Set in the American South of the 1920s, Lou takes piano lessons, but would rather hear his friend Ol' Slim play the blues at a local saloon. When Slim dies, lou finds a job backstage at a real jazz club--and hat's when Lou's adventure really begins. Full-color illustrations.
Shakespeare Without Women Representing gender and race on the Renaissance stage
Shakespeare Without Women is a controversial study of female impersonation and the connections between dramatic and political representation in Shakespeare's plays.
Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of great writers such as William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen?
What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing
What We Really Value traces the origins of traditional rubrics within the theoretical and historical circumstances out of which they emerged, then holds rubrics up for critical scrutiny in the context of contemporary developments in the field. As an alternative to the generic character and decontextualized function of scoring guides, he offers dynamic criteria mapping, a form of qualitative inquiry by which writing programs (as well as individual instructors) can portray their rhetorical values with more ethical integrity and more pedagogical utility than rubrics allow.
A moose moves in and no one wanted to be friends his because he is so big. Franklin makes friends with the moose and find out the moose is really nice.
