Beginning with the novelist Edith Wharton, who toured the front in her Mercedes in 1915, this book describes the wartime experiences of American idealists (and a few rogues) on the Western Front and concludes with the doughboys' experiences under General Pershing. Americans were "over there" from the war's beginning in August 1914, and because America was neutral until April 1917, they saw the war from both the French and German lines. Since most of the Americans who served, regardless of which side they were on, were in Champagne and Lorraine, this sector is the focus. Excerpts from memoirs are supplemented by descriptions of personalities, places, battles and even equipment and weapons, thus placing these generally forgotten American adventurers into the context of their times. A special set of maps based upon German Army battle maps was drawn and rare photographs supplement the text.
Belgium in the First World War: the first country invaded, the longest occupied, and the last liberated. In 1914, Belgium was home to a large American colony: people working for U.S. corporations, diplomats with the American Legation and Americans in the arts - Brussels was cheaper than Paris. After the invasion, American journalists, writers and adventurers flocked to the invaded country to follow the action; in Belgium, military restrictions on travel were less stringent than in England or France.As the most industrialised country in Europe, Belgium depended upon trade and food imports to sustain its economy. The war isolated Belgium and wholesale starvation was imminent by the fall of 1914. Herbert Hoover and his Commission for Relief in Belgium raised funds to purchase and import foods to sustain Belgium and, eventually, Occupied France as well. Idealistic American volunteers (including some Rhodes scholars) supervised food distribution in the occupation zone. Along the Western Front in Belgium, hundreds of Americans served (illegally) in the British and Canadian armies. This book tells the story of the German invasion, occupation and retreat from the perspective of Americans who were there.
General George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn is well known through U.S. military sources and Lakota and Cheyenne narratives, but little has been heard from the Indians who fought beside Custer - the Arikara scouts. Now their eyewitness reports on Custer's campaigns from 1874 through 1876 are told in The Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the result of interviews with nine scouts by Orin G. Libby in 1912. Originally forty strong, the Arikaras scouted in advance of the U.S. Army for Custer and Reno, reporting enemy Indian movements and seeking to capture their horses. Their accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn reveal much about why Custer failed - indeed, the Arikaras went into battle believing the Sioux medicine was so strong that defeat was inevitable.
The history of fine art in Cuba began in the colonial period and exploded onto the international scene near the end of World War II with a ground-breaking show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Now available in a revised edition, Cuba: A History in Art offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of Cuban art available anywhere.Featuring highlights from the Cuban Foundation Collection on permanent exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Science, Daytona Beach, this volume includes landscapes, still life’s, portraits, genre and abstract works by the most important Cuban painters active be¬tween 1725 and 1959.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, these masters developed a unique tropical style based on European prototypes. After the First World War, Cuba exploded with a new vision, full of the colour and rhythms of a sophisticated modernism.Essays by renowned art historians Gary Libby and Juan Martínez provide an aesthetic, historical, social, and cultural overview of Cu¬ban art in general and these masterpieces in particular. Particularly interesting is the explanation of the convergence of forces early in the twentieth century that made Havana and Cuba a centre of modernism.A concise overview of a magnificent artistic tradition, this volume is a must-have addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in how the Americas influenced the history of art.
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Cambridge Global English Stages 7-9 follow the Cambridge Lower Secondary English as a Second Language (ESL) Curriculum Framework. Workbook 9 is organised into eighteen thematic units of study based on the Cambridge International Examinations English as a Second Language Scheme of Work for Stage 9. The units are carefully structured to reinforce the language learning of the Coursebook, at the same time as extending students' knowledge via a range of exercise types. CEFR Level: B1.
Cambridge Global English Stages 7-9 follow the Cambridge Lower Secondary English as a Second Language (ESL) Curriculum Framework. This card gives you access to your Digital Classroom resource on the Cambridge Elevate platform. Digital Classroom is the perfect accompaniment to the course; share projectable versions of the coursebook and workbook with your whole class. Get learners talking about topics from transport to world records with the videos included. Support learners' use of English with interactive activities and games that develop spelling, vocabulary and grammar. Easily display answers to the activities on screen in a pop up window. Your glossary feature helps learners develop essential vocabulary. Available as a 12-month single-user licence.
Cambridge Global English Stages 7-9 follow the Cambridge Lower Secondary English as a Second Language (ESL) Curriculum Framework. This card gives you access to your digital teacher's resource on the Cambridge Elevate platform. Your teacher's resource provides you with plenty of materials to plan and teach your lessons, such as unit-by-unit notes and opportunities for differentiated learning. Complete audio scripts, cross-curricular links, and photocopiable activities and wordlists help you deliver the course with confidence. Easily monitor your learners' progress and revisit and consolidate learning with pre-prepared tests for each unit. Adapt lesson plans and worksheets to your needs with editable word versions. Includes answers to activities in the coursebooks and workbooks.
Cambridge Global English Stages 7-9 follow the Cambridge Lower Secondary English as a Second Language (ESL) Curriculum Framework. This card gives you access to your digital teacher's resource on the Cambridge Elevate platform. Your teacher's resource provides you with plenty of materials to plan and teach your lessons, such as unit-by-unit notes and opportunities for differentiated learning. Complete audio scripts, cross-curricular links, and photocopiable activities and wordlists help you deliver the course with confidence. Easily monitor your learners' progress and revisit and consolidate learning with pre-prepared tests for each unit. Adapt lesson plans and worksheets to your needs with editable word versions. Includes answers to activities in the coursebooks and workbooks.
Discover our new resources for the Cambridge International Primary and Lower Secondary Curriculum Frameworks. With international cross-curricular topics, from celebrations around the world and sports to news and what we wear, the series helps you develop the skills to study across the curriculum in English. Packed with literature and oracy activities, the course helps you become confident communicators. Step-by-step writing activities with models support you to develop your writing, while tip boxes help with language and skills. Each unit ends with a 'Project Challenge' where you will work together on cross-curricular projects like giving a presentation about the history of sport, developing collaboration and critical thinking skills.
Discover our new resources for the Cambridge International Primary and Lower Secondary Curriculum Frameworks. With international cross-curricular topics, from natural resources and renewable energy to storytelling and music, the series helps you develop the skills to study across the curriculum in English. Packed with literature and oracy activities, the course helps you become confident communicators. Step-by-step writing activities with models support you to develop your writing, while tip boxes help with language and skills. Each unit ends with a 'Project Challenge' where you will work together on cross-curricular projects like designing a mural for your local park, developing collaboration and critical thinking skills.
With international cross-curricular topics, from responsible tourism and wellbeing to endangered species and social media, the series helps you develop the skills to study across the curriculum in English. Packed with literature and oracy activities, the course helps you become confident communicators. Step-by-step writing activities with models support you to develop your writing, while tip boxes help with language and skills. Each unit ends with a 'Project Challenge' where you will work together on cross-curricular projects like designing a technology timeline, developing collaboration and critical thinking skills.
With onscreen versions of the learner book and workbook, plus video, grammar presentations and interactive activities, our Digital Classroom resources bring language to life!
With onscreen versions of the learner book and workbook, plus video, grammar presentations and interactive activities, our Digital Classroom resources bring language to life!
Engage, challenge, and inspire students with work that matters Transformational Literacy, written by a team from EL Education, helps teachers leverage the Common Core instructional shifts—building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction, reading for and writing with evidence, and regular practice with complex text—to engage students in work that matters. Worthy texts and worthy tasks help students see the connection between their hard work as readers and writers and their capacity to contribute to stronger communities and a better world. The stories, examples, and resources that permeate Transformational Literacy come primarily from the more than 150 EL Education schools around the country that support teachers to select, supplement, customize, and create curriculum, and improve instruction. The book also draws on EL Education's open source Common Core English Language Arts curriculum—often cited as one of the finest in the country—and professional development offered to thousands of teachers to implement that curriculum effectively. Transformational Literacy combines the best of what EL Education knows works for kids—purposeful, inquiry-based learning—and the new imperative of the Common Core—higher and deeper expectations for all students. Teach standards through a compelling and purposeful curriculum that prioritizes worthy texts and worthy taskImprove students' evidence-based reading, thinking, talking, and writingSupport students to develop a new mindset toward the challenge of reading complex texts Transformational Literacy introduces an approach to literacy instruction that will engage, challenge, and inspire student with work that matters.
A practical guide to deeper instruction—a framework for challenging, engaging, and empowering students of all ages For schools to meet ambitious new standards and prepare all students for college, careers, and life, research has shown unequivocally that nothing is more important that the quality of daily instruction. Learning That Lasts presents a new vision for classroom instruction that sharpens and deepens the quality of lessons in all subject areas. It is the opposite of a 'teacher-proof' solution. Instead, it is predicated on a model of instruction that honors teachers as creative and expert planners of learning experiences for their students and who wish to continuously grow in their instructional and content knowledge. It is not a theoretical vision. It is a model of instruction refined in some of the nation's most successful public schools—schools that are beating the odds to create remarkable achievement—sited primarily in urban and rural low-income communities. Using case studies and examples of powerful learning at all grade levels and in all disciplines, Learning That Lasts is a guide to creating classrooms that promote deeper understanding, higher order thinking, and student independence. Through text and companion videos, readers will enter inspiring classrooms where students go beyond basics to become innovators, collaborators, and creators. Learning That Lasts embraces a three-dimensional view of student achievement that includes mastery of knowledge and skills, character, and high-quality work. It is a guide for teachers who wish to make learning more meaningful, memorable, and connected to life, and inspire students to do more than they think possible.
Planning in settler-colonial countries is always taking place on the lands of Indigenous peoples. While Indigenous rights, identity and cultural values are increasingly being discussed within planning, its mainstream accounts virtually ignore the colonial roots and legacies of the discipline’s assumptions, techniques and methods. This ground-breaking book exposes the imperial origins of the planning canon, profession and practice in the settler-colonial country of Australia.By documenting the role of planning in the history of Australia’s relations with Indigenous peoples, the book maps the enduring effects of colonisation. It provides a new historical account of colonial planning practices and rewrites the urban planning histories of major Australian cities. Contemporary land rights, native title and cultural heritage frameworks are analysed in light of their critical importance to planning practice today, with detailed case illustrations. In reframing Australian planning from a postcolonial perspective, the book shatters orthodox accounts, revising the story that planning has told itself for over 100 years. New ways to think and practise planning in Indigenous Australia are advanced.Planning in Indigenous Australia makes a major contribution towards the decolonisation of planning. It is essential reading for students and teachers in tertiary planning programmes, as well as those in geography, development studies, postcolonial studies, anthropology and environmental management. It is also vital reading for professional planners in the public, private and community sectors.
