![]() “A fresh view of how a world can grow, building new dimensions into the best of the old. “If you’re a fan of fantasy and haven’t read the Mistborn trilogy yet, you have no excuses.” - Forbes on Mistborn “Brandon Sanderson’s reputation is finally as big as his novels.” - The New York Times on Words of Radiance “Epic in every sense.” - The Guardian on The Way of Kings “Engrossing worldbuilding, appealing characters, and a sense of humor make this a winning entry in the Sanderson canon.” - Kirkus, starred review The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (forthcoming) the Evil Librarians (co-authored with Janci Patterson) Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (forthcoming) Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death? But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. ![]() ![]() The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. ![]() #1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us deeper into the Cosmere universe with a rollicking, riveting tale that will appeal to fans of The Princess Bride. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In the economic structure, one observes the resources the Yoruban culture considers vital to maintain wellness and health. One finds that their roles compared to King Odewale’s serve as a primary example of the social aspect. The leadership in the play forms a comparison to that of the King and many of the townspeople. The practices exhibited in Yoruban culture show the structure of both a social and economical factors. All the messages conveyed, although bring the play together and provide the audience with insightful readings, the play may also serve as a symbol as to how some of the African societies model the structure presented in the play. The culture represents "the way of life for an entire society", as noted in Pragmatic Functions of Crisis – Motivated Proverbs in Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame. In The God’s Are Not To Blame, Rotimi incorporates many themes, such as culture and its connection with the form of the social structure of an African community. ![]() ![]() SO- I bet if it’s your first time here you are wondering how I was able to adapt this text! All of the info is included in last month’s adapted text post, Apples Apples Everywhere. There are tons of videos on youtube (blog post coming soon!) and this is totally doable! its looking deep into ones soul to uncover and apple who we are, what we love and what and want people to remember about us. The Brio And series is written to churched apple girls ages 12-16 who read fiction. ![]() ![]() The way the author walks through the whole process of apple and pumpkin picking all the way up to carving and Halloween night is like a perfect social story for our kids! It has lots of vocabulary repetition and is definitely an easy reader- which is perfect for teaching October vocabulary, using as a read aloud, in small group, or to introduce more information about pumpkin patches before a community outing.īefore I was able to go on community outings, I would introduce books like this to give a virtual trip tour to my students. A thoughtful and well researched pumpkin of the Fish Creek massacre, a tragedy in the American West. ![]() It is a great idea to start an adapted book library in order to get your students more involved during read alouds and more interested in picture books!Īpples and Pumpkins By: Anne Rockwell and Illustrated by: Lizzy Rockwell (affiliate link to book!) is one of my favorite simple text books. These books are often found in classroom libraries, general education classrooms, and beyond. If you LOVED September’s adapted text- you are going to love October’s!Īdapting texts is a great way to get all of your students involved and participating with REAL literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Cesare would rather be a soldier, and Lucrezia would rather marry for love these conflicted desires contribute as much as risky political power plays to undoing the Borgias in a single generation. Determined to establish a family dynasty, he appoints his son Cesare cardinal in his stead and, after a strategically engineered episode of incest between siblings Cesare and Lucrezia, begins ruthlessly eliminating rivals and marrying his children into alliances with the offspring of noble families of France and Spain. The story opens with Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia manipulating papal elections in 1492 to become the new Pope Alexander. ![]() Before his death in 1999, Puzo ( The Last Don) had begun work on a novel featuring the 15th-century Borgias, whom he regarded as "the original crime family." There are obvious parallels between the Borgias and the Corleone clan immortalized in The Godfather, but the resemblances are mostly superficial, at least as they are presented in this limp historical romance. ![]() ![]() To me, blackness is just part of what the family is.” It’s a third term … So when I came to the States and I was asked, ‘Well, what are you?’, it was very difficult for me to negotiate the binary logic of you’re either black or you’re white.”Ī mixed-race identity rooted in Zambia may be a world away from one forged in the US, but when forced to decide, she chose to identify as black, “partly because I’m perceived as black”, but also because “the idea I could look at my mother and say to her that I’m not black makes no sense. “Obviously it has different connotations in the west, but at home that’s just what you’re called. ![]() “In Zambia the category for people like me has its own word, which is ‘coloured’,” she explains. But it wasn’t until the family moved to Baltimore in 1989 that Serpell was first confronted by the idea of racial identity being split into two distinct parts. Her father is a white, British psychology professor who became a Zambian citizen in 1978, while her mother’s parents were from two different tribes in the north of the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() What we think of as novel often emerges out of the combination of pre-existing cultures or traditions.”īorn in Lusaka in 1980, Serpell could almost be talking about herself. Instead of a problem that demands explanation, she explains, these collisions are at the heart of the creative process: “I don’t think there’s anything new under the sun. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() 12-13), Vuong’s first named wasn’t “Ocean'' when he went to the US, but her mother thought it was beautiful to rebaptize her son with the name of something that could link two very distant countries, such as the US and Vietnam - because the boy himself made this connection. His arrival with his family in the United States of America, the country where he lives now, was extremely troublesome.Īccording to Galindo (2019, p. The beautiful book approaches some very dense and complex questions, such as Vietnamese diaspora, Saigon’s fall and the period when Vuong lived on a refugee field in the Philippines in early life. Eliot poetry award in 2017) and captivated a faithful crowd of readers. ![]() As a young author, he’s already experienced literary recognition, being published in several countries, translated in multiple languages, having won awards (as the T.S. Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poems by the Vietnamese author Ocean Vuong, born in 1988. ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to save her grade and get off the waitlist for her dream college, Laila steps out of her comfort zone to try to improve her writing. ![]() After her mentor and creative writing teacher is in car accident, Laila finds herself being taught by a highly acclaimed author who seems intent on failing her entire class. The writing and characters in this book are amazing, and it covers so many important topics for teens! Every day that I read this book, I went to bed excited to wake up the next day and continue reading it.įinal Draft follows Laila Piedra during her senior year of high school. I read it as part of a group read in the Dragons & Tea book club and while I was intrigued at first, I still expected it to be mediocre. ![]() Despite its slim size and lack of hype, this book left me astounded. ![]() ![]() ![]() Notwithstanding his advanced age, Sen is still travelling the world, lecturing and inspiring many. Partially thanks to his efforts, the annual Human Development Report of UNDP was established, which no longer determines the countries’ ranking by average income, but by an index of longevity, education and spending power.In his most recent book The Idea of Justice (2009), Sen contended that a righteous society is accomplished by eliminating injustices such as poverty, hunger, and political oppression. He thereby redefined positive liberty as having the opportunity to make personal choices which are necessary for self-development and survival, and negative liberty as the absence of restrictions by others on personal means for survival. In Development as Freedom (1999), Sen argued that eliminating the lack of freedom is essential for development. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. ![]() ![]() In 1981, Sen demonstrated in Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation that famines are not necessarily a result of food shortages, but that they are mainly caused by poverty and inequality. His works have been distributed in over 30 linguistic areas. The foundation is named after Amartya Sen (1933), a well-known Indian economist and philosopher who currently teaches at Harvard University.Īmartya Sen (1933, India) is a Nobel Prize laureate in economics for h is scholarly work in philosop hy and economics aimed at freedom and poverty reduction. ![]() ![]() Today RUMBLE FISH is not an especially well known film, but it is highly prized and loved by those who have seen it. ![]() It is shockingly avant-garde in its black and white cinematography, sparse scene-blocking, and use of symbolic and elliptical storytelling techniques. The resulting film is quite different from anything Hollywood could have expected. Coppola stated that it was his “reward” for completing the difficult OUTSIDERS shoot. For many, it is one of the definitive movies and perceptive movies about the teenage years.ĭuring the shoot of THE OUTSIDERS, Coppola and Hinton, who was on set as the film’s technical adviser, began writing a script for an adaptation of “Rumble Fish.” The idea was to make it as a low budget art film on many of the same locations with some of the same actors. Much like the book, it was a medium-sized hit that continued to exert its influence over several decades. ![]() His first Hinton adaptation was THE OUTSIDERS (1983). ![]() Hinton with Matt Dillon, her favorite actor, and star of THE OUTSIDERS, RUMBLE FISH, and TEXįrancis Ford Coppola became a major admirer of Hinton and her works. ![]() |