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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Charlesbridge Call No: 492.4 MIC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Once there was a child without a friend. Ben-Zion's father insisted that his son speak only Hebrew, considered by some as the language of angels. But in the 1880s, the Jewish people who lived in JErusalem spoke Yiddish or the languages of the places where they grew up. Hebrew hadn't been in everyday use for more than two thousand years, and adults said it could never be revived.
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2012, c2011., Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks Call No: Young adult FIC DIFFENBAUGH Edition: Ballantine Books Tr Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eighteen-year-old Victoria Jones, having been emancipated from the foster care system and planted a flower garden in the park in which she slept, is hired to work for a local florist, and, after meeting a mysterious vendor at the flower market, she is forced to confront her past and decide what she wants for her future.
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2012., Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks Call No: Realistic FIC Diffenbaugh Edition: Ballantine Books trade paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Random House reader's circleSummary Note: Victoria Jones, an eighteen-year-old foster child newly emancipated from the system, finds she is unable to connect with anyone in the real world except through flowers and their meanings. When a florist takes her in, Victoria must confront her past and decide whether or not to risk everything for a chance at happiness.
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2014., Northeast Foundation for Children, Incorporated Call No: P 372 RES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Responsive classroom series.Summary Note: Your essential guide for teaching core competencies that every child needs for developing into a highly engaged, self-motivated learner. The Language of Learning offers a practical approach to teaching essential communication skills:Listening and understandingThinking before speaking; speaking clearly and concisely; asking thoughtful questions; giving high-quality answers; backing up opinions with reasons and evidence; agreeing thoughtfully; disagreeing respectfully. The book includes: skills chapters on listening, speaking, questioning, crafting an argument, and agreeing and disagreeing respectfully; practical teaching strategies for developing each skill in a way that integrates seamlessly with your existing curriculum; common core connections charts listing K-6 speaking and listening standards addressed by each chapter; teaching timeline suggesting when to introduce each skill; and sample letters to parents about ways to extend their child's learning at home. -- Provided by publisher.
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-- Desmond Morris' The Human animal: a personal view of the human species.1999., TLC Video ; Films for the Humanites and Sciences [distributor] Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Although humans can make more than 3,000 hand gestures, even the simpest have numerous variations and interpretations. This program, filmed on five continents, examines not only hand gestures, but facial expressions, head shakes and body distance as well--and the misunderstandings that can occur when body language is transported across cultural lines. Supression of body language is also discussed, along with "nonverbal leakage," in which the body's language can belie a speaker's words.
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-- One hundred words almost everyone mispronouncesc2008., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 421 .5203 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: 100 words series.Summary Note: A pronunciation guide to words that people are likely to use and mispronounce at business or social occasions. Highlights words of French and Greek origins.
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-- One thousand Arabic words[2008], Primary, Berlitz Kids Call No: 492.7 83 421 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents a variety of illustrated scenes featuring items and people labeled with both English and Arabic names, such as tiger or "namer" at the zoo or a toaster "mahmassa" in the kitchen.
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1998., Juvenile, Berlitz Publishing Co. Call No: 438.2 Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: Berlitz kidsSummary Note: This book presents 1000 entries for terms in German and English with corresponding illustrations to show usage.
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1998., Juvenile, Berlitz Publishing Co Call No: 468.2 Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: Berlitz kidsSummary Note: This book presents 1000 entries for terms in Spanish and English with corresponding illustrations to show usage.
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1998., Juvenile, Berlitz Publishing Co. Call No: 468.2 BERLITZ Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: Berlitz kidsSummary Note: This book presents 1000 entries for terms in Spanish and English with corresponding illustrations to show usage.
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-- One hundred one American English idiomsc2007., McGraw Hill Call No: 427 .973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of over 100 American English idioms with explanations of their meanings and audio CD.
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2009., McGraw-Hill Call No: LANGUAGE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explains the meaning and origins of more than one hundred popular Spanish proverbs. Includes an Mp3 disk with native speakers reading each of the proverbs and dialogues placing them in context.
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1979., Doubleday Call No: 422 STE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the origins of 101 words categorized under people; animals; things that grow; things we eat, drink, wear, ride, use, and enjoy; and other things.
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-- Mil novecientos ochenta y cuatro2013., Random House Mondadori, S.A. Call No: 823 .912 Edition: Primera edición. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Debolsillo. ContemporneaSummary Note: Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action.
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20 literacy strategies to meet the common core : increasing rigor in middle & high school classrooms-- Twenty literacy strategies to meet the common corec2013., Specialized, Solution Tree Press Call No: Professional Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides twenty research-based literacy strategies designed to help students meet the common core standards.
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-- Two thousand one most useful German words2012., Dover Publications, Inc Call No: 438.2 421 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dover language guides
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By Hoban, Tana1987., Juvenile, Greenwillow Books Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Color photographs of letters, numbers, coins, and common objects introduce the alphabet, coinage, and the counting system.
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-- Five kinds of nonfiction[2021]., Stenhouse Publishers Call No: PRO 372.6 STE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "This book introduces a new way to sort, study and recognize nonfiction through the authors' categorization system of its five types - active, browsable, traditional, expository literature and narrative. After introducing the concept, the authors discuss ways this system can improve instruction, help students, teachers and librarians understand nonfiction better, and ultimately create stronger readers and writers"--
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-- Five hundred and one French verbs fully conjugated in all the tenses in a new easy-to-learn formatc1996., Barron's Educational Series Call No: Ref 448.2 Ken Edition: 4th ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents 501 conjugated French verbs in alphabetical order along with several other English-French resources, including a pronunciation guide, an irregular verb form index, and more than one thousand French verbs conjugated like model verbs among the 501.
