Author : Jeanette Hanscome
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781589970885
Solana's uncle is faced with losing his ranch after a bad injury. Can she and her friends help save the ranch or will the expenses be too much?
Author : Ginny Moore Kruse
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Children's literature, American
ISBN :
"A careful selection of children's and young adult books with multicultural themes and topics which were published in the United States and Canada between 1991 and 1996"--Preface, p. vii.
Author : John Galligan
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2001-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780970409898
A young American teacher disappears in small-town Japan. The next teacher, an older man on the run from his troubled life must find out the truth.
Author : Shirley McPhillips
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1003843980
In everything we have to understand, poetry can help. Tony Hoagland, Harper's , April 2013 In Poem Central: Word Journeys with Readers and Writers , Shirley McPhillips helps us better understand the central role poetry can play in our personal lives and in the life of our classrooms. She introduces us to professional poets, teachers, and students----people of different ages and walks of life---who are actively engaged in reading and making poems. Their stories and their work show us the power of poems to illuminate the ordinary, to nurture, inspire and stand alongside us for the journey. Poem Central is divided into three main parts-;weaving poetry into our lives and our classrooms, reading poems, and writing poems. McPhillipshas structured the book in short sections that are easy to read and dip into. Each section has a specific focus, provides background knowledge, shows poets at work, highlights information on crafting, defines poetic terms, features finished work, includes classroom examples, and lists additional resources. In Poem Central -; a place where people and poems meet-;teachers and students will discover how to find their way into a poem, have conversations around poems, and learn fresh and exciting ways to make poems. Readers will enjoy the dozens of poems throughout the book that serve to instruct, to inspire, and to send us on unique word journeys of the mind and heart.
Author : Pamela S. Gates
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1442206888
As multicultural education is becoming integral to the core curriculum, teachers often implement this aspect into their courses through literature. However, standards and criteria to teach and promote active discussion about this literature are sparse. Cultural Journeys introduces pre-service and experienced teachers to the use of literature to promote active discussions that lead students to think about racial diversity. More than just an annotated list of books for children, Pamela S. Gates and Dianne L. Hall Mark provide systematic guidelines that teachers can use throughout their careers to evaluate multicultural literature for students in grades K-8. At the same time, the text leads the reader to a deeper understanding of how to use multicultural literature throughout the entire curriculum and not just during specially designated months or time periods. With the example unit plans and extensive annotated bibliography, this book is a valuable resource that pre-service teachers will utilize when they begin teaching and in-service teachers will reference repeatedly during their planning periods.
Author : Suzanne Miale Miller
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791416457
Does literature serve a humanizing function? Can it achieve social transformation? What roles does literature play for defining self, creating community, and achieving global perspective? This is the first book to thoroughly explore the methods by which educators, creative writers, and policymakers have constructed workable models of teaching literature in multicultural classrooms. The authors provide an interdisciplinary dialogue on the setbacks, solutions, silences, and successes that often occur in classes of multicultural literature. They all take the stance that definitions of literacy and literature originate as much outside the classroom as within it. With the inclusion of essays by writers themselves--a feature provided by no other book on this subject--the authors offer a unique vocalization of the nationalistic, economic, empowering, and moral purposes that reading and writing serve. The book also includes a current guide to selected resources in multicultural literature, in hopes of encouraging and facilitating instructors in the transformation of their own literature courses into multicultural ones.
Author : Diana Gabaldon
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 038567466X
From the author of Outlander, a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland. For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones, about a love that transcends the boundaries of time and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his. Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart, in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves.
Author : Nan McDonald
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 2002-05-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1461648645
Developing Arts Loving Readers is based on the premise that children can and do learn a great deal about the arts and their own abilities innately. Involvement and immersion author Nan. L. McDonald argues, are the ways in which children may feel welcome to write, move, create, draw, and otherwise express ideas about art and music directly. Teaching suggestions are offered to classroom teachers and other non-specialists, so that classroom-reading activities may be extended into group discussions, co-operative learning-arts projects, and creative performances. Appended are extensive resource lists for further integrated arts teaching in the classroom.
Author : Harold B. White, III
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1611490014
This book provides the first comprehensive coverage of the dragonflies and damselflies of the Delmarva Peninsula. It includes color photographs of all 129 species known to occur in the region. Each species serves as a prompt for a short essay. The collection offers an eclectic introduction to the world of dragonflies and the people who study them. There is something here for everyone from the casual reader to the expert.
Author : Robert Algeri
Publisher : Publication Consultants
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1637470010
Filthy Lucre? Some call it dirty money. Anchorage Alaska 1981. As the oil industry and business across Alaska booms, a lethal combination of greed, corruption, and crime rise viciously across the city of Anchorage. This destabilized climate provides a windfall for a new breed of transnational criminal elite, they are utterly ruthless. Standing in the seedy shadows lurk three violent homicidal maniacs all entwined by a devious conspiracy to deal in human flesh, human trafficking. Robert Hansen, known as the Butcher Baker, abducted, raped, and murdered at least 17 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska. Between 1971 and 1983, he hunted many of his victims down in the wilderness with a Ruger Mini-14 and a knife.
