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Teaching with Dystopian Text

Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience

By: Michael Arthur Soares

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Teaching with Dystopian Text

Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience

By: Michael Arthur Soares

Teaching with Dystopian Text propounds an exchange of spatial to pedagogical practices centered around “Orwellian Spaces,” signaling a new utility for teaching with dystopian texts in secondary education. The volume details the urgency of dystopian texts for secondary students, providing theoretical frameworks, classroom examples and practical research. The function of dystopian texts, such as George Orwell’s 1984, as social and political critique is demonstrated as central to their power. Teaching with Dystopian Text: Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience makes a case that dystopian texts can be instrumental in the transfer of spatial practices to pedagogical practices. Pedagogical application creates links between the text and the student through defamiliarization, connecting the student to practices of resistance in the space of the classroom. The volume also addresses the challenges of teaching dystopian text in a dystopian educational climate including the COVID-19 lockdown. In addition to appealing to scholars and researchers of literacy education, language education and dystopian text, this book will also be a powerful yet accessible resource for secondary teachers as they address dystopian concerns with students in the complicated twenty-first century.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000984079

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Unlocking the Moviemaking Mind

Tales of Voice, Vision, and Video from K-12 Classrooms

By: Michael Schoonmaker,John M. Wolf

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Unlocking the Moviemaking Mind

Tales of Voice, Vision, and Video from K-12 Classrooms

By: Michael Schoonmaker,John M. Wolf

Have you ever had an idea for a book, a movie, or a TV show? Chances are that you’ve had many. Today’s students, who are coming of age in a world that is increasingly mediated by smartphones, pads, pods, apps, and the Internet, are even more likely to think of their lives and experiences in terms of stories. Unlocking the Moviemaking Mind explores how our innate abilities as storytellers can be used in the K-12 classroom to stimulate new approaches to learning. Relying on data collected during a multi-year research project in a variety of school settings, this book relies on story and synthesis to present tried and true methods of introducing media making practices in the classroom. Unlocking the Moviemaking Mind also offers strategies for overcoming individual and systematic barriers that educators and administrators are likely to encounter when incorporating storytelling into their curricula. Moreover, the book broaches topics that are especially germane to today’s students, including literacy, motivation, and experiential learning.

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166

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R&L Education

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1475803907

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Forensic Pathology of Trauma

By: Michael J. Shkrum,David A. Ramsay

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Forensic Pathology of Trauma

By: Michael J. Shkrum,David A. Ramsay

The practice of forensic pathology includes the collection and analysis of evidence in relation to a corpse in order to establish the cause of death. Knowledge of the cause of death contributes to the determination of the manner of death by medical examiners and coroners, who are occasionally assisted by law enforcement officers. In the process of establishing the cause and manner of death, representatives of various investigative bodies have several responsibilities, including explaining the death to family members, attempting to reduce the risk of similar deaths in the future, and, if applicable, apprehending the individuals who are responsible for the death. The most well-known and popular role of a forensic pathologist is in the inves- gation of cases of suspicious death; however, most medicolegal autopsies involve unexpected deaths that are above suspicion, many of which are caused by trauma (trauma being defined as any physical force or agent that causes bodily harm). The purpose of Forensic Pathology of Trauma: Common Problems for the Pathologist is to provide practical advice and information about the conduct of the forensic autopsy in cases of trauma, and to offer guidance about the analysis of the autopsy findings in these cases.

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654

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Springer Science & Business Media

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159745138X

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Figures of Memory

The Rhetoric of Displacement at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

By: Michael Bernard-Donals

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Figures of Memory

The Rhetoric of Displacement at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

By: Michael Bernard-Donals

Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate. Figures of Memory examines how the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, uses its space and the design of its exhibits to move its visitors to memory. From the objects and their placement to the architectural design of the building and the floor plan, the USHMM was meant to teach visitors about the Holocaust. But what Michael Bernard-Donals found is that while they learn, and remember, the Holocaust, visitors also call to mind other, sometimes unrelated memories. Partly this is because memory itself works in multidirectional ways, but partly its because of decisions made in the planning that led to the creation of the museum. Drawing on material from the USHMMs institutional archive, including meeting minutes, architectural renderings, visitor surveys, and comments left by visitors, Figures of Memory is both a theoretical exploration of memoryits relation to identity, space, and ethicsand a practical analysis of one of the most discussed memorials in the United States. The book also extends recent discussions of the rhetoric of memorial sites and museums by arguing that sites like the USHMM dont so much make a case for events through the act of memorialization, but actually displace memory, disturbing itand the museum visitorso much so that they call it into question. Memory, like rhetorical figures, moves, and the USHMM moves its visitors, figuratively and literally, both to and beyond the events the museum is meant to commemorate.

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236

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SUNY Press

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1438460775

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9781438460772

In the Past Lane

Historical Perspectives on American Culture

By: Michael G. Kammen

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In the Past Lane

Historical Perspectives on American Culture

By: Michael G. Kammen

Michael Kammen is a major American historian, whose books have received the Bancroft and Parkman prizes. This book collects his essays on American culture, of which he is one of the major historians.

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296

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019513091X

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9780195130911

Mystic Chords of Memory

The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

By: Michael Kammen

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Mystic Chords of Memory

The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

By: Michael Kammen

Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history. . . . Insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book World In this groundbreaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine That Would Go of Itself examines a central paradox of our national identity. How did "the land of the future" acquire a past? And to what extent has our collective memory of that past—as embodied in our traditions—been distorted, or even manufactured? Ranging from John Adams to Ronald Reagan, from the origins of Independence Day celebrations to the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War Memorial, from the Daughters of the American Revolution to immigrant associations, and filled with incisive analyses of such phenonema as Americana and its collectors, "historic" villages and Disneyland, Mystic Chords of Memory is a brilliant, immensely readable, and enormously important book. "Fascinating . . . a subtle and teeming narrative . . . masterly."—Time "This is a big, ambitious book, and Kammen pulls it off admirably. . . . [He] brings a prodigious mind and much scholarly rigor to his task. . . . An important book—and a revealing look at how Americans look at themselves."—Milwaukee Journal

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879

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Vintage

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0679741771

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9780679741770

Guns for Good Guys, Guns for Bad Guys

Gun Violence in America

By: Michael R. Weisser

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Guns for Good Guys, Guns for Bad Guys

Gun Violence in America

By: Michael R. Weisser

Drawing from 30 years of experience in the gun industry, Mike the Gun Guy will give you the whole story about gun violence--the one based on facts, not on any political agenda. With writing that is often provocative, sometimes hilarious and always informative, Mike breaks down how the gun industry works, and what both sides get right (very little) and wrong (almost everything) about how Americans think about, purchase, and use guns."--back cover.

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252

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Teetee Press

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0615883990

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9780615883991

Hunters in the Wilderness

Opening and Closing the Frontier

By: Michael R. Weisser

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Hunters in the Wilderness

Opening and Closing the Frontier

By: Michael R. Weisser

Do we really understand the role played by hunters and hunting in the growth and development of the United States? This book carries you from the opening of the Western frontier to the present-day argument over lead ammunition and everything in between. Want to know why we used to hunt but don't hunt any more? Weisser's 2nd volume on Guns in America explains it.

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Teetee Press

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0615943357

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9780615943350

Book's by Michael R. Weisser

Teaching with Dystopian Text

Teaching with Dystopian Text

Unlocking the Moviemaking Mind

Unlocking the Moviemaking Mind

Forensic Pathology of Trauma

Forensic Pathology of Trauma

Figures of Memory

Figures of Memory

In the Past Lane

In the Past Lane

Mystic Chords of Memory

Mystic Chords of Memory

Guns for Good Guys, Guns for Bad Guys

Guns for Good Guys, Guns for Bad Guys

Hunters in the Wilderness

Hunters in the Wilderness

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