Author : Llewellyn B Davis
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 1991-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781884098000
This is a discussion of home-schooling from the Christian perspective.
Author : Farina King
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0816540926
Returning Home features and contextualizes the creative works of Diné (Navajo) boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, which was the largest federal Indian boarding school between 1950 and 1984. Diné student art and poetry reveal ways that boarding school students sustained and contributed to Indigenous cultures and communities despite assimilationist agendas and pressures. This book works to recover the lived experiences of Native American boarding school students through creative works, student interviews, and scholarly collaboration. It shows the complex agency and ability of Indigenous youth to maintain their Diné culture within the colonial spaces that were designed to alienate them from their communities and customs. Returning Home provides a view into the students’ experiences and their connections to Diné community and land. Despite the initial Intermountain Indian School agenda to send Diné students away and permanently relocate them elsewhere, Diné student artists and writers returned home through their creative works by evoking senses of Diné Bikéyah and the kinship that defined home for them. Returning Home uses archival materials housed at Utah State University, as well as material donated by surviving Intermountain Indian School students and teachers throughout Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Artwork, poems, and other creative materials show a longing for cultural connection and demonstrate cultural resilience. This work was shared with surviving Intermountain Indian School students and their communities in and around the Navajo Nation in the form of a traveling museum exhibit, and now it is available in this thoughtfully crafted volume. By bringing together the archived student arts and writings with the voices of living communities, Returning Home traces, recontextualizes, reconnects, and returns the embodiment and perpetuation of Intermountain Indian School students’ everyday acts of resurgence.
Author : David Shannon
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545529999
David's teacher has her hands full. From running in the halls to chewing gum in class, David's high-energy antics fill each schoolday with trouble-and are sure to bring a smile to even the best-behaved reader.
Author : Shannon Olsen
Publisher : Life Between Summers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781735414140
From the author and illustrator of Our Class is a Family, this touching picture book expresses a teacher's sentiments and well wishes on the last day of school. Serving as a follow up to the letter in A Letter From Your Teacher: On the First Day of School, it's a read aloud for teachers to bid a special farewell to their students at the end of the school year. Through a letter written from the teacher's point of view, the class is invited to reflect back on memories made, connections formed, and challenges met. The letter expresses how proud their teacher is of them, and how much they will be missed. Students will also leave on that last day knowing that their teacher is cheering them on for all of the exciting things to come in the future. There is a blank space on the last page for teachers to sign their own name, so that students know that the letter in the book is coming straight from them. With its sincere message and inclusive illustrations, A Letter From Your Teacher: On the Last Day of School is a valuable addition to any elementary school teacher's classroom library.
Author : Alejandro Zambra
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146682820X
Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raúl. In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story begun in the first section. His father is a man of few words who claims to be apolitical but who quietly sympathized—to what degree, the author isn't sure—with the Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own life—which is strikingly similar to the life of his novel's protagonist—expose the raw suture of fiction and reality. Ways of Going Home switches between author and character, past and present, reflecting with melancholy and rage on the history of a nation and on a generation born too late—the generation which, as the author-narrator puts it, learned to read and write while their parents became accomplices or victims. It is the most personal novel to date from Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolaño.
Author : Cliff McNish
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1444006304
At the Happy Paws Rescue Centre, every pet dreams of one thing: going home. But Ralph, Mitch, Bessie and Fred are the no-hopers: dogs so difficult or troublesome they aren't expected to ever go home. Ralph's face is scarred. Bessie can't stand to be touched. Mitch can't stop chasing cats and Fred . . . has just given up. Who'd want to adopt any of them instead of a cute little puppy? But when Happy Paws reviews its policy of never putting an unwanted pet down, time starts running out for the dogs. Can they prove that they're worth a second chance? Will there be hope for the no-hopers after all?
Author : David Shannon
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 2006-02
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780439954525
Have you met David yet? If not, you're in for a treat . . . and children will be tickled pink by his antics and amusing scrapes. See what happens to David in a typical day at home. He doesn't mean to misbehave, but somehow he just can't help but get into trouble Amusing matching of picture and text will have children laughing out loud and happy to read and re-read the story for a long time to come.
Author : Kio Stark
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Adult education
ISBN : 9780988949003
A handbook for independent learners based on 100 ethnographic interviews, with guidance, how-to, and interviewee stories.
Author : Bridget Farr
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 031649108X
The Fosters meets The Great Gilly Hopkins in this moving novel of a young girl who as sets off on an important mission to save a fellow foster kid from the home that still haunts her nightmares. Twelve-year-old Pavi Sharma is an expert at the Front Door Face: the perfect mix of puppy dog eyes and a lemonade smile, the exact combination to put foster parents at ease as they open their front door to welcome you in. After being bounced around between foster families and shelter stays, Pavi is a foster care expert, and she runs a "business" teaching other foster kids all she has learned. With a wonderful foster family in mom Marjorie and brother Hamilton, things are looking up for Pavi. Then Pavi meets Meridee: a new five-year-old foster kid, who is getting placed at Pavi's first horrendous foster home. Pavi knows no one will trust a kid about what happened on Lovely Lane, even one as mature as she is, so it's up to her to save Meridee. With help from Hamilton, brooding eighth grader Santos, and Hamilton's somewhat obnoxious BFF Piper, they set off on an important mission with life-changing stakes. Pavi will stop at nothing to keep Meridee safe.
Author : Anthony C. Winkler
Publisher : LMH Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
By the Best Selling author of The Painted Canoe soon to be a major Motion Picture The Lunatic now a Motion Picture and The Great Yacht Race Anthony C. Winkler GOING HOME TO TEACH "Everyone going, and you coming." 1975: Nobody could understand why anyone choose, in a time of raging democratic socialism and migrating panic-stricken middle-class Jamaicans, to leave the USA to go to Jamaica to teach. But for Anthony Winkler the reason was simple: he wanted to go home. This autobiographical account of the year that he spent at a rural teacher training college flashes back to the Jamaica of the narrator's childhood, recounting incidents and vignettes that shed light on the muddle of competing personalities, doctrines and images of self currently vying for center stage in the tumult of Jamaican life. Emerging from the story are hilariously drawn characters, contrasts between the Jamaican and American outlook, and lessons about the perils of superimposing a foreign ideology onto a native culture. "I am a Jamaican writer, who by force of circumstances and luck, lives in the United States. I am keenly interested in the cultural chasm that exists between people of different countries, and I have mainly aimed my writing at that theme. Odd things always seem to be popping about me in the United States, and I must periodically run home to Jamaica for a taste of normalcy." -Anthony Winkler. '? Anthony Winkler is a man who lives and breathes the island's culture's and customs, speaks and writes in the musical rhythms of its language, understands the unending struggle for survival and dignity that is every Jamaican's lot." -Vincent Coppola, Atlanta Magazine Cover illustration: The Visit' by AlbertArtwell, reproduced with the permission of the Hardingham Collection. About the Author Anthony C. Winker was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He was educated at Mount Alvernia Academy then Corwall College in Montego Bay, and California State University in Los Angeles. He is the author of several textbooks in English and Public Speaking which are widely used in American colleges and universities. His first novel, The Painted Canoe, was published by Kingston Publishers in 1983, followed by The Lunatic in 1987 and The Great Yacht Race in 1992. American editions of the first two novels were published by Lyle Stuart in 1986 and 1987 respectively. All three novels met with international critical acclaim, and the movie The Lunatic was released in 1990. Mr. Winkler currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and two children.
