{"id":21282,"date":"2014-06-19T12:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T08:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=21282"},"modified":"2014-06-19T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T08:31:09","slug":"the-art-of-the-crossword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2014\/06\/19\/the-art-of-the-crossword\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of the Crossword"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Students in Grades 7 and \u00a08 have now completed their last major English units for the year so I decided that they should learn an essential life skill: how to do a crossword!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am a personal fan of the crossword and used to do a lot in my former life as a single man without a family. Learning to do crosswords offers the following advantages to students: a) they learn a new skill and strategy, b) they learning new words and synonyms, c) they learn patience, d) they learn the value of broadening their vocabulary. \u00a0There is also a certain feeling\u00a0of joy\/success when you complete one. In case you&#8217;re\u00a0bored and fancy a go, I have attached one that Grade 7 attempted today (they were allowed to visit &#8216;Uncle Google&#8217;). \u00a0Maybe they&#8217;ll do some over the summer break!<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #222222;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2014\/06\/the-art-of-the-crossword\/screen-shot-2014-06-19-at-08-09-00\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21284\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21284 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-19-at-08.09.00.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-19 at 08.09.00\" width=\"1064\" height=\"1266\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-19-at-08.09.00.png 1064w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-19-at-08.09.00-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-19-at-08.09.00-860x1024.png 860w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-19-at-08.09.00-600x713.png 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1064px) 100vw, 1064px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1064px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1064\/1266;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in Grades 7 and \u00a08 have now completed their last major English units for the year so I decided that they should learn an essential life skill: how to do a crossword! I am a personal fan of the crossword and used to do a lot in my former life as a single man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":21284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secondary-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}