The Glenoce World History Reading Essentials and Note-Taking Guide incorporates interactive reading strategies with core content from the “Glencoe World History 2008” textbook written at a lower level than the textbook to help struggling readers and ELL (English Language Learner) students. Some texts will also be useful for ESL/EFL reading comprehension exercises on social studies topics.
World War II for Kids: A History with 21 Activities
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids, Non-Fiction | 7 October 2008
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"World War II for Kids: A History with 21 Activities" really has three key components.
First, there is a history of World War II from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to the surrender of the Japanese in 1945.
Second, Richard Panchyk provides excerpts from actual wartime letters written to and by troops on both sides along with personal anecdotes from people who lived through the war.
Finally, there are 21 activities that can show young readers how it felt to live through World War II, both on the battlefield and on the Home Front.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD.
* Provides expert overview of the main periods of Latin literary history, major genres, and key themes * Covers all the major Latin works of prose and poetry, from Ennius to Augustine, including Lucretius, Cicero, Catullus, Livy, Vergil, Seneca, and Apuleius * Includes invaluable reference material - dictionary entries on authors, chronological chart of political and literary history, and an annotated bibliography * Serves as both a discursive literary history and a general reference book.
I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: A Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes Describing something by relating it to another thing is the essence of metaphorical thought. It is one of the oldest activities of humankind—and one of the most impressive when done skillfully. Throughout history, many masters of metaphor have crafted observations that are so spectacular they have taken up a permanent residence in our minds.
