From Cover to Cover (Revised Edition) Evaluating and Reviewing Children' s Books
by Kathleen T Horning
This series aims to help teenagers make up their own minds on some of the most controversial issues facing people around the world today. The arguments on all sides of each issue are illustrated using quotations taken from a variety of different sources. The readers are guided through the various arguments by a running narrative and the text is supplemented by information boxes and questions. The books in this series will provide useful resource material for current affairs, history, politics an...
Schools (Victorian Times, #6)
The Columbine School Shooting (Perspectives on Modern World History)
"The Columbine School Shooting: The series provides basic historical information on a significant event in modern world history, presents the controversies surrounding the event, and provides first-person narratives"--
Covers both the physical and social aspects of the world of sport and physical education in the UK. Takes into account recent curriculum developments and addresses topical issues. Simple uncomplicated layout, with photos, fact panels, tables and charts. Includes contact information for organisations and suggestions for further reading.
A gorgeous, full-color oversized book about educating girls across the world inspired by the documentary that Entertainment Weekly says “every mother, sister, daughter, should see, as well as the men who love and support them.” This is the right book for the present moment and perfect for fans of inspirational nonfiction such as I Am Malala and anyone who believes that one girl can change the world. Worldwide, over 130 million girls are not in school. But one girl with courage is a revolution. ...
Year-Round Schools (At Issue (Paperback)) (At Issue (Library))
When You'Ve Made it Your Own...Teaching Poetry to Young People
by Gregory A. Denman
"When You've Made It Your Own" is written in a light, conversational tone in the hope of demystifying poetry for the teacher so that it could be easily and pleasurably incorporated in the language arts curriculum. Denman, a professional storyteller and language arts consultant, addresses the elementary and middle school teacher, explaining the nature and purpose of poetry, reading and appreciating poetry, and writing poems. There is an extensive presentation of ready-made poetry activities, a li...
The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer
by Lucia D Tyler and Susan E Henninger
The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer is a comprehensive guide, designed to make college transfer between four-year schools as successful as possible. Chapters outline the steps to take from the moment a student finds him/herself considering college transfer to the first semester at his/her next college. The book contains vignettes (based on real student stories) and excerpts from interviews with transfer students, parents, and higher education professionals. The information and advice they s...
Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most. What if you could look inside your favorite authors’ heads and see the book that led them to become who they are today? What was the book that made them fall in love, or made them understand something for the first time? What was the book that made them feel challenged in ways they never knew they could be, emotionally...
A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
Every bookshop has a storyWe're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I've-ever-been-to-bookshops.Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the...
Arthur Schopenhauer (Compêndios Da Filosofia, #1)
by Pomar Assets
Fighting Censorship
by Christina Ellis, Renee Ellis, Edha Gupta, Ben Hodge, Patricia Jackson, and Olivia Pituch
Although most people have a sincere desire to improve themselves - to make themselves smarter, happier, and more interesting - people are also pretty lazy, and really just want to sit on the couch and watch a movie. But those two impulses aren't necessarily mutually exclusive: After all, songs can also motivate us, and movies can teach us about other cultures, and it's hard to read anything without getting something out of it. Super-Pop organizes pop culture's greatest hits - including bestselli...
Teacher’s Notes 3 (Issues, #6)
These teacher's resources accompany the third book in a PSE course for pupils of all abilities at Key Stages 3 and 4. The series is designed for use on a year-by-year basis, with Book 1 corresponding to Year 7, but the structure is flexible enough to allow teachers to use the sections selectively. Each of the pupils' books contains at least three units on each of the themes which the NCC has identified as "essential parts of the whole curriculum" - economic and industrial understanding, careers...