Download or read book Jane Raggedfir Was a Dike written by Steven Kladstrup and published by Steven E. Kladstrup. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Readers' Praise For Jane Raggedfir Was a Dike "a great read - funny, heroic and frightening" "a detailed account of a teacher's life" "laugh-out-loud storytelling" "heartfelt, funny, and eye-opening" . If you are a veteran teacher, this story will make you laugh. And cry. And maybe stamp your feet, as you curse all the idiots who turned your job into a drive-up window for people who simply want things their way. . If you're thinking about a career as a public school teacher in the United States, reading this book may make you think twice. Jane Raggedfir is an in-your-face heads-up on what you'll truly be facing once you're on the job. . Written as a set of novels spanning the course of a veteran teacher's last year on the job, Jane Raggedfir's story will have you laughing when you're not crying, pondering when you're not simply appalled, and in the end, sympathizing with the people who are serving on the real world front lines we call "classrooms" doing their best to fight the good fight. . That's because this is the story of how "impossible" it is to actually be a teacher nowadays. . In Volume 1: Back to School, you'll start learning about: * All the sacrifices * All the endless expectations * All the so-called leadership * All the incompetence * All the secrets * All the compromises * All the competition * All the merciless scrutiny * All the blame * All the unfairness * And last. but not least, all the consequences... . Inspired by issues and practices in the real world of education, this first volume, "Back To School," is your introduction to Jane Raggedfir, a high school teacher who spent the last years of her career trying to hold back the waters of ignorance and save a troubled teen, only to fail spectacularly, thanks to all the hypocrisy and short-sightedness that has too often turned public education into a fragmented, fear-based nightmare of self-serving competition and back-biting disrespect. . Get ready to experience the non-public side of public education as Jane deals with the system and the system, in turn, deals with her. Likewise, get ready to learn the secrets that the rest of the staff doesn't know about Mrs. Raggedfir, like the truth that she is anything but safe in the classroom and is, in fact, disabled in a way that no one else can ever fully understand. . So - if you're an admin in an American public school, go ahead and burn this book right now before it challenges your tried-and-true ways of operating. . If you're simply on the outside looking in, i.e., an interested party who wants to know why teachers and teaching seem so messed up these days, this series will offer you plenty of insight into what's been going on, particularly in some of the "best" schools. . No matter where you're coming from, Jane Raggedfir will take you places you haven't been before in any other book about teaching. Instead of all the rah-rah, rose-colored, "I just love teaching" stories, Jane's journey will have you howling and shaking your head, even as it clues you in on how compromised the profession really is and where many of the dark closets in your own local schools can be found. . Please Note: This is Volume 1 of a planned series. While this first volume stands on its own as a humorous (and painful) example of what it's really like for teachers when a school year is about to get underway, it is also intended as an invitation to readers to come back for the rest of the story as additional volumes are released. . Volume 1: Back To School includes: * Prologue: The Edge * Part 1: The Dog Days of August * Part 2: Workshop Week
Download or read book Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home written by Catharine Maria Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excavating Victorians written by Virginia Zimmerman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.
Download or read book MAGISTERIAL GAZE written by Albert Boime and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1991-12-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boime (art history, UCLA) reveals in the expansive vistas of Cole, Church, Bierstadt, Moran, and others a shared perspective--a visual trajectory from the heights to a scenic panorama below. This elevated view, he argues, not only united the major movements of 19th-century landscape painting but also linked them inescapably to the political and social tenets of Manifest Destiny. With eight color, 45 bandw illustrations. 91/4x61/4 Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America written by Nancy Isenberg and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas_before and after 1848_that, in her vie
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Download or read book The Mirror of Antiquity written by Caroline Winterer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of American women through their diaries, letters, books, needlework, and drawings, demonstrating how classicism was at the center of their experience as mothers, daughters, and wives. Importantly, she pays equal attention to women from the North and from the South, and to the ways that classicism shaped the lives of black women in slavery and freedom.In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time—the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society—this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.
Download or read book The Ancient City written by Constance Fenimore Woolson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Ancient City by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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Download or read book Antiquity Photography written by Claire L. Lyons and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical essays explore the careers of two major early photographers, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey and William James Stillman. in addition, portfolios with works by Maxime Du Camp, John Beasley Greene, Francis Frith, Robert Macpherson, Adolphe Braun and others testify to the strength and consistency of other early photographers who captured the antique worlds around the Mediterranean."--BOOK JACKET.
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