Author: Kate Schoedinger
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459812794
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Using excerpts from a single text, Orca Curriculum Connections provide multiple teaching strategies and student activities for grades 6, 7 and 8. Each student activity is aligned to a specific English Language Arts common core standard for literacy. The texts used are from the Orca Soundings and Orca Currents series for reluctant readers. These books have a proven record for reaching reluctant and struggling readers.
Orca Curriculum Connections: I.D.
Author: Kate Schoedinger
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459812794
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Using excerpts from a single text, Orca Curriculum Connections provide multiple teaching strategies and student activities for grades 6, 7 and 8. Each student activity is aligned to a specific English Language Arts common core standard for literacy. The texts used are from the Orca Soundings and Orca Currents series for reluctant readers. These books have a proven record for reaching reluctant and struggling readers.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459812794
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Using excerpts from a single text, Orca Curriculum Connections provide multiple teaching strategies and student activities for grades 6, 7 and 8. Each student activity is aligned to a specific English Language Arts common core standard for literacy. The texts used are from the Orca Soundings and Orca Currents series for reluctant readers. These books have a proven record for reaching reluctant and struggling readers.
Orca Curriculum Connections: Marked
Author: Kate Schoedinger
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459812816
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Using excerpts from a single text, Orca Curriculum Connections provide multiple teaching strategies and student activities for grades 6, 7 and 8. Each student activity is aligned to a specific English Language Arts common core standard for literacy. The texts used are from the Orca Soundings and Orca Currents series for reluctant readers. These books have a proven record for reaching reluctant and struggling readers.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459812816
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Using excerpts from a single text, Orca Curriculum Connections provide multiple teaching strategies and student activities for grades 6, 7 and 8. Each student activity is aligned to a specific English Language Arts common core standard for literacy. The texts used are from the Orca Soundings and Orca Currents series for reluctant readers. These books have a proven record for reaching reluctant and struggling readers.
A Raisin in the Sun
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307807444
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307807444
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."
Nine Doors
Author: Vicki Grant
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554696771
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Key Selling Points New, enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers. Vicki Grant is the author of many books including In the Buff, Hold the Pickles and Pigboy in the Orca Currents line.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554696771
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Key Selling Points New, enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers. Vicki Grant is the author of many books including In the Buff, Hold the Pickles and Pigboy in the Orca Currents line.
Rescuing Socrates
Author: Roosevelt Montas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691224390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691224390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.
Maverick Mania
Author: Sigmund Brouwer
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781554690473
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The disappearance of his soccer team's leading scorer during the championship finals leads sixteen-year-old Matt to investigate and entangles him in a possible kidnapping. If the Mavericks win just a few more games, they'll make it to the national soccer championship. There's only one catch. Their star player, Caleb Riggins, has disappeared. Matt Carr is determined to find his teammate and solve the mystery. He just didn't realize it would involve attack dogs, a mysterious golden bridge, the internet and a family who may not be who they seem. And the big game is only days away.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781554690473
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The disappearance of his soccer team's leading scorer during the championship finals leads sixteen-year-old Matt to investigate and entangles him in a possible kidnapping. If the Mavericks win just a few more games, they'll make it to the national soccer championship. There's only one catch. Their star player, Caleb Riggins, has disappeared. Matt Carr is determined to find his teammate and solve the mystery. He just didn't realize it would involve attack dogs, a mysterious golden bridge, the internet and a family who may not be who they seem. And the big game is only days away.
Pigboy
Author: Vicki Grant
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554696909
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Key Selling Points New, enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554696909
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Key Selling Points New, enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.
Fast Slide
Author: Melanie Jackson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554694671
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Clay would much rather work as a lifeguard at the beach than at Safari Splash, the new water park in town. He's certain the summer will drag along, despite his position at the Boa, the park's fastest slide. The summer job starts to get interesting when he learns that someone has been wandering the park in a lynx costume, scaring the staff. When forty thousand dollars is stolen from the till, and his friends are under suspicion for the theft, boring is starting to look good. But Clay is certain that the mask and the thefts are connected, and he's determined to solve the crime.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554694671
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Clay would much rather work as a lifeguard at the beach than at Safari Splash, the new water park in town. He's certain the summer will drag along, despite his position at the Boa, the park's fastest slide. The summer job starts to get interesting when he learns that someone has been wandering the park in a lynx costume, scaring the staff. When forty thousand dollars is stolen from the till, and his friends are under suspicion for the theft, boring is starting to look good. But Clay is certain that the mask and the thefts are connected, and he's determined to solve the crime.
Orca Currents Resource Guide
Author: Susan Greye
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1551439565
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A teacher's resource for Orca Currents, high-interest low-vocab novels for middle school readers.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1551439565
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A teacher's resource for Orca Currents, high-interest low-vocab novels for middle school readers.
Break Point
Author: Kate Jaimet
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 145980354X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
It's the summer of Connor Trent's sixteenth birthday, and the stakes for him have never been so high. Connor's summer job at the Bytowne Tennis Club allows him to train at a historic facility. It also throws him into confrontation with his rich-kid rival, Rex Hunter, whom he will battle for a berth in the National Junior Tournament. After a series of fundraisers is sabotaged, Connor suspects that someone wants to bankrupt the club and take over its valuable riverfront property. A fabled trophy, rumored to contain hidden cash, might solve all of Connor's problems—if he can win it. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 145980354X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
It's the summer of Connor Trent's sixteenth birthday, and the stakes for him have never been so high. Connor's summer job at the Bytowne Tennis Club allows him to train at a historic facility. It also throws him into confrontation with his rich-kid rival, Rex Hunter, whom he will battle for a berth in the National Junior Tournament. After a series of fundraisers is sabotaged, Connor suspects that someone wants to bankrupt the club and take over its valuable riverfront property. A fabled trophy, rumored to contain hidden cash, might solve all of Connor's problems—if he can win it. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!