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Farnsworth's Classical English Style
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Farnsworth's Classical English StyleFarnsworth's Classical English Style

Say it with style―on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hundreds of examples from Lincoln, Churchill, Douglass, and other masters of the language. As Farnsworth says, “Explaining a precept may take just a few words, but only examples can make it familiar to the ear. So we will consider examples from writers and orators who all have lessons to teach.”
Farnsworth shows how small choices about words, sentences, and paragraphs put force into writing and speech that have stood the test of time. What was the secret? Knowledge of choices in the selection of words, the arrangement of sentences, the creation of a cadence.
 
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Tags: words, examples, Farnsworth, sentences, choices, English
Pinocchio - Penguin Young Readers - Level 4
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Pinocchio - Penguin Young Readers - Level 4Pinocchio - Penguin Young Readers - Level 4

Pinocchio plays pranks upon the kindly woodcarver Geppetto, is duped by the Fox and the Cat, kills the pedantic Talking Cricket, and narrowly escapes death, with the help of the blue-haired Fairy. A wooden puppet without strings, Pinocchio is a tragicomic figure, a poor, illiterate, naughty peasant boy who has few choices in life but usually chooses to shirk his responsibilities and get into trouble.

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Tags: Pinocchio, naughty, peasant, choices, illiterate, Level, Readers, Penguin, Young
Introducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to Society
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Introducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to SocietyIntroducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to Society is a concise and accessible introduction by bestselling author, James Paul Gee, to the fundamental ideas behind different specific approaches to discourse analysis, or the analysis of language in use. The book stresses how grammar sets up choices for speakers and writers to make, choices which express, not unvarnished truth, but perspectives or viewpoints on reality.  In turn, these perspectives are the material from which social interactions, social relations, identity, and politics make and remake society and culture.
 
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Teaching with Love & Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
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Teaching with Love & Logic: Taking Control of the ClassroomThe exercises and tips contained in this book will help teachers orient students toward being internalized in their discipline rather than depending upon external controls--resulting in easier classroom management and more quality teaching time. Jim and Charles Fay will teach you how to effectively manage your classroom through shared control, choices within limits and the importance of relationships. For teachers in grades K-12.
 
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Tags: classroom, teachers, within, control, choices
Choose Your Own Adulthood: A Small Book about the Small Choices that Make the Biggest Difference
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Choose Your Own Adulthood: A Small Book about the Small Choices that Make the Biggest DifferenceChoose Your Own Adulthood: A Small Book about the Small Choices that Make the Biggest Difference

Congratulations, reader! You've successfully navigated through the trials of childhood and adolescence. Now, as you voyage through high school to college and beyond, you're set to begin your next big adventure: adulthood. A few big decisions await you, from majors and minors to jobs and careers (and maybe even marriage!). However, in between the big ones, you'll make a million other smaller, subtler choices that will underpin everything from your friendships to your bank account. These are the daily choices that will truly define you . . . so how will you choose? 
 
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