![]() © Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation: Recognizes the difference between pretend or fantasy situations and reality.Įnglish Language Arts/Reading and Literature 6: Listen to a wide variety of age appropriate literature read aloud.Įnglish Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.Įnglish Language Arts/Reading and Literature 10: Engage actively in read-aloud activities by asking questions, offering ideas, predicting or retelling important parts of a story or informational book. Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: Asks and answers questions and makes comments about print materials. Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences. Literature/RL.PK.MA.9: With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and one’s own experiences. Literature/RL.PK.MA.6: With prompting and support, “read” the illustrations in a picture book by describing a character or place depicted, or by telling how a sequence of events unfolds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Literature/RL.PK.MA.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a story or a poem read aloud. ![]()
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, the family was deeply involved with rescuing Jewish people from the Nazis-until someone betrayed them and they were all arrested. By the time war broke out, when Germany invaded Holland, she was working full-time with her father in their watch shop. As she matured, she did more and more work for the Lord, working with young women and retarded children. Corrie turns out to have been a mischievous young girl, pulling pranks but always repenting when she did something wrong. Corrie ten Boom: World War II Heroine gives us a fuller picture of the life of this great woman of God, showing us her early years as well as the later years of her life.Ĭorrie grew up in a home that loved God and did all they could to help others. I first read The Hiding Place many years ago, and have been intrigued by the life of Corrie ten Boom ever since. Synopsis: Corrie ten Boom’s life story, from her childhood in Holland, through the horrors of World War II and the Nazi concentration camps, and traveling around the world on the Lord’s business afterward, is told in a very interesting style. Major Themes: Corrie ten Boom, World War II ![]() Series: Heroes of the Faith series and included in Inspiring Women of the Faith Title: Corrie Ten Boom: World War II Heroine ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With themes both timely and timeless, Hinton's memoir tells his dramatic 30-year journey and shows how you can take away a man's freedom, but you can't take away his imagination, humor, or joy. With a foreword by Stevenson, The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon-transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. He spent his first three years on Death Row in despairing silence-angry and full of hatred for all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. ![]() Stunned, confused, and only 29 years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free.īut with a criminal justice system with the cards stacked against Black men, Hinton was sentenced to death. But in emphasizing that it’s what a person does after their life changes that matters the most, Ray also hints at the value of optimism and. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. From the outset of The Sun Does Shine, author Anthony Ray Hinton (who goes by Ray) foreshadows how being Black and poor in the South had a massive effect on how the criminal justice system treated him. The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times, now adapted for younger readers, with a revised foreword by Just Mercy author Bryan Stevenson. ![]() A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() His range was considerable, and many of his historical novels invoke a fantasy glamour of presentation and significance without exactly departing the mundane. Within a few years, however, as signalled by I Cannot Go Hunting Tomorrow: Short Stories (coll 1946), Treece had begun to shift into prose, and it was with stories, novels and plays – some for children – that he came into his own. "Princes of the Twilight" (in The Haunted Garden coll 1947 chap) and The Tragedy of Tristram (broadcast 1950 in The Exiles coll 1952 coll), are Arthurian. Treece's early poems, beginning with many of those assembled as Invitation and Warning (coll 1942 chap), were duly Celtic in tone but with considerable bite, including The Magic Wood (in The Black Seasons coll 1945 chap 1992 chap) the posthumous version was released with a set of illuminating illustrations by Barry Moser (1940- ) in which the poem's Time in Faerie implications are made explicit. His own nonfiction take on the movement, published soon after it dissolved, How I See Apocalypse ( 1946), was moderately assertive. ![]() ![]() (1911-1966) UK editor, poet and author, active from the early 1930s a founder in 1939, under the influence of Herbert Read, of the New Apocalypse group of writers loosely committed to abstractly sacramental takes on the Matter of Britain, in terms of a mythopoetics which might be described as emotionally holistic, but muggy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blake College (2019) is a supernatural mystery set in Eugene, Oregon in 1970. It follows the life of Cornelia Scipionis and her three children during the first years of the Republic's demise. The Eyes of Archimedes Book I: The Siege of Syracuse (2013), The Eyes of Archimedes Book II: The Death of Marcellus (2015), and The Eyes of Archimedes Book III: Zama (2017) are an historical trilogy set during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC).Ĭornelia: The First Woman of Rome (2018) is another historical novel set in Rome (135-121 BC). Chain of Souls (2010) is an historical novel set in India 1948 after the death of Gandhi. ![]() Puddle of Love (2009) is a racy, contemporary mystery/ghost story set in a brothel in eastern Oregon. Two, Taming the Dragon (2007) and Prairie Fire (2007), are fast-moving suspense stories written with an environmental backdrop. ![]() : Dan Armstrong is a novelist and the owner and operator of the website Mud City Press, an online magazine focusing on the environment and sustainable agriculture.ĭan has published nine novels through Mud City Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that evil has been unleashed and it is out for revenge. Read onlineĬenturies ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute destruction. But if we don’t find a way to overcome our differences and to bridge thousands of years of animosity, we won’t die alone. Life’s just a bowl full of cherries, ain’t it? Brought together by fate, it’s now my job to protect a daughter of the very race I have been hunting for centuries. The only problem with that is they have to kill Cassandra Peters to do it and if she dies, so dies the sun, the earth and all who dwell here. Led by the son of Apollo, they are out to end the curse that has banished them all to darkness. The next thing I knew, the doorway to hell had opened and out stepped Daimons- soul-sucking vampires the likes of which I’d never seen before. One night I went to save a woman in trouble. What do you get when you have an immortal Viking warrior no one can remember five minutes after he leaves their presence, and a demon on the run for her life who is being pursued by one seriously pissed-off demigod? That would be my life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This manuscript, we are teasingly informed, divided the Edinburgh literati of the time, who feared a rerun of James Macpherson’s 18th-century literary hoax Ossian and considered it “quite inconceivable that a semi-literate peasant could produce such a sustained and eloquent piece of writing”. Subtitled “Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae”, His Bloody Project contains the 17-year-old crofter’s memoir, written while awaiting trial in Inverness in 1869 for three brutal murders, and “discovered” by the author while researching his own Highland roots. The book is also a blackly funny investigation into madness and motivation, which perhaps leads no further than one character’s grim conclusion: “One man can no more see into the mind of another than he can see inside a stone.” It’s a psychological thriller masquerading as a slice of true crime a collection of “found” documents that play lovingly with the traditions of Scottish literature an artful portrait of a remote crofting community in the 19th century that showcases contemporary theories about class and criminology. ![]() G raeme Macrae Burnet’s second novel from the crime imprint of the tiny Scottish publisher Saraband, a surprise inclusion on the Man Booker longlist, is a slippery creature indeed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Richard and Sabina were exemplary Biblical disciples. Sabina and Richard Wurmbrand are the co-founders of The Voice of the Martyrs – an interdenominational missions organization that serves persecuted Christians around the world. 8-10, Fathom Events’ latest special, tells the powerful true story of Sabina (Oster) Wurmbrand and her husband, Richard. Turmoil and hardships often cultivate outstanding character. Lifeway and Fathom Events partner together to tell the true story of the Voice of The Martyrs’ Co-Founder Sabina Wurmbrand in a powerful theatrical release The movie Sabina: Tortured for Christ, the Nazi Years, will be released in US cinemas in November, sharing a powerful story of faithfulness, love and forgiveness. ![]() ![]() And the more Patrick and Angie discover, the more they realize that on this case any wrong step will certainly be their last. Patrick and Angie are led down a trail of half-truths and corruption where nothing is what it seems as the detectives travel from the windblown streets of Boston to the sizzling beaches of Florida’s Gulf coast. ![]() Dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter. so has the first investigator Stone hired to find her: Jay Becker, Patrick’s mentor. Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author, brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant classic featuring P.I.s Kenzie and Gennaro. Grief-stricken over the death of her mother and the impending death of her father, Desiree Stone has been missing for three weeks. 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