A true account of Ada Mae Bratcher's life while growing up in Christiansburg, Virginia during the 1940's and beyond. Ada attended the historically black school, Christiansburg Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington.
A language theme unit incorporates oral and written language, reading, poetry, vocabulary development, math, social studies, science, art, music, etc., about barnyard babies for whole language classroom.
The purpose of this book is to provide activities to supplement a third-grade curriculum. The activities are designed to heighten student interest, to provide students with a variety of experiences, and to make learning specific skills andconcepts exciting for students. By engaging in the stimulating and challenging activities in this book, students encounter fundamental skills which run through all areas of the curriculum, and they learn to use these skills in a wide variety ofsituations. This book is organized into seven main chapters - language arts, math, science, ecology, mind and body, social studies, and bulletin boards.
After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius’s Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic physics, a sophisticated system that explained natural phenomena without appeal to divine participation, and argued powerfully against the immortality of the soul, the afterlife, and a creator God. Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance readers, such as Machiavelli, Pomponio Leto, and Montaigne, actually ingested and disseminated Lucretius, and the ways in which this process of reading transformed modern thought. She uncovers humanist methods for reconciling Christian and pagan philosophy, and shows how ideas of emergent order and natural selection, so critical to our current thinking, became embedded in Europe’s intellectual landscape before the seventeenth century. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates, but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met the ideas that would soon transform the world. Renaissance readers—poets and philologists rather than scientists—were moved by their love of classical literature to rescue Lucretius and his atomism, thereby injecting his theories back into scientific discourse. Palmer employs a new quantitative method for analyzing marginalia in manuscripts and printed books, exposing how changes in scholarly reading practices over the course of the sixteenth century gradually expanded Europe’s receptivity to radical science, setting the stage for the scientific revolution.
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