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Across the country, high school freshmen have the highest rates of
failure, discipline problems, and truancy. Defined as the "make it
or break it" year, ninth grade can be a trying time for teenagers
learning to make their own way in the world. The Ninth Grade
Opportunity provides educators with a useful framework to build and
implement a team-based Freshman Transition program, ultimately
allowing teachers to play an integral role in ensuring every
student's success.
Scott Habeeb, Ray Moore and Alan Seibert have over 60 years of
combined experience as teachers and administrators, and together
have compiled a guidebook centered around a teaming approach that
empowers teachers to better meet freshmen needs. Based on concepts
behind their popular Freshman Transition workshops, the authors
share ideas about why and how teaming teachers works and how it can
benefit schools. Road maps provide guidance for teachers to learn
specifically how to create a program built around key elements such
as: Standardized expectations Learning skills Classroom leadership
Parent/teacher contact
Educators everywhere will benefit from the practical advice,
expert insight, and helpful tips that transform the ninth grade
problem into The Ninth Grade Opportunity, ensuring a successful
transition for every high school student.
Teach little learners about beloved civil rights leader Martin
Luther King Jr. with this 200-word board book. This little book
introduces Martin Luther King Jr., an iconic leader of the civil
rights movement. Simple, toddler-friendly text tells how King grew
up, how he became a minister, and how he worked to end segregation
in America. Accessible for even the youngest of children, The Story
of Martin Luther King Jr. helps readers understand who King is,
what he did, and why his story still matters today.
The Levels focuses on challenges faced by business owners between
the small to medium size transition- often a turbulent time for
even the most accomplished entrepreneur A tried and tested model,
author Ray Moore brings together his extensive knowledge,
experience and challenges faced over his long and successful career
in business ownership. At its simplest, The Levels can be described
as a manual for growth that focuses on the changes a business
should put in place to make the difficult transition up from a
small- to medium-sized company. At its most complex, it's a guide
to challenging and changing your entire way of thinking
Everything the reader needs in a single volume This book is
virtually unique in providing the Middle English text of Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight with an interlinear translation together with
a commentary. It also contains helpful illustrations. Separate
chapters give a full analysis of the text and its background.
The book is virtually unique in providing: the full text in Middle
English, an interlinear translation, introductory chapters on the
pilgrims and the narrator, guided study questions on each section
of the text, a detailed analysis of the frame story and each
portrait, a full bibliography and a guide to further reading. The
author's aim is to meet the needs of students up to undergraduate
level, of their teachers, and of the general reader who wishes to
experience and enjoy one of the great comic works of world
literature.
This book uniquely offers everything a reader needs to appreciate
the text. It gives the reader a newly edited Middle English text
with side-by-side modernization and a commentary. Also included are
chapters on the General Prologue, the Structure of the Wife's
Prologue and Tale, the Teller and the Tale, and a comparison with
three other tales of the Knight and the Loathly Lady.
This Critical Introduction explores the main themes, characters and
symbols of "The Great Gatsby"; the quest for a new life, the
preoccupation with one's place in society, the desire for riches
and the greatest dream of all human beings. In doing so it offers
an interpretation which, unlike most analyses of this American
Masterpiece, places Nick as the focus of Fitzgerald's attention. It
includes a series of questions that helps the reader develop a
deeper understanding of the story.
A critical introduction to "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen is
suitable for students from high school up to university level as
well as for the general reader. The book places the novel in the
context of Austen's other works, analyzes the narrative voices, the
manners of the times, marriage, and the importance of locations.
The writer shows how both Darcy and Elizabeth, inadequate alone,
completely complement each other.
The book is virtually unique in providing, in a single volume, a
comprehensive analysis of The General Prologue which reflects the
latest thinking. It places the work in the context of the social
change in late fourteenth century England. The detailed reading of
each section of the poem is supported by the author's own
modernization of the text which enables the reader fully to
understand Chaucer's Middle English. Also included, for purposes of
comparison, are selections from contemporary writers such as
Langland and Gower. The description of each pilgrim is analyzed in
socio-historical terms, but emphasis is also placed on the writing
as poetry. The author's aim is to give the reader the confidence to
develop his/her own understanding of a work which is an essential
part of the European literary heritage.
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