The books are 148 and 170 pgs respectively. The books are arranged in order of difficulty, but you can work through them in order you want. Each activity centers on material from the book to help children retain what they've read. There are around 5-10 activities for each book covered. These include comprehension questions, comprehension activities, art activities, and handwriting exercises. After a "to the teacher" page, the rest of the book is simply packed with the activity worksheets. It is recommended to spend at least three or four days on each book, with the child reading it to you at least twice and completing the comprehension activities. Each guide covers fourteen favorite children's books, like Madeline, Miss Nelson is Missing, A New Coat for Anna, Amelia Bedelia, Caps for Sale, Billy and Blaze, Frog and Toad, and more. By Veritas Press, these comprehension guides are for beginning readers.
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"When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball," by Mark Weakland CapstoneĪ parent in Prosper, a Dallas suburb, said this illustrated children's book, which touches on the racism that Olympian Wilma Rudolph experienced growing up in Tennessee in the 1940s, should be removed from school libraries because "it opines prejudice based on race." 3. "Drama," by Raina Telgemeier ScholasticĪ parent asked administrators at the Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston to pull this graphic novel, which features gay and bisexual characters, because she claimed it might lead young students "to question their sexual orientation when they don't even comprehend what that means." 2. Several titles were targeted in multiple districts.ĭrawing from those records, below is a list of 50 books that Texas parents tried to ban in 2021. NBC News sent public records requests to nearly 100 school districts in the Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin regions - a small sampling of the state’s 1,250 public school systems - and found 86 formal requests to remove books from libraries last year, the vast majority coming during the final four months of the year. Woods (Zoe in Wonderland) contemplates American history in this sobering novel set in Birdsong, S.C., during the summer of 1946. The South being the way it is, there's no guarantee that the police will help-and Gabriel doesn't know what will happen if Meriwether feels forced to take the law into his own hands. Sadly, danger finds Meriwether, anyway, when his family receives a frightening threat. Meriwether is proud of his service, but has to keep it a secret because talking about it could be dangerous. Gabriel and Meriwether become friends, and Gabriel learns that Meriwether drove a tank in the Army's all-Black 761st Tank Battalion in WWII. Gabriel's dad hires him with some hesitation, however, anticipating trouble with the other mechanic, who makes no secret of his racist opinions. As a thank you, Gabriel gets him a job at his dad's auto shop. Fortunately, a Black man named Meriwether pushes him out of the way just in time, and fixes his damaged bike. On Gabriel's twelfth birthday, he gets a new bike-and is so excited that he accidentally rides it right into the path of a car. The Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author tells the moving story of the friendship between a young white boy and a Black WWII veteran who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South. Considering that yellowy gasoline-like substance burns acidic holes in the ground, four times that on a morning wake-up routine seems a bit much, especially for the diseased heavy coffee drinker who has multiple cups.įranchise coffee companies are so consumed with upping the tolerance of everyday coffee lovers into caffeine-addicted junkies with the dependency of a bridge-dwelling meth enthusiast. Just to give an idea, a 16-ounce “grande” (just say “large,” a-holes) has four times the caffeine of one Red Bull. It’s no grand revelation to look and see a Starbucks shop 20 feet in front of you, let alone another one in pissing distance, but that doesn’t mean the McDonalds of the coffee consuming industry is the best way to go about your mornings. Serving 40 million people a week from 17,000 stores with twice as many employees as the country of Greenland, it’s safe to say Starbucks is the most common coffee consumption of mankind. Few things in this world offer the same satisfaction as a warm cup of freshly dripped glory in the morning, but do you know exactly what’s in the coffee and tea you drink to awaken those weary eyes and that brain-dead head? Have a fresh peek and see if you like what’s happening with your morning coffee and tea. The other, Eva Mountstephen, her friend from Lucknow. One of the two guests was a 49-year-old spinster, Frances Garnett-Orme. Anyone consuming the crystallised grains of strychnine without shaking the contents ran the risk of instant cyanosis and asphyxiation. The convulsions were of a violence terrible to behold … A final lifted her from the bed, until she appeared to rest upon her head and her heels, with her body arched in an extraordinary manner.ĭuring her nursing-tenure at the Torquay War Hospital, at the time of the Great War, Christie had learned a great deal about chemicals, and conceived fabled prescription that led to Inglethorp’s death.Īccordingly, a mixture of potassium bromide added to strychnine sulfate left a precipitate of the free alkali to crystallise at the bottom of the container. Inglethorp’s death was not so different from any of Cream’s victims. Allegedly, his last words were, “I am Jack the…” Cream was executed in 1892 for the serial-strychnine-murders of women in Canada and Britain. Strychnine acquired early celebrity in the hands of Dr Thomas Neill Cream. Jack the Ripper suspect Dr Thomas Neill Cream. While the civilizational critique of “Western” democracy (the origins of which can be traced to Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan) has contributed to democratic decline in the region, there has also been push back by offering an interpretation based on East Asia's major religious traditions to show that “Asian values” are not incompatible with democracy. These apparently contradictory discourses have been dialectically related in the post–Cold War era: authoritarian rulers reacted to universalist claims about democracy with assertions of cultural particularism which, in turn, triggered a reaction by Asian democrats who pointed to the liberal character of world religions practiced in the region. Less well known is a pro-democratic stance in Asia rooted in the region's major religious traditions. The most famous expression was the “Asian values” discourse of government-linked intellectuals in Singapore and Malaysia, but there has also been a “political Confucianist” critique of “Western democracy” in China as well as claims that only “Thai-style democracy” is appropriate in Thailand. In the last three decades, a number of Asian thinkers supportive of, or opposed to, authoritarian rule have developed culture-based theories of democracy that challenge, or buttress, a liberal, “Western” understanding of democratic rule. At the same time, he begins playing football, where he hopes the physical pain will suppress the emotional agony. He finds the only way he can escape the emptiness he feels is to quit doing the things that made him happy when his cousin was alive, such as playing his beloved trumpet. His world becomes divided into “before” and “after” Josh’s death. Jericho Prescott lost his best friend when he lost his cousin, Josh, and the pain is almost more than he can bear. How in the world will she tell her mom? And how will Josh’s parents take the news? She’s never needed a friend more. She’s pregnant and now she’s faced with the biggest decision of her life. But Josh left something behind that will change November’s life forever. When November Nelson loses her boyfriend, Josh, to a pledge stunt gone horribly wrong, she thinks her life can’t possibly get any worse. Draper’s Jericho Trilogy and Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Jericho and November are locked together in pain from the past and fear for the future, and it feels as though there’s no way to escape either. When first published, this collection was an important milestone in British theatre, being the first book to offer diverse female role models both by the playwrights themselves and through the characters in their plays. The collection includes writers who have now gone on to achieve national recognition with work produced on film, television, radio and stage working with some of the most distinguished actors, directors and producers of African and Asian descent in Britain. This new edition of Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers includes a revised introduction together with the original essays from the 1993 edition. (Revised Edition, 2022) Includes Playwrights: Rukhsana Ahmad, Maya Chowdhry, Trish Cooke, Winsome Pinnock, Meera Syal, ZindikaĮssays and contributions by Bernardine Evaristo, Valerie Small, Deirdre Osborne, Sita Ramamurthy and Stella Oni. Six Plays by Black and Asian Women WritersĪ landmark collection of plays for stage, screen and radio, Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers has become a seminal collection for libraries, drama schools and educational institutions. 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Kathryn Lasky is the acclaimed author of more than thirty books for children. “A beautiful experience meant to be savored by fans.”-Under the Covers “ The Beast is a joy of a novel…Ward is a master of her craft.”-New York Journal of Books This immersive, introspective yet rousing next installment will leave you clamoring for more.”. Emotional surprises and plot twists signal big things to come as this consistently compelling and exciting series evolves. “Intimate, evocative…the last quarter or so of The Beast had me breathing fast, furiously flipping pages. And the answer, when it comes to him, rocks his-and his beloved Mary’s-world… Terrified, he must reassess his priorities after suffering a mortal injury. But he can’t understand or control the panic and insecurity that plague him. Or at the very least, perfectly enjoyable. But as the Brotherhood readies for an all-out attack on them, one of their own fights a battle within himself…įor Rhage-the Brother with the biggest appetites, but also the biggest heart-life was supposed to be perfect. The slayers of the Lessening Society are stronger than ever, preying on human weakness to acquire more money, more weapons, more power. Nothing is as it used to be for the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Berkley | Mass Market Paperback, Ebook, Audiobook Download | 2016įan favorite couple Rhage and Mary return in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. |