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The Breadwinner Lit Link Gr. 4-6

Autor: Nat Reed

Número de Páginas: 65

Based on the true-life stories of women in Afghan refugee camps, The Breadwinner is an engrossing novel that delves into the harsh realities of life for girls and women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Eleven-year-old Parvana and her family have rarely been outdoors for a year and a half. No longer can she or her siblings attend school, or play outdoors. The family's situation becomes perilous when Parvana's father is taken away to jail. It is then that Parvana is forced to take on the responsibility of being the Breadwinner for her small family. disguised as a boy, Parvana goes out to the marketplace each day to offer her skills as a reader. Here Parvana realizes a freedom that she has not known in a long time. But will she be safe? Reproducible chapter questions, plus comprehension questions, a story summary, author biography, creative and cross curricular activities, complete with answer key.

El pan de la guerra

Autor: Deborah Ellis

Número de Páginas: 113

Antes, Parvana llevaba una vida normal: iba a la escuela, salía a jugar con sus amigas y vestía como quería. Sin embargo, desde que los talibanes llegaron al poder, las niñas y las mujeres sólo pueden salir de sus casas acompañadas de un hombre. ¿Qué hará Parvana ahora que su padre —el único hombre en el hogar— ha sido capturado por los talibanes y no hay quien mantenga a su familia?

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences

Autor: David C. Lindberg , Theodore M. Porter , Roy Porter , Ronald L. Numbers

Número de Páginas: 802

This volume provides a history of the concepts, practices, institutions, and ideologies of social sciences (including behavioural and economic sciences) since the eighteenth century. It offers original, synthetic accounts of the historical development of social knowledge, including its philosophical assumptions, its social and intellectual organization, and its relations to science, medicine, politics, bureaucracy, philosophy, religion, and the professions. Its forty-two chapters include inquiries into the genres and traditions that formed social science, the careers of the main social disciplines (psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, history, and statistics), and international essays on social science in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It also includes essays that examine the involvement of the social sciences in government, business, education, culture, and social policy. This is a broad cultural history of social science, which analyzes from a variety of perspectives its participation in the making of the modern world.

Imagining the American Polity

Autor: John G. Gunnell

Número de Páginas: 308

Using the distinctive "internalist" approach he has developed for writing intellectual history, Gunnell traces the dynamics of conceptual change and continuity as American political science evolved from a focus in the nineteenth century on the idea of the state, through the emergence of a pluralist theory of democracy in the 1920s and its transfiguration into liberalism in the mid-1930s, up to the rearticulation of pluralist theory in the 1950s and its resurgence, yet again, in the 1990s.

Parvana

Autor: Deborah Ellis

Número de Páginas: 192

Parvana a onze ans et n'a jamais connu son pays autrement qu'en guerre. Une guerre de cauchemar qui interdit aux femmes de sortir non voilées ou sans l'escorte d'un homme, père ou mari. Assez grande pour être soumise à ces interdits, Parvana doit pourtant trouver une façon de les contourner. Car depuis que les talibans ont emprisonné son père, c'est sur elle seule que repose la survie de la famille...

Parvana - Une enfance en Afghanistan

Autor: Deborah Ellis , Anne-laure Brisac , Christian Broutin

Número de Páginas: 113

Parvana a onze ans et n'a jamais connu son pays autrement qu'en guerre. Une guerre de cauchemar qui interdit aux femmes de sortir non voilées ou sans l'escorte d'un homme, père ou mari. Assez grande pour être soumise à ces interdits, Parvana doit pourtant trouver une façon de les contourner. Car depuis que les talibans ont emprisonné son père, c'est sur elle seule que repose la survie de la famille...

These Are the Names

Autor: John Levi

Número de Páginas: 1165

Between 1788 and 1850, more than 1500 Jewish men and women were either transported to Australia as convicts or arrived as free settlers. This important biographical dictionary presents the details - occasionally sketchy but sometimes extensive - of more than 1500 of these pioneers. Rabbi John Levi's painstaking research through the fragmentary and often contradictory colonial records has culminated in an invaluable reference work and resource. A wealth of information, including birth names, extra names, nicknames, aliases and maiden names, together with details of marriages, children and occupations, makes These are the Names a major contribution to an important but little-recognised aspect of Australia's settlement history. For the first time, the earliest generation of Jews to settle in Australia is named and remembered.

The Wights

Autor: William Ward Wight

Número de Páginas: 380

The Berkeley Literary Women's Revolution

Autor: Marsha Hudson , Bridget Connelly , Doris Earnshaw

Número de Páginas: 252

Even during the late 1960s, academia remained largely the province of men. That began to change at the University of California at Berkeley in 1969, when Marsha Hudson posted notices across campus proposing a feminist literary salon. The purpose was to discuss women's literature: a few female writers received passing notice in the classroom, but the multitude was either ignored or forgotten. The informal gatherings continued for years, growing into an activist movement that established the first Women's Studies major at Berkeley; helped produce the first major anthologies of women's poetry; and fought for equality and recognition in every corner of the education system. They risked their academic futures in the process, but the efforts of those women and others helped change the face and shape of higher learning forever. These 16 essays were written by members of Marsha's Salon and its successors, the Comparative Literature Women's Caucus, a group of female graduate students at UC-Berkeley organized in 1969 by Marsha Hudson. The group met for years, and helped lead the charge to bring sexual equality to all facets of education. These annotated essays recount the atmosphere of the...

Biographical Sketches of Richard Ellis, the First Settler of Ashfield, Mass., and His Descendants

Número de Páginas: 510

Genocide in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Autor: Jane Gangi

Número de Páginas: 286

This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory to provide both literary analysis and implications for educating the young. Many of the authors visited accurately and authentically portray the genocide about which they write; others perpetuate stereotypes or otherwise distort, demean, or oversimplify. In this focus on young people’s literature of specific genocides, Gangi profiles and critiques works on the Cambodian genocide (1975-1979); the Iraqi Kurds (1988); the Maya of Guatemala (1981-1983); Bosnia, Kosovo, and Srebrenica (1990s); Rwanda (1994); and Darfur (2003-present). In addition to critical analysis, each chapter also provides historical background based on the work of prominent genocide scholars. To conduct research for the book, Gangi traveled to Bosnia, engaged in conversation with young people from Rwanda, and spoke with scholars who had traveled to or lived in Guatemala and Cambodia. This book analyses the ways contemporary children, typically ages ten and up, are engaged in the study of genocide, and addresses the ways in which child survivors who have witnessed...

The Complete Guide to Service Learning

Autor: Cathryn Berger Kaye

Número de Páginas: 289

The Complete Guide to Service Learning is the go-to resource in the fast-growing field of service learning. It is an award-winning treasury of service activities, community service project ideas, quotes, reflections, and resources that can help teachers and youth workers engage young hearts and minds in reaching out and giving back. Author and internationally known service learning expert Cathryn Berger Kaye presents service learning—its importance, steps, essential elements, and challenges—within a curricular context and organized by theme. This second edition maintains the easy-to-use format of the original and is enhanced with updated information on service learning programs and pedagogy. Benefits include: A blueprint for service learning, from getting started to assessing the experience Integration of K–12 service learning standards Inspiring quotations, background information and resources, preparation activities, real-life examples, and community service project ideas that have worked for other teachers 13 thematic chapters covering topics commonly selected for service learning projects such as animal protection and care, elders, emergency readiness, the environment,...

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Autor: Elizabeth Marshall , Özlem Sensoy

Número de Páginas: 354

A provocative collection of articles that begins with the idea that the "popular" in classrooms and in the everyday lives of teachers and students is fundamentally political. This anthology includes articles by elementary and secondary public school teachers, scholars and activists who examine how and what popular toys, books, films, music and other media "teach." The essays offer strong critiques and practical pedagogical strategies for educators at every level to engage with the popular.

Books About the Middle East

Autor: Tami Al-hazza , Katherine Toth Bucher

Número de Páginas: 193

Learn all about Middle Eastern culture and how to use that literature in K-12 schools to promote understanding. • Use this one-stop resource for information on Middle Eastern culture and literature • Share this resource with classroom teachers to make your school more inclusive and culturally responsive • Chapters provide background information about the countries and peoples of the place, literature related to the region and to the major ethnic groups of the region, guidelines for selecting children's and young adult literature about the region, and strategies for incorporation This new resource includes an annotated bibliography of children's and young adult books with evaluations, reading/interest level, review sources, awards/prizes, and Accelerated Reader/Reading Counts availability.

A Documentary History of Modern Iraq

Autor: Stacy E. Holden

Número de Páginas: 407

Previously published histories and primary source collections on the Iraqi experience tend to be topically focused or dedicated to presenting a top-down approach. By contrast, Stacy Holden's A Documentary History of Modern Iraq gives voice to ordinary Iraqis, clarifying the experience of the Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Jews, and women over the past century. Through varied documents ranging from short stories to treaties, political speeches to memoirs, and newspaper articles to book excerpts, the work synthesizes previously marginalized perspectives of minorities and women with the voices of the political elite to provide an integrated picture of political change from the Ottoman Empire in 1903 to the end of the second Bush administration in 2008. Covering a broad range of topics, this bottom-up approach allows readers to fully immerse themselves in the lives of everyday Iraqis as they navigate regime shifts from the British to the Hashemite monarchy, the political upheaval of the Persian Gulf wars, and beyond. Brief introductions to each excerpt provide context and suggest questions for classroom discussion. This collection offers raw history, untainted and unfiltered by modern...

Dare to Read

Autor: Wade Mcjacobs

Número de Páginas: 87

Be in control of your reading. With the Read Through It Strategy, you will be empowered to make decisions while you read. You will gain confidence as you decide how much you learn from any given passage. There are no tests of comprehension or word pronunciation. Essentially, you are on a diet of reading whatever it is you would like to read. You are also free to change it if you are not having fun. You are in control! When 16-year-old student, Karen, read the word “little” as “small,” she had no awareness of her error because there was no error in her comprehension. Her teacher, Wade McJacobs, asked himself, “Is that truly an error?” Did she get the word wrong? Yes. Did she fail to understand because of the error? Absolutely not. With guidance Karen learned to have confi dence in her reading abilities and in herself. She learned to trust her capacity to perform and to work with the power of her mind. From this Positive Error came the Read Through It Strategy. Dare to Read: Improving Your Reading Speed and Skills provides a systematic set of guidelines that will build your confi dence as a reader and as a thinking person. By following simple steps and practicing...

Freedom Writer

Autor: Patricia Sullivan

Número de Páginas: 707

Virginia Foster Durr was a monumental champion for civil rights. A white southerner who returned to Alabama in 1951 after twenty years in Washington, she was horrified to revisit the racism of her childhood. She wrote hundreds of letters - humorous, sharp and observant - to her friends up north, among them Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, Hugo Black and C. Vann Woodward. Published on the 100th anniversary of Durr's birth, her letters offer a distinctive glimpse into the day-to-day battles for racial justice at a pivotal moment in American history.

School Leadership for Refugees’ Education

Autor: Khalid Arar

Número de Páginas: 252

School Leadership for Refugees’ Education examines how educational leaders shape and lead different practices to meet refugee students' educational needs, while also considering issues of equity and social justice. It presents cutting-edge theoretical understanding and rich first-hand research findings, which point out the local idiosyncrasies and cross-national themes involved in leading welcoming schools for newcomers. The book provides a global analysis of policy guidelines and up-to-date research findings concerning refugee education. Vast populations have been forced to leave their homelands in recent years due to war, political conflict and economic collapse. The countries that provide sanctuary need to ensure quality education that will allow these destitute but hopeful children to build a new future. Through this book a comprehensive model is presented to guide culturally relevant educational leadership to welcome newcomers in their schools and society. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of educational leadership, social justice education and educational administration.

Modern Pluralism

Autor: Mark Bevir

Número de Páginas: 265

The first history of one of the most important intellectual movements of the modern era.

Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

Autor: Albrecht Classen

Número de Páginas: 769

The contributors to this new volume explore the wide gamut of characteristic features determining the rise of the city as a central living space since the high Middle Ages, and extend the investigation up to the eighteenth century. Historians, liter

Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia

Autor: Montserrat Piera

Número de Páginas: 507

This book is devoted to medieval Iberian women, readers and writers. Focusing on the stories and texts women heard, visually experienced or read, and the stories that they rewrote, the work explores women’s experiences and cultural practices and their efforts to make sense of their place within their familial networks and communities. The study is based on two methodological and interpretive threads: a new paradigm to represent premodern reading and, a study of women’s writing, or, more precisely, women’s textualities, as a process of creating words but also acts, social practices, emotions and, ultimately, affectus, understood here as the embodiment of the ability to affect and be affected.

Let My Handmaid Speak

Autor: Jeraldine T. Posey D.min.

Número de Páginas: 382

The debate over women preachers has raged for centuries, but the argument has not beenand probably will not beresolved. This book is not an addendum to that dispute. It is, however, an attempt to show some of the difficulties lady ministers have overcome to answer Gods call to proclaim His Word. The International Pentecostal Holiness Church, from its inception, has recognized women by admitting them to pulpits and allowing them to pastor churches. Lady ministers have also served successfully as evangelists and missionaries. However, the leadership of the denomination at a Solemn Assembly in 1996 acknowledged that the church had withheld from women places of honor and desired to release them to serve in leadership roles. Historically, women have gained ground only to lose it again, and even in our twenty-first century society, some still refuse to let Gods handmaids speak.

Primary Source Fluency Activities: The 20th Century

Autor: Wendy Conklin

Número de Páginas: 193

Make difficult primary source materials accessible to today's students. This book provides a wide variety of primary sources from 20th century events with activities that teach important fluency strategies and cover key events and people of the time period.

The Fiction Gateway

Autor: Suzanne Eberlé , Noelle Williamson

Número de Páginas: 178

In this guide to children's literature, two experienced school librarians set out to answer the question, 'What's a good book for me to read next?', by providing a selection of books for librarians, teachers and parents from which to choose the most appropriate book. The Fiction Gateway is an essential resource that supports individual, group and social reading programs and provides an instant guide to matching children's interests with suitable reading material. Each entry contains: Brief synopsis of the plot Publisher details Theme correlations Concepts and reading level Questions for discussion An excerpt Range of post-reading activities.

What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Fiction, Grades 3-8

Autor: Gravity Goldberg , Renee Houser

Número de Páginas: 356

Streamline formative assessment for readers in just minutes a day. With What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Fiction, learn how to move your students forward in their reading with this 4-step process—lean in, listen to students’ talk about books, look at their writing about reading, and then make teaching decisions based on what they′ve conquered and what challenges they need to take on next. This practical approach shows you how to notice when readers are doing mostly literal, "right there" on the page thinking; when they are doing "over-time" synthesizing across a text; and when they are ready to kick into high gear and connect ideas across texts and real word themes. The authors provide next-step resources for whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction, including: Tips for what to look for and listen for in reading notebook entries and conversations about books Reproducible Clipboard Notes pages that help you decide whether to reinforce a current type of thinking, teach a new type of thinking, or apply a current type of thinking to a new text More than 30 lessons on understanding characters and themes, meaningful note taking, strategy use, and more Reading notebook ...

Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment

Autor: John Gattorna

Número de Páginas: 441

Just like the world financial system, but for different reasons, 21st-century corporations need a new business model for their enterprise supply chains. The old conventions no longer work in this new world of volatile and increasingly unpredictable demand and supply. The enterprise needs to become more 'connected' to its own parts, as well as its partners up and down the chains it participates in. So too, we need to embrace new ways of looking at customers to gain deeper, more insightful impressions of what they are telling us about the way they want to buy our products and services. Finally, these signals need converting into corresponding action, driven by the people in the business, leaders and staff alike, who are aligned to their customers' wishes. This is the world of dynamic supply chain alignment where, increasingly, supply chains are the business. In the follow-up to his hugely successful Strategic Supply Chain Alignment, John Gattorna's Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment, explores how to create and sustain multiple supply chains with a level of flexibility and responsiveness that allow you to respond to opportunities and threats; at the same time aligning with your...

Collaborating to Support All Learners in English, Social Studies, and Humanities

Autor: Faye Brownlie , Leyton Schnellert

Número de Páginas: 267

How can we help students develop the thinking skills they need to be successful learners? How does this relate to deep learning of important concepts? How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms where they develop understanding and thinking skills? In this book, Faye and Leyton explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn. This book is written by two experienced educators who offer a welcoming and “can do” approach to the big ideas in education today. In this book, you will find: insightful ways to teach diverse learners, e.g., literature and information circles, open-ended strategies, cooperative learning, inquiry curriculum design frameworks, e.g., universal design for learning (UDL) and backward design assessment for, of, and as learning lessons to help students develop deep learning and thinking skills in English, Social Studies, and Humanities excellent examples of theory and practice made accessible real school examples of collaboration — teachers working together to create better learning opportunities for their students

The Kids' Book Club Book

Autor: Judy Gelman , Vicki Levy Krupp

Número de Páginas: 481

The first complete guide-for use by adults and children-to creating fun and educational book clubs for kids. As authors of The Book Club Cookbook, the classic guide to integrating great food and food-related discussion into book club gatherings, Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp hear a common refrain from parents, librarians, teachers, community leaders and kids themselves: "How about writing a book for kids' book clubs?" Indeed, in recent years youth organizations, parents, libraries, schools, and our local, state, and federal governments have launched thousands of book clubs for children as a way to counter falling literacy rates and foster a love of reading. Based on surveys representing five hundred youth book clubs across the country and interviews with parents, kids, educators, and librarians, The Kids' Book Club Book features: _- the top fifty favorite book club reads for children ages eight to eighteen; _- ideas and advice on forming great kids' book clubs-and tips for kids who want to start their own book clubs; _- recipes, activities, and insights from such bestselling children's book authors as Christopher Paolini, Lois Lowry, Jerry Spinelli, Nancy Farmer, Christopher...

Reading Globally, K–8

Autor: Barbara A. Lehman , Evelyn B. Freeman , Patricia L. Scharer

Número de Páginas: 169

Showing how teachers can infuse global literature throughout the K–8 curriculum, this inspiring guide recommends numerous outstanding books and provides a wealth of teaching ideas.

To Provide a Shelter for the Homeless at 425 Second Street, NW, in the District of Columbia

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Public Works And Transportation. Subcommittee On Public Buildings And Grounds

Número de Páginas: 260

Annaleise Carr

Autor: Annaleise Carr

Número de Páginas: 146

Over eight months worth of planning, hundreds of hours of hard physical training, amassing a team of dedicated crewmates, approaching sponsors and collecting donations -- and finally, swimming for twenty-seven hours across the cold, rough waters of Lake Ontario. Why would a fourteen-year-old girl take on such a challenge? For Annaleise Carr, the motivation came not from a desire for glory. Her ultimate quest was to raise money for her new friends at Camp Trillium, a charity that provides a camping experience for kids with cancer. What kept her going through the cold water, the exhaustion, and the terrifying night swim was the thought of those kids and their families that she was helping. In August of 2012, she became the youngest person to cross Lake Ontario, breaking the record set more than fifty years earlier by Marilyn Bell. Readers will meet an extraordinary fourteen-year-old girl in this book. As she tells her story, it becomes clear how idealism and an intense desire to help others can lead a young teen to almost unimaginable achievements. [Fry reading level - 4.8

New York Magazine

Número de Páginas: 172

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Critical Readings in Teacher Education

Número de Páginas: 235

Like other fields of study, teacher education defines itself both by what it includes and by what it excludes. Teacher educators and researchers have spent a great deal of time seeking and attempting to eradicate the flaws in existing structures and practices, but significantly less time learning to perceive the absences. The premise of this book is that until we can identify and begin to address what is absent, teacher education will be constrained by a perennial recycling of concerns that have characterized so much of research, policy and practice to date. If teacher education is to have a different future, we need to ask different and difficult questions. This book, with contributions from theorists in Australia, Canada and the United States, addresses the challenges we face in establishing a more hopeful future for teacher education. The authors’ provocative contributions identify what is ‘missing’ in teacher education while providing critical counterpoints to existing frames of reference in the field. In writing ‘against the grain’ they open up new conceptual spaces and exciting trajectories for a different teacher education.

Caring Hearts and Critical Minds

Autor: Steven Wolk

Número de Páginas: 363

Imagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a test, teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their future as workers. What if school were also about cultivating students to be caring, community-involved citizens and critical, creative thinkers who love to read? In Caring Hearts & Critical Minds, teacher-author Steven Wolk shows teachers how to help students become better readers as well as better people. I want [my students] to be thinkers and have rich conversations regarding critical issues in the text and be able to formulate opinions regarding these issues, says Leslie Rector, a sixth-grade teacher who collaborated with Wolk on some of the units featured in this book. Wolk demonstrates how to integrate inquiry learning, exciting and contemporary literature, and teaching for social responsibility across the curriculum. He takes teachers step-by-step through the process of designing an inquiry-based literature unit and then provides five full units used in real middle-grade classrooms. Featuring a remarkable range of recommended resources and hundreds of novels from across the literary genres, Caring Hearts & Critical Minds gives teachers a...

Deepening Literacy Learning

Autor: Mary Ann Reilly , Jane M. Gangi , Rob Cohen

Número de Páginas: 412

Political Science and the Problem of Social Order

Autor: Henrik Enroth

Número de Páginas: 211

The problem of social order is the question of what holds complex and diverse societies together. Today, this question has become increasingly urgent in the world. Yet our ability to ask and answer the question in a helpful way is constrained by the intellectual legacy through which the question has been handed down to us. In this impressive, erudite study, Henrik Enroth describes and analyzes how the problem of social order has shaped concept formation, theory, and normative arguments in political science. The book covers a broad range of influential thinkers and theories throughout the history of political science, from the early twentieth century onwards. Social order has long been a presupposition for inquiry in political science; now we face the challenge of turning it into an object of inquiry.

Emilia Galotti

Autor: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Número de Páginas: 154

Good Books Matter

Autor: Shelley Stagg Peterson , Larry Swartz

Número de Páginas: 186

Based on extensive research on the features that make children's books appealing and appropriate, this valuable teacher resource offers guidance on selecting books, strategies for specific grade levels, suggestions for extension, and tips for assessment. This teacher-friendly book is organized around the major genres -- traditional literature, picture books, nonfiction, poetry, and multicultural texts -- that will inspire young readers. Throughout the book, teachers will find suggestions for using literature to implement shared reading, reading aloud, and response strategies with emergent, developing, and independent readers.