Keith W Brooks's Books

Introduction to TESOL

A Beginners Approach to Teaching Speakers of Other Languages

By: Keith W Brooks

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Introduction to TESOL

A Beginners Approach to Teaching Speakers of Other Languages

By: Keith W Brooks

This is one of the most intense books a newcomer to ELL will ever purchase. Completely updated for Praxis 0361 test takers. What you will learn in this book is taught by hundreds of TESOL schools around the world. What is more is that you will learn about how to teach as a regular school teacher. The glossary, assessment and methodologies sections are what you will learn from university programs and not a short 4 week crash course. This book explains the different areas you need to learn to be an effective teacher: Lesson Plans Book Selection Whiteboard styles Classroom Management - Methodologies and Theories - More than 40 Grammar Vocabulary Reading Writing Speaking Listening Assessments - More than 8 different assessment types Culture Glossary - More than 400 terms Written by Keith Brooks, a licensed US teacher from Maine and who has been an ELL teacher for nearly eight years in Korea, Cambodia and Saipan.

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0557356660

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9780557356669

The Deathbed Confession of a Man in Black

By: Keith W. Brooks

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The Deathbed Confession of a Man in Black

By: Keith W. Brooks

Since the 1940's The United States Government has been accused of being in a conspiracy to hide alien life forms on Earth, the government has remained quiet and has not confirmed or denied the allegations. One of these conspiracy theories is a top secret organization called MJ-12 that was formed by President Harry S. Truman. Within this organization was a security force known as The Men in Black whose main objective was to silence any and all witnesses. This book is about one man who claims to be part of the Men in Black. Read his story about the different UFO crashes, underwater bases (USO's), the alien agenda, the aliens that are being held at area 51 and politicians who have destroyed this nation.

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0557678684

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9780557678686

Persistent Ruskin

Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect

By: Keith Hanley

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Persistent Ruskin

Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect

By: Keith Hanley

Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin's followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, museums, archives and galleries representing values and ideas associated with Ruskin; and the extent to which Ruskin's work constructed a world-wide network of followers, movements and social gestures that acknowledge his authority and influence. As the introduction shows, Ruskin's continuing digital presence is striking and makes a case for Ruskin's persistent presence. The collection begins with essays on Ruskin's intellectual presence in nineteenth-century thought, with some emphasis on his interest in the education of women. This section is followed by one on Ruskin's followers from the mid-nineteenth century into twentieth-century modernism that looks at a broad range of cultural activities that sought to further, repudiate, or exemplify Ruskin's work and teaching. Working-class education, the Ruskinian periodical, plays, and science fiction are all considered along with the Bloomsbury Group's engagement with Ruskin's thought and writing. Essays on Ruskin abroad-in America, Australia, and India round out the collection.

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Routledge

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1317082087

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9781317082088

Delaying the Dream

Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938-1965

By: Keith M. Finley

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Delaying the Dream

Southern Senators and the Fight against Civil Rights, 1938-1965

By: Keith M. Finley

Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle. Consequently, many historical accounts of white resistance to civil rights legislation emphasize the ferocity of the opposition, from the Ole Miss riots to the depredations of Eugene "Bull" Conner's Birmingham police force to George Wallace's stand on the schoolhouse steps. While such hostile episodes frequently occurred in the Jim Crow South, civil rights adversaries also employed other, less confrontational but remarkably successful, tactics to deny equal rights to black Americans. In Delaying the Dream, Keith M. Finley explores gradations in the opposition by examining how the region's principal national spokesmen -- its United States senators -- addressed themselves to the civil rights question and developed a concerted plan of action to thwart legislation: the use of strategic delay. Prior to World War II, Finley explains, southern senators recognized the fall of segregation as inevitable and consciously changed their tactics to delay, rather than prevent, defeat, enabling them to frustrate civil rights advances for decades. As public support for civil rights grew, southern senators transformed their arguments to limit the use of overt racism and appeal to northerners. They granted minor concessions on bills only tangentially related to civil rights while emasculating those with more substantive provisions. They garnered support by nationalizing their defense of sectional interests and linked their defense of segregation with constitutional principles to curry favor with non-southern politicians. While the senators achieved success at the federal level, Finley shows, they failed to challenge local racial agitators in the South, allowing extremism to flourish. The escalation of white assaults on peaceful protesters in the 1950s and 1960s finally prompted northerners to question southern claims of tranquility under Jim Crow. When they did, segregation came under direct attack, and the principles that had informed strategic delay became obsolete. Finley's analysis goes beyond traditional images of the quest for racial equality--the heroic struggle, the southern extremism, the filibusters--to reveal another side to the conflict. By focusing on strategic delay and the senators' foresight in recognizing the need for this tactic, Delaying the Dream adds a fresh perspective to the canon on the civil rights era in modern American history.

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0807145068

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9780807145067

A Viking in the Family

And Other Family Tree Tales

By: Keith Gregson

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A Viking in the Family

And Other Family Tree Tales

By: Keith Gregson

Genealogist Keith Gregson takes the reader on a whistle-stop tour of quirky family stories and strange ancestors rooted out by amateur and professional family historians. Each lively entry tells the story behind each discovery and then offers a brief insight into how the researcher found and then followed up their leads, revealing a range of chance encounters and the detective qualities required of a family historian. For example, one researcher discovered that his great-great-grandfather, as a child, was carried across the main street of West Hartlepool on the back of the famous tightrope walker Blondin. The Victorian newspaper report said that the rope had been tied between two chimney pots. Research into the author’s own family revealed that one of his nineteenth-century ancestors lost his leg in a Midlands coal-mining accident, and that the amputated leg was buried in the local cemetery – to be joined by the rest of him on his final demise. A Viking in the Family is full of similar unexpected discoveries in the branches of family trees.

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