Category: Curriculum Material (Page 9 of 14)

Here is a selection of titles added to the collection in the past week

 A history of the Brethren movement: its origins, its worldwide development and its significance for the present day /by F. Roy Coad. Coad’s work traces the history of the Brethren Movement, which began more than 170 years ago and has since spread throughout the world. The author considers some of the outstanding characters produced by the movement, as well as its signficance in relation to the whole Christian church.

 Adaptive educational technologies for literacy instruction /edited by Scott A. Crossley and Danielle S. McNamara. Adaptive Educational Technologies for Literacy Instruction presents actionable information to educators, administrators, and researchers about available educational technologies that provide adaptive, personalized literacy instruction to students of all ages. These accessible, comprehensive chapters, written by leading researchers who have developed systems and strategies for classrooms, introduce effective technologies for reading comprehension and writing skills.

 Beerbohm Tree: his life and laughter / Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964. Herbert Beerbohm Tree, was famous actor and theatre manager of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904

Building reading comprehension habits in grades 6-12: a toolkit of classroom activities /Jeff Zwiers. Help struggling readers understand content area texts with research-based, innovative classroom tools that foster lifelong reading comprehension habits.

Cultural psychiatry: international perspectives /Juan Enrique Mezzich and Horacio Fàbrega, Jr., guest editors.

 ETpedia: materials writing : 500 ideas for creating English language materials /Lindsay Clandfield and John Hughes.  ETpedia Materials Writing provides both novice and more experienced teachers with tips and pointers on materials writing. Each unit of 10 tips will inspire you whether you’re writing your own materials for the first time or if you’re an experienced materials writer looking to further develop your skills.

 Fanny Kemble: a passionate Victorian, /Armstrong, Margaret,  Her first role was Juliet, when she was seventeen; at nineteen she was the toast of England, repeated her success in America, and then married Pierce Butler, vacillating, unfaithful slave owner. Her divorce — her fame as a Shakespearean reader — and the sensation caused by her writings kept her a storm-center for years. Interesting material, skillfully handled, and mirroring the theatre in England and America in the ’30’s and ’40’s, against a social and economic background of the period, and giving a new angle on the slave question and the Civil War.

 From Alexandria, through Baghdad: surveys and studies in the ancient Greek and medieval Islamic mathematical sciences in honor of J.L. Berggren /Nathan Sidoli, Glen Van Brummelen, editors. (TWU AUTHOR) This book honors the career of historian of mathematics J.L. Berggren, his scholarship, and service to the broader community. The first part is a survey of scholarship in the mathematical sciences in ancient Greece and medieval Islam. It consists of six articles (three by Berggren himself) covering research from the middle of the 20th century to the present. The remainder of the book contains studies by eminent scholars of the ancient and medieval mathematical sciences. They serve both as examples of the breadth of current approaches and topics, and as tributes to Berggren’s interests by his friends and colleagues.

 Gordon Craig: the story of his life /by Edward Craig.

How to save the world: how to make changing the world the greatest game we’ve ever played /Katie Patrick. In a 10-step framework of exercises, tutorials, and case studies, How to Save the World will teach you the art of changing the world – and it’s often not what you think. As you implement these academically researched and measurement-driven techniques, How to Save the World will drive you to dig into your creativity and unearth your greatest ideas that shift the numbers on the causes you most care about, so you can experience the joy and satisfaction of seeing your work really, actually change the world every single day.

 Katie’s wish /Barbara Shook Hazen ; illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. Soon after Katie wishes for her potatoes to disappear during dinner, a potato famine ravages her native Ireland, forcing her to leave for America.

London’s lost theatres of the nineteenth century;with notes on plays and players seen there.

  Making sense: a student’s guide to research and writing : religious studies /Margot Northey, Bradford A. Anderson, Joel N. Lohr. (TWU AUTHOR)Specifically designed for students in religious studies, this book offers up-to-date, detailed information on writing essays and short assignments, doing comparative research, evaluating internet sources, proper documentation, avoiding plagiarism, reading religious texts, learning foreign languages, and more.

 Naomi’s tree /by Joy Kogawa ; illustrated by Ruth Ohi. When a Japanese Canadian family is forced to leave their home for internment during World War II, the garden’s old cherry tree sends out a song of love and peace as it patiently awaits their return.

Nursing education in Canada /Helen K. Mussallem. One of the studies prepared for the Royal Commission on Health Services in Canada (1961-65). Examines and analyzes all types of educational programmes for personnel providing nursing care, with the emphasis on programmes designed to prepare nurses for registration in the provinces.

 Shake Rag: from the life of Elvis Presley /written by Amy Littlesugar ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper. A story about a period in the childhood of Elvis Presley when his family was dirt poor and he was introduced to the soulful music of the Sanctified Church that travelled to his town.

Swimming in a Red Sea /Lawrelynd Bowin. (TWU Content)  The memoir tells the story of 39-year-old Lawra Linda Bawman, an African Canadian who grew up in  Guinea; studied politics in Moscow; married a Dutch man; moved to Vancouver and now resides in Brussels. Multiple migrations are merely part of the search for identity of a young woman whose youth was marred by gendered ordeals. Jailed as a girl by her uncle for flirting with a boy, she is raped, subjected to FGM, and, at age twelve, compelled to witness her mother’s fatal experience in childbirth. She continues questioning the justice of existence while subduing fear of dying and confronting, for her children’s sake, a troubled world. The multilingual author and actor offers scenes of brutality tempered by resistance flowing into love.

 Technology and critical literacy in early childhood /Vivian Maria Vasquez, Carol Branigan Felderman. This book explores the intersection of technology and critical literacy, specifically addressing what ICTs afford critical literacy work with young children between ages three to eight. Inviting readers to enter classrooms where both technology and critical literacies are woven into childhood curricula and teaching, it brings together literacy, social studies, and science in critical and integrated ways. Real-world stories show the sights and sounds of children engaged with technology in the classroom and beyond.

 The many and the one: creation as participation in Augustine and Aquinas /Yonghua Ge. (TWU Content)  Ge argues that by transforming participatory ontology in light of creatio ex nihilo, Augustine and Aquinas have developed a distinctively Christian metaphysics that offers a promising solution to the modern dialectic of the One and the Many.

The revival of English poetic drama: (in the Edwardian & Georgian periods) /Anniah Gowda, H. H. 

 Through my eyes /Ruby Bridges ; articles and interviews compiled and edited by Margo Lundell. Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.

What really matters in fluency: research-based practices across the curriculum /Richard L. Allington.… presents a teacher-friendly framework for how fluency typically develops. Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in fostering development with a few modest changes to their daily reading lessons that will strengthen every student’s fluency development.

 What really matters in vocabulary: research-based practices across the curriculum /Patricia M. Cunningham. Will help teachers increase the number of words students know meanings for-as well as the depth of meanings for those words-as a day-in, day-out, across-the-school-day priority.

 Zachary’s ball /Matt Tavares. Dad takes Zachary to his first Boston Red Sox game where they catch a ball and something magical happens.