![]() ![]() I NEED at least 1 read-aloud every day.So now that I am done reading what have I learned that will affect my teaching practice this year? The boys are less frequently looking for books independently but if I can find a book on something they are interested them, they will spend a much longer time ‘reading’ that book, and usually come to me for another. It is usually the girls who go here to get books. We have a treasure chest in our class and every time I read aloud a book it goes into the treasure chest for students to revisit later. When I think about this and my class last year it kind of makes sense. ![]() ![]() Call it selfish or pragmatic, but guys are drawn more to what interests them, not what interests the crowd. (page 169)Ī California professor, once tol me that girls tend to be extrinsically motivated in their reading (favouring the choices of their peers, mom, and teacher), while boys are intrinsically motivated (favouring what they themselves are interested in). Personal interest can be a powerful driving force with boys, whether that interest is sports, auto repair, model racing, war, music, or computers. There were two things I highlighted in this chapter. It was nice how he finished the book, and wrapped everything up by telling his own story. I finally finished Jim Trelease’s The Read-Aloud Handbook. ![]()
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![]() military operations, year by year, stand out against the circumstances of their deaths: “” Amid this, Perez returns to the story of the Micronesian Kingfisher, an endangered species on Guam whose existing members are all descended from American-captured, captive-bred zoo birds: “-of trespass-// when land is/ caged // -of theft-// are caged within/ our disappearance.” This is a haunting, forceful testament to a legacy of militarization, cultural hegemony, and resistance. The names of Guamanian soldiers killed in action in current U.S. Omnidawn also reprinted hacha in 2017 with a new afterword, from unincorporated territory, the title shared across the books, refers to Perez's homeland, Guahan or Guam, and its current status as a US territory. He looks at his empty hands to pledge allegiance.” Wiry, short-lined verse is collaged with Chamorro (a threatened Malayo-Polynesian language) and public comments from Draft Environmental Impact Statements in Guam. hacha was first published by Tinfish Press in 2008, and the subsequent three books were published by Omnidawn. ![]() His eyes become saltmemories thread fathoms of water. The US passed the Guam Meritorious Claims act. ![]() ![]() By turns cultural and ecological artifact, personal narrative, body count, and colonial (and resistance) document, Perez’s third collection advances a disturbing, fractured narrative using an impressively wide swath of poetic forms and techniques: prose sections are interrupted by domestic and patriotic language, interweaving the Japanese and American captures of Guam (the author’s birthplace) with the narrator’s personal history and the current wars in the Middle East: “My grandpa o saina struggles to tell his story. ![]() ![]() That location is the reserve for a First Nations band in northern Canada. But the story, one of survival, is terrifically powerful, a familiar narrative told in an unfamiliar location. It’s a simply written book, almost leaning to YA in its slow, deliberate sentences and plain vocabulary. The main character, Evan, is developed only to the extent he must be, and the language forgoes decoration and lyricism almost entirely. The remote community must fend for itself, and build a new way of life from the remains of the old. No one knows why, and no one arrives to explain. ![]() The trucks delivering groceries don’t come. First phones go down, and then TV and radio, and then power. ![]() Rice isolates and stretches this moment, setting his novel in a remote community and giving the story several months to unfold. It’s not a preface to apocalypse, and it’s not the postscript it takes place during the moment in which a society realizes that one kind of life is over, and another kind of life is going to be the norm. Moon of the Crusted Snow is a book on the cusp. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can the forbidden night garden that supposedly grants everyone one wish help them all out of trouble? And if so, at what cost? Soon after the children move in, letters arrive from their father that suggest he's about to do something to change their lives and appearances from a stubborn young cook, UFOs, hermits, and ghosts only make life stranger. Their peaceful life is interrupted when their neighbor, Crying Alice, begs Sina to watch her children while she goes to visit her husband at the military base because she suspects he’s up to no good. Franny writes, Sina sculpts, and Old Tom tends to their many gardens―including the ancient, mysterious night garden. It is World War II, and Franny and her parents, Sina and Old Tom, enjoy a quiet life on a farm on Vancouver Island. From Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author Polly Horvath comes this magical middle-grade novel about a garden that grants wishes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has an intimate relationship with John Proctor, which is the event around which the entire play pivots. He eventually admits, in a way, that he had an affair with Abigail, but things have already gone too far, and the time for honesty has passed.Ībigail Williams is the niece of Reverence Parris. Proctor can’t admit that he had an affair with Abigail due to his own misguided pride. This incites Williams’ jealousy over Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, and initiates the conflict at the heart of the play. His major character flaw becomes clear when he has an affair with Abigail Williams, a local woman. He can be quite stern but is generally a good man who cares about people. John Proctor is one of the most important characters in ‘ The Crucible.’ He’s a local farmer and husband to Elizabeth Proctor. Sadly, most of the characters are unable to see through the shame that is the witchcraft trials, and many others, nineteen total, lose their lives because of false accusations. ‘ The Crucible‘ is filled with complicated and sometimes frustrating characters, many of whom are only concerned with bettering their own position in the town of Salem. ![]() ![]() ![]() vii) this volume of his magnum opus is a return to his graduate work at the University of Chicago, now reinforced with the years of scholarship which led him to the Sterling Chair of History at Yale. Those years clearly have not gone to waste, as Reformation is filled with detailed citations of the primary literature in every major European language, with virtually every paragraph containing a mixture of Pelikan’s translations of relevant documents and paraphrases of the broader arguments of the literature in question, interrupted only intermittently by his own critical remarks and engagement with secondary literature. As Pelikan alludes to in the preface,n (p. Pelikan’s particular goal is to show how the doctrinal developments of the Reformation stand in fundamental continuity with the history of Christian doctrine both preceding and succeeding the era of the reformers. Jaroslav Pelikan’s The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine 4- Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700) deals comprehensively with doctrinal fragmentation of the West during the late Middle ages as preserved and developed in the diverse churches generated by the Reformation. The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine 4- Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maggie’s half sister, Elise, has disappeared after being saved from a concentration camp, and Maggie is desperate to find her-that is, if Elise even wants to be found. ![]() Walking among the enemy is tense and terrifying, and even though she’s disguised in chic Chanel, Maggie can’t help longing for home.īut her missions come first. Now she’s working undercover for the Special Operations Executive in the elegant but eerily silent city of Paris, where SS officers prowl the streets in their Mercedes and the Ritz is draped with swastika banners. Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. The event will be an onstage interview with historical suspense author Laura Benedict.Īmerican-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series-“a treat for WWII buffs and mystery lovers alike” ( Booklist). The event is co-sponsored by Maryville University. Books will be available for purchase at the event from Main Street Books. The program is free and open to the public. Louis County Library Foundation is pleased to present bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal for a discussion and signing of her latest Maggie Hope mystery “The Paris Spy” on Thursday, August 10, at 7:00 p.m. ![]() ![]() A victim of a centuries long curse, on his 30th birthday, he will die, unless the 2 pieces of a sonata are brought back together. He knows that he cannot express his feelings for her because he knows his life will end on the Winter Solstice. He has watched Sofia from a distance, working for her parents and falling in love with Sofia at first sight. She is gifted the dagger and bestowed the gifts from Diana herself.Īrmend is a man on a mission, to save his own life. In this generation, the chosen one is Sofia. Ever generation, one Strega is personally chosen by Diana to possess the dagger. The Diana dagger has been passed down to each generation of Messalina's descendants. Diana gifted Messalina the Diana Dagger, "a beautifully-crafted blade with a pure gold crescent shaped hilt". Messalina emerged from the heartbreak a strong and wise woman. Sofia is a Strega witch and direct descendant of Messalina, a dear friend of the Goddess Diana, who was left broken-hearted by Vulcan. ![]() I honestly cannot recall any other book I've read that was as authentic in its representation as Solstice. ![]() ![]() Solstice is such a genuine and authentic representation of the Stega tradition, it absolutely blew me away. ![]() ![]() When they discover an old diary, Julia seeks out her grandmother to learn the truth behind a love affair that almost destroyed the estate. There she reunites with Kit Crawford, heir to the estate and her possible salvation. Years later, while struggling with overwhelming grief over the death of her husband and young child, she returns to this tranquil place. Spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences.Īs a child, concert pianist Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton Park, the grand estate reminiscent of Downton Abbey where her grandfather tended exotic orchids. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfamiliar with Western customs and language, but terrified that she would be sent back to the orphanage, or even killed, Kim trained herself to be the perfect child. Left at a Christian orphanage in postwar Seoul like garbage, bleeding and terrified, Kim unwittingly embarked on the next phase of her extraordinary life when she was adopted by a childless Fundamentalist pastor and his wife in the United States. Abandoned at a Christian orphanage in post-war Seoul like so much garbage, bleeding and terrified, Kim unwittingly embarked on the next phase of her extraordinary journey. Omma had committed the sin of sleeping with an American soldier, and producing not just a bastard, but a mixed-race child, considered worthless. The night Elizabeth Kim watched her grandfather and uncle hang her mother from the wooden rafter in the corner of their small Korean hut would forever define her life. ![]() |