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The More-than-just-surviving Handbook
This revised and expanded edition of the 1990 bestseller includes the latest research in language acquisition: how to teach reading and writing and how to develop listening and speaking skills. It is filled with the authors' trademark anecdotes and practical advice, based on their many years of experience working with ELL students. Strategies for teaching the four literacy skills-reading, writing, speaking, and listening-are enhanced by student examples and illustrations. To help you personalize the theory discussed, each chapter includes a section with questions and case studies so you can apply the information to your own school and issues. In this new edition, you'll find great suggestions on how to familiarize your ESL students with the school and classmates measure reading, writing, speaking, and listening fluency recognize and help students cope with culture shock enrich your reading and writing programs recognize the different needs of your students-with effective strategies for each level of literacy teach language through content help ESL students succeed in the content areas tap the resources of your school and community
Golden Dreams
A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence. Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years. In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, Starr examines such issues as the overnight creation of the postwar California suburb, the rise of Los Angeles as Super City, the reluctant emergence of ...
Wisdom's Passing
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War
In 1864, Union soldier Charles George described a charge into battle by General Phil Sheridan: "Such a picture of earnestness and determination I never saw as he showed as he came in sight of the battle field . . . What a scene for a painter!" These words proved prophetic, as Sheridan’s desperate ride provided the subject for numerous paintings and etchings as well as songs and poetry. George was not alone in thinking of art in the midst of combat; the significance of the issues under contention, the brutal intensity of the fighting, and the staggering number of casualties combined to form a tragedy so profound that some could not help but view it through an aesthetic lens, to see the war ...
Natives, Newcomers, Exiles, Fugitives
Reviews and interviews of 32 authors of both fiction and non-fiction who live or have lived in northern California.
