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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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If you've ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make
science and math more relevant to your middle or high school
students, Creating Engineering Design Challenges is the book for
you. At its core are 13 units grounded in challenge-based learning
and the engineering design process. You can be sure the units are
classroom-ready because they were contributed by teachers who
developed, used, and revised them during the Cincinnati Engineering
Enhanced Math and Science (CEEMS) program, a project funded by the
National Science Foundation. Detailed and practical, the book is
divided into three sections: 1. The rationale for making
engineering an effective part of math and science instruction. 2.
Thirteen engineering-related units, including the
teacher-contributors' detailed accounts, lesson plans, and
handouts. Content areas include biology, chemistry, physical
science, Earth science, and environmental science. Topics range
from developing a recipe for cement to implementing geocaching to
calculating accurate aim with slingshots and water balloons. 3.
Guidance on how to develop, support, and grow your engineering
practice. This section offers useful templates and frameworks for
you as well as professional development guidance for your school.
The contributors' goal is to help you benefit from their hard-won
experience. They write, "During our time with the CEEMS project, we
learned a great deal from our mistakes and our successes, and we
felt it would be important to share what we learned with the hope
that you can build on your own success." Working from their advice,
you can develop a more student-centered classroom culture and
nurture learners who are engaged in real-life engineering
challenges.
The world of Michael Chabon comes alive in the first full-length,
analytical guide devoted to this brilliantly creative writer.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon is considered one of
the most distinguished contemporary American novelists. Reading
Michael Chabon, the first full-length volume on the writer, views
his career as bridging the gap between literary and popular
culture. Designed for book club members and high school and college
students, this reference guide will help readers keep track of
Chabon's intricate plots and draw thematic connections between and
among his major novels. It will also help them understand his
fiction as cultural commentary on contemporary masculinity and
Jewish identity. The book treats both Chabon's life and work,
including film adaptations of his novels, his love affair with
comics, and his forays into detective and adventure fiction. A
chapter is dedicated to each of his major novels, including
Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of
Kavalier and Clay, and The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
Identity Papers argues that contemporary Jewish American literature
revises our understanding of Jewishness and Jewish difference.
Moving beyond the reductive labeling of texts and authors as too
Jewish or not Jewish enough, and focusing instead on narratives
that portray Jewish regeneration through feminist Orthodoxy,
queerness, off-whiteness, and intermarriage, Helene Meyers resists
a lachrymose view of contemporary Jewish American life. She argues
that such gendered, sexed, and raced debates about Jewish identity
become opportunities rather than crises, signs of creative
potential rather than symptoms of assimilation and deracination.
Thus, feminist debates within Orthodoxy are allied to Jewish
continuity by Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, and Tova Mirvis;
the geography of Jewish identity is racialized by Alfred Uhry, Tony
Kushner, and Philip Roth; and the works of Jyl Lynn Felman, Judith
Katz, Lev Raphael, and Michael Lowenthal queer the Jewish family as
they reveal homophobia to be an abomination. Even as Identity
Papers expands Jewish literary horizons and offers much-needed
alternatives to the culture wars between liberal and traditional
Jews, it argues that Jewish difference productively troubles
dominant narratives of feminist, queer, and whiteness studies.
Meyers demonstrates that the evolving Jewish American literary
renaissance is anything but provincial; rather, it is engaged with
categories of difference central to contemporary academic
discourses and our national life."
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