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Sherrilyn Kenyon

Biography

Early years

Childhood

Sherrilyn Kenyon was born in Columbus, Georgia while her father was stationed at Ft. Benning, GA. Kenyon's father abandoned the family when she was eight (he returned to the family her Senior Year of High School), leaving her mother to raise Kenyon, her younger brother, and her older sister, Trish, who has severe cerebral palsy, alone. Kenyon's brother was sent to live with their grandparents in Atlanta, Georgia while Kenyon stayed in Columbus to help care for her sister. After 18 months of separation, the family was reunited when Kenyon and her mother and sister moved to Atlanta also. Kenyon's first recognition for her writing came when she won a contest in third grade by writing an essay about her single mother for Mother's Day and it was followed a year later when she won a DAR Award for a historical story she wrote about a girl living in Colonial Virginia.

Kenyon was raised in the middle of eight boys, but only two of them were actually her brothers. The other six were her cousins who, due to family crisis, lived with her family off an on most of her early life and young adulthood. She also has two older sisters.

Even as a child Kenyon knew that she wanted to be a writer as it provided her an Escape From an abusive childhood. She is a big advocate against child abuse and participates in fundraisers to help other victims. In kindergarten, she wrote in her Brownie manual that she wanted to be a writer and a mother when she grew up. Yet neither of those ever came easy for her. At age seven she wrote and illustrated her first novel, Sharron's Secret, a horror story about a girl who uses her psychic powers to kill her brothers and takeover her school. At fourteen Kenyon made her first professional sale, and continued to write for school newspapers, yearbooks, local papers and magazines throughout high school and college. She gained her love of horror, zombies and paranormal films and novels from her mother, who never censored what movies the young girl was allowed to watch. Her mother even took her to see Night of the Living Dead at a drive-in theater when she was only four years old.

College Years

Kenyon originally intended to major in art in college so that she could become a comic book developer. She was accepted into the Savannah College of Art and Design, but was unable to afford the tuition to attend. She entered a state college instead where she majored in English, hoping to be admitted into the Creative Writing program. Her first semester of college, she was placed in a remedial English Course due to her dyslexia which resulted in a low score on the placement test. The first day of class, her professor realized the mistake and had her placed in an advanced English class that the professor taught. Kenyon spent two years as an English major and as an editor for the school paper. She applied three times for admission to the Creative Writing program, but was never admitted. After her third attempt, the professor asked her not to apply again as the program was designed for students who had a serious future in publishing. Disheartened, Kenyon tried to switch her major to journalism, but was unable to be admitted there because she couldn't pass the typing test required of all students. Kenyon's right hand is partially paralyzed, making it difficult for her to type on a typewriter. With those doors closed to her, Kenyon switched majors to history. Kenyon graduated with an interdisciplinary major that combined medieval history and language with Classical Studies. She had enough credits to also earn minors in philosophy, psychology, and French, and to earn a certificate of Medieval Studies.

When Kenyon was 20, she decided it was time to take her experience writing for magazines and parlay it into the book market. Just as she finished her manuscript and prepared to send it to publishers, her older brother who was a staunch supporter of her work died, and a devastated Kenyon lost the desire to write. That same brother had borrowed a typewriter from his roommate over the Christmas break at school so that she could type up her manuscript for submission. His last words to her about her writing were, "I know this one's a winner, baby. I can't wait to see it in print." That manuscript later become her novel, Born of Night.

Resuming Writing

Three years later, Kenyon moved to Richmond, Virginia to marry her longtime boyfriend. While moving her things in, her husband came across her old novels and writings, and asked her why she didn't write anymore. Kenyon told him her desire to write had died with her brother and packed her manuscripts away. Due to the recession, Kenyon was unable to find a job of any kind. A childhood friend mentioned that the magazine she was editing needed several articles written and offered them to Kenyon. Although Kenyon had not written a word of fiction since her brother's death, Kenyon agreed to write the articles. As soon as she began the work she once again began feeling that writing was something she had to do. Even though they had very little money, as soon as her husband found out that she was writing again he immediately bought her a Brother Word Processor. He set it up in a corner of their apartment on a card table and with a ten dollar steno chair.

Two years later Kenyon sold her first book, Born of Night, with five more sales coming quickly. She won several awards and made several bestseller lists, but after the publication of her sixth novel she found herself unable to get another writing contract. For a total of four and a half years (1994 - 1998), Kenyon was unable to sell any of her manuscripts.

Hardships

While her career plummeted, Kenyon was in the midst of a Great Deal of turmoil in her personal life. Her father died in February 1995 from cancer. A very difficult pregnancy cost her her job. The baby arrived seven weeks early and was forced to spend six weeks in the neo-natal intensive care unit, and Kenyon barely survived this delivery. Because her husband was just finishing school, and with her inability to work and their high medical bills, the family "lost everything [we] had which wasn't much." As a result, the couple and their severely ill son were forced to live out of their car in the parking lot of a hotel in Columbus, MS until they were finally able to find lodging in a rundown apartment. Later that same year, her mother was diagnosed with cancer, and Kenyon became pregnant again. This second pregnancy resulted in serious medical issues as well, causing Kenyon to be hospitalized for the majority of the time. With her mother unable to visit because of her condition, her son restricted from visiting, and her husband spending most of his time taking care of their son and his medical issues, Kenyon turned again to her fiction where she wrote the two books that would ultimately relaunch her career.

Once her second baby was born and she was able to work again, Kenyon took a minimum wage job teaching computers. From there she worked as a Web Designer, still writing at every spare moment. Her agent, who'd stayed with her through all the years she hadn't been selling, continued to submit her work but every submission was turned down.

Career

Fiction

In 1997, Kenyon received the rejection she credits with relaunching her career and forever changing the course of her writing style. At that time, the hottest novels being published on the market were Regency-set historical romances. Since her critique partners at the time were well-known authors in the field, Kenyon sat down and wrote such a novel. Her agent and critique partners loved it, yet it was the manuscript that garnered her the worst rejection of her career. "No one at this publishing house will ever be interested in this author. Do not submit her work to us again." Kenyon was again devastated. Since they were still living in poverty, Kenyon promised her husband that she would never spend another cent on chasing a dream that obviously wasn't meant to be.

But she couldn't stop writing. That rejection spurred her to stop paying attention to what was selling to New York. She spent the next few months writing books for herself while listening to the characters and not the market reports. When it was done, Kenyon sent her latest work to her agent who did not like the manuscript at all and declined to further represent her. Believing her career was over and with no money left to pursue it on her own, Kenyon set her work aside.

A few weeks later, Kenyon saw a notice in a writing magazine that Laura Cifelli at HarperCollins was looking for manuscripts. Since Cifelli had been Kenyon's agent at the beginning of her career, Kenyon sent a single query letter to her. Kenyon offered Cifelli two books. The first in the Dark-Hunter series and the one her agent had left her over. Cifelli declined the paranormal idea because there was no market for those story lines. But she asked to see the historical. Kenyon borrowed money from a neighbor to send that manuscript to New York and Cifelli offered Kenyon a three book contract. . Since the historical was very different from the paranormals and science fiction novels of her early career, Cifelli asked if Kenyon would mind using a pseudonym. Kenyon who was now superstitious over her real name since her initial foray had been so short-lived, chose Kinley MacGregor (the irony here is that even though the MacGregor name appeared on all the bestseller lists first, it would be under the Kenyon name that she would gain her greatest accolades). The MacGregor part pays tribute to Kenyon's Scottish ancestry and to her family who, there for a time, was forbidden to use their real names because of their conflict with a rival clan. The name seemed more than fitting for her to use to rebuild her career.

Even as Kenyon submitted her Kinley MacGregor manuscripts, she continued to work on her vampire stories. At the urging of her editor, she contracted with a new agent in late 1998. Even though that agent had never represented paranormal before and was reluctant to do so because there was no market for that style of novel, Kenyon convinced her to submit them. The Dark-Hunter novels were turned down by every house. Some even more than once. But by that summer the agent found a home for them at St. Martin's Press when Jennifer Enderlin bought them. It was almost ten years to the day from the time Kenyon had submitted the first Dark-Hunter novel to the day one was contracted.

Kenyon is best known for her Dark-Hunter series, which comprise the Dark-Hunters, Were-Hunters and Dream-Hunters stories. The books deviate from traditional vampire stories in that the vampires, called Daimons, only live twenty-seven years due to a curse from the god Apollo who appears frequently in the series. To elongate their lives, the Daimon vampires are forced to take human souls in order to live. Apollo's sister, the goddess Artemis, set up an army of immortal warriors called the Dark-Hunters to kill the Daimons and free the human souls before the souls die. A few of the original Dark-Hunter heroes were taken out of fantasy stories Kenyon wrote in middle and high school.

During the mid-1980s, while working for a small science fiction magazine called The Cutting Edge, her boss asked her to write a long-running serial for the magazine. She brought many of her favorite characters from her previous fantasies into one larger series. This was the start of the Dark-Hunter world. In this series, which has now been percolating for over twenty years, Kenyon has created an entire universe, the rules of which are maintained solely in her head.

Non-Fiction

In addition to her successful fiction career, Kenyon has also written several non-fiction books. She wrote the Character-Naming Sourcebook, which was finally purchased and published by Writer's Digest. Writer's Digest was interested in launching a new series of books, and, because of Kenyon's background in studying the Middle Ages, she was asked to write Everyday Life in the Middle Ages. When the line was looking for a writer for their Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference, they again turned to Kenyon.

The Character Naming Source Book, has its roots in Kenyon's childhood. When Kenyon began writing her own stories as a small child, she began keeping a list of names that she liked for future use. As she aged, she continued to develop the list, eventually organizing it by origin, so that if she were writing a French character she could easily find a French name. When fellow author Cathy Maxwell saw the list, she insisted that Kenyon should submit it for publication, as other writers would find it invaluable.

Graphic novels

Because of her lifelong love of comic books, graphic novels and manga (Kenyon credits her ability to read to her older brother who used Spiderman comics to teach her), in May 2006, Dabel Brothers Productions ("DB Pro"), then in partnership with Marvel Comics, announced the signing of an exclusive contract with Kinley MacGregor (a.k.a. Sherrilyn Kenyon), to adapt the novels in her Arthurian fantasy series, Lords of Avalon.

Lords of Avalon was intended to be produced as a monthly comic starting summer 2007, with a script adapted by Roynne Gillespie (The Burning Man) and artwork by Tommy Ohtsuka. A graphic novel edition of Sword of Darkness, the first novel in the series, was originally supposed to have been available in Summer 2007 but was delayed as Dabel Brothers and Marvel Comics ended their partnership. Lords of Avalon: Sword of Darkness was eventually published by Marvel Comics, rather than Dabel Brothers, with a cover date of November 2008.

Though Kenyon was in contract discussions with St. Martin's Press to have a Dark-Hunter manga adaptation as far back as 2003, it wasn't until 2006 when St. Martin's brought in Dabel Brothers Productions ("DB Pro") to be the packager of the books that they were able to move forward. Because Kenyon credits herself with being an Otaku (in the American sense of the word), it would be several months before an artist could be found that Kenyon approved of. Claudia Campos who is known for her work with Tokyopop was chosen. The first Dark-Hunter manga artwork appeared in Kenyon's nonfiction compendium, The Dark-Hunter Companion, in November 2007. It would take another year before Kenyon approved a writer for the adaption of her words, Joshua Hale Fialkov of Afro-Samurai, Elk's Run, Cyblade, Vampirella and Alibi fame. The Dark-Hunter manga will finally debut May 2009.

E-Books

As a result of her love of technology, Kenyon had one of the first e-books published by the now defunct Dreams Unlimited. She was the first New York published author to contract in this emerging medium.

Family Life

Kenyon is severely dyslexic. She is also ambidextrous. Kenyon can write a first draft of a novel in three to four weeks, although she has been known to completely finish a novel in Less Than four weeks. Her usual time for a novel, however, is four to nine months. In her spare time, Kenyon plays the guitar, flute, piano, and the drums. As a child and young woman, she was a sparring partner for two Golden Glove boxers. She was also a football quarterback and an award-winning cook. A past member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, she is currently a member of Horror Writers of America, the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the Romance Writers Association.

Kenyon jokingly states that she only owns three pieces of clothing that are not black (a white chemise for Ren faires and two pairs of jeans) and fans have noted her obsession with this wardrobe choice. She has described her personal style as what happens to Goth when you get older, and claims that her obsession with wearing all black happened when her mother refused to buy her a black velvet dress when she was in first grade.

Over the years and due to what she humorously calls "her children's need to eat," Kenyon has worked a variety of jobs: D.J., photographer (her publishing credits include the Washington Post), store clerk, cook, baker, dollmaker, painter, camerawoman, freelance journalist, janitor, waitress, teacher, ditch-digger, psychic, web designer, programmer, and bookseller.

Kenyon is married and has three sons. The family lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with a menagerie of pets that include dogs, cats, fish, chickens, rabbits and reptiles..

Bibliography

As Sherrilyn Kenyon

The League Series

"Born of the Night," (Pinnacle, 1996) (ISBN 0-78600-222-0)

"Born of Fire," (ebook Dreams Unlimited, 1997) (ISBN 1-89252-004-4)

"Paradise City," (Love Spell, 1994) (ISBN 0-50551-969-0)

"Fire & Ice," in the anthology "Man of My Dreams" (Jove, 2004) (ISBN 0-51513-793-6)

Dark-Hunter series

The Dark-Hunters are immortal warriors pledged to the Greek goddess Artemis and dedicated to defending mankind against Daimons (vampires) and other assorted enemies: including a couple of rogue gods and goddesses.

Fantasy Lover, (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2002) (ISBN 0-31297-997-5)

"The Beginning" , also in the back of Sins of the Night early print editions (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2002)

"Dragonswan", in the anthology Tapestry, published by Jove (2002, ISBN 0-51513-362-0) and reprinted singly by Berkley (2005, ISBN 0-51514-079-1)

Night Pleasures, (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2002) (ISBN 0-31297-998-3)

Amanda Devereaux has a crazy family. Her mother and older siblings are witches and psychics, and her twin sister is a vampire hunter. All Amanda wants is a quiet, normal life. Only when she finds herself the target of an attack meant for her twin, she wakes to find herself handcuffed to a sexy, blonde stranger.

He is Kyrian of Thrace. And while Amanda's first thought is that this might be another of her sister's attempt at extreme match-making, it soon becomes clear that Kyrian is not boyfriend material.

He is a Dark-Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul for one moment of vengeance upon his enemies. Kyrian spends his eternal days hunting the vampires and daimons that prey upon mankind. He is currently on the hunt for a very old and dealy daimon called Desiderius who has deemed it sport to handcuff Kyrian to a human while he hunts him. Now Kyrian and Amanda must find a way to break their bond lest they give into their dangerous attraction to one another. Or Desiderius kills them both.

Night Embrace, (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003) (ISBN 0-31298-482-0)

"Phantom Lover", in the anthology Midnight Pleasures (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003) (ISBN 0-31298-762-5)

Dance with the Devil, (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003) (ISBN 0-31298-483-9)

"A Dark-Hunter Christmas", , also in the back of Dance with the Devil early print editions (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003)

Kiss of the Night, (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2004) (ISBN 0-31299-241-6)

Night Play, (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2004) (ISBN 0-31299-242-4)

"Winter Born", in the anthology Stroke of Midnight (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2004) (ISBN 0-31299-876-7)

Seize the Night, (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005) (ISBN 0-31299-243-2)

Valerius isn't a popular dark-hunter-he's a Roman, which means that the largely Greek Hunters have a major grudge against him and his civilisation for superseding them. To make things worse , he's very conscious of his aristocratic background and breeding. So it serves him right when he runs into Tabitha Devereaux. She's sassy, sexy and completely unwilling to take him seriously. (Not to mention Tabitha is also the sister in law of Kyrian, a former Dark-Hunter and Val's mortal enemy.)

What Tabitha does take seriously is hunting and killing vampires, and soon she and Val have to grapple with the deadliest of all daimons-one who's managed to come back from the dead, and one who holds a serious grudge against both of them. To win against evil, Val will have to loosen up, learn to trust and put everything on the line to protect a man he hates and a woman who drives him nuts.

Sins of the Night, (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005) (ISBN 0-31293-432-7)

"Second Chances", in Exclusive Dark-Hunter Collectible Booklet (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005), free giveaway

Unleash the Night, (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005) (ISBN 0-31293-433-5)

Dark Side of the Moon (St. Martin's Press, 2006, reprinted by St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2007)(HB ISBN 0-31235-743-5, PB ISBN 0-31293-434-3)

"A Hard Day's Night-Searcher", in the anthology My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (St. Martin's Griffin, 2006) (ISBN 0-31234-360-4)

"Until Death We Do Part", in the anthology Love At First Bite (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006) (ISBN 0-31234-929-7)

"Fear the Darkness", free ebook (St. Martin's Press, 2007)

The Dream-Hunter (St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2007) (ISBN 0-31293-881-0)

Devil May Cry (St. Martin's Press, 2007, reprinted by St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008) (HB ISBN 0-31236-950-6, PB ISBN 0-31294-686-4)

Upon the Midnight Clear (St. Martin's Paperback, 2007) (ISBN 0-31294-705-4)

The Dark-Hunter Companion, co-author Alethea Kontis (St. Martin's Griffin, 2007) (ISBN 0-31236-343-5)

Dream Chaser (St. Martin's Paperback, 2008) (ISBN 0-31293-882-9)

Acheron (St. Martin's Press, 2008) (ISBN 0-312-36215-3)

One Silent Night (St. Martin's Press, 2008) (ISBN 0-31294-706-2)

"Shadow of the Moon", in the anthology Dead After Dark (St. Martin's Press, 2008) (ISBN 0-31294-798-4)

Dream Warrior (St. Martin's Press, 2009) (ISBN 0-31293-883-7)

Bad Moon Rising (St. Martin's Press, 2009)

B.A.D. Agency Series

Published by Simon & Schuster

"BAD to the Bone", in the anthology Big Guns Out of Uniform (2005) (ISBN 1-41650-967-4)

"Captivated By You", in the anthology Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down: Three Tales of Erotic Romance (2005) (ISBN 1-41650-159-2)

Bad Attitude, (2005) (HB ISBN 1-41650-356-0, PB ISBN 1-41652-029-5)

Born to Be B.A.D., a reprint of the BAD stories PLUS a new short story called "One BAD Night" (2005) (ISBN 1-41650-750-7)

"Turn Up the Heat", in the anthology Playing Easy to Get (Pocket, 2006) (ISBN 1-41651-087-7)

Phantom of the Night, (2008) (ISBN 1-41650-357-9)

"Whispered Lies," (2009) (ISBN 9-781416-597421)

Nevermore Series

TBA/2007

Other Novels and Novellas

Daemon's Angel, (Leisure, 1995) (ISBN 0-50552-026-5)

"Love Bytes", in the anthology Naughty or Nice (St. Martin's Press, 2000) (ISBN 0-31298-102-3)

"Knightly Dreams", in the anthology What Dreams May Come (Penguin Group, 2005) (ISBN 0-42521-085-5)

Essays

"The Search of Spike's Balls", in Seven Seasons of Buffy edited by Ben Bella (ISBN 1-93210-008-3)

"Parting Gifts", in Five Seasons of Angel edited by Glenn Yeffeth (ISBN 1-93210-033-4)

Non-Fiction

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages, (Writer's Digest, 1995)

The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference: An Indispensable Compendium of Myth and Magic, (Writer's Digest, 2000)

The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook, with Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet (ISBN 0-89879-632-6)

The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook, 2nd ed. (ISBN 1-58297-295-8)

Writing as Kinley MacGregor

Published by Avon (HarperCollins Publishers) unless noted otherwise.

The Sea Wolves Series

Master of Seduction, (2000) (ISBN 0-06108-712-2)

A Pirate of Her Own, (2004) (ISBN 0-06108-711-4)

The MacAllisters Series

Master of Desire, (2001) (ISBN 0-06108-713-0)

Claiming the Highlander, (2002) (ISBN 0-38081-789-6)

Born in Sin, (2003) (ISBN 0-38081-790-X)

Taming the Scotsman, (2003) (ISBN 0-38081-791-8)

"Midsummer's Knight", in the anthology Where's My Hero? (2003) (ISBN 0-06050-524-9)

The Warrior, (2007)

Brotherhood of the Sword Series

Born in Sin, (2003) (ISBN 0-38081-790-X)

Taming the Scotsman, (2003) (ISBN 0-38081-791-8)

"Midsummer's Knight", in the anthology Where's My Hero? (2003) (ISBN 0-06050-524-9)

A Dark Champion, (2004) (ISBN 0-06056-541-1)

Return of the Warrior, (2005) (ISBN 0-06056-543-8)

The Warrior, (2007) (ISBN 0-06079-667-7)

Lords of Avalon Series

Sword of Darkness, (2006)(ISBN 0-06056-544-6)

Knight of Darkness, (2006) (ISBN 0-06079-662-6)

"The Wager", in the anthology Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Tor Books, 2006)

Other Novels and Novellas

"Santa Wears Spurs", in the anthology All I Want for Christmas (St. Martin's Press, 1999) (ISBN 0-31297-680-1)

Awards

Sherrilyn Kenyon has received numerous nominations and awards both under her name and as Kinley MacGregor.

Past Awards

Maggie Award of Excellence

MARA Award

Holt Medallion

Heart Rate Reviews Reviewer's Choice Award

Amazon.com's Hot 100

Amazon.com's Movers & Shakers

Amazon.com's Best Seller for 2001

RT Kiss Award

Fool For Love

Affaire de Coeur Reader's Choice

Sapphire Award

RT Reviewer's Choice Awards

2002

Top Ten Books of the Year from RWA (Romance Writer's Association) - Fantasy Lover

Prism

Best Fantasy - Fantasy Lover

Best Light Paranormal - Night Pleasures

Night Pleasures and Fantasy Lover were finalists in the Aspen Gold contest.

Night Pleasures and Fantasy Lover were finalists in the GRW Maggie Award.

Night Pleasures won the HOLT Medallion.

PEARL (Paranormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature) (2002)

Best Shape-Shifter - Night Pleasures

Best Fantasy/Magical - Fantasy Lover

Best Novella or Short Story - Dragonswan

Best Anthology - Tapestry, with Madeline Hunter, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lynn Kurland, Karen Marie Moning

Best Overall Paranormal, Honorable Mention - Fantasy Lover

Night Pleasures and Fantasy Lover are double finalists in the Holt Medallion Award.

RIO (Reviewers International Organization) (20023)

Favorite Anthology - Tapestry

Favorite Paranormal, Honorable Mention - Fantasy Lover

Laurel Wreath Award for Night Pleasures

Love Romances 2002 Golden Rose Reader Choice Awards Winner:

Best Historical Romance - Claiming the Highlander

Best Paranormal Romance (Honorable Mention) - Fantasy Lover

Best Novella (Honorable Mention) - Dragonswan

Best Romanctic Anthology (Honorable Mention) - Tapestry

Best Medieval Romance - Claiming the Highlander

Best Time Travel (Honorable Mention) - Dragonswan

Best Romantic Sci-Fi Fantasy - Fantasy Lover

RT Booklovers Reviewer's Choice

Best Historical Anthology, Nominee - Tapestry

Best Vampire Romance - Night Pleasures

Best Scottish Historical Romance - Claiming the Highlander

2002 RBL Hughie Awards:

Best Anthology - Tapestry

Best New to You Author - Sherrilyn Kenyon/Kinley MacGregor

Favorite Secondary Character (Male) Talon (Night Pleasures)

Funniest Scene: The handcuffs scene (Night Pleasures)

Best Line or Quote - "Be kind to Dragonswans, for thou art gorgeous when naked and taste good with Cool Whip." (Dragonswan)

Best Medieval Historical Romance - Claiming the Highlander

2003-2004

Prism (2004)

Best Dark Paranormal - Dance with the Devil

Best Light Paranormal - Night Embrace

RIO (Reviewers International Organization) (2003)

Favorite Paranormal - Dance With The Devil

The Golden Quill for Best Paranormal, Dance with the Devil

The Bookseller's Best Award for Born in Sin, Best Long Historical and Dance with the Devil for Best Paranormal (Night Embrace was second)

Night Embrace won the Contemporary category of the Scarlet Letter award and is named Grand Champion of all the winners.

Night Embrace and Born in Sin won the HOLT Medallion

Night Embrace won the Laurie

Born in Sin won the Beacon for Best Historical

Born in Sin won the Yellow Rose for Best Historical

Sapphires for Dance with the Devil and "Phantom Lover".

Love Romances 2003 Golden Rose Reader Choice Awards Winner:

Born In Sin - Kinley MacGregor - Best Historical Romance

Dance With The Devil - Sherrilyn Kenyon - Best Paranormal Romance

Dance With The Devil - Sherrilyn Kenyon - Best Vampire Romance

Dance With The Devil - Sherrilyn Kenyon - Best Book Cover- Artist Unknown

"Phantom Lover" (Midnight Pleasures) - Sherrilyn Kenyon - Best Novella

Night Embrace - Sherrilyn Kenyon- Honorable Mention Best Shapeshifter Romance

2003 RBL Hughie Awards:

Best Scottish Historical Romance - Born In Sin by Kinley MacGregor

Best Paranormal Romance (time travel, futuristic, fantasy, etc.) Dance With The Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Anthology - Midnight Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Amanda Ashley, Maggie Shayne, and Rhonda Thompson and Where's My Hero? by Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, and Kinley MacGregor

Best Cover - Dance With The Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Author - Sherrilyn Kenyon (Kinley MacGregor)

Favorite Secondary Character (Male) - Acheron (Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Favorite Secondary Character (Female) - Simi, the Charonte Demon (Dance With The Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Funniest Scene - Sin meeting the MacAllister brothers after he marries Callie (Born In Sin by Kinley MacGregor)

Best Line or Quote - "You Know, Sunshine, You Need to find a man like that to marry. Someone so well-hung that even after three or four kids, he still be wall to wall." (Night Embrace by Sherrilyn Kenyon)

Night Pleasures won the Laurel Wreath Award with Fantasy Lover coming in a close second

PEARL (Paranormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature) (2003)

Best Shape-Shifter, Honorable Mention - Dance With The Devil

Best Novella or Short Story, Honorable Mention - "Phantom Lover"

Best Anthology, Honorable Mention - Midnight Pleasures, with Sherrilyn Kenyon, Amanda Ashley, Maggie Shayne, and Rhonda Thompson

Favorite Overall Paranormal, Honorable Mention - Dance With the Devil

2005-2006

Darrell Awards (2006)

Best Novel - Sins of the Night

RIO (Reviewers International Organization) (2005)

Favorite Paranormal - Seize the Night

PEARL (Paranormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature) (2005)

Best Paranormal Over All - Sins of the Night

Best Paranormal Over All, Honorable Mention - Unleash the Night

Best Anthology - What Dreams May Come

Best Erotic - Unleash the Night

Best Shapeshifter - Sins of the Night

Sins of the Night was #5 on Amazon.com's bestselling books of 2005. Fantasy Lover and Night Pleasures are #6 and #7 respectively for the best of the decade so far.

Love Romances 2005 Golden Rose Reader Choice Awards Winner:

Best Historical - A Dark Champion - Kinley MacGregor

Best Novella - "Winter Born" - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Vampire - Seize the Night - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Shapeshifter - Night Play - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Couple - Vane & Bride in Night Play - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Cover - Kiss of the Night - Sherrilyn Kenyon

2007

Devil May Cry was #2 on New York Times Best Sellers Hardcover Fiction List (week ended August 11, 2007)

References

^ a b "Sherrilyn's Cyberhome". Sherrilyn Kenyon Official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com/sherrilyn/intro.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Kenyon, Sherrilyn. "About Me". Sherrilyn Kenyon Official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com//sherrilyn/aboutme.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ Kenyon, Sherrilyn. "In Memoriam". Sherrilyn Kenyon Official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com/sherrilyn/mom.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ a b Smith, Lodeen. "An Interview with Sherrilyn". Sherrilynn Kenyon official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com//sherrilyn/interview.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ "Promo Items". Sherrilyn Kenyon Official Website. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com//sherrilyn/daylife.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ a b c d e f g h "Interview with our Author of the Month Sherrilyn Kenyon a.k.a. Kinley MacGregor". A Romance Review. 2002. http://www.aromancereview.com/interviews/sherrilynkenyon.phtml. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ a b Ward, Jean Marie (1998). "Sherrilyn Kenyon: Coloring Outside Traditional Romance Lines". Crescent Blues. http://www.crescentblues.com/6_8issue/int_kenyon.shtml. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ "DBPRO to Adapt Kinley MacGregor's Lords of Avalon". Dabel Brothers Production. May 7, 2006. http://www.sfwa.org/pressbook/06/0508a-Macgregor-Avalon.html. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ a b Anderson, Marcia (September 29, 2005). "Dark-Hunter series author keynotes COFW conference". ThisWeek Newspapers. http://www.dailyinquisitor.com//sherrilyn/092905-News-17825.html. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ "RBL Presents! Sherrilyn Kenyon". 2002. RBL Romantics. 2002. http://www.geocities.com/rblinterviews2/kenyoninterview.html. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ "Sherrilyn Kenyon". Fantastic Fiction. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/sherrilyn-kenyon/. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 

^ "The Beginning"

^ "A Dark-Hunter Christmas"

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Sherrilyn Kenyon's Official Site

Sherrilyn Kenyon's Podcast

Bibliography at SciFan

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Kenyon, Sherrilyn

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Novelist

DATE OF BIRTH

1965

PLACE OF BIRTH

Columbus, Georgia

DATE OF DEATH

PLACE OF DEATH

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Can you help me pick the topic and characters for my fable?

For my English class, I have to write a fable (you know those stories that teach lessons and a lot of times have animals for characters). When my class has finished writing the fables, we have to read them to a kindergarten class. I made a list of topics and animals, please help me decide (I don't know how many main characters I'm going to use yet).

Topics:
popularity
revenge
size (being too short or too tall)
looks
bullying
jealousy
being greedy
sharing
being respectful
gossiping
helping others

Animals:
rabbit
dog
cat
elephant
kangaroo
wallaby
ostrich
duck
monkey
squirrel
chipmunk
deer
bear
seagull

If you have any other suggestions, go ahead and let me know! Thanks for your help!
Sorry, we have to pick animals who are likely to be in the same place, I like the kangaroo and monkey idea though.

If you'd like, you can suggest more topics and/or animals. The lists I made are just several things that I brainstormed.

being greedy is a very topic

trying using kangaroo and monkey to make them laugh

that should get you better grades

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Preschool Smart

Shop Smart And Save On School Supplies

If you're like a lot of parents, just the mention of school supplies phrase can make you panic, reminding you of the maddening crowds and huge Credit Card bills that make the annual August stock-up almost unbearable. With schools getting back in session during the months of August, your children summer respite is about to come to an end. Soon, your grown-up children will be buckling down and studying in an attempt to conduct an important research project, term paper, or prepare for midterm exams. They are one step closer to realizing their goal of obtaining a degree.

Of course, before they head back to school, they will have to take the inventory of what they need to bring with them. If they are a returning student, they will need to update their education supplies, but if they are a new college student, they will have to start from scratch. With careful planning, you can save hundreds of dollars on supplies this academic year.

Give Them a Budget

Your children can be resistant to reusing last year education supplies or older clothes. Maybe they are hankering for a fancy new supplies that everyone has this year. If this attitude is hampering your efforts to Save Money on school supplies, give them a budget. Tell them that you will spend a certain amount on an item, if they want an upgrade they'll need to chip in. Or perhaps let your children choose which items to reuse and which to buy new.

Online Merchants

Online supply stores want Your Business. In some cases you'll get Free Shipping on your discounted order, especially if you hit a certain spending threshold. Otherwise, you should still receive discounted shipping avoiding the need to head to the mall or to your retail outlet. These days, many parents are hitting online supply stores in a bid to save money.

Shops for essential first, trends second

It's a common scenario: Once your child sees what his friends are bringing, the supply they loved in August seems lame. Children can be fickle; a few weeks into the school year, when peer pressure kicks in, they're bound to come home with a list of must-haves. So buy just the essentials at the beginning of the season rather than everything at once; remember, there's always going to be another sale. Create a file that includes catalogs, sizes and wish lists so you can act if you find a sale while on Your Own.

You Are paying plenty of money to get your child education. Saving money on classroom supplies is not only wise, but a simple task to do. Use your internet connection to search for bargains everywhere. With these simple tips, you'll keep from keeping out your patience and your credit cards.

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Am I Smart Enough to be a Preschool/Kindergarten Teacher?.. I would love advice from a teacher.?

This is my dream. To become a Preschool or Kindergarten teacher. I love kids and i think this will be a great profession for me. But i have so many things that makes me think i can't be a preschool teacher. First my math is lousy. I'm so embarrassed to say this but it's true. I have no idea how i got this far without anyone finding out how bad i am at math. Next I'm really shy and don't talk much. I just want to know what i should expect from a job like this. Anyone that is a Preschool teacher have any advice for me.

Have you already begun taking classes in this field?
Math is not such a big deal @ this level of education. I would think if You Know your adding, subtraction and division you're safe.

What does your heart say to you about this job?
If you are looking for money here, there is none.
If you have a sincere compassion about children and education I would tell you to,
first volunteer in a classroom environment for a couple of months. So you can get an idea of what installed.

I would like to please emphasize that if, your heart is truly not there....don't take this route. Our children are very impressionable @ this age you are contemplating. They benefit from loving and kind words of encouragement.

I have worked with children from pre-school to 7th grade,
from well balanced children to,special needs in the area of math and reading, to mentally / physically challenged students. From emotionally weak to the abusive ones.
The educational system does not prepare you for all that, and every child is special, yet lumped up the same.
I have taken some time off from this 20plus year venture.
My heart still pleads to be there for them.....And I will.

A Smart Start in Preschool!

First Math

Ho Math and Chess Worksheets Really Work

Ho Math and Chess Worksheets Really Work

 

Frank Ho, Amanda Ho

 

Ho Math and Chess Learning Centre Teachers

 

Vancouver, BC, Canada

www.mathandchess.com

 

 

Much attention on math reforms has always been on how math shall be taught? The most heated up debate was conceptual teaching vs. algorithm teaching and usually the conceptual teaching prevails and then a new set of textbooks follows. The most obvious change was in the area of “word problems” section in the textbooks, which is more exploratory and requires a real understanding of some math concepts.

 

The trouble is most teachers at school already have their hands full on basics teaching and do not really have enough time to go through word problems very carefully. Many times, we heard students told us that they “hated” those word problems. Many told us that their teachers did not even explain how to work out those problems and they simply were stuck on those word problems.

 

Is this the only thing we can do after each textbook change that is to increase the difficulty level of word problem to higher level Thinking Skills for students to work on? Without properly training teachers, the consequence is only to get lots of students frustrated. We personally like those word problems, which require conceptual understanding, but unfortunately most teachers do not know how to teach students well in tacking those word problems and the end result is that most students would not do well.

 

We can see the computational problems in textbook have not changed a lot in terms of their formats and styles. The idea of creating some new word problems is good but the problem is still how we can teach students so that they actually understand them, instead of creating stress on students with something they feel that they do not understand at all.

 

Is there anything we, as a Learning Center, can do to improve computational worksheets? Why some children are bored with those traditional computational worksheets? This is constantly in our minds to see if we can do something differently on math worksheets so that children can master their math ability while having fun.

 

First we look at the current learning and living environment facing our future generation and also where our children are heading. The future belongs to a generation who understands how to process information and the information might include digits, bytes, numbers, graphics, images, languages, symbols, equations and tables etc. How some or most of these different nature of pieces of information processing can be taught to kindergartners or elementary students when they are learning arithmetic if they are already bombarded by all these different formats of media?

 

We often see some elementary students perform multi-task while doing homework so they are already used to do multi-function. With this scenery in mind, most students, of course, will feel bored when working on monotonic style of worksheets, there is no stimulus to spark their interests in working on these simplistic and monotonic style computational worksheets.

 

How to create some worksheets, which children will feel they are interesting to work on? It is not an easy task and that is why there are so many different types of stand alone worksheets, namely logic, patterns, mazes, crosswords etc. These worksheets are created without interrelations to each other. This kind of isolated information processing is no longer reflecting the Real World the young generation is facing today or will be living in the future.

 

The computing world children are facing today is much like a rich tapestry, where a diversified fabrics and colours are integrated. Children today are absorbing not just numbers but an array of information like image, sound, music, symbols, spatial information, or even abstract ideas all bundled together and delivered through many types of media. Children today are not happy just working on pure number drill worksheets without any other stimulus or motivators.

 

Realizing the importance of having fun while learning, Ho math and Chess has been embarked on an important teaching philosophy that is to integrate chess into math worksheets so that children can Learn Math while having fun.

 

Started out as a math and chess integrated learning center, Ho Math and Chess has further advanced its teaching philosophy into Network Computing that is to create a special synergetic effect by integrating arithmetic basics computing, chess, mazes, and information processing all in one worksheet. This is accomplished through its own proprietary technologies (Canada copyright 1069744) such as Geometry Chess Symbol, Frankho Puzzle, Frankho Maze, Brainpower Math and an invention of brand new chess training set.

 

With this new invention of Ho Math and Chess Network Computing worksheets, a child is acting as a data warehouse manager and sorts data through a variety of tools namely chess, symbols, spatial relation, logic, comparisons, tables, patterns, mazes, computing etc. by networking all different kinds of information and skills together. Only when children have successfully followed through instructions (SCL) and, as a result, created a question themselves, can a solution be found at last.

 

In Network computing worksheets, the questions are not written out for children but must be mined (after children observing how data is moving) through data warehouse (mazes or puzzles), and answers must be computed by following a series of spatial relations and then analyzed using logic to reach a conclusion.

Ho Math and Chess Network Computing trains children not only their basic computing ability but also train them to be an astute data warehouse manager or an excellent data miner by developing their Problem Solving ability and critical thinking skills.

 

Ho Math and Chess Network Computing provides education and also entertainment value to get young children involved in the future world they will be facing.

 

Why are Ho Math and Chess integrated workbook more effective than traditional worksheets?

 

Ho Math and Chess integrates chess into math thus children actually not only uses the parts of brain while playing chess, they also use the parts of brain to do math computation and work on logic problems using chess diagrams. The effect of working Ho Math and Chess integrated workbooks is to stimulate many different parts of brain in multiple ways.

 

Ho Math and Chess integrated worksheets requires a child’s left brain to handle logic, numbers, and word problems language; at the same time the worksheets also require a child’s right brain to handle

patterns, images, diagrams, symbols, mazes, puzzles, and tables etc.

 

It is our belief that integrated Ho math and chess workbook will work more effectively to stimulate one’s left-brain and right brain at the same time.

 

Many children like chess, why? Simply put, it is a game and it is fun and children Can Play it without using a computer. Can you image nowadays that parents are telling us that their children spend too much time on computers playing games? Parents do not want to see children continue to use computers at learning centers any more since their children become near-sighted by spending too much time on the computer.

 

How Ho Math and Chess created some interesting math, chess and puzzles integrated worksheets?

 

We find out most children will frown on drill type of math worksheets since this kind of worksheets are boring and repetitive and do not motivate them and they will not get children engaged into doing unless they get order from adults. But if we can have a game type of worksheets married to math then at least this integrated product offers some incentive for children to do math since the Fun Game is what they would like to do. This is how we have created math, chess and puzzles worksheets. Children Learn best while they having fun of doing it.

 

Children like mazes. They are adventuresome and interesting. It gives children a feeing of reward when the problem is solved and children feel better when they are challenged mentally. The difficulty is how to marry math and mazes? Integrating math into chess mazes has solved this problem. This is the birth of Frankho Chess Mazes. A chess maze not only is fun to play but it also teaches geometry concepts and trains children’s visualization and orientation.

 

Some children were born with sensitive number sense but some children can be trained to be more alert with numbers, patterns, and symbols. Chess serves as a good tool to combine with math so to provide an innovative way of training children to be more aware with number patterns, and relationship between numbers. This is the marriage of math and chess, math and chess provides opportunities to train children’s math with fun and improves their brainpower.

 

By use the technology of Geometry Chess Symbols invented by Ho Math and Chess, children are able to work on an array of different math worksheets, which are to be more entertaining, more fun and more interesting.

 

The most important proof of effectiveness of these Ho Math and Chess worksheets can be validated by the responses received from our students, parents and how much progresses they have made before and after they used these worksheets. For this, we have many clinical experiences and testimonials to share.

 

For more details on how math and chess integrated worksheets can raise children’s math marks with fun, visit www.mathandchess.com.

About the Author

Frank Ho, a Canadian certified math teacher, coined the learning centre term Math and Chess and he also founded the world's first math and chess learning centre by creating the world's first math and chess integrated workbooks for elementary students in Vancouver, Canada. He invented Frankho Symbolic Chess Language, intriguing Frankho Chess Maze, and also an unique new chess teaching set. He published math and chess teaching theoretic basis in a Canadian math journal. The USA Illinois research data has shown statistically significant that Ho Math and Chess teaching method increases children's math marks and also improves children's critical thinking skills. The Ho Math and Chess Teaching Set can improve children's memory by playing half-blind chess. More details, please visit www.mathandchess.com.

what was the first ever math problem?

What was the first one ever solved in history?

One plus one equals three. Adam and Eve.

First In Math

Multiplication Division

Practice Multiplication With A Math Board Game

Learning multiplication can be tricky. That's why educators and parents need to be clever and use whatever they can to make multiplication fun and easy. One way learning multiplication fun is to use math Board Games. 

Making math board games is easy. All you have to have is some card stock and markers and you're set to go. The simplest game to make is the track game. For this one you just create a math board game with a track with start at one end and finish at the other end. The track can be circles or squares joined together. It might go zigzagging up the board or it might go around the edge with the start being right beside the finish. 

Once you have marked the Start and Finish on your math board game, you can add some feature spaces. These are ones that say, ‘Have another turn' or ‘Miss a go'. Some might say ‘Go forward 3 spaces' or ‘Go back to the start'. If You Want your game to have a theme, you can decorate it with the theme, for example racing cars or the jungle. The feature spaces can also have things related to the theme. You may have, ‘You have a flat tire. Miss a turn.' on your board game with the racing car theme. 

Next add some symbols to some of the spaces on the game board. These can be something like a star or can be related to the theme of your game. The jungle board may use trees or monkeys, and the racing car board might use cars. These will be the symbol to pick up a card. 

On your cards you will have the multiplication facts that you want children to practice. They will have something like 9x3 or 7x5. Once the cards and the board are ready you simply need the dice (you can use one or two) and some markers. The cards are placed in a pile face down beside the board. 

Each player puts a marker on the start and then the players take turns at rolling the dice. If the player lands on a feature square, they simply follow the instructions. If a player lands on a Symbol square, they pick up a card. Then they have to give the answer to the multiplication fact. If they give a correct answer, they have another turn at rolling the dice. If their answer is incorrect, they miss turn. Of course the first player to reach the finish will be the winner. 

You can also get the kids involved in making the game board and decorating it. This will give them a real sense of ownership and they will be really keen to play and practice their multiplication. 

Yes, making Your Own math board game to practice multiplication really is That Easy! The best part is that this game can then be used for a variety of math skills. Just make another set of cards to practice addition, subtraction or division and you're ready to go!

 

About the Author

Terese Evans is a teacher and parent who uses math games to get kids excited about math. She shares her favorite math board games in, The Math Board Games Book. Get your free math board games at www.math-board-games.com.

Why does multiplication/division come before add/sub?

i was just wondering...
what is the reason of order of operations to be this way? and who decided on being this way? and is there a proof of why multiplication/division has to come before add/sub?

(To the two people below me... unfortunately "BODMAS" is not the proof; that's circular reasoning. They're actually asking *why* is BODMAS used.)

The short answer is: "because multiplication is distributive with regard to addition."

Let's think this through, so we're clear what we're talking about. The important thing to realise is that the factors in multiplication relate to each other in a different way to the factors in addition. Multiplication and addition are two different operations, even though they may be related. It's easiest to use examples.

5 x 6 is the same as 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6, or, to put it another way: 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5. Both of these sums are the same thing (add them up - you'll see that it is true), which is why the order doesn't matter within multiplication. 5 x 6 is the same as 6 x 5. This is called the "Law of Commutativity", and it is true for all real numbers. Multiplication is "commutative" because 6 x 5 = 5 x 6, and addition is also "commutative" because 5 + 6 = 6 + 5. The order doesn't matter.

BUT: 5 x 6 is VERY different to 5 + 6.

5 x 6 = 30, but 5 + 6 = 11. So multiplication and addition are two distinctly different operations, even though they may be similar. But, mutliplication is made up of additions (because 5 x 6 = 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6), so they different, but they are also related in a particular way that is important later.

Consider the equation 4 + 5 x 6.

4 + 5 x 6 is different to (4 + 5) x 6. If You Don't multiply the 5 and the 6 first, then you end up with 9 x 6 = 54, which is different from 4 + 5 x 6 = 4 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 (or 4 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5) = 4 + 30 = 34. (In fact, because addition and multiplication are "commutative", if you didn't use BODMAS properly, you might not be able to tell the difference between "4 + 5 x 6", "5 + 4 x 6", '5 + 6 x 6", and "4 + 6 x 5" - but all these equations have different answers!)

To put it another way:

(4 + 5) x 6 = 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 9 x 6 = 54.

whereas:

4 + 5 x 6 = 4 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 (or 4 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5) = 34.

The multiplying factors (in this case, the 5 and the 6) have to be resolved first, because they actually behave different to the numbers that are just being added. They are connected by a different kind of operation than the "4" is.

This idea is called the "Law of Distributivity". Now, i said above that multiplication is "distributive with regard to addition". This means that:

a x (b + c) = a x b + a x c

In the usual arithmetic notation, we don't actually use the "x" symbol for multiplication, we just say:

a (b + c) = ab + ac

You can put any numbers in place of a, b and c, and you will see that it is true:

7 x (8 + 9) = 7 x 8 + 7 x 9

You can see that this has to be true when you expand it out:

7 x (8 + 9) = (8 + 9) + (8 + 9) + (8 + 9) + (8 + 9) + (8 + 9) + (8 + 9) + (8 + 9)

versus:

7 x 8 + 7 x 9 = 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9

Notice that both equations give the same answer (it's 119), so both these equations are the same thing. This is because addition is "commutative". (Remember that "commutativity" means "the order doesn't matter".)

If you're doing addition, the order doesn't matter: in both cases, you have seven 8s, and seven 9s, and you add them together.

So, addition is commutative, and multiplication is a different (but similar!) operation to addition, and these two facts together mean that "multiplication is distributive with regard to addition".

To put it another way, you "distribute" a multiplying factor across all the parts of a sum that are subject to that factor.

So it makes sense to solve the multiplications first, because the multiplying factors have to be treated in this special "distributive" way. Basically, you take them out first to avoid confusion - if you add a number to a multiplying factor without first multiplying that factor by everything it should be multiplied by, you will get the wrong answer.

CA Standards: Algebra II (Algebraic Division/Multiplication)

Preschool Thinking

3 Question for Starting to Preschool Job Today

If you're planning on commencing a preschool job, you may want to ensure that which You Are preparing youngsters properly for Kindergarten. A lot of people are mindful that the early phases of the child's training can make a huge impact within the rest of their lives. Children's personalities are usually formed through this period. When beginning a preschool, you'll want to get incredibly watchful to install optimistic reinforcement and teach large values. It assists if your preschool curriculum supports these similar values.

Producing a exciting, fascinating and educational preschool job will necessitate some attention. It is crucial the fact that preschool be attractive and cleanse so parents will desire to consider their youngsters there. Teachers really should usually be polite, friendly and effectively qualified. If you're lucky enough to obtain a instructor that has a degree in early childhood education, they ought being familiar with handling little ones and knowing the psychology behind children's actions. When establishing a preschool it's essential to not out spending budget on Your Own seeking for any teacher. Be sure to locate 1 that may be inside your spending budget or you will locate by yourself quickly in plenty of economic trouble.

Speaking of funds, a huge consideration you may have when establishing a preschool job is identifying how a Great Deal you can cost every single student. In simple fact, deciding on how significantly you are going to charge is the single most crucial factor you are going to think about as part of your preschool business. It is important simply because it'll determine the rest of one's preschool's spending plan. It'll be your major source of income; thus you are going to must prepare accordingly.

1. Brief operate a long time – In-home daycares are great, but they may be stressful and overwhelming when you could have to deal with crying, whining young children 12 a long time a day. That you are rather a lot operating your life away from household. You are basically operating more than 40 a long time every single week. Who truly wants to try and do that? Like a house primarily based preschool job seller, you only perform two to five hrs everyday. That may be 10-25 hrs per week.

2. Wonderful part time revenue – Because of the reality that in-home daycares are opened for 12 hrs daily, you might assume the fact that proprietors make Much More funds than home dependent preschool job owners. Effectively you are incorrect. In property daycares average all-around $4,000 monthly. Naturally that quantity is dependent on many other aspects. As a Home Based preschool job manager you're only operating part time for that similar amount of funds. The typical home structured preschool operator earns $40/hr. That's $4,000 per month.

3. Older Little ones – Most youngsters that attend in-home daycares aren't potty educated. Remember, you are dealing with babies up to preschool job age inside of a home primarily based daycare. When you've babies, you've got to thoroughly clean diapers. As a preschool teacher, that you are dealing with older, potty educated children..
. properly no Less Than they ought to be.

An aspect to think about when beginning a preschool job is if you happen to be going to be teaching the youngsters by yourself or if you'll employ a qualified instructor to take around the employment. If you decide on to be a Director your occupation will probably be mainly supervising the preschool job.

These are just a couple of things you are going to should consider when starting a preschool. You ought to also feel of one's own ideas for creating your preschool stand out so it is possible to generally be ahead from the competition. Once you get the hang with the preschool company you'll be able to either create a different a single or expand the recent one you've.

Don't forget to usually have the interest of the little ones in thoughts and be sure they enjoy and find out in the same time. Do this and you may take pleasure in a fun and rewarding new career as a preschool instructor!

About the Author

Steve hunt is writin for many web sites. He enjoys writing on wide range of topics such as Preschool Jobs and Preschool Worksheets for Children You can also visit for more details.

Do preschool teachers generally Love the children in their class?

I think it is important a child receives love throughout the day. A big reason I am worried about preschool is that his teacher won't love him, children need love and nurturing to grow. I have a week to decide if he goes to preschool, I still haven't met his teacher who will be in next week. What do I do? What do you think about preschool and love?

I have worked in several different preschools. The best thing for you to do is to go to the preschool you are interested in and talk to the director and teachers and see what their policies are regarding the care the children receive and discipline etc... Sit in on a class and observe the children see how they are treated and reactions of the children to the teacher and teachers aides also - aides are also left alone with children for different reasons so their behavior is also important. Look for lots of positives and hugs from teachers, do they seem frustrated or happy? Children happy to be there? Look for children to adult ratio? is it enough or not enough?
Daycares are very very hectic and busy. Yes I loved my kids but also getting through the day and having so many kids can seem overwhelming sometimes. So again see the teachers reactions and if they seem overworked or overwhelmed. Most teachers do go into this field for the love of children and you can tell if a teacher really cares for the children. Parent to teacher contact is vital and expect daily reports and feedback. Please realize that your child may need lots of time to get used to preschool and expect he/she to not be very happy at first. Crying is very normal and after the first few days please DO NOT stick/hang around thinking it will make it easier for the child because it does not!!!

Good luck and go with your first instinct! If things don't seem right speak up! If you child is happy and happy to go to preschool then thats great!

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