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Workshopping the Canon for Democracy and Justice adopts and adapts foundational reading and writing workshop structures for democratic and justice teaching in the context of the middle and secondary classroom and curriculum.
Through workshopping, teachers can foster democratic dispositions and skills as they explore justice-oriented units focused around core canonical texts, or teachers may elect to disrupt and displace the canon by teaching...
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I don't have any ideas. “How do I set the scene?” This is too hard!' Heard any of those before? What if there was a way to nurture our students' imaginations, confidence and creative problem-solving capabilities while building the essential writing skills that will set them up for success across the curriculum?
In Time to Write: A Powerful Writing Practice for Your Classroom Beth Cregan calls on her own extensive writing and teaching experience...
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Pain is a universal language. We have all experienced it, all the varied variants of it.
Pain requires release
So I wrote these
Hope somehow, somewhen
These poems brings you ease
This book is to be a reminder of how we have been there before and will get through for sure.
4) Two Poets
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Two Poets by Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Ellen Marriage
libreka classics — These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience.
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In the present scenario of starting the 21st century, these facts have kept a big meaning because Science is extremely developed on Earth. Such information technology as we can see the latest mobiles, computers, and TVs highly communicates with each other devices. In transport technology, we can see Flying Cars, electric, and hydrogen cars just we can say that scientific fiction come into true reality. Other big achievements in space technology are...
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The pioneering and still essential text on semantics, urging readers to improve human communication and understanding with precise, concrete language.
In 1938, Stuart Chase revolutionized the study of semantics with his classic text, Tyranny of Words. Decades later, this eminently useful analysis of the way we use words continues to resonate. A contemporary of the economist Thorstein Veblen and the author Upton Sinclair, Chase was a social theorist...
8) Ursula
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Ursula by Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
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"Hitting a writer's block? Disintegrate it with these 60 prompts. Turn your ideas from verbs in your head to thoughts on paper. Writer's block is often one of the largest antagonists of a writer. This book seeks to help writers overcome writer's block through the use of prompts, combining both poetry and story elements. Join the journey of wrestling and putting writer's block into submission."
10) Foniktoons
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This book contains 50 Foniktoon puzzles that will help you increase your vocabulary in a fun way. Read the captions above the illustrations and then see the translations below.Homonyms are words that are pronounced the same as each other (e.g., maid/made) or have the same spelling (e.g., lead weight/to lead). When homonyms have the same sound, they are called homophones. When they have the same spelling, they are known as homographs.Foniktoons word...
11) The Bab Ballads
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The Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert
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14) The Writer's Art
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Writing comes in grades of quality in the fashion of beer and baseball games-good, better, and best.
With the experience of a lifetime spent writing, James J. Kilpatrick wants to make a few judgment calls. Here, in the great tradition of Theodore Bernstein, Edwin Newman, and William Safire, a master of the art gives us a finely crafted, witty guide to writing well. Intended for laymen and professionals alike, The Writer's Art highlights techniques...
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This is not a book or a guide. It's an instruction manual.Just like you would use to build a flat-pack wardrobe.This one happens to be for stories of any genre, from horror to romanceIt's a practical, step by step, nuts and bolts approach.Add a bunch of innovative, unique tips and you have everything you need to craft a page turner.Jan-Andrew Henderson is a professional editor, industry assessor and multi-award-winning author of 40 books.
16) Greyfriars Bobby
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The classic true story of a lovable Scottish dog whose loyalty knew no bounds Each day, the cannon of Edinburgh Castle blasts a shot across town. It never fails to surprise Bobby, the silver-haired Skye terrier of Greyfriars Kirkyard, who fires back with a flurry of indignant yips. He always quiets down, though, because he knows it means it's one o'clock-and one o'clock is when it's time to eat. Bobby's master, the shepherd Auld Jock, feeds the...
17) Children's Language Development The Role of Parental Input, Vocabulary Composition, And Early Co
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"Children's Language Development" delves into the intricate interplay between parental guidance, vocabulary richness, and the pivotal early stages of communication in a child's linguistic journey. This illuminating book navigates through the multifaceted role of parental input as a cornerstone in shaping a child's language prowess, exploring how the diverse tapestry of vocabulary influences cognitive development. It unravels the significance of early...
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A fun jaunt into the convoluted wilds of the English language, Sentence Diagramming 101 explores the relationship between words using traditional sentence diagramming, lots of movie references, and plenty of practice exercises (Yes, it has an answer key and a website with cool videos–as cool as grammar videos can be anyway).
This book begins with an overview of the parts of speech before delving into word function and sentence patterns. From...
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Get the Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's What the Dog Saw in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" is a collection of essays by Malcolm Gladwell that explores the intricacies of various phenomena through the lens of psychology, economics, and social science. The book delves into the lives of pitchmen like Ron Popeil and his family, who revolutionized the infomercial industry with...
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A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning is an inviting conversation with a learned scholar about the content of an authentic liberal arts education. It surveys ideas and books central to the tradition of humanistic education that has fundamentally shaped our country and our civilization. This accessible volume argues for an order and integration of knowledge so that meaning might be restored to the haphazard approach to study currently dominating higher...
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