in your search.

You can also utilize the San Diego Library to look for books on your tradition:

2. You could use a news article that discusses your topic, religion, or sacred text (newspaper article, magazine article – found via print sources or online). Make sure that you are using a reputable news source! If you are not sure, do some research to see who publishes/writes the periodical you are looking at.

3. An educational website – this is where you need to be careful! In general, the best sites are going to have a .edu or .org website – other websites are acceptable, but you need to make sure that this is a RELIABLE source.

For your assignment, please list the 2 sources along with the two translations of your sacred text (including the link to the website if you found them online) formatted in correct APA or MLA format. For help with formatting, please utilize a website (such as ) that will format your sources for you!

For each of your two academic sources, please include a few sentences about 1) what you learned about your topic from the source and 2) why you think it is a reliable source.

Overview of Judaism

1. Who was Abraham? And when did he live?
2. What is the covenant in Judaism? And what are the terms of this covenant?
3. What are the Three Phases of Jewish History? (list 3)
4. What are some core Jewish concepts? (list 4)

Jewish Scriptures

1. What is the Tanakh?
2. What are the sections of the Tanakh? (list 3)
3. What is the Talmud?
4. What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Torah

1. What is the Pentateuch?
2. What are the five books of the Pentateuch?
3. When was the Torah written?
4. When was it canonized?
5. What is the content of the Torah?

Documentary Hypothesis

1. According to the traditional Judaism, who wrote the Torah?
2. Why did some Biblical scholars begin to question whether Moses was the sole author of the Torah?
3. What is a couplet in the Torah?
4. Who are the four authors of the Documentary Hypothesis? (list 4)
5. What are the two Genesis creation stories? And who are the potential authors?

The Talmud

1. When was the Second Temple destroyed? And how does that influence the development of Judaism?
2. Who were the Sadducees? And how did they influence the development of the Talmud?
3. What is the Mishnah?
4. What are the Six Parts of Talmud?

The Talmud

1. What is on a page of the Talmud in Hebrew?
2. How is Talmud Study done?

The Dead Sea Scrolls

1. When and where were these scrolls discovered?
2. How many Dead Sea Scrolls are there?
3. Who likely wrote them?
4. What does this show us about Judaism at the time they were written?
5. Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so important for Biblical scholars?

Christian Scriptures Guided Lecture Notes

Introduction to Christianity

1. Who does the Christian tradition begin with? When does he live?
2. What do we know about Jesus of Nazareth?
3. Who and what did his followers (before and after his death) believe about Jesus identity?
4. How did the Christian tradition change over the course of the first 400 years of its existence?

Introduction to Christian Scriptures

1. What are the two main sections of the Christian Bible and what does each section contain? (list 2)

Canonization of the Christian Bible

1. When were the texts of the New Testament written?
2. What writings did the first Christians use?
3. What does Irenaeus say about what texts should be considered sacred?
4. What does Athanasius say about the canon of the New Testament?
5. What is decided at the Councils of Hippo and Carthage?

Versions and Translations

1. What are the main versions of the Christian Bible? (list 3)
2. What languages were the Biblical texts originally written in?
3. What is the next language it is translated into? When was it translated and by whom?
4. What were the first English translations? Who translated them and what happened to them?
5. What was the first German translation? Who translated it?
6. What invention occurred around this time that helped spread this and other vernacular translations of the Bible?
7. Today, how many languages is the Bible translated into?

The Gospels

1. What is a gospel?
2. When was Mark written and what are some characteristic features of it?
3. When was Matthew written and what are some characteristic features of it?
4. When was Luke written and what are some characteristic features of it?
5. What are the Synoptic Gospels?
6. What is the two-source hypothesis?
7. What is Q?
8. When was John written and what are some unique features of it?

Book of Acts

1. Whose acts are described in the Book of Acts?
2. Who wrote the Book of Acts? How do we know this?
3. How does the Book of Acts start?
4. Whose conversion does it describe? How does it describe this conversion?
5. Whose mission to the Gentiles does it describe? What are Gentiles?
6. Where does Paul travel to on these missions?
7. Why is there tension between Jewish and Gentile Christians at this point? How does the Council of Jerusalem attempt to resolve it?

The Epistles

1. What does epistle mean? Who wrote the majority of the epistles in the New Testament?
2. Why are these epistles important? And what are some important characteristics about them?
3. What are the Catholic letters? What does the word Catholic mean?

Book of Revelation

1. What does the word apocalypse mean and why is it used to describe this text?
2. Who is believed to have written the Book of Revelation? And what were his circumstances when writing it?
3. What had not happened yet that was making Christians anxious? And what WAS happening to them that was making them fearful?
4. What is the style of the Book of Revelation?
5. What are some symbols/images that it uses?

Overview of Judaism

1. Who was Abraham? And when did he live?
2. What is the covenant in Judaism? And what are the terms of this covenant?
3. What are the Three Phases of Jewish History? (list 3)
4. What are some core Jewish concepts? (list 4)

Jewish Scriptures

1. What is the Tanakh?
2. What are the sections of the Tanakh? (list 3)
3. What is the Talmud?
4. What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Torah

1. What is the Pentateuch?
2. What are the five books of the Pentateuch?
3. When was the Torah written?
4. When was it canonized?
5. What is the content of the Torah?

Documentary Hypothesis

1. According to the traditional Judaism, who wrote the Torah?
2. Why did some Biblical scholars begin to question whether Moses was the sole author of the Torah?
3. What is a couplet in the Torah?
4. Who are the four authors of the Documentary Hypothesis? (list 4)
5. What are the two Genesis creation stories? And who are the potential authors?

The Talmud

1. When was the Second Temple destroyed? And how does that influence the development of Judaism?
2. Who were the Sadducees? And how did they influence the development of the Talmud?
3. What is the Mishnah?
4. What are the Six Parts of Talmud?

The Talmud

1. What is on a page of the Talmud in Hebrew?
2. How is Talmud Study done?

The Dead Sea Scrolls

1. When and where were these scrolls discovered?
2. How many Dead Sea Scrolls are there?
3. Who likely wrote them?
4. What does this show us about Judaism at the time they were written?
5. Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so important for Biblical scholars?

Christian Scriptures Guided Lecture Notes

Introduction to Christianity

1. Who does the Christian tradition begin with? When does he live?
2. What do we know about Jesus of Nazareth?
3. Who and what did his followers (before and after his death) believe about Jesus identity?
4. How did the Christian tradition change over the course of the first 400 years of its existence?

Introduction to Christian Scriptures

1. What are the two main sections of the Christian Bible and what does each section contain? (list 2)

Canonization of the Christian Bible

1. When were the texts of the New Testament written?
2. What writings did the first Christians use?
3. What does Irenaeus say about what texts should be considered sacred?
4. What does Athanasius say about the canon of the New Testament?
5. What is decided at the Councils of Hippo and Carthage?

Versions and Translations

1. What are the main versions of the Christian Bible? (list 3)
2. What languages were the Biblical texts originally written in?
3. What is the next language it is translated into? When was it translated and by whom?
4. What were the first English translations? Who translated them and what happened to them?
5. What was the first German translation? Who translated it?
6. What invention occurred around this time that helped spread this and other vernacular translations of the Bible?
7. Today, how many languages is the Bible translated into?

The Gospels

1. What is a gospel?
2. When was Mark written and what are some characteristic features of it?
3. When was Matthew written and what are some characteristic features of it?
4. When was Luke written and what are some characteristic features of it?
5. What are the Synoptic Gospels?
6. What is the two-source hypothesis?
7. What is Q?
8. When was John written and what are some unique features of it?

Book of Acts

1. Whose acts are described in the Book of Acts?
2. Who wrote the Book of Acts? How do we know this?
3. How does the Book of Acts start?
4. Whose conversion does it describe? How does it describe this conversion?
5. Whose mission to the Gentiles does it describe? What are Gentiles?
6. Where does Paul travel to on these missions?
7. Why is there tension between Jewish and Gentile Christians at this point? How does the Council of Jerusalem attempt to resolve it?

The Epistles

1. What does epistle mean? Who wrote the majority of the epistles in the New Testament?
2. Why are these epistles important? And what are some important characteristics about them?
3. What are the Catholic letters? What does the word Catholic mean?

Book of Revelation

1. What does the word apocalypse mean and why is it used to describe this text?
2. Who is believed to have written the Book of Revelation? And what were his circumstances when writing it?
3. What had not happened yet that was making Christians anxious? And what WAS happening to them that was making them fearful?
4. What is the style of the Book of Revelation?
5. What are some symbols/images that it uses?

What is a State and Why Does it Matter?

Hi Everyone,

For our topic and discussion this week, we will be looking at the concept of the state.

One of the most important organizing units in politics is the “state” which has both domestic and international significance. For this week, I want you to read Max Weber’s and Francis Fukuyama’s essays on the “state” and ask yourselves:

1. How does Max Weber define the state?

2. What does Fukuyama say about why a state should be formed?

3. Do you agree with these two scholars about what a state is and its function (for this question focus on the Fukuyama reading).