You Can Too! Civil Rights Champions CART 6-Pack

You Can Too! Civil Rights Champions CART 6-Pack
Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 164290600X

What do Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common? They are civil rights champions! Featuring TIME For Kids content, this nonfiction title introduces students to the subject of civil rights, and discusses its importance to minorities, women, and the disabled. The detailed photos and sidebars, text features, stimulating facts, and clear, informational text will engage students as they build their critical literacy skills and academic vocabulary. Students will be inspired to become civil rights champions as they are engaged in reading. This 6-pack includes six copies of this title and a culturally responsive, shared-reading focused lesson plan.

You Can Too! Civil Rights Champions 6-Pack

You Can Too! Civil Rights Champions 6-Pack
Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1425833993

What do Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common? They are civil rights champions! Featuring TIME For Kids content, this nonfiction reader introduces students to the subject of civil rights, and discusses its importance to minorities, women, and the disabled. This high-interest title includes detailed photos and sidebars, stimulating facts, and clear, informational text to engage students as they build their critical literacy skills. The book includes text features such as a table of contents, glossary, and an index to increase understanding and improve academic vocabulary. The Reader's Guide and Try It! sections provide extensive language-development activities that will prompt critical thinking. Aligned with state and national standards, this text prepares students for college and career. Students will be inspired to become civil rights champions as they are engaged in reading. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Daily Life in the 1960s Counterculture

Daily Life in the 1960s Counterculture
Author: Jim Willis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2019-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1440859019

This book looks at daily life during a pivotal decade in American history: the 1960s. It covers the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement as well as counterculture and protest movements. The 1960s saw the assassination of a popular president; a confusing and unpopular war that claimed the lives of thousands of American combatants; the passage of a national civil rights act that mandated equal rights across all races; countless violent exchanges among Americans with polarized views on the Vietnam War and civil rights; and through it all, the rise of a counterculture movement that challenged long-established American social and cultural traditions. Daily Life in the 1960s Counterculture looks at the 1960s from the perspective of Americans who, despite their best efforts to live normal lives, could not escape the tension, conflict, and controversy that surrounded them. The war and the violence associated with protests of it came at great personal cost to many American families. This book looks those social and cultural changes, examining such topics as the sexual revolution; recreational drug culture; the roles of film, television, and music; and more.

Langston Hughes 6-Pack

Langston Hughes 6-Pack
Author: David Anothony
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2011-09-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1433315254

Langston Hughes is often thought of as one of the greatest and most influential African American authors. This fascinating and inspiring biography will have readers enthralled by the life of Hughes as they learn how he became known as the voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Featuring lively images, photos, and captivating facts, this book allows readers to gain insight into how the Civil Rights Movement had an effect on Hughes' life and writing as well as important movements in the Harlem Renaissance like jazz, poetry, music, and clubs. The easy-to-read, supportive text works in conjunction with the accessible glossary and index to give readers the tools they may need to better understand the content and vocabulary. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Objective Proficiency Student's Book Pack (Student's Book with Answers with Downloadable Software and Class Audio CDs (2))

Objective Proficiency Student's Book Pack (Student's Book with Answers with Downloadable Software and Class Audio CDs (2))
Author: Annette Capel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2013-01-04
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107633680

Objective Proficiency Second edition provides Official Exam Preparation for Cambridge C2 Proficiency. Everything you need to be confident for exam day. A variety of challenging, lively topics provide thorough training in exam skills and high-level language development. Each unit contains three double-page lessons ensuring flexibility, even pacing and progress. This motivating material is also suitable for high-level students keen to improve their general English. The Class Audio CDs contain all the audio material for the listening exercises in the Student's Book. Interactive software, downloadable from a URL contained in the Student's Book, provides activities for practice of exam skills, grammar and vocabulary.

The Long Walk Home

The Long Walk Home
Author: Raymond J. Castellani
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2017-02-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1457552914

The Long Walk Home – will most likely be the last book I write – I am eighty-three years old – this book is important to me – it goes over to a degree what has been said in my previous books – The End Was A Beginning – the first – the second The Silent Voice – in much more detail – it is threaded with the never- ending presence of loneliness – but more significantly it brings forth the Four Absolutes – Honesty – Purity – Unselfishness – Love – which were given to me in 1986 – I have talked about these principles in my previous books – I made clear that if these principles were incorporated in society at hand – the world would change in an instant – this I believe is the power of these four words – the society that exists at present – the persistence of – selfishness – self-centeredness – permeated with dishonesty – beyond reproach – the distortion of purity – the use of the word – love – as a panacea – to cover the vile of discontent that exists in the world as is lived in – every crime – every murder – every twisted thought – every lie – every selfish act – every thought of hate - would be reduced to the pleasantries of memory – I cannot – predict where society will rest seventy years from now – 2016 – I do know that in 1927 the world population was two billion – 1960 three billion – 2011 seven billion – projection 2083 ten billion – will make up our society – if the culture is not changed – the present will be a reality for the future – this may be a morbid statement – it is a true statement – for sure – society is doing nothing to change the silhouette as is known – the simple life is but a dream of realities – taken from the books well-read – by masters – of the past – what is our destiny –

Ebony

Ebony
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1989-12
Genre:
ISBN:

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

You Can't Say That!

You Can't Say That!
Author: David E. Bernstein
Publisher: Cato Institute
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781930865532

Argues that antidiscrimination legislation threatens to undermine American civil liberties by limiting freedom of expression, including the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

Cookie Cutter

Cookie Cutter
Author: Sterling Anthony
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2000
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 0345435680

A killer in Detroit is targeting blacks and leaving by the victim's body an Oreo cookie--black outside, white inside--symbolizing blacks who side with whites. Lieutenant Mary Cunningham goes after him.