Download or read book You Wouldn t Want to Be an 18th Century British Convict written by Meredith Costain and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - High interest topic for children of all ages. - Draws in even the most reluctant reader with a lighthearted tone and hilarious illustrations. - Includes glossary and index. Curriculum Standards: Social Studies Education Standards: Grades K-4 Time, Continuity, and Change: II - Accounts of past events, people, places, and situations contribute to our understanding of the past Culture: I - People, societies, and cultures address needs and concerns in ways that are both similar and different

Download or read book You Wouldn t Want to be an 18th century British Convict written by Meredith Costain and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous account of how a British thief would have been punished in the eighteenth century by being sent to Australia in 1785.

Download or read book You Wouldn t Want to be an 18th century Convict written by Meredith Costain and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous account of how a British thief would have been punished in the eighteenth century by being sent to Australia in 1785.

Download or read book You Wouldn t Want to Be a Convict sent to Australia written by Meredith Costain and published by The Salariya Book Company. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are an 18th-century convict faced with a fate potentially worse than death: to be sent to one of the new English colonies in Australia, where you will face hardship, isolation and great danger at the razor edge of colonial enterprise. This title in the best-selling children’s history series, You Wouldn't Want To…, features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate technical detail and a narrative approach placing readers at the centre of the history, encouraging them to become emotionally-involved with the characters and aiding their understanding of what life would have been like as a convict in Australia in the 18th century. Informative captions, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal introduction to the conventions of information books for young readers. It is an ideal text for Key Stage 2 shared and guided reading and helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-14.

Download or read book Leading the Common Core Initiative written by Carl A. Harvey II and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining both the Common Core Standards and the school librarian's role in their implementation, this book offers ready-to-use lesson plans and other tools for grades K–5 and identifies opportunities for collaborative teaching. As elementary schools in nearly all 50 states are faced with meeting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), school librarians need to understand the challenges and have lesson plans ready to help. This resource introduces the CCSS in English and mathematics to K–5 librarians and aides, helping them to understand the concepts, analyzing the impact on the school library, and providing lesson plans, resources, and other tools for implementation in integrated instruction with other curricula and collaborative teaching with other elementary teachers. Based upon the authors' own experiences in adopting the CCSS in their school, the included exemplar lesson plans and ideas are designed to support school librarians as they begin to collaborate with teachers in using the Common Core Standards in their daily classroom instruction. The book also discusses the opportunities for advocacy that result from the librarian's instrumental role in implementing the CCSS, both as a staff developer and a collaborative partner teacher.

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Download or read book Memorandoms by James Martin written by Tim Causer and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the vast body of manuscripts composed and collected by the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), held by UCL Library’s Special Collections, is the earliest Australian convict narrative, Memorandoms by James Martin. This document also happens to be the only extant first-hand account of the most well-known, and most mythologized, escape from Australia by transported convicts. On the night of 28 March 1791, James Martin, William and Mary Bryant and their two infant children, and six other male convicts, stole the colony’s fishing boat and sailed out of Sydney Harbour. Within ten weeks they had reached Kupang in West Timor, having, in an amazing feat of endurance, travelled over 3,000 miles (c. 5,000) kilometres) in an open boat. There they passed themselves off as the survivors of a shipwreck, a ruse which—initially, at least—fooled their Dutch hosts. This new edition of the Memorandoms includes full colour reproductions of the original manuscripts, making available for the first time this hugely important document, alongside a transcript with commentary describing the events and key characters. The book also features a scholarly introduction which examines their escape and early convict absconding in New South Wales more generally, and, drawing on primary records, presents new research which sheds light on the fate of the escapees after they reached Kupang. The introduction also assesses the voluminous literature on this most famous escape, and critically examines the myths and fictions created around it and the escapees, myths which have gone unchallenged for far too long. Finally, the introduction briefly discusses Jeremy Bentham’s views on convict transportation and their enduring impact.

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Download or read book Sold Short in America written by Richard A. Altomare and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a non-fiction, painfully true account of an American whistle blower whose silencing was attempted by conflicted and vengeful bureaucrats. This work presents oversights within the regulatory Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), The U.S. Justice Department, and The Bureau of Prisons penal systems (BOP); as an innocent former US Marine and 60 year old grandfather is actually placed in high security solitary confinement for trying to warn the country of the impending financial crisis (now current, admitted, acknowledged, and publicized) and how it could have been prevented. He committed no crime, was never afforded the due process of law or a proper trial, was neither indicted nor convicted of anything, but was incarcerated in solitary confinement for 83 days in an attempt to silence him, while the SEC dismantled his successful public company, which was the holder of a $700,000,000.00 judgment then being litigated against the SEC. This entertaining and informative book presents the issues, actions and utter contempt that many governmental employees exhibit towards all citizens who rely upon them for professional and responsible representation and treatment. It skillfully exposes the reader to an annual 60 Billion dollar prison budgeted sink hole in dire need of investigation and improvement. From the Author's "Woody Allen type" humor in relaying the horrific reality of our prison systems and governmental agencies, the reader will not be able to stop turning the pages to meet the segments of society and their abhorrent, illegal and unconstitutional actions that this work exposes.

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