Download or read book Freshman vs Self Memoirs from the Ninth Grade written by Alexa Garvoille and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school freshmen at Durham School of the Arts, a magnet school in North Carolina, share their personal stories in this third installment of the Going on 15 series. A collection of short memoirs written by young adult authors and edited by their peers, Freshman vs. Self covers a wide range of topics facing youth today. From coping with unwanted stepparents to discovering inner beauty, the true stories in Freshman vs. Self allow teenagers to speak for themselves. Relevant for a young audience and revelatory for educators and parents alike, these memoirs will remind you what it's like to face the foe that is the self.
Download or read book Going on 15 Memoirs of Freshmen written by Alexa Garvoille and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshman writers at Durham School of the Arts, a public arts magnet school in North Carolina, share the stories of their teenage lives in this wide-ranging collection of short memoirs. Originally written for a class project, the memoirs were edited by student Kaitlin Medlin and staff and supervised by teacher Alexa Garvoille. Covering topics from the power of the arts to the effects of abuse, from journeys of faith to chronicles of friendship, Going on 15: Memoirs of Freshmen reminds adult and teen readers alike to look beyond the friends, the classmates, the students, or the children we think we know, and listen to their voices.
Download or read book Imaginative Teaching through Creative Writing written by Amy Ash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing out of recent pedagogical developments in creative writing studies and perceived barriers to teaching the subject in secondary education schools, this book creates conversations between secondary and post-secondary teachers aimed at introducing and improving creative writing instruction in teaching curricula for young people. Challenging assumptions and lore regarding the teaching of creative writing, this book examines new and engaging techniques for infusing creative writing into all types of language arts instruction, offering inclusive and pedagogically sound alternatives that consider the needs of a diverse range of students. With careful attention given to creative writing within current standards-based educational systems, Imaginative Teaching Through Creative Writing confronts and offers solutions to the perceived difficulty of teaching the subject in such environments. Divided into two sections, section one sees post-secondary instructors address pedagogical techniques and concerns such as workshop, revision, and assessment before section two explores hands-on activities and practical approaches to instruction. Focusing on an invaluable and underrepresented area of creative writing studies, this book begins a much-needed conversation about the future of creative writing instruction at all levels and the benefits of collaboration across the secondary/post-secondary divide.
Download or read book It Was What It Was My Memoir written by Diane Haley Toney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Was What It Was is a charming and heartwarming autobiography of life growing up in the idyllic post-war era of the South during the 1950's. Relating tales of family, love, self-sacrifice, faith, and community, the author recounts life in small-town Lavonia, Georgia during an era of rapid social change. From tales of wartime sacrifice, to the Mayberry-esque quality of small town life, the booming economic growth in the post-war era, the heyday of the teenage social scene in the 1950s, and UFO encounters in the dark secluded countryside, this story has something for everyone. In relating her childhood experiences and teenage years during and after the conclusion of World War II, and ending with her professional contributions in public education, Mrs. Toney's life story is overlaid and interwoven with the history of the small southern town of Lavonia. In doing so, her story is Lavonia's story. Beautifully written and conveyed with warmth and much humor, this biography of times gone by is not to be missed!
Download or read book Freshmen written by Christine Lord and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories on various topics, all written by American teenage writers in the ninth grade.
Download or read book The Hollyhock Dolls A Memoir Growing Up in Michigan written by Diane G. Wrobleski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Take a step back and look into the experiences of a little girl growing up in Detroit with her two older sisters. - When the Shrine Circus was in town, her dad brought home clowns in costume, a bear trainer and a trapeze artist. - The adventures of the author and her sisters at boarding school. - The tragedy of losing her daughter Julie in a head-on collision, leaving a young husband and two little boys. - You'll laugh at the incident of the elephant on the roof, the wasp and the negligee, and the police almost arresting Santa Clause. - The happenings at their son Steve's wedding was so unusual and funny it could be an SNL skit. - The antics of a grandmother who seemed to have no filter when it came to her off-hand remarks. - You'll learn why this family loves Michigan and especially their beloved hometown, Detroit.
Download or read book Bibliography on Racism written by Center for Minority Group Mental Health Programs (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography on Racism 1972 1975 written by Center for Minority Group Mental Health Programs (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whistled written by Dawn Duhamel and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of traumatic personal events, including a physical assault, a home burglary, a school shooting, the layoffs of the Great Recession, and #metoo impacted Dawn Duhamel’s life. In Whistled, she shares her story, chronicling the events that shaped her. Living under the belief that working hard always pays off, and experiencing success that proved her theory, Duhamel was unprepared when, at the age of fifty, an anonymous, contrived whistleblower complaint was filed against her, ultimately resulting in her controversial termination. Blindsided by being fired for the first time, the ensuing self-doubt suffocated her spirit until, after twenty-four months of questioning and processing, she discovered what truly mattered, and the reasons to love herself again. Whistled narrates a story of how Duhamel found meaning in loss, hope in resiliency, and courage in vulnerability. For anyone who has been betrayed, fired, or felt discarded, this memoir is about finding your way back to your true and best self.
Download or read book My 9th Grade Story written by Jean Lee and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The start of high school is one of the most significant milestones in a teenager's life, and there's no better way to record those Freshman year memories than with this MY 9TH GRADE STORY guided journal! This 7x10 paperback book features over 100 pages of interview-style question and answer prompts for a student to fill out at the end of their 9th grade year. Amble lined space offers room to write down: school statistics; favorite and least favorite classes, teachers, and entertainment; milestones and significant holidays, special occasions, and events; memories shared with friends and family; hopes and dreams for the future; and pages for autographs and photos/memorabilia. Once completed, this journal will make a lasting keepsake and an heirloom for future generations! Makes a wonderful gift for any student as they end their 9th grade year!
Download or read book Act Your Age A Coming of Middle Age Memoir written by Priscilla Lindsey Biddle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Act your age! From her mother's admonition in childhood, a middle ages, twice-married mother of four and a product of the deep south of the seventies makes her way though a meandering inner journey towards a quiet epiphany revealing what her mother's words really mean. This rite of passage at the ungainly age of fifty unfolds through twelve memoir-like narratives that will evoke both laughter and tears. Each chapter is an independent reflection on the dozens of daily anecdotes all of us live each day in the course of growing up and growing older. Reading the narratives may be like going through a shoe box of old photographs you find in the attic, not arrange in any seeming order, but, in total, creating a logic of their own. Memorable characters like Papa, Aunt Norma, Harrison Augustus Turnbull, and Artemesia rise from the narrator's southern Gothic roots. The narrator, nameless Every Woman, prides herself in being an introspective and competent adult, but her naiveté demonstrates that being an adult a really a state of mind, and finding truth is like entertaining company with chipped china. Coping with life's poignant struggles, like disease, old age, suicide, and murder, and its ordinary ones, like child-raising, teaching, pets, and church-going, she seeks sense in the nonsense with humor and with love"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kicking and Screaming written by Melanie D. Gibson and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanie Gibson was an independent woman with a good job, multiple college degrees, and a condo in the trendy part of town. She also had a few mental illnesses, a minor substance abuse problem, and rotten relationship skills. She was a high-functioning crazy who needed a good kick in the pants, literally and metaphorically. In early 2013, as a last desperate means to save her sanity, Melanie turned to a nearly forgotten childhood activity: the Korean martial art of taekwondo. As if the universe were listening, she discovered her West Texas childhood taekwondo instructors’ Grandmaster operated a taekwondo school a few miles from her home in Fort Worth, Texas—and she decided to start her training over as a white belt. In taekwondo, Melanie felt like she had a fresh start in more ways than one. She found an inner peace she’d never known before, a sense of community, a newfound confidence, and a positive outlook on life. The kicking and screaming she was doing in class quieted the long-term kicking and screaming in her mind. Funny and frank, Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Marital Arts is the story of Melanie’s life-changing journey from troubled, lost soul to confident taekwondo black belt.
Download or read book Mr Press written by Charles Dunsire and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. Press" is the moving, often humorous memoir of a newspaper and television reporter's and editor's more than forty-year career in his native Seattle. The book chronicles the author's overcoming of such personal challenges as alcoholism and marital troubles, as well as behind-the-scenes highlights of a varied, unique and fast-paced career in daily journalism. It discusses the state of today's news media, joint operating agreements and the author's perspective on the mission of editorial pages. Along the way the book charts the development of one of the world's most dynamic and fastest growing cities and regions of the new millenium.
Download or read book Be the Change written by Linda Darling-Hammond and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be the Change tells the remarkable story of an innovative public high school in East Palo Alto modeled after successful small schools in New York City. Guided by the expertise of renowned educator Linda Darling-Hammond, it offers authentic and engaging instruction that has allowed students who start off far behind to graduate and go on to college in record numbers.
Download or read book The Late Bloomer written by Ken Baker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a feature film, The Late Bloomer is the revealing, harrowing and often funny memoir of a celebrity journalist and former hotshot hockey player who discovers that he has been biochemically infused with a female hormone. On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for People; a guest-lister at celebrity parties; and girls came on to him. Inside, though, he didn't feel like the man he was supposed to be. Although attracted to women, Ken had little sex drive and thus even less of a sex life. To his anguish, he repeatedly found himself unable to perform sexually. And, regardless of strenuous workouts, his body struggled to build muscle, earning him the nickname "Pear" from his macho teammates. Physically, matters turned bizarre when he discovered that he was lactating. The testosterone-driven culture in which Ken grew up made it agonizingly difficult for him to seek help. But in time he discovered something that lifted years of pain, frustration, and confusion: a brain tumor was causing his body to be flooded with massive amounts of a female hormone, which was disabling his masculinity. Five hours of surgery accomplished what years of therapy, rumination, and denial could not -- and allowed Ken Baker to finally feel -- and function -- like a man. Now Ken's story comes to the screen in the feature film, The Late Bloomer, starring Academy Award-winner J.K. Simmons and Jane Lynch.
Download or read book If It Wasn t for You written by Student Press Initiative and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
