Ken McGarin has loved women almost as much as he loves teaching public high school students. When he defies the principal and the union delegate in defense of the students, he lands in a stuffy private high school. There he meets the exotic Sheree McFadden, the teacher who makes him forget other women. Together they lead the other teachers who want to reform the school into one that prepares their student for real life. The students vote to call it the Academy of Individual Responsibility. McGarin and his team must defend themselves and their dream against public slander and mob violence.
Coral Wood joins her grandfather on his ranch in Grand Valley, California where she spent her happy childhood summers. As the new high school social studies teacher she finds her students in the middle of a fight between the local ranchers and a city club on the coast, which wants to make Grand Valley a public park. After meeting Mac Maclane, the very attractive biology teacher who is leading the landowners, she is torn between wanting to lead him to her bed and wanting to help him save her grandfather's ranch. A powerful man from the east coast offers the ranchers a third option, tempers flare, and violence threatens from both sides until a college professor is found dead on one of the ranches, the victim of a savage killer. Coral shows her students how to have their say on the proposed park while she and Mac pursue the killer. In spite of their best efforts to keep the peace Coral can feel a faceless evil closing in on them.
Bobbi Lawn investigates small companies her boss wants to buy. After the attractive owner of Valdez Flight School takes her up in a small helicopter, Bobbi decides to quit her old job and accept a new one in the little desert town nearby. She and Eric Valdez discover they both came from bitter families and have a deep desire to succeed on their own. They also learn they have a vicious enemy in common named Lionel Rasmussen. Valdez teaches her to fly while she settles into her new job and falls in love with him. Bobbi and Valdez' best friend scour the desert in the middle of the night to find Valdez after he fails to pick up an emergency shipment of medicine. Defending themselves from Rasmussen and his minions becomes a race against the harsh realities of the desert, the ingenuity of a madman, and the fears that pursue two people in love.
Ursula Mink is the Robot Lady to millions of women in the southern California area, in her live TV show, The Good Life. It's the near future, an era of household robots, security robots, and express tracks for commuting into cities. Houses talk to their owners, fix dinner, and sort the mail. Ursula's fans envy her confidence with gadgets, her beauty, and her fame. They are sure she sips martinis by a huge pool with gorgeous men lined up to meet her every whim. Ursula lives on muffins and fruit punch and she is lonely in spite of her handsome celebrity boyfriend. Her greatest joy is pulling weeds out of her flowerbeds, until she meets her homeless next-door neighbor. Monte Cicero may live in a gardener's barn and invent robots but he's also the most passionate man she has ever met and his dark Asian eyes haunt her dreams. Enter her new boss, determined to make her his pet, and holding a grudge against Monte. A wise mouth African parrot and hilarious guests on her show add spice to the mix for a hysterical romp through small time stardom and the tribulations of a torrid love affair.
Onri Madison is as unique and feisty as her name. She has been teaching music at grade schools and repairing and tuning pianos along the West Coast for years. When she decides to spend a year at the house of her favorite relative, Great-Aunt Honey, she lands more than job opportunities in the San Joaquin farm community. She meets Gordon Flint, a corporate farmer who treats his workers like family. His stubborn integrity and the deep longing for her in his eyes makes him the sexiest man she has ever met. When their courtship becomes known around the valley a woman rejected by Flint uses her power and her money to unleash vengeful acts and threats against them while giving them no way to fight back. Onri struggles to not only find a way to defeat the bitter woman but also to save Flint from his guilt over bringing this evil into her life. Flint's workers worry that the insane woman will destroy them all in her desperate quest for revenge against one man.
Ursula Mink is the Robot Lady to millions of women in the southern California area, in her live TV show, The Good Life. It's the near future, an era of household robots, security robots, and express tracks for commuting into cities. Houses talk to their owners, fix dinner, and sort the mail. Ursula's fans envy her confidence with gadgets, her beauty, and her fame. They are sure she sips martinis by a huge pool with gorgeous men lined up to meet her every whim. Ursula lives on muffins and fruit punch and she is lonely in spite of her handsome celebrity boyfriend. Her greatest joy is pulling weeds out of her flowerbeds, until she meets her homeless next-door neighbor. Monte Cicero may live in a gardener's barn and invent robots but he's also the most passionate man she has ever met and his dark Asian eyes haunt her dreams. Enter her new boss, determined to make her his pet, and holding a grudge against Monte. A wise mouth African parrot and hilarious guests on her show add spice to the mix for a hysterical romp through small time stardom and the tribulations of a torrid love affair.
Bobbi Lawn investigates small companies her boss wants to buy. After the attractive owner of Valdez Flight School takes her up in a small helicopter, Bobbi decides to quit her old job and accept a new one in the little desert town nearby. She and Eric Valdez discover they both came from bitter families and have a deep desire to succeed on their own. They also learn they have a vicious enemy in common named Lionel Rasmussen. Valdez teaches her to fly while she settles into her new job and falls in love with him. Bobbi and Valdez' best friend scour the desert in the middle of the night to find Valdez after he fails to pick up an emergency shipment of medicine. Defending themselves from Rasmussen and his minions becomes a race against the harsh realities of the desert, the ingenuity of a madman, and the fears that pursue two people in love.
Ken McGarin has loved women almost as much as he loves teaching public high school students. When he defies the principal and the union delegate in defense of the students, he lands in a stuffy private high school. There he meets the exotic Sheree McFadden, the teacher who makes him forget other women. Together they lead the other teachers who want to reform the school into one that prepares their student for real life. The students vote to call it the Academy of Individual Responsibility. McGarin and his team must defend themselves and their dream against public slander and mob violence.
Coral Wood joins her grandfather on his ranch in Grand Valley, California where she spent her happy childhood summers. As the new high school social studies teacher she finds her students in the middle of a fight between the local ranchers and a city club on the coast, which wants to make Grand Valley a public park. After meeting Mac Maclane, the very attractive biology teacher who is leading the landowners, she is torn between wanting to lead him to her bed and wanting to help him save her grandfather's ranch. A powerful man from the east coast offers the ranchers a third option, tempers flare, and violence threatens from both sides until a college professor is found dead on one of the ranches, the victim of a savage killer. Coral shows her students how to have their say on the proposed park while she and Mac pursue the killer. In spite of their best efforts to keep the peace Coral can feel a faceless evil closing in on them.
Fun and easy art-appreciation activities abound in this resource that features over 60 great artists across the ages. A concise biography for each artist tells why his or her work is important, and a kid-tested art activity tries out the artist's approach. Young artists will sketch inventive designs in the style of da Vinci and draw in a nature notebook like Audubon. To understand Rodin, they will create a clay carving. Picasso will inspire a fractured friend, and Kahlo shows the magic in self-portraits. Projects stress the creative process and encourage kids to try unusual techniques such as block printing, pointillism, and mixed media artworks as they learn about architecture, drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. Discovering Great Artists includes easy-to-follow icons to indicate the experience, preparation, and materials necessary for each project, as well as guides to the style, movement, or era of each artist. Introducing children to the greatest artists has never been more engaging!
Reading and Teaching raises questions and provides a context for preservice and practicing teachers to understand and to reflect on the complex issues surrounding the teaching of reading in the schools. It presents real teachers in their classrooms, dialogues about that teaching, and exercises for further clarification. The purpose is to help teachers make informed choices about their teaching of reading. The text considers the different types of decisions teachers might make in the teaching of reading and the knowledge upon which they rely in making those decisions—not simply factual information about using certain materials and methods to teach reading, but also knowledge about the mind, the political climate, the broader social and cultural circumstances of their students and schools and the communities in which they teach. Reading and Teaching is designed to engage teachers in beginning to evolve their own practical theories, to help them explore and perhaps modify some basic beliefs and assumptions, and to become acquainted with other points of view. Readers are encouraged to interact with the text and to develop their own perspective on the teaching of reading. This is the fifth volume in Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling: A Series for Prospective and Practicing Teachers, edited by Daniel P. Liston and Kenneth M. Zeichner. It follows the same format as previous volumes in the series. *Part I includes four real-life cases of teachers’ experiences in the classroom: “Teaching Reading Via Direct Systematic Instruction”; “A New Teacher Learns About Teaching Reading and Culture”; “A Teacher-Constructed Whole Language Program”; and “Critical Literacy in an Urban Middle School.” Each case is followed by space for readers to write their own reactions and reflections, educators’ dialogue about the case, space for readers’ reactions to the educators’ dialogue, and a summary and additional questions. *Part II presents three public arguments representing different views about the teaching of reading: direct instruction, whole language, and critical literacy. *Part III offers the authors’ own interpretations of the issues raised throughout the text and some suggestions for further reflection. A list of resources is provided. This text is pertinent for all prospective and practicing teachers at any stage in their teaching careers. It can be used in any undergraduate or graduate course that addresses the teaching of reading.
Thirty-year old Kate Grace is a successful lifestyle writer for a popular magazine in New York City. She has everything she could ever want — a loving family, friends, and the man of her dreams. But when several unforeseen events threaten to upend her world, a friend comes to the rescue, offering Kate respite to mend her broken heart in the ancient, magic paradise that is Hanalei, Kauai. On the beautiful beaches of Hawaii, she ends up finding more than she bargained for – new life, new love, and synchronicities sent from beyond.
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