From Me to We

Identify, Acquire, Repeat: A Step-by-Step Guide to a Multi-Million Dollar Acquisition Strategy

Jason F. Griffith, CPA, CMA

To succeed in business, you do not buy a company merely for the sake of acquiring it: You should look at the bigger picture. Yes, buying a business can be a way to grow your top line faster, boost cash flow, acquire great employees, eliminate duplicative expenses, increase your overall valuation, and much more........ Jason F. Griffith, a CPA, CMA and the founder of Yes If ..., a strategy and acquisition consulting firm in Las Vegas, shares a blueprint on how to identify, negotiate, and acquire businesses-over and over again. He also reveals how to: (1) find businesses in any industry to acquire, (2) get business owners to answer your phone calls, (3) respond to objections throughout the negotiation process, (4) acquire businesses with no money down, and (5) integrate an acquired business into an existing business. Get the guidance and expertise you need to develop an acquisition strategy which will allow you to buy companies, on favorable terms, with Identify, Acquire, Repeat.

Osage Grammar

Carolyn Quintero

Published in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Catilinarians

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A commentary for students on the four speeches delivered by Cicero during the crisis of 63 BC, when, as consul, he faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. They show him at the height of his oratorical powers and political influence.

Astronomy, the Evolving Universe

David Yellin, Michael Zeilik, Mary E. Blake

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Learning Vocabulary in Another Language

I. S. P. Nation

This book provides pedagogical suggestions for both teachers and learners.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

The story of one African-American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.

The Literature Workshop

Teaching Texts and Their Readers

Sheridan D. Blau

In this groundbreaking book, Sheridan Blau introduces the literature workshop as the most effective approach to solving many of the classic instructional problems that perplex beginning and veteran teachers of literature. Through lively re-creations of actual workshops that he regularly conducts for students and teachers, Blau invites his readers to become active participants in workshops on such topics as: helping students read more difficult texts than they think they can read where interpretations come from the problem of background knowledge in teaching classic texts how to deal with competing and contradictory interpretations what's worth saying about a literary text balancing respect for readers with respect for texts and intellectual authority ensuring that literary discussions are lively and productive how to develop valuable and engaging writing assignments. Each workshop includes reflections on what transpired and a discussion of the workshop's rationale and outcomes in the larger context of an original and practice-based theory of literary competence and instruction.

From Me to We

Using Narrative Nonfiction to Broaden Student Perspectives

Jason Griffith

With this practical book, you’ll learn effective ways to engage students in reading and writing by teaching them narrative nonfiction. By engaging adolescents in narrative, literary, or creative nonfiction, they can cultivate a greater understanding of themselves, the world around them, and what it means to feel empathy for others. This book will guide you to first structure a reading unit around a narrative nonfiction text, and then develop lessons and activities for students to craft their own personal essays. Topics include: Engaging your students in the reading of a nonfiction narrative with collaborative chapter notes, empathy check-ins, and a mini-research paper to deepen students’ understanding; Helping your students identify meaningful life events, recount their experiences creatively, and construct effective opening and closing lines for their personal essays; Encouraging your students to use dialogue, outside research, and a clear plot structure to make their narrative nonfiction more compelling and polished. The strategies in this book are supplemented by examples of student work and snapshots from the author’s own classroom. The book also includes interviews with narrative nonfiction writers MK Asante and Johanna Bear. The appendices offer additional tips for using narrative nonfiction in English class, text and online resources for teaching narrative nonfiction, and a correlation chart between the activities in this book and the Common Core Standards.

Genre-Based Strategies to Promote Critical Literacy in Grades 4–8

Danielle E. Sachdeva, Sue C. Kimmel

Draws on critical and radical change theory to equip both aspiring and practicing library and teacher candidates with practical, research-based ideas for enacting critical literacy practices in middle grade libraries and classrooms. Genre Based Strategies to Promote Critical Literacy in Grades 4-8 provides strategies and lesson plans with additional resources and tools for school librarians and teachers to engage middle grade students in reading children's literature through a critical literacy lens. To be critically literate readers and thinkers, students must learn to question what they read, asking themselves who wrote the text, why the text was written, and how the text positions its readers and others. Teaching students how to read from a critical literacy stance is a timely and relevant practice in a world in which text is available instantly and on nearly any mobile device. In many cases, preparation programs for school librarians and teachers do not teach candidates how to incorporate critical literacy practices in library and classroom settings. This book provides both pre-service and in-service school librarians and teachers with that professional development and guidance for teaching critical literacy in children's literature courses.

Learning with Literature in the Canadian Elementary Classroom

Joyce Bainbridge, Sylvia Joyce Pantaleo

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, k, p, e, i, t.

Writing Strategies for Talent Development

From Struggling to Gifted Learners, Grades 3–8

Jennifer Gottschalk

Writing Strategies for Talent Development helps educators incorporate effective and engaging writing strategies into their classroom that are designed to reach struggling and gifted students alike. This guide demonstrates how teachers can provide the means to write (with appropriate tools and classroom structures), the motivation to write (through engaging genre-based lessons), and the opportunity to write more frequently across multiple subjects. Covering genres from fantasy, crime, and humor, to horror, non-fiction, and even romance, this book provides the tools to support every writer in the room.

Teaching Comprehension Strategies All Readers Need

Nicole Outsen, Stephanie Yulga

"Mini-lessons that introduce, extend and deepen key reading skills and promote a lifelong love of literarure."--Cover

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature

Karen Coats

From Maria Edgeworth, Dr Seuss and Lewis Carroll to Sherman Alexie, Sharon Flake, and Gene Luen Yang, this is a comprehensive introduction to studying the infinitely varied worlds of literature for children and young adults. Exploring a diverse range of writing, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature includes: - Chapters covering key genres and forms from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to picture books, graphic novels and fairy tales - A history of changing ideas of childhood and adolescence - Coverage of psychological, educational and literary theoretical approaches - Practical guidance on researching, reading and writing about children's and young adult literature - Explorations of children's and young adult film, TV and new media In addition, “Extending Your Study” sections at the end of each chapter provide advice on further reading, writing, discussion and online resources as well as case study responses from writers and teachers in the field. Accessibly written for both students new to the subject and experienced teachers, this is the most comprehensive single volume introduction to the study of writing for young people.