A modern course for grades 4-6 elementary school, written in accordance with the latest guidelines of the core curriculum and leading gradually from the fun to the self-study and self-esteem.
It seemed appropriate to arrange a meeting of teachers of thermodynamics in the United Kingdom, a meeting held in the pleasant surroundings of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in September, 1984. This volume records the ideas put forward by authors, the discussion generated and an account of the action that discussion has initiated.
Step Forward - Language for Everyday Life - is the best-selling standards-based, four-skills course that improves student outcomes by integrating language instruction into real-life contexts. Designed to build workplace skills, the vocabulary in Step Forward is based on the vocabulary of the Oxford Picture Dictionary - providing easy supplementing and a rich, integrated instructional experience. A consistent unit sequence includes vocabulary, life stories, grammar, everyday conversation and real-life reading, carefully developing learners skills, while a transparent lesson structure makes the text accessible to learners, minimizing preparation time.
(12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)The ancient civilizations of the Near East can seem remote. For many of us, places such as Mesopotamia or the Indus valley ... or the Hittite or Assyrian peoples ... or rulers such as Sargon, Hammurabi, and Darius ... are part of a long-dead antiquity, so shrouded with dust that we might be tempted to skip over them entirely, preferring to race forward along history's timeline in search of the riches we know will be found in our studies of Greece and Rome.