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Game-changing wisdom from pioneering coach and Nike executive George
Raveling, coauthored by bestselling author Ryan Holiday - with a
foreword by basketball legend Michael Jordan
George Raveling knows all about beating the odds. A living legend, he
has been a game-changing basketball coach, stood at the side of Martin
Luther King Jr, mentored Michael Jordan and shaped the world of sports
as a Director at Nike. But his life began in the shadow of segregation,
death and mental illness.
Here, he teams up with bestselling author Ryan Holiday to share the
lessons drawn from his extraordinary life and career. This is not a
memoir, but a blueprint for anyone who wants to overcome obstacles and
achieve success on their own terms. You'll find strategies for
discovering purpose, insights on how to keep evolving and growing,
advice for building meaningful connections, and tactics to compound
daily victories into your greatest achievements. From finding a mentor
to building a legacy, this book provides tools to not just navigate
life, but to live it with intention and impact. And it all starts with
the question: what are you made for?
Have you been wondering how well your students understand
engineering and technology concepts? Have you been wishing for
formative assessment tools in both English and Spanish? If so, this
is the book for you. Like the other 11 books in the bestselling
Uncovering Student Ideas series, Uncovering Student Ideas About
Engineering and Technology does the following: Brings you engaging
questions, also known as formative assessment probes. The book's 32
probes are designed to uncover what students know-or think they
know-about what technology and engineering are, how to define
related problems, and how to design and test solutions. The probes
will help you uncover students' current thinking about everything
from the purpose of technology to who can become an engineer to how
an engineering design process works. Offers field-tested teacher
materials that provide best answers along with distracters designed
to reveal preconceptions and misunderstandings that students
commonly hold. Since the content is explained in clear, everyday
language, even engineering and technology novices can grasp and
teach it effectively. Is convenient even for time-starved teachers
like you. The new probes are short, easy-to-administer activities
that come ready to reproduce for speakers of both English and
Spanish. In addition to explaining the engineering and technology
content, the teacher materials note links to A Framework for K-12
Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards and
suggest grade-appropriate ways to present material so students will
learn it accurately. Uncovering Student Ideas About Engineering and
Technology has the potential to help you take an important first
step in teaching for understanding-and perhaps transform your
teaching about STEM-related topics.
for SATB (with divisions) and organ. Maurice Ravel's popular Pavane
pour une infante defunte is here arranged for mixed voices and
organ, allowing choirs to perform this beautiful staple of the
orchestral repertoire for the first time. Rupert Gough's
arrangement sets the words of the 'Requiem aeternam' to the
existing melody, and features a characterful and active organ part
that underpins the sustained vocal lines. The piece has been
recorded by The Choir of Royal Holloway on the album Messe da
pacem.
Ravel composed the original piano version of this piece in 1899
after resuming his studies at the Paris Conservatory. It was
published the next year and became an overnight success. Despite
some self-criticism of his youthful work for being "poor in form,"
Ravel thought well enough of it to prepare an orchestral version in
late 1910, which was given its premiere under the baton of Henry
Wood at the Manchester Gentlemen's Concerts on 27 February 1911.
This newly-engraved critical edition will be appreciated by Ravel
fans, students, and conductors everywhere.
Bruno Monsaingeon directs this profile of pianist Sviatoslav
Richter, who died in 1997. Footage of Richter in concert combines
with his own diary readings and interviews with colleagues
including Glenn Gould and Arthur Rubinstein.
Bruno Monsaingeon directs this profile of violinist David Oistrakh,
who died in 1974. Oistrakh was a leading proponent of the Russian
school, and his work is recalled here by friends and colleagues
including Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich.
Live performance from the 2013 Odeonplatz Concert in Munich. Tenor
Rolando Villazón and baritone Thomas Hampson sing works by Verdi
and Wagner with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the
Symphonieorchester and Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Music by
Jules Massenet and Maurice Ravel is also featured.
Pierre Boulez conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and
pianist Daniel Barenboim in this opening concert from the Salzburg
Festival of 2008. Featured works include Ravel's 'Valses nobles et
sentimentales', Bartok's 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1'
and Stravinsky's 'Firebird Suite'.
In this sequel to the award-winning A Boy Is Not a Bird, a boy is
exiled to Siberia during World War II. Based on a true story. Torn
from his home in Eastern Europe, with his father imprisoned in a
Siberian gulag, twelve-year-old Natt finds himself stranded with
other deportees in a schoolyard in Novosibirsk. And he is about to
discover that life can indeed get worse than the horrific two
months he and his mother have spent being transported on a
bug-infested livestock train. He needs to write to his best friend,
Max, but he knows the Soviet police reads everyone's mail. So Natt
decides to write in code, and his letters are a lifeline, even
though he never knows whether Max will receive them. Every day
becomes a question of survival, and where they might be shunted to
next. When his mother is falsely arrested for stealing potatoes,
Natt is truly on his own and must learn how to live the uncertain
life of an exile. Practice being invisible as a ghost, change your
name and identity if you have to, watch out for spies, and never
draw the attention of the authorities. Even then, he will need luck
on his side if he is ever going to be reunited with his family. Key
Text Features author's note Illustrations map Correlates to the
Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or
event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text
(e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more
characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on
specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases
as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as
metaphors and similes. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a
narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are
described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and
multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a
text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction,
folktale, myth, poem).
Live performance from the 2013 Odeonplatz Concert in Munich. Tenor
Rolando Villazón and baritone Thomas Hampson sing works by Verdi
and Wagner with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the
Symphonieorchester and Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Music by
Jules Massenet and Maurice Ravel is also featured.
Coverage of the 2014 Midsummer Night's Gala in Grafenegg. The
concert, which features pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, soprano Angela
Denoke and tenor Ramón Vargas, includes works by, among others,
Ravel, Strauss, Puccini and Gershwin. Juanjo Mena conducts the
Tonkünstler-Orchester.
Collection of 20 documentaries providing insight into significant
classical works and their composers. The films are: 'Bach's
Brandenburg Concertos', 'Mozart's Symphony No. 41', 'Haydn's
Symphony No. 94 'Surprise'', 'Beethoven's Symphony No. 5',
'Beethoven's Symphony No. 9', 'Schubert's Symphony No. 8
'Unfinished'', 'Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique', 'Mendelssohn's
Violin Concerto in E Minor', 'Schumann's Piano Concerto', 'Brahms'
Violin Concerto in D Major', 'Bruckner's Symphony No. 8',
'Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5', 'Dvorák's Symphony No. 9',
'Debussy's La mer', 'Mahler's Symphony No. 5', 'Mahler's Das Lied
von der Erde', 'Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps', 'Strauss's
Eine Alpensinfonie', 'Ravel's Boléro' and 'Bartók's Concerto for
Orchestra'.
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