Civil War and Reconstruction (American Heritage, American Voices series)
This exciting new addition to the American Heritage American Voices series offers young readers insights into the culture and ideas of the Civil War era through a variety of primary sources. The book includes major historical documents, such as the Gettysburg Address, as well as more personalized accounts of the war and of the popular culture of the times found in diaries, advertisements, and magazine and newspaper articles. Throughout, the readings are supplemented by introductions, period illustrations, sidebar information, and vocabularies.
Starred Review. Actor Jeremy Northam (Gosford Park, Tristram Shandy) has himself a ball with Greene's comic suspense novel, its Cuban setting and panoply of international characters. He downplays the religious and political undertones of the book in favor of Greene's comedy of a vacuum-cleaner salesman turned secret agent. Greene's array of Germans, Brits and native Cubans allows Northam to trot out some of the choicest examples from his stable of voices, all cleverly done. The brief bits of salsa music that punctuate the breaks between chapters underscore Northam's jaunty reading. This is one classic novel meant to be enjoyed for entertainment, not self-improvement. (June)
Some Percy Bysshe Shelley poems Several Percy Bysshe Shelley poems read by Vincent Price. These are: Asia (from "Prometheus Unbound"); Hymn to Intellectual Beauty; Music, When Soft Voices Die; Ode to the West Wind; Ozymandias; To A Skylark; With a Guitar, To Jane.
12 American Voices: An Authentic Listening and Integrated Skills Textbook: Instructor's Manual
Instructor's manual to "12 American Voices: An Authentic Listening and Integrated-Skills" Textbook. This manual contains suggestions on how to most effectively use the broadcasts and lessons in this textbook. The authors have taught these stories to many students and in a wide variety of classrooms. In each case there were differences large and small in how the lessons were taught depending on the goals and orientations of the course and—even more—on the interests and responses of the students.
He's hearing voices . . . from another world!Tommy Frazer's dad just got married. Now Tommy's got a new mom. And he's going to a new school -- Bell Valley Middle School.Tommy doesn't hate school. But it's hard making friends. And his new school is so big, it's easy to get lost. Which is exactly what happens.Tommy gets lost -- lost in a maze of empty classrooms. And that's when he hears the voices. Kids' voices crying for help. Voices coming from behind the classroom walls. . . .
