...1. Levine, G. C. (2017). Ella enchanted. New York: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins. Award & Year Received: Newbery Honor (1998), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (1999), Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (2000), Grand Canyon Reader Award for Teen Book (1999), Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award for Grade 6-9 (2000) Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (1999), Iowa Teen Award (2000) ISBN Number: 9780590920681 Place: Pre-owned Summary: Ella is cursed by a young fairy named Lucinda who grants her the “gift” of obedience. Anything that anyone tells or asks Ella to do she must do. When Ella’s mother passes away, Ella is left in the care of her absent father and later a horrible stepmother and two stepsisters. Ella decides to set out on a quest for her freedom and self-discovery as she tries to track down Lucinda to undo the curse placed upon her. Along the way, she must fend off ogres, befriend elves and she falls in love with a prince....
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...The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats • Thomas’s Snowsuit, by Robert Munsch 3) FICTION • In the Tall, Tall, Grass, by Denise Fleming • Strega Nona, by Tommie DePoala • Little Cloud, by Eric Carle • It Looked Like Spilt Milk, by Charles G. Shaw • The Napping House, by Audrey Wood 4) POETRY • The Foot Book, by Dr. Seuss • How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?, By Jane Yolen • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, by Bill Martin Jr. • The Shape of Me & Other Stuff, by Dr. Seuss • The Wind Blew, by Pat Hutchins 5) NON-FICTION • Black? White? Day? Night! A Book of Opposites, by Laura Vaccaro Seeger • Apples Here! By Will Hubbell • Clothing Around the World, by Kelly Doundra • We Are All Alike, We Are All Different, by the Cheltenham Elementary school Kindergarteners • Little Bear Brushes His Teeth, by Jetta Langreuter SONG & DANCE LITERACY THEMES [pic] Title: A House for Hermit Crab Author: Eric Carle Illustrator: Eric Carle Publisher: Simon and Schuster children’s books Age Level: 4 – 6 Summary – A hermit crab wanders the ocean floor looking for the perfect home. Extension Activity – “The Hermit Crab Cha, Cha, Cha”. Objective – Story recall, large motor development and music appreciation. Materials needed – Singing...
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...The Secret Life Of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. Book Report, Dorthea Søiland The secret life of bees centres on Lily’s search for clues and connections to her mother, who was killed when Lily was a little girl. We get to follow her journey as she runs away from her abusive father along with her nanny Rosaleen. Lily is longing to be loved, because the lack of it in her past life is destroying her. “People who think dying is the worst thing, don’t know a thing about life” Lily, p2. The novel is an excellent written drama. It explores race, love and the idea of family and home in troubled times. The author of the book, Sue Monk Kidd, is a well-known writer who has written other known books such as “The Mermaid Chair”(2005) and “A Mother-Daughter Story”(2010). She has been on the New York Times bestselling list twice, which one of them were with this very novel. The secret life of bees was published in 2002 by Penguin Books New York. The story takes place in South Carolina in the 1960’s, which we can say is a time were racism was on it’s worst. Time and place has a lot to do with the story, and we get to look into a time were being black wasn’t easy. The main character of the book is fourteen years old Lily. She is a brave and smart girl, whose only wish for a birthday present is to know a little about her mother. Her fear of living a life without being loved is getting her to write poems, which she’s good at. All-tough Lily doesn’t have a mother she has a father, T....
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...Warriors Don’t Cry: Notes, Summaries, and Other Information Key Facts full title · Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High author · Melba Patillo Beals type of work · Memoir genre · Nonfiction, memoir, biography language · English time and place written · 1990s, The United States date of first publication · 1994 publisher · Pocket Books narrator · Melba Patillo Beals point of view · The book is the story of Melba’s teenage life, and the adult writer, Melba, is both the narrator and the protagonist. Melba tells the story from the first person point of view. tone · Restrained anger tense · Past setting (time) · Early 1950s setting (place) · Little Rock, Arkansas protagonist · Melba Patillo major conflicts · The attempt made by Melba and eight other African-American students to integrate into Little Rock High School rising action · The Supreme Court rules in Brown v. the Board of Education that separate schools are not equal; Melba volunteers to go to the all-white Central High School; Melba and eight other African-American students enter Central High. climax · Ernie becomes the first black student to graduate from Central High School. falling action · Unable to return for a second year at Central High School, Melba moves to California and lives with a white family; she becomes a journalist and reports on injustices around the world. themes · The shifting of power through...
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... gmac@mec.cuny.edu Office Hours Appointments Only 718 270 4929 Music 100 Please leave email Introduction to World Music Syllabus-Spring 2013 This course is an introduction to music and to the musical mechanics from a global perspective. There will be three aims: • to increase the students understanding of music, including its elements, structures, and terminology through live performances, students and guest artists; • to increase the students awareness, cultural connections to explore and their understanding of global relationships; how these cultures utilize musical elements, and the role that music plays within that culture; and • Most importantly, to increase the students understanding of the origins of the students’ owns individual music appreciation and the connection to the global village. Course Objectives • To explore and reconsider ideas about cultural contact in the process of musical change • To understand music terminology • To understand, review and write reports on live performances using terminology demonstrating knowledge of musical elements within rhythm, pitch, and structure • To understand and further identify the social, economic, historical, philosophical and psychological elements, which affect the form of the assigned music • To identify aurally and explain rhythm, pitch, structure and style of African, South and Central America, Caribbean, and North American, and at...
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...Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass explain connects to this quote on a deep level. Although this book has many social issues, power is the one that stands out. Slaves were controlled by white people, only because they thought they had more power over them. When actually they didn’t. If the white people didn’t have power, things would have been drastically different. Even though the whites thought they had power over blacks, we still had many black heros help change the future for other generations. Frederick Douglass was one of those heros. Frederick Douglass was perhaps the most powerful and influential black American of his time. In summary, white males in America sometimes abuse their power. From slavery to present day, white people are privileged and are accepted more in America, which makes them feel higher and more powerful. This is important because caucasians in America abusing their power is an ongoing problem that needs to be addressed because it oppresses black people. Readers can learn how privileged white people are and how they take advantage from the benefits of being privileged....
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...In the Conniff, Part I Preface, the author basically summary the book which is about African diaspora in the Americas. It includes African Americans’ individuality and personality. It “fills the continents from north to south and at all points in between”. Moreover, the book also include about global history and as well as the multicultural in classroom. In order to do so, many people contributed to finish the book, there are over fifteen main scholars and many reviewers who combine their ideas together to create the book. All of that said, the book is a combination of many people ideas, experience and surveys. Therefore it is a reliable book to read and study. Last but not lease, the author does not forget to explain to the reader more about the language term in the book to avoid misunderstanding between the author and reader. After reading the preface of the book, I feel that this should be a good book to read to understand more about African American culture and there living style. It should provide me a better view on African Americans’ individuality and personality. Furthermore, the preface mentions about the relations between Africa, Europe, and African American. That should be an interesting topic that I am looking forward to study about. I want to know more about African American normal life, their advantage and disadvantage when they live in America through the racism between black and white. That is the reason why the history of the civil rights interested me. After...
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...The book Coming Of Age In Mississippi is a realistic first hand insight to what it was like to be a young black girl, who was entering womanhood in southern Mississippi during segregation. This genre of book is Sociology, Biography, and Children's Literature. It tells the tail of a smart,confused, and strong willed girl becoming a brave, hardworking, and courageous woman who fights for what she believes in. She must go thru poverty,loss, fear, anger, love and the worse thing of all betrayal. And the name of the girl and woman that went thru all this and came out strong in Anne Moody. Anne fights for what she believes in and what she thinks is right. Here is a summary of what happened . Anne Moody's parents are plantation workers. They all live in a small shack on the plantation with Adline Anne's little sister. Her mother has a son and names him after Diddly, Anne’s father in hope to keep him from leaving them. Shortly their after Anne’s father leaves her mother for a young lighter skinned black woman. They leave the plantation to live with Toosweets sister for a little while. They move into a small house. Soon it is realized...
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...My results for the Race IAT showed me that I have a slight preference towards White people than Black people. The IAT test measures our attitudes towards a specific concept such as Race or Religion and it measures the amount of strength between each of those concepts. It does this by asking you a series of personal questions so it can get a feel for how you feel about the topic you chose. It then asks you to use two keys the I and E keys to put pictures and words into two different categories. Depending on how fast you do this and how arcuate you are it will determine whether you are bias towards one concept more than another. An example of this would be the Race test and it has you put pictures of people into their right category whether it be Black or White and it...
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...Summaries #2 (pg. 25 - 54) William Peel was a rather small man with pleasing manners. William was planning to escape from his slave owner, Robert H. Carr in a rather unconventional way. He planned on boxing himself up and then being shipped off. William was escaping because his owner had recently been selling slaves and he was afraid that he'd be next. So, William was boxed up by a close relative and then shipped off. He was in the box for a total of 17 hours. He suffered great misery due to the tightness of the box he was confined in. After a long trip, the box arrived in Philadelphia where a devoted friend was scheduled to pick him up. They did run into a couple difficulties. The box was very heavy, seeing as it carried a man, and it...
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...godThe House of God Study Guide The House of God by Samuel Shem (c)2014 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents The House of God Study Guide 1 Contents 2 Plot Summary 4 Chapter 1 6 Chapter 2 7 Chapter 3 8 Chapter 4 9 Chapter 5 10 Chapter 6 11 Chapter 7 12 Chapter 8 13 Chapter 9 14 Chapter 10 15 Chspter 11 16 Chapter 12 17 Chapter 13 18 Chapter 14 19 Chapter 15 20 Chapter 16 21 Chapter 17 22 Chapter 18 23 Chapter 19 24 Chapter 20 25 Chapter 21 26 Chapter 22 27 Chapter 23 28 Chapter 24 29 Chapter 25 30 Chapter 26 31 Characters 32 Objects/Places 35 Themes 37 Style 39 Quotes 41 Topics for Discussion 43 Plot Summary Roy G. Basch is a new intern in internal medicine at a hospital called the House of God. He begins his internship under the tutelage of the Fat Man, a second year resident who has some crazy ideas as to how to take care of patients. According to the Fat Man, there are two types of patients: the dying young and gomers. Gomers are elderly, demented patients from outside nursing homes who barely qualify as being human and who, the Fat Man says, never die. Only the young are sick enough to die at the House of God. Roy starts his internship fairly scared. He meets his fellow interns, Potts, Hyper Hooper, Chuck, Eat My Dust Eddy and the Runt—all scared and new to internship and patient care. Roy gets assigned duty with Chuck and Potts under the Fat Man on an internal medicine ward. Each takes turns...
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...girls of various ethnic and racial backgrounds. (Tucker, 2000, 183) As Tucker argues, Sweethearts represents an ‘alternative social vision’ to discrimination. They exemplify variety within restricted ‘black space’. From the lyrics of ‘Jump Children’, ‘waist-long hair’ suggests the white Euro-American beauty standards that the Sweethearts are constantly stacked up against white bands. (Tucker, 2000, 172) On the other hand, the phrase ‘something that takes them anywhere’, ‘something’ can be interpreted as a ‘racial pride’ with instrumentalists’ mothers as disseminators of African American cultural heritage, or as a confirmation of women’s culture that is beyond restrictions. (Tucker, 2000, 172)...
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...tried to assimilate and must find an outlet for the deep pain and suffering that his status as permanent outsider confers upon him. Sonny channels his suffering into music, especially bebop jazz and the blues, forms developed by African-American musicians. "Sonny's Blues" was first published in 1957 and was collected in Baldwin's 1965 book, Going to Meet the Man. The story also has biblical implications. Baldwin became a street preacher early in his life, and religious themes appear throughout his writings. In "Sonny's Blues," Baldwin uses the image from the book of Isaiah of the "cup of trembling" to symbolize the suffering and trouble that Sonny has experienced in his life. At the end of the story, while Sonny is playing the piano, Sonny's brother watches a barmaid bring a glass of Scotch and milk to the piano, which "glowed and shook above my brother's head like the very cup of trembling." As Sonny plays, the cup reminds his brother of all of the suffering that both he and Sonny have endured. His brother finally understands that it is through music that Sonny is able to turn his suffering into something worthwhile. Sonny’s Blues Summary "Sonny's Blues" opens as the narrator learns from a newspaper that his younger brother, Sonny, has been arrested for dealing heroin. The narrator is taking the subway to his high-school teaching job....
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...Review Of the Movie “The Help” “The Help”, it is a movie based on the book which contain testimonials on the experiences of African-American maids. I remembered I read the book before I watched the movie. The thing I know about the book, it was written and published by a white woman and it was told by the black women who were maids in the 1960s. It gave me some assumptions to go with. Before I start, everything that I will bring up are tightly about the movie and the book. It is like a little summary however the reviews I read are really good concerning the movie and the book. The movie was produced in a small town Jackson, Mississippi. Racial tension was so high at that time. The Black women worked not only as maids in that town, but they practically raised white people’s children too. So far, they were seen as “HELP” and were treated inappropriately and poorly. Skeeter, is a young woman who were living in that town. She gets the idea to write a story about these women who were maids, because of her good experience with the black woman who raised her and took really good care of her when her mother was not around. I really liked and enjoyed this movie. It got my attention and made me cry couple of times while watching some parts. What was so interesting and good about this movie? At the beginning of the movie, the acting was excellent. Viola Davis who played a maid named (Aibileen), she is an amazing woman who was one of the central characters in the movie...
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...also discusses the contributions they made to the field of social work as well as their awards and achievements. Their backgrounds, though very different, led them both to the same calling - helping those in need. Social Work Pioneers Introduction of Pioneer Mary Ellen Richmond, an essential part in the organization of the Social Work profession, was born in Belleville, Illinois in 1861 to Henry and Lavina Richmond. At the age of three, she was sent to live with her maternal grandmother and two aunts after both her parents died of tuberculosis. Richmond's grandmother was a spiritualist and a radical therefore; Richmond was exposed to "discussions of suffrage, racial problems, spiritualism, and a variety of liberal religious, social, and political beliefs" (Szymoniak, n.d.). Her family disapproved of the traditional education system so Richmond was home-schooled until the age of eleven. According to Rev. Phyllis L. Hubbell, the only reported education she received while being home-schooled was from reading books that were loaned to her by an aunt with the requirement that she would give an account of what she had read (2007). Surprisingly, her dedication to reading made it possible her to excel in school and she graduated from Eastern High School at the age of sixteen. After graduation, she moved to New York with her aunt and began working in a clerical position at a publishing house. The work hours were long and money was scarce. Their life in New York was one of...
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