This is day 300 of 2019...pretty soon we will be in a new year, but we have to survive the rest of this one first. I was not terribly motivated to do much of anything today, but I did make a few accomplishments. The chicken coop is cleaned, the remnants of the fig tree are gone. I totally expect that sucker to be back in the spring. It has died several times since we have been here, and it just keeps coming back. The tire on the Polaris is still holding air, so that is a good thing. I had a coupon for Tractor Supply that expired today, so we went and I got five pounds of meal worms, two chicken blocks and two cartons of dog food. Who would have ever believed that I would (or could) get excited enough about meal worms to use a coupon to buy them? And the future flashed before my eyes on the way back from Jarrell...what do you think?Realia -- Noun. objects or activities used to relate classroom teaching to the real life especially of peoples studied. Among the realia used for the class's lesson on World Was II were a helmet and canteen that had belonged to one student's great-grandfather.
Did You Know? Realia, as defined here, was first used in the late 19th century and is still mostly used in the classroom by teachers, especially foreign language teachers. It is also used in library cataloging (in reference to such bizarre things as an author's hair and teeth donated posthumously) and occasionally finds its way into other texts as well. You might, for example, hear of someone putting realia-objects that represent present-day life-in a time capsule. Realia is one of those plural formations without a corresponding singular form. Like memorabilia, juvenilia, and marginalia, it incorporates the Latin plural ending -ia.
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