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Getting to the Core of Literacy for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, Grades 612

By: Vicky Giouroukakis,Maureen Connolly

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Getting to the Core of Literacy for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, Grades 612

By: Vicky Giouroukakis,Maureen Connolly

Literacy-it's not just for English teachers anymore. The new Common Core English Language Arts Standards aren't just for English teachers. Fluent reading and writing are critically important to the study of history/social studies, science, and technical subjects, too. What's more, the progress your students make is directly tied to their ability to process information they read and to express their ideas in writing. So how do you make literacy a focus of your teaching . . . without taking time away from essential content? This practical resource-packed with teacher-tested, CCSS-based sample lessons-shows you how, using the Backward Design approach to set and meet your goals. Each lesson template includes The teaching strategies you'll utilize Ways to incorporate technology and media Variations for differentiation and interdisciplinary connections Links to the work of major educational theorists Following these models, you'll set the CCSS in your sights and develop lessons that both meet standards and fit your classroom. Before you know it, you'll be infusing reading and writing across your curriculum in purposeful and meaningful ways.

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Corwin Press

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145225544X

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Teaching Psychology

An Evidence-Based Approach

By: Jillian Grose-Fifer,Patricia J. Brooks,Maureen O'Connor

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Teaching Psychology

An Evidence-Based Approach

By: Jillian Grose-Fifer,Patricia J. Brooks,Maureen O'Connor

A guide to an evidence-based approach for teaching college-level psychology courses Teaching Psychology offers an evidence-based, student-centered approach that is filled with suggestions, ideas, and practices for teaching college-level courses in ways that contribute to student success. The authors draw on current scientific studies of learning, memory, and development, with specific emphasis on classroom studies. The authors offer practical advice for applying scholarly research to teaching in ways that maximize student learning and personal growth. The authors endorse the use of backward course design, emphasizing the importance of identifying learning goals (encompassing skills and knowledge) and how to assess them, before developing the appropriate curriculum for achieving these goals. Recognizing the diversity of today's student population, this book offers guidance for culturally responsive, ethical teaching. The text explores techniques for teaching critical thinking, qualitative and quantitative reasoning, written and oral communication, information and technology literacy, and collaboration and teamwork. The authors explain how to envision the learning objectives teachers want their students to achieve and advise how to select assessments to evaluate if the learning objectives are being met. This important resource: Offers an evidence-based approach designed to help graduate students and new instructors embrace a student-centered approach to teaching; Contains a wealth of examples of effective student-centered teaching techniques; Surveys current findings from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Draws on the American Psychological Association's five broad goals for the undergraduate Psychology major and shows how to help students build life-long skills; and, Introduces Universal Design for Learning as a framework to support diverse learners. Teaching Psychology offers an essential guide to evidence-based teaching and provides practical advice for becoming an effective teacher. This book is designed to help graduate students, new instructors, and those wanting to update their teaching methods. It is likely to be particularly useful for instructors in psychology and other social science disciplines.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118958055

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9781118958056

Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12

How to Meet the Common Core State Standards with Lessons from the Classroom

By: Vicky Giouroukakis,Maureen Connolly

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Getting to the Core of English Language Arts, Grades 6-12

How to Meet the Common Core State Standards with Lessons from the Classroom

By: Vicky Giouroukakis,Maureen Connolly

Design effective CCSS-aligned lessons for secondary students If you want to revamp your secondary English Language Arts curriculum to reflect the Common Core State Standards, this book is the perfect resource. The authors move the implementation of the CCSS for ELA from the abstract to the concrete by providing adaptable, exemplar lesson plans in each of the CCSS strands: reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language. Each lesson template includes: Intended grade level band, timeline, and the type of student writing involved Connections to supporting theory, including the Backward Design model Variations to differentiate the lesson for diverse student populations Ways to link the lesson to technology and service learning Reproducible handouts The lesson narratives also give tips for incorporating technology into lessons and connecting them to enduring theorists in education (Dewey, Bloom, and Gardner). The final section offers collaboration strategies for connecting via technology to colleagues beyond the school building and working together on CCSS-based ELA lessons. This practical, easy-to-use guide will help you navigate the most efficient route to creating standards-based lessons that optimize student learning.

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1452284105

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Merry Sexy Christmas

Overtime Love\EX-mas Reunion\A Holiday Affair

By: Beverly Jenkins,Kayla Perrin,Maureen Smith

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Merry Sexy Christmas

Overtime Love\EX-mas Reunion\A Holiday Affair

By: Beverly Jenkins,Kayla Perrin,Maureen Smith

Collects three stories of love over the holidays, including "Overtime Love" in which a football general manager falls in love with the owner's granddaughter, who inherits ownership of the team.

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Kimani Press

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0373534876

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Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s "Beloved"

The Case for Reparations

By: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem

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Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s "Beloved"

The Case for Reparations

By: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem

Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy— a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a “novel-tragedy” (Kliger)—and a novel of objects. Its many things—literary, conceptual, linguistic— are viewed as vessels carrying the (hi)story and the political concerns. From this, a third conclusion is drawn: Fadem argues for a view of Beloved as a case for reparations. That status is founded on two outstanding object lessons: the character of Beloved as embodiment of the subject-object relations defining the slave state and the grammatical object “weather” in the sentence “The rest is...” on the novel’s final page. This intertextual reference places Beloved in a comparative link with Hamlet and Oresteia. Fadem’s research is meticulous in engaging the full spectrum of tragedy theory, much critical theory, and a full swathe of scholarship on the novel. Few critics take up the matter of reparations, still fewer the politics of genre, craft, and form. This scholar posits Morrison’s tragedy as constituting a searing critique of modernity, as composed through meaningful intertextualities and as crafted by profound “thingly” objects (Brown). Altogether, Fadem has divined a fascinating singular treatment of Beloved exploring the connections between form and craft together with critical historical and political implications. The book argues, finally, that this novel’s first concern is justice, and its chief aim to serve as a clarion call for material— and not merely symbolic—reparations. This book is freely available to read at https://taylorandfrancis.com/socialjustice/?c=language-literature-arts#

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Routledge

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1000213773

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Identity, Narrative and Politics

By: Maureen Whitebrook

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Identity, Narrative and Politics

By: Maureen Whitebrook

Identity, Narrative and Politics argues that political theory has barely begun to develop a notion of narrative identity; instead the book explores the sophisticated ideas which emerge from novels as alternative expressions of political understanding. This title uses a broad international selection of Twentieth Century English language works, by writers such as Nadine Gordimer and Thomas Pynchon. The book considers each novel as a source of political ideas in terms of content, structure, form and technique. The book assumes no prior knowledge of the literature discussed, and will be fascinating reading for students of literature, politics and cultural studies.

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1136367403

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Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach

A Handbook for Secondary School Teachers

By: Alan J. Singer,WITH Maureen Murphy,S. Maxwell Hines,Maureen O. Murphy

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Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach

A Handbook for Secondary School Teachers

By: Alan J. Singer,WITH Maureen Murphy,S. Maxwell Hines,Maureen O. Murphy

General methods handbook designed to bridge the gap between practical, theoretical, and critical considerations in secondary school teaching.Stresses social, cultural, and developmental influences on student behavior and the diverse roles of teachers.

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1135635269

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Molly Cullen - Blessings on the Wild Child

By: Maureen Oliver

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Molly Cullen - Blessings on the Wild Child

By: Maureen Oliver

DescriptionMolly Cullen is a naive seventeen year old on the brink of the London art scene in the 1960's. Fuelled by dreams of success and fame as an artist, she gains a place at a London art school and it is her dreams that sustain her through the pain and disappointments she faces in the ensuing years. Molly Cullen is a fast-paced tale of a young woman's struggle against tremendous odds. Molly is a survivor but more than that she is a girl who just will not give up. Her tenacity and inner strength help her overcome the loss of innocence and the trials she must face. As Molly comes to terms with, and learns to celebrate, her lesbian identity, the reader travels with her on the roller-coaster ride that is her young life. Molly's thoughts about her world impart a sense of wry humour that tempers the, often painful, experiences described in this semi-autobiographical novel. This book is a testament to the resourcefulness and resilience of the human spirit. About the AuthorBorn in 1947 in Catford, South-East London, Maureen Oliver studied art at Camberwell Art College where she trained as a painter. She has variously been a community artist working in hospitals and day centres; local art projects and with prisoners; a campaigner for lesbian and gay rights and an AIDS activist. She was a founder member of Croydon Women's Centre and became one of the Women's Work group of artists at Brixton Artists Collective in the mid-eighties; as a survivor herself, Maureen was later active in working for the rights of psychiatric survivors. Maureen Oliver has been writing poetry and short stories since childhood, and, in the late nineties, after a long period of being effectively silenced by powerful antipsychotic drugs, she began to write again with renewed passion. She has held a large number of exhibitions of her paintings including in New York in 2007. Maureen Oliver is a lesbian, a mother and grandmother to three small children.

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184747912X

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Pediatrics A Competency-Based Companion E-Book

With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

By: Maureen C McMahon,Glenn R Stryjewski

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Pediatrics A Competency-Based Companion E-Book

With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

By: Maureen C McMahon,Glenn R Stryjewski

Pediatrics: A Competency-Based Companion, by Maureen C. McMahon, MD and Glenn R. Stryjewski, MD, MPH, is designed to teach you to think like an experienced clinician. The only text written in the framework of the Core Competencies developed by the ACGME, its case-based approach illustrates the thought processes that effective practitioners use to approach and evaluate common pediatric presentations. Learning is easy through an intuitive, practical organization...a concise, high-yield presentation...graphs, tables, and other at-a-glance features, such as Professors’ Pearls" that provide cases with questions and annotated answers...and a framework that allows you to track your progress and that of your patients in relation to ACGME and AAMC expectations. A convenient pocket-sized format enables you to review the material on the go, and online access via Student Consult includes online extras such as "Integration Links" to bonus content in other Student Consult titles, a Competency Self-Assessment Log, Vertical Reads, and much more. Master ACGME Core Competencies with the aid of a color-coded system that helps you to integrate evidence-based medicine, continual self-assessment, and cognizance of interpersonal skills into your daily routine. Access the high-yield core information you need for pediatric rotations in a portable, pocket-sized format that organizes the most common, must-know pediatric signs/symptoms and disorders by patient presentation. Learn to see the "big picture" with the aid of "Teaching Visuals" chapters and "Speaking Intelligently" and "Clinical Thinking" features in clinical chapters. Easily locate more in-depth information on any topic with references to Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics, 6th Edition. Access the complete contents online at www.studentconsult.com, along with "Integration Links" to bonus content in other Student Consult titles...a Competency Self-Assessment Log... "Professors’ Pearls" that provide cases with questions and annotated answers...Vertical Reads...and many other features to enhance learning and retention. Get advice on managing your career, time, and life outside the clinical setting via bonus online appendices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323081304

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9780323081306

The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

By: Maureen N. McLane

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The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

By: Maureen N. McLane

More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most frequently studied genres for two centuries and remains no less so today. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the poetry of the period in its literary and historical contexts. The essays consider its metrical, formal, and linguistic features; its relation to history; its influence on other genres; its reflections of empire and nationalism, both within and outside the British Isles; and the various implications of oral transmission and the rapid expansion of print culture and mass readership. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside the achievements of some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.

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1139827901

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Sojourners'

By: Quarter Moon,Elizabeth Maureen MARQUEZ

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Sojourners'

By: Quarter Moon,Elizabeth Maureen MARQUEZ

This is Poet Quarter Moon's Second book that truly is a most wonderfully inspired God Loving work of art... Poetry at its best done with pictures to portray the beautiful thoughts that will with joy pass on from writer to hopefully inspire the reader to think beautiful thoughts too...

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0557363438

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Native Plants for Your Maine Garden

By: Maureen Heffernan

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Native Plants for Your Maine Garden

By: Maureen Heffernan

There are several good reasons why savvy gardeners cherish native plants in their landscapes. In this book, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens executive director Maureen Heffernan provides information and inspiration for gardeners about how to choose the best plants for a variety of locations and provides tips on how to cope with challenging conditions. Heffernan discusses flowering perennials, foliage plants, grasses, ground covers, shrubs, and trees, and she provides sample garden plans designed by experts.

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Down East Books

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0892729007

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The Medium Next Door

Adventures of a Real-Life Ghost Whisperer

By: Maureen Hancock

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The Medium Next Door

Adventures of a Real-Life Ghost Whisperer

By: Maureen Hancock

At just five years old, Maureen Hancock discovered her ability to communicate with the dead. Descended from a long line of legendary Irish mystics, she was no stranger to the spiritual realm, but for fear of being misunderstood by her friends and family she kept the otherworldly messages to herself, eventually suppressing them completely. Maureen wouldn't hear the spirits again until she was in a near-fatal car crash. Soon after, she had hundreds of voices in her head, many of which helped her crack cases and expose fraud in her role as a litigation paralegal at a large Boston law firm. Then, when tragedy struck on 9/11, Maureen was bombarded with messages from the spirit world. As each one made contact with her, she finally came to terms with her calling: to communicate with the deceased, assist the dying, search for missing children, and teach the living about life after death, all the while raising her children in her suburban home. Maureen Hancock is literally is the Medium Next Door, and in this book and through her stories of her encounters with the otherworld as well as guided exercises at the conclusion of each chapter, she offers the same comfort and wisdom she shares in her healing encounters and lectures about what is out there waiting for all who are open to its mysteries. . . .

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Health Communications, Inc.

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075731564X

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9780757315640

The Colorful Dry Garden

Over 100 Flowers and Vibrant Plants for Drought, Desert & Dry Times

By: Maureen Gilmer

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The Colorful Dry Garden

Over 100 Flowers and Vibrant Plants for Drought, Desert & Dry Times

By: Maureen Gilmer

A design-focused, easy-to-use guide to colorful, eye-catching foliage and flowers for your whole yard, from the ground plane to the canopy, for homeowners and landscapers faced with replacing thirsty gardens in California and other dry regions in the Western US. If readers must reluctantly remove water-guzzling favorites from the garden, they need equally beautiful substitutes! This book is a visual treat that supports the transition to dry gardening by proving that gardeners can have all the gorgeous color and flowers they had in the past using just a fraction of the water. Maureen Gilmer provides chapters on design categories of plants—flowering shrubs, the ground plain, eye-catching accents, ephemeral flowers, perennials for color, animated plants and fine textures, canopy, and edibles—with profiles for each plant plus background info and top picks lists. The Colorful Dry Garden is unique because it features only bold plants that are also heavy bloomers despite heat and limited water. It also features more than just Western native plants by including varieties from the world's driest climates.

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Sasquatch Books

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1632170647

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9781632170644

Literacy as Social Exchange

Intersections of Class, Gender, and Culture

By: Maureen M. Hourigan

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Literacy as Social Exchange

Intersections of Class, Gender, and Culture

By: Maureen M. Hourigan

Literacy as Social Exchange examines the intersection of culture and literacy education. In particular, it explores the roles that class, race, ethnicity, and gender play in students learning to negotiate the conventions of academic discourse. It argues that recent literacy scholarship has tended to isolate class, gender, and culture as discrete, marginalizing factors, but such isolation may unintentionally silence voices from non-Western, non-mainstream cultures. Writing program administrators and writing teachers who are interested in constructing programs that address the needs of all students in increasingly multicultural classrooms, will need to examine how cultural factors influence the way students learn to read, write, and think critically. The author points out that some of the most influential scholars writing about the plight of underprivileged writers teach at some of the most exclusive institutions in the nation. These basic writers are not nearly so disadvantaged as many of the student writers most writing teachers encounter every day. The author explores enrollment trends in higher education that indicate conclusively that writing classrooms will soon be filled with students from non-Western, non-mainstream cuiltures. Because these students rhetorical and literacy traditions will be unlike both those of their teachers and of the basic writers upon which so much literacy scholarship focuses, educators and literacy scholars need to increasingly conceptualize literacy in its larger political, social, and economic contexts.

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SUNY Press

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0791420701

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9780791420706

Co-Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom

Successful Collaboration, Lesson Design, and Classroom Management, Grades 5-12

By: Melinda L. Fattig,Maureen Tormey Taylor

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Co-Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom

Successful Collaboration, Lesson Design, and Classroom Management, Grades 5-12

By: Melinda L. Fattig,Maureen Tormey Taylor

Co-Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom is a practical hands-on guide that explains how to implement co-teaching programs in mixed-ability classrooms. Based on the authors' award-winning model, this important guide shows how special education teachers can pair with general education teachers to improve classroom functioning while promoting high achievement for all students. The book provides tested frameworks and tools for teacher collaboration on lesson planning, student grouping, assessment, and discipline. It also offers guidance on managing overcrowded classrooms and on designing and implementing differentiated lessons and assignments, and includes advice for administrators.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787987441

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9780787987442

The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Mindful Children

Giving Parents the Tools to Teach Emotional Awareness, Coping Skills, and Impulse Control in Children

By: Jeremy Wardle,Maureen Weinhardt

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The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Mindful Children

Giving Parents the Tools to Teach Emotional Awareness, Coping Skills, and Impulse Control in Children

By: Jeremy Wardle,Maureen Weinhardt

Mindful kids are less stressed, more focused, and much happier! Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose. This sounds simple, but it's not always easy, even for children. Kids face stress every day as they try to fit in with their peers, worry about grades, and struggle to sit still in a classroom. With The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Mindful Children, you'll learn how practicing mindfulness can help your child refocus attention to reduce anxiety, control emotions and behavior, and even improve grades. Being mindful will help your child: Become more self-aware. Control emotions. Empathize with others. Achieve academic and social success. The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Mindful Children uses techniques such as meditation and sensory awareness to help your child gain more self-control and be less stressed. You'll also learn how to use mindfulness in your own life! With repetition, these exercises will help your children to manage their own emotions and reach their full potential, now and for years to come.

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Simon and Schuster

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1440561311

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9781440561313

Living with Wildfire

A Homeowner's Handbook

By: Maureen Gilmer

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Living with Wildfire

A Homeowner's Handbook

By: Maureen Gilmer

In Living with Wildfire (first published as The Wildfire Survival Guide), gardening expert Maureen Gilmer shares proven ways to save your home, property, and life with wildfire-resistant landscaping and fire-prevention techniques. Discover how to create bands of protection by choosing fire-resistant plants, manage native vegetation, prevent erosion and mudslides, and learn about: Wildfire dynamics and safeguarding your home against them Water storage and delivery in any emergency Creating a defensible space for you and firefighters Included is updated information on insuring your property, selecting your home site, packing an emergency kit, and getting public and private assistance. With easy-to-follow diagrams, instructional photographs, and landscaping plans, you’ll have all the resources necessary to get through fire season and keep your home standing.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493038370

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Redwoods and Roses

The Gardening Heritage of California

By: Maureen Gilmer

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Redwoods and Roses

The Gardening Heritage of California

By: Maureen Gilmer

Redwoods and Roses explores the special relationship California’s diverse peoples have shared with nature and the unique gardens and landscapes they have created over the years to nurture and enhance those bonds. From pre-colonial times to the Victorian era, California gardening expert Maureen Gilmer brings this garden history to life, showing how the gardens and landscapes were created and profiling the heirloom plants within them. But Redwoods and Roses is more than a book on gardening history. Here, the reader will discover how to recreate period designs in her own garden, from making a no-fuss adobe-look wall from the Mission era to finding heirloom plants for a cottage garden. Redwoods and Roses is a blend of natural history, California history, plants profiles, landscaping tips, and sensible garden advice, as well as an eloquent plea for the preservation of many remarkable plants.

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1493038338

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Crave

A Passion for Chocolate

By: Maureen McKeon

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Crave

A Passion for Chocolate

By: Maureen McKeon

Crave: A Passion for Chocolate is the ultimate cel

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Allen & Unwin

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1740458044

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Reading and Writing Strategies for the Secondary Social Studies Classroom in a PLC at Work®

By: Daniel M Argentar,Katherine A. N. Gillies,Maureen M. Rubenstein,Brian R. Wise

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Reading and Writing Strategies for the Secondary Social Studies Classroom in a PLC at Work®

By: Daniel M Argentar,Katherine A. N. Gillies,Maureen M. Rubenstein,Brian R. Wise

Prepare middle school and high school students to read, write, and think like social studies experts and historians. Part of the Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher series, this resource details how grades 6–12 teachers can work together to support literacy development and social studies learning. Explore how to develop collaborative teams, differentiate instruction, design meaningful common assessments, and more. Use this resource to address large literacy gaps that require the support of all content-area teachers: Recognize the need for and benefits of literacy development in social studies classrooms. Learn why collaboration among different content-area teams in a professional learning community (PLC) can enhance reading and writing instructional strategies. Foster student engagement by utilizing adaptable strategies for developing prereading, during-reading, and postreading skills in social studies. Apply strategies for writing development in social studies. Obtain tools and techniques for designing meaningful assessments that align with social studies standards and literacy goals of secondary education. Contents: Preface Introduction: Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher Chapter 1: Collaboration, Learning, and Results Chapter 2: Foundational Literacy Triage Chapter 3: Prereading Chapter 4: During Reading Chapter 5: Postreading Chapter 6: Writing Chapter 7: Assessment Epilogue Appendix: Reproducibles

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Solution Tree Press

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1949539040

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9781949539042

Moon Over Vaudeville

By: Maureen McCabe

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Moon Over Vaudeville

By: Maureen McCabe

Softcover - Biography/Memoir. A charming morsel of a book about one man's real life Vaudeville story tap dancing back and forth across the country in the 1930s. More than 100 photos and newspaper clippings to enjoy.

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Moon Over Vaudeville LLC

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0983357501

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The Comic Irishman

By: Maureen Waters

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The Comic Irishman

By: Maureen Waters

The Comic Irishman makes heretofore unacknowledged distinctions among different types of comic Irishmen and convincingly casts away the stereotyped version of the stage Irishman. It shows how the Irish comic character--whether a blundering fool or a lazy, fun-loving fellow--evolved into a glib and witty rogue. The book is a critical study of modern Irish fiction and drama. The first part provides an analysis of the various Irish comic figures which were popular in the nineteenth century. These are discussed within a social and historic framework because they were to a large extent shaped by the erosion of Gaelic culture under the impact of English government. In the process of shifting from one cultural nexus to another, the Irishman came to be regarded as highly inferior to his English counterpart, yet amusing because of his difficulty with the English language and his rebellious, unpredictable behavior. The second part of the book discusses the writings of such twentieth-century authors as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey, and Flann O'Brien, who concentrated on the analysis of the stage Irishman. Some brilliantly exploited the comic tradition, while other used satire to explode what they perceived as a debasing myth.

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0873957660

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9780873957663

Life Stories

A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries

By: Maureen O'Connor

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A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries

By: Maureen O'Connor

Memoirs, autobiographies, and diaries represent the most personal and most intimate of genres, as well as one of the most abundant and popular. Gain new understanding and better serve your readers with this detailed genre guide to nearly 700 titles that also includes notes on more than 2,800 read-alike and other related titles. The popularity of this body of literature has grown in recent years, and it has also diversified in terms of the types of stories being told—and persons telling them. In the past, readers' advisors have depended on access by names or Dewey classifications and subjects to help readers find autobiographies they will enjoy. This guide offers an alternative, organizing the literature according to popular genres, subgenres, and themes that reflect common reading interests. Describing titles that range from travel and adventure classics and celebrity autobiographies to foodie memoirs and environmental reads, Life Stories: A Guide to Reading Interests in Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Diaries presents a unique overview of the genre that specifically addresses the needs of readers' advisors and others who work with readers in finding books.

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Authoring A Discipline

Scholarly Journals and the Post-world War Ii Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition

By: Maureen Daly Goggin

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Authoring A Discipline

Scholarly Journals and the Post-world War Ii Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition

By: Maureen Daly Goggin

Authoring a Discipline traces the post-World War II emergence of rhetoric and composition as a discipline within departments of English in institutions of higher education in the United States. Goggin brings to light both the evolution of this discipline and many of the key individuals involved in its development. Drawing on archival and oral evidence, this history offers a comprehensive and systematic investigation of scholarly journals, the editors who directed them, and the authors who contributed to them, demonstrating the influence that publications and participants have had in the emergence of rhetoric and composition as an independent field of study. Goggin considers the complex struggles in which scholars and teachers engaged to stake ground and to construct a professional and disciplinary identity. She identifies major debates and controversies that ignited as the discipline emerged and analyzes how the editors and contributors to the major scholarly journals helped to shape, and in turn were shaped by, the field of rhetoric and composition. She also coins a new term--discipliniographer--to describe those who write the field through authoring and authorizing work, thus creating the social and political contexts in which the discipline emerged. The research presented here demonstrates clearly how disciplines are social products, born of political struggles for both intellectual and material spaces.

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Routledge

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1135658501

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Para-Narratives in the Odyssey

Stories in the Frame

By: Maureen Alden

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Para-Narratives in the Odyssey

Stories in the Frame

By: Maureen Alden

Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related by the poet and his characters, including Odysseus' own fantastic tales of Lotus Eaters, Sirens, and cannibal giants. Although these 'para-narratives' are a source of pleasure and entertainment in their own right, each also has a special relevance to its immediate context, elucidating Odysseus' predicament and also subtly influencing and guiding the audience's reception of the main story. By exploring variations on the basic story-shape, drawing on familiar tales, anecdotes, and mythology, or inserting analogous situations, they create illuminating parallels to the main narrative and prompt specific responses in readers or listeners. This is the case even when details are suppressed or altered, as the audience may still experience the reverberations of the better-known version of the tradition, and it also applies to the characters themselves, who are often provided with a model of action for imitation or avoidance in their immediate contexts.

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Oxford University Press

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0192524275

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Living on Flood Plains and Wetlands

A Homeowner's Handbook

By: Maureen Gilmer

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Living on Flood Plains and Wetlands

A Homeowner's Handbook

By: Maureen Gilmer

If you live on a flood plain or wetland, you know the potential dangers—to you, your family, and your home. A major flood could strike at any time and you need to be prepared. But of even more immediate concern is the tiresome battle to keep your property free of minor floods and water seepage, which can be just as destructive—and costly—as a major flood. This all-purpose book guides you through the range of options you have to protect your property. And if a problem already exists, it shows you how to tackle the trouble and put your house back in order. This updated edition includes new information about flood plain laws and insurance as well as changes in government agency titles or roles in flood management.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493038354

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Bushworld

Enter at Your Own Risk

By: Maureen Dowd

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Bushworld

Enter at Your Own Risk

By: Maureen Dowd

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

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Assessing Students in the Margin

Challenges, Strategies, and Techniques

By: Michael Russell,Maureen Kavanaugh

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Assessing Students in the Margin

Challenges, Strategies, and Techniques

By: Michael Russell,Maureen Kavanaugh

The importance of student assessment, particularly for summative purposes, has increased greatly over the past thirty years. At the same time, emphasis on including all students in assessment programs has also increased. Assessment programs, whether they are large-scale, district-based, or teacher developed, have traditionally attempted to assess students using a single instrument administered to students under the same conditions. Educators and test developers, however, are increasingly acknowledging that this practice does not result in valid information, inferences, and decisions for all students. This problem is particularly true for students in the margins, whose characteristics and needs differ from what the public thinks of as the general population of students. Increasingly, educators, educational leaders, and test developers are seeking strategies, techniques, policies, and guidelines for assessing students for whom standard assessment instruments do not function well. Whether used for high-stakes decisions or classroom-based formative decisions, the most critical element of any educational assessment is validity. Developing and administering assessment instruments that provide valid measures and allow for valid inferences and decisions for all groups of students presents a major challenge for today’s assessment programs. Over the past few decades, several national policies have sparked research and development efforts that aim to increase test validity for students in the margins. This book explores recent developments and efforts in three important areas. The first section focuses on strategies for improving test validity through the provision of test accommodations. The second section focuses on alternate and modified assessments. Federal policies now allow testing programs to develop and administer alternate assessments for students who have not been exposed to grade-level content, and thus are not expected to demonstrate proficiency on grade-level assessments. A separate policy allows testing programs to develop modified assessments that will provided more useful information about achievement for a small percentage of students who are exposed to grade-level content but for whom the standard form of the grade-level test does not provide a valid measure of achievement. These policies are complex and can be confusing for educators who are not familiar with their details. The chapters in the second section unpack these policies and explore the implications these policies have for test design. The third and final section of the book examines how principles of Universal Design can be applied to improve test validity for all students. Collectively, this volume presents a comprehensive examination of the several issues that present challenges for assessing the achievement of all students. While our understanding of how to overcome these challenges continues to evolve, the lessons, strategies, and avenues for future research explored in this book empower educators, test developers, and testing programs with a deeper understanding of how we can improve assessments for students in the margins.

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1617353167

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Great Lakes Island Escapes

Ferries and Bridges to Adventure

By: Maureen Dunphy

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Great Lakes Island Escapes

Ferries and Bridges to Adventure

By: Maureen Dunphy

A comprehensive travelogue and guidebook exploring island adventures on many of the 135 islands accessible by ferry or bridge in the Great Lakes Basin. The Great Lakes Basin is the largest surface freshwater system on Earth. The more than 30,000 islands dotted throughout the basin provide some of the best ways to enjoy the Great Lakes. While the vast majority of these islands can only be reached by private boat or plane, a surprising number of islands—each with its own character and often harboring more than a bit of intrigue in its history—can be reached by merely taking a ferry ride, or crossing a bridge, offering everyone the chance to experience a variety of island adventures. Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and Bridges to Adventure explores in depth over 30 of the Great Lakes Basin islands accessible by bridge or ferry and introduces more than 50 additional islands. Thirty-eight chapters include helpful information about getting to each featured island, what to expect when you get there, the island's history, and what natural and historical sites and cultural attractions are available to visitors. Each chapter lists special island events, where to get more island information, and how readers can help support the island. Author Maureen Dunphy made numerous trips to a total of 135 islands that are accessible by ferry or bridge in the Great Lakes Basin. On each trip, Dunphy was accompanied by a different friend or relative who provided her another adventurer's perspective through which to view the island experience. Great Lakes Island Escapes covers islands on both sides of the international border between the United States and Canada and features islands in both the lakes and the waterways that connect them. Anyone interested in island travel or learning more about the Great Lakes will delight in this comprehensive collection.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814340415

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Cambridgeshire Folk Tales

By: Maureen James

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Cambridgeshire Folk Tales

By: Maureen James

Modern-day Cambridgeshire is a county of diverse landscapes: from the elegance of the university city and the rural delights of the old county of Huntingdonshire Isle of Ely, each district has its own identity and its own stories. Explore the antics of the inhabitants of the past, including Hereward the Saxon hero; the Fenland giant Tom Hickathrift; the pious Bricstan of Chatteris; the raconteur and skater Chaffe Legge; and Mr Leech, who was carried off by the Devil. You will also discover the hidden history of the area, including how the secret Brotherhood of the Grey Goose Feather helped King Charles I, and what really happened to King John's treasure. These entertaining tales will delight readers both within Cambridgeshire and elsewhere.

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The History Press

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0750958057

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Daybreak

Meditations for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse

By: Maureen Brady

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Daybreak

Meditations for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse

By: Maureen Brady

These 366 daily affirmations and meditations extend support and wisdom to women who have survived childhood sexual abuse. Unknown number of women have suffered sexual abuse in childhood. Acknowledging the abuse after years of silence and secrecy and beginning a healing journey require support and encouragement. Long after the abuse has ended, negative internal messages can invade and linger. Daybreak's positive statements intercept self-defeating messages, guiding readers toward new and healthy ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. These affirmations and thoughtful meditations cover topics such as intimacy, fear, play, sharing secrets, and anger. Read daily or by subject, Daybreak brings the experience of sexual abuse into the light where hope resides and change and healing are possible. Women survivors of other types of abuse and men survivors of abuse may also find benefit from these readings.

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1616495065

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One-Click Buy: October 2010 Silhouette Desire

By: Ann Major,Maxine Sullivan,Maureen Child,Yvonne Lindsay,Tessa Radley,Jules Bennett

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One-Click Buy: October 2010 Silhouette Desire

By: Ann Major,Maxine Sullivan,Maureen Child,Yvonne Lindsay,Tessa Radley,Jules Bennett

Mr. October: Billionaire business man Jake Claiborne His Quest: Steer clear of scandal His Quandry: He'd gotten the enemy's daughter pregnant! It had been sheer madness to bed Alicia Butler. The beauty's father had cost Jake's company millions and any association with her would surely create troubling tabloid fodder. But Alicia was pregnant with his baby and he would not walk away from this responsibility. Their only option was marriage and the hope that the gossip would dwindle…even as their passion reignited.

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1426869630

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Adaptable Teaching

30 Practical Strategies for All School Contexts

By: Jonathan Ryan Davis,Maureen Connolly

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Adaptable Teaching

30 Practical Strategies for All School Contexts

By: Jonathan Ryan Davis,Maureen Connolly

This book is designed for all K-12 educators and teacher preparation faculty. Reading this book is like being in the room with 30 teacher mentors from different grade-levels and school settings who are sharing strategies for: (1) building and maintaining a positive classroom climate; (2) planning; (3) instruction; and (4) professional development. Discover step-by-step breakdowns of how to implement each strategy as well as professional reflections from contributors representing two different grade-levels and a range of suburban and urban settings from all over the globe. Education students and novice teachers will learn from the in-depth descriptions of how to implement each strategy. Veteran teachers will be inspired by contributing teachers’ professional reflection regarding why and how they utilize each strategy. Readers in ALL school contexts will benefit from narrative descriptions of each strategy in action, which bring to life the ways that the strategies have made an impact on student learning and teacher development. The adaptations modeled throughout the book, based on students’ and schools’ assets and needs, help readers to think about how to make each strategy a good fit for their unique classroom. If you are looking for practical ideas from the field, look no further - this is a book designed to build your teaching toolbox with strategies that you will use for years to come.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475849745

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My Poets

By: Maureen N. McLane

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My Poets

By: Maureen N. McLane

A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell "Oh! there are spirits of the air," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, My Poets explores a life reading and a life read. McLane invokes in My Poets not necessarily the best poets, nor the most important poets (whoever these might be), but those writers who, in possessing her, made her. "I am marking here what most marked me," she writes. Ranging from Chaucer to H.D. to William Carlos Williams to Louise Glück to Shelley (among others), McLane tracks the "growth of a poet's mind," as Wordsworth put it in The Prelude. In a poetical prose both probing and incantatory, McLane has written a radical book of experimental criticism. Susan Sontag called for an "erotics of interpretation": this is it. Part Bildung, part dithyramb, part exegesis, My Poets extends an implicit invitation to you, dear reader, to consider who your "my poets," or "my novelists," or "my filmmakers," or "my pop stars," might be.

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0374217491

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