Encounter the Supernatural is about the different men and women of the Bible. How each one of them encountered God in a personal way along with my own thoughts and personal encounters with God. Carolyn Turner was born on a small farm in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas on October 2, 1957. She was part of large family which included 11 other siblings. Her parents are Arlie and Bessie Skaggs. Carolyn is married to her husband Calvin and they have one son named Steven who is married to Jennifer. Carolyn has three grandchildren; Zoe, Zack and Zane, and a fourth one on the way.
This study explores the various ways in which parental involvement can help to increase student academic success. More specifically, this analysis is based on the notions that: 1) parent involvement in inner city schools present unique challenges that are different from the traditional middle class perspective; 2) there is value in a cooperative approach between parents, teachers, and administrators that places the student at the center of each major discussion and decision; and 3) illustrates that parental involvement is a real perspective and not just rhetorical jargon. Although the focus of this book is in increasing parent involvement in inner city schools, readers must be mindful that the ultimate objective for this work and others like it is the successful educating of all children, so that they graduate from high school, and move into higher education, or into the workforce. Parent involvement by itself will not ensure academic success of children, but, combined with many strategies, including a clear understanding of the differences between an inner city school environment and a middle class school setting, effective teaching, sound and relevant curricula, safe and secure learning environment, and visionary leadership, children attending inner city schools can be just as effective as those in middle class school settings.
Unbreakable: Readings that Inspire and Motivate speaks to our ability to persevere in spite of the obstacles we encounter. Its purpose is to encourage, uplift, and offer hope for a better tomorrow. I hope that you will see that no matter where you are in your journey—there is always hope. There is always an opportunity to improve and grow. You may have been shattered, you may have been bruised, you may have even been knocked down but you did not break because you are Unbreakable!
Designed to help students review content, apply knowledge, and develop critical-thinking skills. A wide variety of activities are provided for various learning styles. This supplement is a consumable resource, designed with perforated pages so that a given chapter can be removed and turned in for grading or checking.
This story, set in a church in post-slavery days in the rural South, specifically the fictional town of Tidewell, Mississippi, is a fictional story told both in prose and in song. The plot deals with the trials of the people who, unable to do anything about their situation, are reduced to having to sing out their frustrations. Their songs, thus, are composed extemporaneously. The trial of the central characters, Fessa Lee and Milanna a married black couple, who live on a plantation along with most of the other people, is the main source of the people's frustration. At the root of the problem is the plantation owner who, exploiting his position and power, takes continuous, sexual advantage of the beautiful Milanna. Although the people have been tackling this problem a long while, the beginning of the solution comes from a most unexpected source a religious experience inspired by a song that has nothing to do with the situation. The subsequent actions of the people, which build on the momentum started by the song, bring the people face to face with the plantation owner; and they bring him to shame for his oppression. The 52 songs in this book represent a fond collection of the songs that we, the writers, remember from our grandparents' (great-grandparents') church. Since these songs were sung without the benefit of a hymnal or songbook, we often wondered how the songs (many of them like folk songs) originated. The fictional storyline attempts to answer that question for ourselves as well as for you, the reader.
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