The Red Pencil

Author : Andrea Davis Pinkney
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316247812
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Pencil written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amira, look at me," Muma insists.She collects both my hands in hers."The Janjaweed attack without warning.If ever they come-- run." Finally, Amira is twelve. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for new responsibilities. And maybe old enough to go to school in Nyala-- Amira's one true dream. But life in her peaceful Sudanese village is shattered when the Janjaweed arrive. The terrifying attackers ravage the town and unleash unspeakable horrors. After she loses nearly everything, Amira needs to dig deep within herself to find the strength to make the long journey-- on foot-- to safety at a refugee camp. Her days are tough at the camp, until the gift of a simple red pencil opens her mind-- and all kinds of possibilities. New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney's powerful verse and Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist Shane W. Evans's breathtaking illustrations combine to tell an inspiring tale of one girl's triumph against all odds.

Author : Theodore R. Sizer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128517
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Pencil written by Theodore R. Sizer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and important book is a critique of American education wrapped in a memoir. Drawing on his fifty years as teacher, principal, researcher, professor, and dean, Theodore R. Sizer identifies three crucial areas in which policy discussion about public education has been dangerously silent. He argues that we must break that silence and rethink how to educate our youth. Sizer discusses our failure to differentiate between teaching and learning, noting that formal schooling must adapt to and confront the powerful influences found outside traditional classrooms. He examines the practical as well as philosophical necessity for sharing policy-making authority among families, schools, and centralized governments. And he denounces our fetish with order, our belief that the familiar routines that have existed for generations are the only way to bring learning to children. Sizer provides alternatives to these failed routines—guidelines for creating a new educational system that would, among other things, break with wasteful traditional practice, utilize agencies and arrangements beyond the school building, and design each child’s educational program around his or her particular needs and potential.

Author : Adam Braun
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476730636
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Promise of a Pencil written by Adam Braun and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This the story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life. The author began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met a young boy begging on the streets of India, who after being asked what he wanted most in the world, simply answered, "A pencil." This small request led to a staggering series of events that took the author backpacking through dozens of countries before eventually leaving one of the world's most prestigious jobs at Bain & Company to found Pencils of Promise, the organization he started with just $25 that has since built more than 200 schools around the world. This book chronicles the author's journey to find his calling, as each chapter explains one clear step that every person can take to turn your biggest ambitions into reality, even if you start with as little as $25. His story takes readers behind the scenes with business moguls and village chiefs, world-famous celebrities and hometown heroes. It is filled with compelling stories and shareable insights. All proceeds from this book support Pencils of Promise.

Author : Andrew Loomis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781805472698
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fun With A Pencil written by Andrew Loomis and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) is revered amongst artists - including comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of drawing. His first book, Fun With a Pencil, published in 1939 is a wonderfully crafted and engaging introduction to drawing, cartooning, and capturing the essence of a subject all while having fun. With delightful step-by-step instruction from Professor Blook, Loomis's charming alter ego on the page.

Author : Marianna Tax Choldin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780044452034
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Pencil written by Marianna Tax Choldin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raymond Francis Yates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyman's Guide to Radio written by Raymond Francis Yates and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kendall Banning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Build Your Radio Receiver written by Kendall Banning and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Radio written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807123331
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren written by Robert Penn Warren and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the C. Hugh Holman Award A central figure in twentieth-century American literature, Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) was appointed by the Library of Congress as the first Poet Laureate of the United States in 1985. Although better known for his fiction, especially his novel All the King’s Men, it is mainly his poetry—spanning sixty years, fifteen volumes of verse, and a wide range of styles—that reveals Warren to be one of America’s foremost men of letters. In this indispensable volume, John Burt, Warren’s literary executor, has assembled every poem Warren ever published (with the exception of Brother to Dragons), including the many poems he published in The Fugitive and other magazines, as well as those that appeared in his small press works and broadsides. Burt has also exhaustively collated all of the published versions of Warren’s poems—which, in some cases, appeared as many as six different times with substantive revisions in every line—as well as his typescripts and proofs. And since Warren never seemed to reread any of his books without a pencil in his hand, Burt has referred to Warren’s personal library copies. This comprehensive edition also contains textual notes, lists of emendations, and explanatory notes. Warren was born and raised in Guthrie, Kentucky, where southern agrarian values and a predilection for storytelling were ingrained in him as a young boy. By 1925, when he graduated from Vanderbilt University, he was already the most promising of that exceptional set of poets and intellectuals known as the Fugitives. Warren devoted most of the 1940s and 1950s to writing prose and literary criticism, but from the late 1950s he composed primarily poetry, with each successive volume of verse that he penned demonstrating his rigorous and growing commitment to that genre. The mature visionary power and technical virtuosity of his work in the 1970s and early 1980s emanated from his strongly held belief that “only insofar as the work [of art] establishes and expresses a self can it engage us.” Many of Warren’s later poems, which he deemed “some of my best,” rejoice in the possibilities of old age and the poet’s ability for “continually expanding in a vital process of definition, affirmation, revision, and growth, a process that is the image, we may say, of the life process.”

Author : Nancy Miles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780738815428
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Pencil #1 written by Nancy Miles and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Pencil #1 by Chris Redgate • The Red Pencil #1 is a complete collection of one year’s worth of published columns (312)—each a gem. Redgate cogently covers a huge range of subjects including literature, lexicography, languages, linguistics, and sauerkraut. His pieces will do much more to help you “Write It Right” than that silly grade school primer. • Chris Redgate writes a syndicated column about language that appears daily in newspapers nationwide, including The Washington Post. He earned degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara and Stanford University but, like Samuel Johnson, still considers himself an autodidact. • You can reach Chris at [email protected], his website www.chrisredgate.com, or c/o Oak Tree Syndicate, P.O. Box 4501, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359-1501