John Smith Spelling Book

John Smith Spelling Book
Author: John Smith
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1998
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780304703760

The need for children to learn how to spell has been highlighted recently as reports repeatedly suggest that standards are falling. John Smith Spelling Books are an ideal tool to remedy this situation. They allow children both to learn at school and practice at home with their parents. The books are tried and tested and very popular, providing children with a good grounding, reinforcement, and help with more difficult words. They are full of games and exercises that ensure that an essential skill can be fun to learn. Each book is short and manageable, written so that children succeed and gain a sense of achievement, and enjoy the challenge of the next book. The books are also widely used for remedial work with secondary pupils and adults.

The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America From Ann. Dom. 1593 to 1629

The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America From Ann. Dom. 1593 to 1629
Author: John Bernhard Smith
Publisher: Awnsham and John Churchill
Total Pages: 58
Release: 1704
Genre: Voyages and travels
ISBN:

Captain John Smith dmiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. He was the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area and New England. His books and maps were important in encouraging and supporting English colonization of the New World. He gave the name New England to the region and noted: "Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land... If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industries quickly grow rich." When Jamestown was England's first permanent settlement in the New World, Smith trained the settlers to farm and work, thus saving the colony from early devastation. He publicly stated "He that will not work, shall not eat", quoting from the Bible, 2nd Thessalonians 3:10. Harsh weather, lack of water, living in a swampy wilderness and attacks from the Powhatan Indians almost destroyed the colony. The Jamestown settlement survived and so did Smith, but he had to return to England after being injured by an accidental explosion of gunpowder in a boat.

American Bee

American Bee
Author: James Maguire
Publisher: Rodale
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1594862141

A narrative portrait of the America's national spelling bee competition offers insight into its subculture of young wordsmiths, competitive parents, and spectator tension, sharing the stories of five top contestants to offer insight into their ambitions and winning strategies. 40,000 first printing.

Love and Hate in Jamestown

Love and Hate in Jamestown
Author: David A. Price
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 030742670X

A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for the first time. Drawing on extensive original documents, David A. Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures from the formidable monarch Chief Powhatan, to the resourceful but unpopular leader John Smith, to the spirited Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith’s life. He also gives a rare balanced view of relations between the settlers and the natives and debunks popular myths about the colony. This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation.

"Miss Pell Would Never Misspell" and Other Painless Tricks for Memorizing How to Spell and Use Wily Words

Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761380248

Need a fail-proof way to memorize everything you need to know for your next spelling test? Brian P. Cleary can help! He's made up oodles of clever sayings to help those wily words stick in your skull. And better yet, this book will give you ideas for how you can create your very own painless memory tricks.

A Man Most Driven

A Man Most Driven
Author: Peter Firstbrook
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781780747101

He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. And all this happened before he was thirty years old. This is Captain John Smith’s life. Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas, and how in 1607 she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith’s leadership, the Jamestown colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest – and a far more ambitious self-promoter, too. With A Man Most Driven, Firstbrook delivers a riveting, enlightening dissection of this myth-making man, England’s arrival on the world stage, and the creation of America.

New Orleans Mourning

New Orleans Mourning
Author: Julie Smith
Publisher: Fawcett
Total Pages: 351
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804107386

When the smiling King of Carnival is killed at Mardi Gras, policewoman Skip Langdon is on the case. She knows the upper-crust family of the victim and that it hides more than its share of glittering skeletons. But nothing could prepare her for the tangled web of clues and ancient secrets that would mean danger for her--and doom for the St. Amants.... "Smith is a gifted writer." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD