human body ppt

As a childrens book author, I write nonfiction mostly. Quite a few of those books are for beginning readers. The challenges of writing for this group are considerable. With a limited word count you have to write simply and clearly, while keeping your readers attention. This is also true for those who write fiction, of course. With nonfiction, though, the writer has the added onus of having to distill complex ideas so that a six-year-old can understand them. Take biography. Imagine you are writing a bio of a United States president, say, Abraham Lincoln. You dont know what your young reader already knows about Abe, so you have to start from scratch. How do you cover Lincolns beginnings, his early years as a lawyer, his presidency, slavery, the Civil War, and his death in under 2,000 words? If you are author Martha Brenner, you dont. Instead of attempting a traditional biography, Brenner chose the conceit of Lincolns stovepipe hat to frame her early reader of our sixteenth presidents lif...

Venus is the second planet from the sun in our solar system. Here are some important, scientific and interesting facts about this planet. 1.) The planet was named for Venus, the Roman goddess of beauty – the equivalent of the Greek’s Aphrodite. 2.) Although Venus is second only in distance from the Sun, it is the hottest planet in the solar system 3.) Venus is the brightest object in the sky except for the Sun and the Moon. 4.) Venus is unique because it also lacks a magnetic field and a moon. 5.) The hellish surface of Venus has broiling temperatures that make rocks glow red. obertLOCALS~1Tempmsohtml1