The Prairie Dog Conspiracy Novel Study Gr 6 8

Author : Sherry R. Bennett
Publisher : Rainbow Horizons Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1771670223
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prairie Dog Conspiracy (Novel Study) Gr. 6-8 written by Sherry R. Bennett and published by Rainbow Horizons Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prairie Dog Conspiracy puts Tom Austen in the middle of a snowy mystery as he travels aboard the historic Prairie Dog Central to unravel the secret of The Golden Child. His investigation even takes him to a Ski-Doo chase beneath the Northern Lights. Appealing to children's inherent keen interest in mystery, Eric Wilson has skillfully woven accurate Canadian geographic and historic information into his writing. As such, these novels lend themselves to the integrated study of the mystery genre with Canadian geography topics in social studies, and investigation units in science. The Prairie Dog Conspiracy provides rich material for the study of setting, characterization and plot development. This Novel Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, chapter questions, crossword, and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

Author : Eric Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prairie Dog Conspiracy written by Eric Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom stumbles across strange activity in an abandoned house, and aboard an historic train.

Author : Eric Wilson
Publisher : HarperTrophy
ISBN 13 : 9780006481775
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie Dog Conspiracy, The Mm written by Eric Wilson and published by HarperTrophy. This book was released on 1996-06-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a cold Winnipeg winter, Tom Austen unravels a web of secrets. In his hometown, he explores an abandoned house, discovers the mystery of "The Golden Child" and protects one of his friends from danger. With The Prairie Dog Conspiracy, Eric Wilson continues his popular Tom Austen Canadian mystery series.

Author : Tom Nichols
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190469439
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Expertise written by Tom Nichols and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. Tom Nichols' The Death of Expertise shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine, among other reasons. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. When ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy or, in the worst case, a combination of both. An update to the 2017breakout hit, the paperback edition of The Death of Expertise provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election. Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The Death of Expertise issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.

Author : Rexford G. Brown
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schools of Thought written by Rexford G. Brown and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1993-08-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of his visits to classrooms across the nation, Brown has compiled an engaging, thought-provoking collection of classroom vignettes which show the ways in which national, state, and local school politics translate into changed classroom practices. "Captures the breadth, depth, and urgency of education reform".--Bill Clinton.

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1951627709
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Time of Year written by Garrison Keillor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”

Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063064189
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birchbark House written by Louise Erdrich and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on their land, life continues much as it always has. But the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever—but that will eventually lead Omakayas to discover her calling. By turns moving and humorous, this novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a gifted writer. The beloved and essential Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich includes The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence, The Porcupine Year, Chickadee, and Makoons.

Author : Dorothy A. McGinniss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to the Selection of Books for Your Elementary School Library, 1971-72 written by Dorothy A. McGinniss and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn Kozak
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329757254
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistics Using Technology, Second Edition written by Kathryn Kozak and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics With Technology, Second Edition, is an introductory statistics textbook. It uses the TI-83/84 calculator and R, an open source statistical software, for all calculations. Other technology can also be used besides the TI-83/84 calculator and the software R, but these are the ones that are presented in the text. This book presents probability and statistics from a more conceptual approach, and focuses less on computation. Analysis and interpretation of data is more important than how to compute basic statistical values.

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316535621
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.