Choices in Friendships

Choices in Friendships 

By: David Knox and Caroline Schacht

When Wilbur and Orville Wright (of the famous Wright brothers) reviewed the progress of previous “experts” about how to fl y, they noticed a preoccupation with getting the machines off the ground with little attention to controlling the craft once in fl ight. Our focus in this text is not only those choices that help to launch a loving relationship but also those choices that help to ensure a long-lasting, durable fl ight. We encourage a proactive approach of taking charge of your life and making wise relationship choices. The World Health Organization defi nes health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infi rmity. This defi nition underscores the importance of social relationships as an important element in our individual and national health. [download]

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British Women Poets

British Women Poets 

By: Stephen C. Behrendt

What We Know and What We Thought We Knew. At the beginning of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens insists that we bear in mind that Jacob Marley’s death is a fact. “There is no doubt that Marley was dead,” the narrator tells us. “This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of this story” (39). Any effective tale relies on the ability of its hearer and its teller to distinguish between what is and what merely seems to be: Ebenezer Scrooge must learn this as surely as Hamlet had to learn it. When it comes to assessing the poetry written and published by women in the British Islesduring the Romantic period, it is useful to separate what we know from what we only think we know. For this is not a tale simply about the Romantic literary canon or about the cultural wars that have during recent years attended the interrogation of that canon, at least in the academic world. [download]

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Caesar’s Civil War

Caesar’s Civil War 

By: Adrian Goldsworthy 

Although originally a monarchy, Romehad become a Republic near the end of the sixth century BC. Such political revolutions were commonplace in the city-states of the ancient world, but after this Romeproved remarkably stable, free from the often violent internal disputes that constantly beset other communities. Gradually at first, the Romans expanded their territory, and by the beginning of the third century BC they controlled virtually all of the Italian peninsula. Conflict with Carthage, which began in 265 (all dates are BC unless stated otherwise) and continued sporadically until that city was utterly destroyed in 146, resulted in the acquisition of overseas provinces. By this time Romedominated the entire Mediterranean world, having defeated with ease the successor kingdoms which had emerged from the break-up of Alexander the Great’s empire. [download]

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Deadly Promise

Deadly Promise

By: Brenda Joyce 

Francesca Cahill may have been born into society, in fact, she was an heiress of a very marriageable age, but recently she had become the city’s most famous (and infamous) amateur sleuth. Having spent her entire life flouting both the spoken and unspoken rules of convention, being well-read, highly educated and an active reformer, she was already considered both unmanageable and an eccentric. Her behavior of the past three months had not aided her flailing personal reputation. For she had helped the police commissioner, Rick Bragg, solve several ghastly crimes even making the headlines of some of the city’s most reputable dailies. All this while further scandalizing a good portion of society not to mention her own family. [download]

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City of Ember

City of Ember 

By: Jeanne Du Prau

In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark. The only light came from great flood lamps mounted on the buildings and at the tops of poles in the middle of the larger squares. When the lights were on, they cast a yellowish glow over the streets; people walking by threw long shadows that shortened and then stretched out again. When the lights were off, as they were between nine at night and six in the morning, the city was so dark that people might as well have been wearing blindfolds. Sometimes darkness fell in the middle of the day. The city of Emberwas old, and everything in it, including the power lines, was in need of repair. So now and then the lights would flicker and go out. These were terrible moments for the people of Ember. [download]

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180 Creative Ideas

180 Creative Ideas 

By: Luisa Gerasimo and Sally Walker

With so much clamoring for students’ attention, it can be a battle to have them “tune in” to the lesson at hand or to you.With 180 Creative Ideas for Getting Students Involved, Engaged, and Excited, we’ve tried to offer inspirational resources in a range of subject areas for you, the teacher, for each day of the typical school year (and some ideas for summer school). Some of these 180 ideas have appeared as “Curriculum Connections” in The Teacher’s Calendar, an annual reference listing interesting holidays, events, anniversaries, and more that would be of interest in your classroom.We’ve selected the best of these “Curriculum Connections” from the last five years and added lots of other ideas to create this new book that can be used year after year. [download]

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