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How to Write a Bestseller: Writing a Series

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Fallon (Author)There is more to writing a successful series than churning out multiple books with the same characters. There is a secret to producing a great series, and you will find it here. It is a sad and unfortunate fact that the vast majority of series I've read have ended on a sour or disappointing note. It's partly the reason I dislike series so much. The good news is that Jennifer Fallon is an anomaly in the trend... Respiring Thoughts.com. Je...

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Report copyright infringementby William Torrey Harris (Author), Andrew Jackson Rickoff (Author), Mark Bailey (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Donna Kay Kakonge (Author)Through the power of the Internet, the popularity of www.donnakakonge.com and Donna Magazine: http: //kakonged.wordpress.com the knowledge of the writer ? me, Donna Kakonge ? I bring to you effective tools and tips for writing creative non- fiction. This book is meant to prepare you for the world of creative non-fiction writing and to make a living at it either full-time, part-time, or as supplemental income. With the World Wide Web, m...

Copyright: Best Practices for Academic Libraries

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Report copyright infringementby Donna L. Ferullo (Author), Dwayne K. Buttler (Author)"An invaluable resource giving librarians the tools to assess copyright issues, risks, and approaches both domestically and internationally." -Library Journal, Starred ReviewFinally: a plain-language guide to best practices for the complex world of copyright management in academic libraries.Copyright issues continue to perplex librarians and educators. The difficulties and confusion in applying the U.S. Copyr...

The Cat in Hat: An Instructional Guide for Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Tracy Pearce (Author)Dive into this classic children's story, with engaging activities and lessons that will help students analyze the sticky situation created by the Cat in the Hat. The Cat in the Hat: An Instructional Guide for Literature will enhance students' exploration and comprehension of this fun literary piece. With rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities, young learners analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close rea...

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Report copyright infringementby Vera Edith Crosby Pletcher (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this wor...

Bringing Heart and Mind into Storytime: Using Books and Activities to Teach Empathy, Tenacity, Kindness, and Other Big Ideas

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Report copyright infringementby Heather McNeil (Author)Learn how to use children's books during storytime to approach sensitive topics and increase children's social-emotional wellness-and how to create storytimes that are engaging, participative, and FUN! The emotional challenges many children experience consume the time of teachers, exhaust parents, and sometimes lead children toward behaviors that prohibit social and academic success. Storytime to the rescue! Library storytimes prepare chi...

Success Story: the Life and Times of S. S. McClure

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Report copyright infringementby Peter 1915- Lyon (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important...

Write to Be Read: Informed Methods for Engaging Students as Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara J. Smith (Author), Hope Blecher (Author)Write to Be Read is for designers of engaging curriculum, interesting in improving the teaching of writing in schools today. Assumptions are challenged with reference to traditional models for teaching writing. Examples of students writing and activities are presented with self and teacher models of assessment to engage the writing lives of students.Author BiographyBarbara J. Smith, PhD, is a passionate educator w...

Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning during COVID-19

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Report copyright infringementby Michael G. Strawser (Editor), Laura Alberti (Contribution by), Ben Alfonsin (Contribution by)This volume provides different perspectives regarding the impact of COVID-19 on students collectively and college teaching and learning. Topics include COVID-19 implications on student wellness and stress management, online learning, graduate teach assistants, emerging, technology, faculty-student relationships, student learning, and more.Author BiographyMichael G. Stra...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Catapano (Editor), Candace M. Thompson (Editor)The Classroom Library: A Catalyst for Literacy Instruction is a practical guide for organizing and using the classroom library to support literacy learning. Content includes both information for establishing and using the library, as well as stories from practicing teachers who have established a supportive classroom library.Author BiographySusan Catapano, EdD, is an elementary school librarian and retired te...

Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: A Paradigm Shift

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph M. Valenzano III (Editor), Lindsey Anderson (Contribution by), Lori Blewett (Contribution by)Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: A Paradigm Shift discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic radically altered teaching and learning for faculty and students alike. The increased prevalence of video-conferencing software for conducting classes fundamentally changed the way in which we teach and seemingly upended many best practices for good pedagogy in the college classroom. Wh...

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Report copyright infringementby Danling Fu (Joint Author), Marylou M. Matoush (Joint Author)Focus on Literacy explores research on the second language literacy development of learners aged 5-18. It demonstrates how teachers can interpret such research to facilitate their instructional decision-making and classroom practice. This book examines second language literacy development and identity formation in a globalized world from a sociocultural and sociolinguistic perspective. It discusses the...

Critical Administration in Higher Education: Negotiating Political Commitment and Managerial Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Jay Brower (Editor), W. Benjamin Myers (Editor), Tony Adams (Contribution by)In this edited volume, contributors articulate a vision for connecting the insights of critical/cultural communication scholarship with the practice of academic leadership in higher education.Author BiographyJay Brower is associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Media Arts at Western Connecticut State University. W. Benjamin Myers is associate professor chai...

The Westing Game: An Instructional Guide for Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Case (Author)This standards-based instructional guide provides teachers with rigorous activities and lesson plans to help students comprehend complex literature, as they read the 1979 Newbery Medal-winning mystery novel, The Westing Game. Students will learn how to analyze the text to determine meaning, make summaries, and more. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story eleme...

Little Bear: An Instructional Guide for Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Tracy Pearce (Author)Spend some time with Little Bear and Mother Bear as they wait for Father Bear to return home. Young readers will enjoy completing these fun activities and lessons based on these delightful short stories about family. This resource is filled with tools and tactics that will help students comprehend and analyze story elements, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. ...

Frog and Toad Together: An Instructional Guide for Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Emily R. Smith (Author)Young readers will discover how best friends Frog and Toad spend time together by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons about these delightful short stories about friendship. Frog and Toad Together: An Instructional Guide for Literature is filled with tools and tactics that will help students comprehend and analyze story elements, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent quest...

Thunder Boy Jr.: An Instructional Guide for Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Schiele (Author)Looking for ways to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature? Students will be engaged as they analyze this children's story by Sherman Alexie about a Native American boy who doesn't want to share his father's name. Thunder Boy Jr.: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides engaging activities that incorporate the following research-based literacy skills: close reading tasks; text-based vocabulary practice...

Appalachian Book of Definitions, Euphemisms and Sayings: The ORIGINAL

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Jones (Author)APPALACHIAN DICTIONARYFolks born and reared in Appalachian towns have a unique language all their own.Not much will raise northern eyebrows faster than a bit of Appalachian slang interrupting a conversation.It makes no real sense to apply grammar rules when conversing with Appalachians. I have always applied the rule that Appalachians tend to say what we think and mean what we say.So, with that, here are the most often used words and thei...

The Lies We Tell Ourselves: A One-Act Play

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Report copyright infringementby Franky Corcoran (Author)The Lies We Tell Ourselves is a one-act play set in a hotel room in Miramichi, New Brunswick. Vern and Liza Anderson are a newlywed couple in St. Andrews who have come to Miramichi for their honeymoon, which just so happens to be Vern's hometown. His previous marriage ended with his ex-wife, Peggy Bell cheating on him... At least that's what he told Liza. In a wicked twist of fate, Vern reunites with Peggy at the hotel, where she is now ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Addison (Author)Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison, first performed in 1713. The play is set in ancient Rome during the time of the Roman Republic and follows the story of Cato, a stoic philosopher and senator who opposes Julius Caesar's rise to power. Cato is torn between his duty to uphold the values of the Republic and his love for his daughter, Marcia, who is in love with Caesar's ally, Juba. The play explores themes of honor, duty, ...

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Report copyright infringementby M. Y. Lermontov (Author), J. H. Wisdom (Translator), Marr Murray (Translator)Novel by Mikhail Lermontov, published in Russian in 1840 as Geroy nashego vremeni. Its psychologically probing portrait of a disillusioned 19th-century aristocrat and its use of a nonchronological and multifaceted narrative structure influenced such later Russian authors as Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy and presaged the antiheroes and antinovels of 20th-century fiction. The novel ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gentleman Klark (Author)In Stroke of Genius, I Profess Vol. 2, Gentleman Klark has combined fine pieces of literature that come together into a story book composition body of work that surpasses being just a decent poetography. As an autobiography in poems, this book has moments that are serious, disappointing, humorous, and inspiring. Gent gives a descriptive word show of what it's like journeying through the different hoods, and sailing waters in the differen...

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Report copyright infringementby C. W. E. Bigsby (Editor), Christopher Bigsby (Editor)Offering both student and theatergoer a guide to one of the most celebrated living American dramatists, this volume covers the complete range of Mamet's writing, as well as his films, such as The Verdict and Wag the Dog. Additional chapters also explore Mamet and acting, Mamet as director, his fiction, and a survey of Mamet criticism. The Companion will prepare the reader for future work by this important and...

The Play Out of Context: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Hanna Scolnicov (Editor), Peter Holland (Editor)This volume of essays, based mostly on papers presented at the Jerusalem Theater Conference in 1986, examines the relationship between the play and its historical and cultural contexts. Transferring plays from one period or culture to another is an even more complex process than simply translating the wORD approaches vary from the theoretical to the practical, from the literary to the theatrical, with plays examin...

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Report copyright infringementby Lope De Vega (Author), Arnold G. Reichenberger (Editor)This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Number of Pages...

Study Guide for Decoding Julius Caesar: With Typical Questions and Answers

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Smith (Author)"Decoding Julius Caesar" takes the reader into the Shakespearean play with the intention of revealing all its key aspects. Understand the intricate historical backdrop of the Roman Republic's final days, dominated by key figures like Julius Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Mark Antony, and Octavius Caesar. Follow their character development, revealing personal dilemmas, political machinations, and pivotal transformations. The guide dissects central...

Study Guide for Decoding A Midsummer Night's Dream: With Typical Questions and Answers

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Smith (Author)"Decoding A Midsummer Night's Dream" offers an in-depth look into Shakespeare's enchanting comedy within the Elizabethan context. It breaks down the plot and character dynamics, highlighting the intricate relationships between characters like Hermia and Lysander, the quarrelsome fairy royalty Oberon and Titania, and the comical Mechanicals led by Nick Bottom.Key themes such as the complexity of love, the blend of dreams and reality, magic's...

The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

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Report copyright infringementby Lajos Egri (Author), Gilbert Miller (Introduction by)The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri is a comprehensive guide for aspiring playwrights and screenwriters. The book explores the fundamental principles of dramatic writing, emphasizing the importance of developing well-rounded characters that are driven by clear and believable motivations. Egri argues that every great story is built upon a solid foundation of human psychology, and he provides numerous exa...

Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

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Report copyright infringementby Peter D. Usher (Author)In a novel reading of Shakespeare's plays, this book addresses an observation first made many decades ago, that Shakespeare appears to neglect the intellectual upheavals that astronomy brought about in his lifetime. The author examines temporal, situational, and verbal anomalies in Hamlet and other plays using hermeneutic-dialectic methodology, and finds a consistent pattern of interpretation that is compatible with the history of astrono...

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Report copyright infringementby Rory Loughnane (Author), Willy Maley (Author) Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.22 x 7 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 02, 2025

Study Guide for Decoding Romeo and Juliet: With Typical Questions and Answers

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Smith (Author)Decoding Romeo and Juliet comprehensively analyzes the play's key elements, including its literary techniques, historical background, plot summary, themes, characters, and conflicts. It discusses the intricate narrative structure, explores Shakespeare's use of language and poetic devices, and examines the socio-cultural context of the Elizabethan era. The guide offers detailed explanations and references to each theme, character, and confli...