Book II of the Easy As Do-Re-Mi series continues the approach to learning to play the bass with the more advanced fundamentals introduced one at a time, on uncluttered pages. As with Book I, there is a solid emphasis on finger patterns, and no distractions of pictures, graphics, or lyrics. The success of this method lies in its simplicity.Book II is divided into 12 lessons.• Lesson One: Bowing Styles in the Key of D• Lesson Two: Repetitive Bowings in the Lower-Octave Key of G Major• Lesson Three: Syncopation in the Key of G Major• Lesson Four: Hooked Bowings in the Key of C Major• Lesson Five: The Key of F Major• Lesson Six: The Key of Bb Major• Lesson Seven: Review of the Key of D Major • Lesson Eight: The Two-Octave Key of D Major• Lesson Nine: Return to the Key of G Major • Lesson Ten: Return to the Key of C Major• Lesson Eleven: A Dramatic Ending• Lesson Twelve: A Review of Bowing Styles
Easy As Do – Re - Mi, complete in two books, is a modern method for teaching strings in a classroom setting, based on time-honored principles of noted pedagogues of the past. It is a method for teachers with differing backgrounds, training, and expertise, who are looking for a guide to teaching note reading that is logical, sequential, and easy to understand. The fundamentals of string playing are introduced, one at a time, on uncluttered pages, with a solid emphasis on finger patterns. Endorsed by Carrie Lane Gruselle, well known educator, it has proven to be extremely successful in the many schools where this series has been tested, and its strength lies in its simplicity. In this first book of the Easy As Do-Re-Mi series, you will find a very simple approach to learning to play the bass. It is designed to teach you to read the notes in a way that is logical, sequential, and easy to understand. The music on the early pages remains simple, so you can concentrate on note reading. The fundamentals of bass playing are introduced, one at a time, on uncluttered pages, with a solid emphasis on finger patterns. You can concentrate on learning to read music without the distractions of pictures, graphics, lyrics, or any other material on the pages. In Book I, you will learn:1. the bass hold and bow hold,2. the care of the bass and bow,3. rote introduction - playing the beginning notes in a scale, without looking at any music, 4. the importance of listening,5. to identify the notes on the page without playing them,6. to learn to play the notes of a scale, one at a time,7. to play many unison folk songs and tunes from the classics, and8. to play music in 4-part harmony.
Libbie begins writing her journal in the year of 1856. Itas the story of a girl coming of age while living in the Ozark Mountains. Even at the age of twelve, Libbie loves Aaron and believes they will marry when theyare older. Sheas a dreamer, but also a writer. By the time sheas a teenager, war clouds are rumbling. They all know a civil war is inevitable, but thereas a question of which side to fight on. Theyare in a border area where brother will fight against brother. Libbieas papa believes in the Union, but Aaron joins the Confederates. Newly married, Libbie settles down to wait out the long and bloody war that is so close they can hear the big guns when itas quiet. With so many men dying on the battlefields, will it ever be over, and will Aaron live to come home?
Amy Fairchild is on her way to California when she wrecks her car in the Ozark Mountains. She finds her way to Jeff Wheeler's cabin. He thinks she is there to find his silver mine. He is hostile toward her, but when he learns she's a teacher, he decides to make her stay and teach him to read. With two vicious dogs to guard her, she doesn't stand a chance of leaving. The backward town of Mountainburg makes Amy believe she has been thrown back in time. The locals think she is Annabelle, a woman wanted for murder. The sheriff thinks so too, but leaves her in Jeff's custody. How can she prove who she is? Even Jeff believes she's Annabelle. Even if she can escape from the mountain, how will she manage to get back to her own time?
Book II of the Easy As Do-Re-Mi series continues the approach to learning to play the viola with the more advanced fundamentals introduced one at a time, on uncluttered pages. As with Book I, there is a solid emphasis on finger patterns, and no distractions of pictures, graphics, or lyrics. The success of this method lies in its simplicity.Book II is divided into 12 lessons.• Lesson One: Bowing Styles in the Key of D• Lesson Two: Repetitive Bowings in the Lower-Octave Key of G Major• Lesson Three: Syncopation in the Key of G Major• Lesson Four: Hooked Bowings in the Key of C Major• Lesson Five: The Key of F Major• Lesson Six: The Key of Bb Major• Lesson Seven: Review of the Key of D Major • Lesson Eight: The Two-Octave Key of D Major• Lesson Nine: Return to the Key of G Major • Lesson Ten: Return to the Key of C Major• Lesson Eleven: A Dramatic Ending• Lesson Twelve: A Review of Bowing Styles
Ensure your students link theory with practice with this updated version of the authoritative and accessible series from Jennie Lindon Linking Theory and Practice has helped thousands of students make the right connections between their lectures and the real settings that they go on to work in. This latest edition of Leadership in Early Years provides a useful overview of the subject in straightforward language that allows novices to access the more complicated concepts. Jennie Lindon's trademark approach provides a trusted and authoritative voice for a wide range of courses, including undergraduate and foundation degrees in Early Years and Early Childhood, PGCEs and BEd programmes. · Provides detailed references for further reading with descriptions of 'key texts' for each chapter · 'Pause for reflection' feature provides numerous opportunities to think about the impact of their own role. - Examines how the latest thinking and research should inform the role of an early years leader
Inspired by the true story of a female spy, this is “an infectious page-turner, as crafty and nuanced and impassioned as any classic thriller” (The National). Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, unmasked as the KGB’s longest-serving British spy in 1999, at age eighty-seven, Red Joan centers on the deeply conflicted life of a young physicist during the Second World War. Talented and impressionable, Cambridge undergraduate Joan Stanley befriends the worldly Sonya, whose daring history is at odds with Joan’s provincial upbringing. Joan also feels a growing attraction toward Leo, Sonya’s mysterious and charismatic cousin. Sonya and Leo, known communist sympathizers with ties to Russia and Germany, interpret wartime loyalty in ways Joan can only begin to fathom. As nations throughout the continent fall to fascism, Joan is enlisted into an urgent project that will change the course of the war—and the world—forever. Risking both career and conscience, leaking information to the Soviets while struggling to maintain her own semblance of morality, Joan is caught at a crossroads in which all paths lead to the same endgame: the deployment of the atomic bomb. Life during wartime, however, is often ambiguous, and when—decades later—MI5 agents appear at her doorstep, Joan must reaffirm the cost of the choices she made and face the cold truth: our deepest secrets have a way of dragging down those we love most. The basis of the film starring Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson, this is “a brilliant spy novel, with [a] deft, involving plot . . . Tense, beautifully pitched, and very moving” (Marie Claire).
Take the long way home... Full of big dreams of the fast life, Tallie Beck hit the road at the age of seventeen to become a rock ’n roll star—and vowed never to look back. Now, at thirty-four, she’s little more than a down-and-out singer who smokes and drinks too much and knows better than to make promises she can’t keep. Dumped by her latest band and low on cash, Tallie has no choice but to go back to Denver. Back to her crazy mother, and her resentful younger sister, Jane, who’s never forgiven her for leaving. But seeing her family again after all these years stirs something unexpected in Tallie. And after so many miles on that long, exhilarating, scary—and often lonely—road, she’s looking back to trace some wrong turns, and figure out the way to where she really wants to go...
This study for the U.S. Marine Corps presents a historical overview of the integration of women into the U.S. military and explores the importance of cohesion and what influences it. The gender integration experiences of foreign militaries, as well as the gender integration efforts of domestic police and fire departments, are analyzed for insights into effective policies. The potential costs of integration are analyzed as well.
A Spring/Summer Pick by: Goodreads * PopSugar * Frolic * SheReads * Culturess* The Nerd Daily * Alma * J-14 "For fans of Sarah Dessen and Rainbow Rowell, a moving story about loss and love and finding out who you really are.” - Paige McKenzie, New York Times Best Selling author of The Haunting of Sunshine Girl A sob-worthy yet hopeful novel that reveals how our choices define us and how no matter the road, love finds a way. Stevie Rosenstein has never fallen in love. Constantly moving from city to city for her father's job, she can’t allow herself to grow truly close to someone. The pain of leaving hurts too much. Until she meets Drew... And Shane. Drew and Shane have been best friends through everything. The death of Shane's dad. The separation of Drew's parents. No matter what happens, they always have each others' backs. But when Stevie moves to town, a simple coin toss alters the course of their year in profound and unexpected ways – a ripple effect that also produces devastating consequences. Told in dual timelines, debut author Jennie Wexler's Where It All Lands delivers a heartbreaking, Sliding Doors-esque novel about missed opportunities, second chances, and all the paths that lead us to where we are. "This book succeeds in creating all the feels." - Kirkus
This book guides scholars and teachers of theology and religion through a process of self-reflection that leads to intentional, transformative teaching, dialogue, and reform in theological education and religious studies.
Essential for teachers and students to develop critical thinking skills is examining current dispositions and behaviors; to become more mindful of why we think the way we do and to become more thoughtful about actions we take. Mindfulness and Thoughtfulness provides both theoretical basis for, and practical ideas about, the Habits of Mind"--
Reflective practice and early years professionalism provides you with detailed support for developing reflective practice in early years provision. Jennie Lindon explores the nature of reflective practice and shows you how to apply these skills for the benefit of children and families. The book covers key concepts about learning and ways to promote continued professional development in the workforce. Reflective practice offers practical advice for individual professionals and also explores the dynamics of reflective practice within teams. This book is part of Jennie Lindon's series 'Linking Theory and Practice'. The established approach provides accessible descriptions of relevant theory and research, yet links this information closely to best practice with young children and families. The content and style of the series has been developed to support students on Early Childhood degree programmes, Early Years Foundation Degree courses, practitioners working towards Early Years Professional Status and also experienced senior practitioners extending their professional development and that of their team.
Every Day But Sunday: The Romantic Age of New England Industry is the story of America when rugged individualism was in full swing. the nineteenth-century industrialist, whether he made soap, tacks, or plows, stamped his peronality upon the small organization he controlled. Therefore the story of this romantic age of industry is a story of individuals -- of men who were rugged, shrewd, and daring. The author has taken a typical New England town -- Mansfield, Massachusetts -- from the beginning to the close of the 19th century and conujures up for us the ramshackle factories, the honest products, and the shrewd proprietors.
Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a dramatic visual design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.
Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton Feldman, James Saunders, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Ryoji Ikeda, Toshiya Tsunoda, Laurie Spiegel and André O. Möller. Multiple perspectives are explored through a series of encounters, initially between an individual and a work, and subsequently with each author's varying experiences of temporality. The authors compare their responses to features such as repetition, speed, duration and scale from a perceptual standpoint, drawing in reflections on aspects such as musical memory and anticipation. The observations made in this book are accessible and relevant to readers who are interested in exploring issues of temporality from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives.
Easy As Do – Re - Mi, complete in two books, is a modern method for teaching strings in a classroom setting, based on time-honored principles of noted pedagogues of the past. It is a method for teachers with differing backgrounds, training, and expertise, who are looking for a guide to teaching note reading that is logical, sequential, and easy to understand. The fundamentals of string playing are introduced, one at a time, on uncluttered pages, with a solid emphasis on finger patterns. Endorsed by Carrie Lane Gruselle, well known educator, it has proven to be extremely successful in the many schools where this series has been tested, and its strength lies in its simplicity. In this first book of the Easy As Do-Re-Mi series, you will find a very simple approach to learning to play the cello. It is designed to teach you to read the notes in a way that is logical, sequential, and easy to understand. The music on the early pages remains simple, so you can concentrate on note reading. The fundamentals of cello playing are introduced, one at a time, on uncluttered pages, with a solid emphasis on finger patterns. You can concentrate on learning to read music without the distractions of pictures, graphics, lyrics, or any other material on the pages. In Book I, you will learn:1. the cello hold and bow hold,2. the care of the cello and bow,3. rote introduction - playing the beginning notes in a scale, without looking at any music, 4. the importance of listening,5. to identify the notes on the page without playing them,6. to learn to play the notes of a scale, one at a time,7. to play many unison folk songs and tunes from the classics, and8. to play music in 4-part harmony.
Easy As Do-Re-Mi, complete in two books, is a modern method for teaching strings in a classroom setting, based on time-honored principles of the noted pedagogues of the past. It is a method for teachers with differing backgrounds, training, and expertise, who are looking for a guide to teaching note reading that is logical, sequential, and easy to understand. The fundamentals of string playing are introduced, one at a time, on uncluttered pages, with a solid emphasis on finger patterns. It has proven to be extremely successful in the many schools where it has been tested, and its strength lies in its simplicity. This method was written, after many years of teaching in the public schools, and addresses the issues and differences, that separate private and classroom teaching. Because of the different needs of the instruments, teaching in the classroom presents many challenges which don't exist in the private studio. It is my firm belief that it is most efficient for the violin (and viola) to learn with the highest string, the E (and A), when beginning to play their instruments. However, when teaching in the classroom, with unison playing, it is a necessary compromise for students to begin on the D string.It has been evident to me, that students learn most easily and rapidly, when the fundamentals are presented very simply, one at a time. The goal is to become fluent on the violin, viola, cello, or bass. Without the distraction of extraneous material on the page, the student is able to focus on the music. Specific Advantages in Book I1. The method begins with a suggested rote instruction, setting the hand for the Major tetrachord.2. Students read the notes of the D Major tetrachord, without the distraction of letter names. 3. Fingering is indicated, when a note is presented, without becoming dependent on fingering for note reading. 4. Rhythm is introduces in terms of words, eliminating the confusion with conflicting numbers.5. No clever pictures, graphics, lyrics, or other extraneous material on the page to distract the student from reading the music.6. No suggested tempo markings, because of the varying levels of the students. The teacher can choose the tempo that best suits the class.7. Competency in rhythmic patterns and bowing techniques is developed with original songs, and from the classic and folk literature, in the keys of D and G Major.8. Students experience the joy of playing in unison and in harmony.
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