A highly practical resource for the classroom, this book offers clear, research-based recommendations for helping students at all grade levels understand and learn from what they read. Explaining the skills and strategies that good readers use to comprehend text, the authors show how to support struggling students in developing these skills. They present a variety of effective assessment procedures, ways to enhance vocabulary instruction and teach students about different text structures, and instructional practices that promote comprehension before, during, and after reading. Special features include discussion questions in every chapter and reproducible instructional materials and lesson plans.
It seems unthinkable that Charles Strickland, the dull, bourgeois city gent, would have the tortured soul of a genius. Yet Strickland is driven to abandon his home，wife，and children to devote himself slavishly to painting. In a tiny studio in Paris he fills canvas after canvas，refusing to sell or even exhibit his work. Beset by poverty，sickness，and his own intransigent nature，he drifts to Tahiti，where，even after being blinded by leprosy，he produces some of his most extraordinary works of art. First published in 1919 and inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin，The Moon and Sixpence is a study of a man possessed by the need to create - regardless of the cost to himself or others.
Earthquake Safety Activities For Children and Teachers
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Other | 14 May 2008
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This publication provides ready-to-use, hands-on activities for students and teachers explaining what happens during an earthquake, how to prepare for earthquake shaking, and how to stay safe during and after an earthquake.
Easily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest, once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives, Evie has approached the rake Viscount St. Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: marriage!
Sebastian's reputation is so dangerous that thirty seconds alone with him will ruin any maiden's good name. Still, this bewitching chit appeared, unchaperoned, on his doorstep to offer her hand. Certainly an aristocrat with a fine eye for beauty could do far worse.
But Evie's proposal comes with a condition: no lovemaking after ther wedding night. She will never become just another of the dashing libertine's callously discarded broken hearts -- which means Sebastian will simply have to work harder at his seductions...or perhaps surrender his own heart for the very first time in the name of true love.
Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.60 | Fiction literature | 29 April 2008
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FINNEGAN'S WAKE by James Joyce http://finwake.com/ - site with annotations More material concerning this book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
Finnegans Wake, named after a popular Irish street ballad, published
in 1939, is James Joyce's final novel. Following the publication of
Ulysses in 1922, Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake and by 1924
installments of the work began to appear in serialized form, first
under the title "A New Unnamed Work" and subsequently as "Work in
Progress." (The final title of the work remained a secret between Joyce
and his wife, Nora Barnacle, until shortly before the book was finally
published.)
The seventeen years spent working on Finnegans Wake were often
difficult for Joyce. He underwent frequent eye surgeries, lost
long-time supporters, and dealt with personal problems in the lives of
his children. These problems and the perennial financial difficulties
of the Joyce family are described in Richard Ellmann's biography James
Joyce. The actual publication of the novel was somewhat overshadowed by
Europe's descent into World War II. Joyce died just two years after the
novel was published, leaving a work whose interpretation is still very
much "in progress." BALLAD:
youtube video with the Dubliners singing it in a traditional way
lyrics
