Author: Mark TwainPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368908499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
English as She is Taught
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368908499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
English as She is Taught
Author: Caroline Bigelow Le RowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
English As She Is Taught
Author: Mark TwainEnglish as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest
Author: José da FonsecaPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
English as she is spoke by Jose de Fonseca is a befuddled Portuguese-to-English dictionary which was intentionally published as a humorous guide. Excerpt: "A choice of familiar dialogues, clean of gallicisms, and despoiled phrases, it was missing yet to studious Portuguese and Brazilian Youth; and also to persons of others nations, that wish to know the Portuguese language. We sought all we may do, to correct that want, composing and devising the present little work in two parts."
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Author: Publisher: Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN: 9781599672595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
Author: Kate ClanchyPublisher: Swift Press
ISBN: 1800751664
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
With a new afterword. 'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying' - Philip Pullman Kate Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an excellent place to do it. She invites you to meet some of the kids she has taught in her thirty-year career. Join her as she explains everything about sex to a classroom of thirteen-year-olds. As she works in the school 'Inclusion Unit', trying to improve the fortunes of kids excluded from regular lessons because of their terrifying power to end learning in an instant. Or as she nurtures her multicultural poetry group, full of migrants and refugees, watches them find their voice and produce work of heartbreaking brilliance. While Clanchy doesn't deny stinging humiliations or hide painful accidents, she celebrates this most creative, passionate and practically useful of jobs. Teaching today is all too often demeaned, diminished and drastically under-resourced. Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me will show you why it shouldn't be. Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Author: Juana Martinez-NealPublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536205303
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A 2019 Caldecott Honor Book What’s in a name? For one little girl, her very long name tells the vibrant story of where she came from — and who she may one day be. If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for an answer and learns of Sofia, the grandmother who loved books and flowers; Esperanza, the great-grandmother who longed to travel; José, the grandfather who was an artist; and other namesakes, too. As she hears the story of her name, Alma starts to think it might be a perfect fit after all — and realizes that she will one day have her own story to tell. In her author-illustrator debut, Juana Martinez-Neal opens a treasure box of discovery for children who may be curious about their own origin stories or names.
The Little Virtues
Author: Natalia GinzburgPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628729023
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.' — The New York Times Book Review
Teaching English as a Second Or Foreign Language
Author: Marianne Celce-MurciaPublisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN: 9780066326368
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
Amelia Bedelia
Author: Peggy ParishPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0694012963
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Amelia Bedelia, the housekeeper with a literal mind, merrily upsets the household when she "dresses" the chicken and "trims" the steak with ribbons and lace.