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Sea of Troubles has been designed for classroom teachers struggling
to address the overwhelming issues facing our world today. By
embracing the Common Core's emphasis on the inclusion of more
nonfiction, informational texts, the authors have demonstrated how
to incorporate meaningful informational texts into their favorite
units of literature. Sea of Troubles shows teachers how literature
and informational texts can work together, to enhance each other,
and, by extension, enhance student's abilities to critically think
and respond to the sea of troubles that pervades society.
Sea of Troubles has been designed for classroom teachers struggling
to address the overwhelming issues facing our world today. By
embracing the Common Core's emphasis on the inclusion of more
nonfiction, informational texts, the authors have demonstrated how
to incorporate meaningful informational texts into their favorite
units of literature. Sea of Troubles shows teachers how literature
and informational texts can work together, to enhance each other,
and, by extension, enhance student's abilities to critically think
and respond to the sea of troubles that pervades society.
This book is ideal for the thousands of teachers who entered the
profession in the last ten years and taught prescribed curriculum
geared toward end of year bubble testing. Its intent is to empower
districts and their teachers to create their own (free!) curriculum
that will exceed the expectations of Common Core assessments, as
well as create life-long learners that are college and career
ready. By employing inquiry based units of study that insist on the
use of iconic literature at the center, students will be more
prepared for what awaits them with Common Core exams.
This book is ideal for the thousands of teachers who entered the
profession in the last ten years and taught prescribed curriculum
geared toward end of year bubble testing. Its intent is to empower
districts and their teachers to create their own (free!) curriculum
that will exceed the expectations of Common Core assessments, as
well as create life-long learners that are college and career
ready. By employing inquiry based units of study that insist on the
use of iconic literature at the center, students will be more
prepared for what awaits them with Common Core exams.
As a small child, Josiah believed that his father's absence could
be explained by the simple fact that he was a high ranking alien
official on the planet Parnuckle. It explained so much else, too,
like why Josiah should eat nothing but chocolate (Parnucklians eat
nothing but chocolate), and why he should be proud of and idolize
his father, the Keymaster of Gozer, even though they'd never
met.
But as time goes on and the gaps in this mythology widen, Josiah is
faced with two possibilities: either it's all very real or it's all
very pretend. This betrayal comes into sharper focus when, three
weeks before his sixteenth birthday, Josiah is released back into
his mother's care after two years in a group home. His mother is
about to marry Johnson Davis, and when Josiah, his mother, Johnson
Davis, and his daughter Bree Davis--a prematurely mature girl with
her own history of parental betrayal--attempt to live together as
an all-American nuclear family, the myths underpinning all of their
lives come chaotically and absurdly unspooled.
This startling, stylish, hilarious debut novel explores what it
means to grow up an alien in your own family and your own life.
It's a story about the secret, solitary lives of kids held hostage
by the caprices of their caretakers. In "Parnucklian for
Chocolate," B.H. James has taken the alien heart of family life and
made it recognizable and relatable to all--extraterrestrial or
otherwise.
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