Author: Gail Kushnir
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789659025305
Category : Blackboards
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Brad Hambrick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941114117
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Conversations among friends accomplish more than debates between opponents. Conversations on controversial issues do not to go well when the dialogue happens community-to-community or figurehead-to-figurehead. Whether it's race, religion, or politics, groups don't talk well with groups. Too much is at stake when we feel like our words and actions speak for the collective whole. Platforms and podiums will never accomplish what can only be done around dinner tables and in living rooms. Two individuals from those respective groups are much more likely to forge a good relationship, influencing one another in various ways. Unfortunately, an individual who listens well is often viewed by his or her collective compatriots as engaging in compromise; at the group level, representing each side fairly feels too much like agreement. That is why the aim of this book is friendship. Friendship is the level at which influence can be had, because the dialogue does not seek to represent an agenda but to understand a person. Friendship is what protects good points from becoming gotcha moments. The subject for which this approach may be most vital for the modern church may be homosexuality and same-sex attraction (SSA). Yet our approach has tended to be more polemical or political than pastoral and personal. Churches have articulated their position on a conservative sexual ethic. Churches have re-examined the key biblical texts that are challenged in defense of a progressive sexual ethic. As important as these things are, however, they do not equip everyday Christians to develop meaningful friendships with people who experience same-sex attraction or have embraced a gay identity. In the absence of relationship, our theology becomes theory. Many Christians are seeing that the church's unwillingness to befriend people who experience SSA has blocked us from engaging with the subject of homosexuality on a person-to-person level. We are reluctant to engage relationships where it feels probable that there will be awkwardness. Admittedly, this book is not as "neat" as you might like for it to be. Many tensions will be navigated; maybe not all contradictions will be avoided. However, when it comes to being salt and light for the sake of the gospel, it seems far better to choose possible messiness over guaranteed ineffectiveness. That means we must realize that it is good for us to have conversations where we don't know what to say. This is part of the essence of being a growing person. When we're not having conversations that challenge us to think about new things, we will commit sins either of pride or apathy. We should always be praying that God will bring people into our lives who will provide the opportunity for us to ask new and important questions. The desire of this book is to be a resource God uses to grow his people into excellent ambassador-friends to their classmates, colleagues, and family members who experience SSA. If this is what you want to do and be, then God will be faithful to complete this work in you regardless of the strengths and weaknesses, insights and oversights of this book (Philippians 1:6). Thank you for taking this journey with me.

Author: Tony Fucile
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536221775
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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“A hilarious debut told mainly through the zany artwork. . . . The pictures capture the universality of the moment.” — School Library Journal (starred review) Frankie and Sal have already played every sport and board game invented, baked and eaten batches of cookies, and painted a zillion pictures. What’s left to do? Nothing! Ten seconds of nothing! Can they do it? With a wink to the reader and a command of visual humor, feature-film animator Tony Fucile demonstrates the Zen-like art of doing nothing . . . oops! Couldn’t do it!

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789659025312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Jess Smart Smiley
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0399580727
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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A light-hearted interactive guide to comics and cartoon-making that uses an activity book format and creatively stimulating prompts to teach the fundamentals of cartooning in a fun and easy-to-follow fashion. From a working cartoonist and comic book making instructor, this all-ages activity book uses humorous and informative one-page comics and exercise prompts to guide young readers (and readers who are young at heart) through easy-to-master lessons on the skills needed to make comics. The activities cover a range of essential comics-making tasks from creating expressions for characters to filling in blank panels to creating original characters and placing them in adventures of their own. Each exercise can stand on its own or work together with others in the book to stimulate creativity via the comics medium. In the end, readers who complete the activities inside the book itself will have created several comics of their own, and will have generated many ideas for more sequential art creations. Praise for Let’s Make Comics! “At once playful and complex, this book is a perfect introduction to cartooning, as well as a lovely (and lovingly crafted) tribute to the comics form and a timely reminder that artmaking can be fun.”—Roman Muradov, creator of Vanishing Act and On Doing Nothing “Let’s Make Comics is a book I wish I had when I was 9, but 29 works too! It’s so fun and brilliant and packed with oodles of awesome activities. Great book for learning to make comics or for a seasoned cartoonist to find some new inspiration.”—Ben Clanton, creator of the Narwhal and Jelly books “It’s fantastic! This book will make you a better writer and a better artist and show you how to think like a comic star.”—Charise Harper, creator of the Fashion Kitty and Crafty Cat books “Warning! This book will make you make comics, and it will be fun!”—Greg Pizzoli, creator of The Watermelon Seed, Number One Sam, and The Book Hog “If only we'd had this book! Our comics would be much better.”—Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz, creators of War and Peas

Author: Cynthia M. Stowe
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780130320100
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For all educators grades 3 and up, here is a proven ready-to-use resource that tailors writing experiences to the needs of any student having difficulty writing - even the most reluctant writer. Starting with simple words and progressing to sentences, paragraphs, reports, stories, and essays, Let's Write! Takes into account all ability levels and learning styles to help each student achieve success. Basic to more advanced skills are presented sequentially in lessons that devote small amounts of time to four diverse tasks. The program provides over 200 activities and over 100 worksheets, and is organized into two parts: Part I - focuses on teaching the basic structures of written language in seven sections: Words, Sentences, Paragraphs, Research Reports, Book Reports, Stories, and Essays. Part II - offers a combination of specific skills development and opportunities for practice in nine sections: Grammar, Editing, Poetry, Literature Connection, Holidays, Letters, Using the Newspaper, Real Life Writing, and Gimmicks & Gags.

Author: Troll Books
Publisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780816731718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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These laminated wipe-off books, shrink-wrapped with their own grease pencils, provide hours of practice for children learning to write letters and numbers.

Author: John Foster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138134171
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Let's Write provides teachers of literacy with activities that are both stimulating and easy to use in conjunction with the different types of writing that pupils are expected to do in key stage 2 of the new curriculum. It offers readymade resources for hard-pressed teachers, particularly inexperienced teachers, supply teachers and non-specialist. The book is divided into four main sections, each focusing on a particular type of writing - personal writing, persuasive writing, writing to inform and creative writing. Coverage includes: - Autobiography, biographies and diary entries, Newspaper articles, instructions, advertisements and speech writing Creative writing, including narratives, play-scripts and poems A separate section on Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation, which is designed to help teachers to prepare pupils for the new English test. Games and activities aimed at extending pupils' vocabulary

Author: Charly Ligety
Publisher: Harper Design
ISBN: 9780062880444
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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A pair of playful and romantic twin guidebooks created specially for couples to help them talk about the difficult yet important issues that will affect their relationship and their future. Whether getting married or cohabitating, committed couples face important questions about money, work, children, household chores, sex, and a host of other issues that will shape their lives together. But the conversations around these big questions can be difficult, making them easy to avoid. How will you split your money? What kind of family do you envision having? Do you want kids—and how many? Where do spend the holidays? Where do you want to live? City or suburb? House or apartment? And what about . . . sex? Charly Ligety and Les Stark want to make it easier for couples to talk to each other about intimidating topics with love and confidence. They spoke in depth with marriage and family therapists and interviewed dozens of dating, engaged, and recently married couples from around the country. Everything they learned—as well as the insights they’ve gained from their own relationships with their wives—is inside this warm and important guide. A pair of lighthearted conversation handbooks—one for you, one for your partner—Very Engaging prepares you to “go there.” Divided into a dozen chapters covering critical topics such as values, squabbles, family, religion, living together, and everything in between, Very Engaging includes a series of fun, interactive conversation prompts to get you and your partner talking and bring you closer together. Charly and Les create a comfortable, fun environment in which you and your significant other can learn more about one another to help you both navigate some of life’s most significant (and not so significant) discussions with humor and confidence. Partners play through their own individual books simultaneously, turning the pages together. Each page is carefully designed to create a constructive, lively, and thoughtful discussion on the topic at hand. A relationship performance enhancer, Very Engaging is a journey of personal discovery perfect for dating, engaged, or married couples looking to tackle the hard stuff in an easy and approachable way.

Author: Jennifer Boyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135093268X
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Catering to the specific needs of science students, this award-winning guide equips students of all scientific disciplines with the skills they need to communicate effectively in written assignments. The book guides students through each of the key stages involved in producing a piece of scientific writing. It begins by developing students' understanding of the different types of scientific writing, including lab reports, essays and abstracts. Students are then taken through the writing process, from the initial stages of interpreting the question and conducting research through to writing a draft and responding to feedback. The second edition includes new material on criticality in scientific communication and the difference between descriptive and analytic writing. There is also a new section on building arguments using several sources, and new and extended examples of writing that will help students digest the material. This is an essential resource for all science students who are required to produce lab reports, extended essays, dissertations and other written assignments as part of their course. It is also ideal for international students who are new to academic study in the UK.