The AbductionAdrift on an Ice PanAdrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at SeaAdvocating Change: Contemporary Issues in Subject EnglishAfter the RainAgainst Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural WorldAhtahkakoop: The Epic Account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, His People, and Their Struggle for Survival, 1816-1896Alas, BabylonAlfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Lady of Shalott"Alice, I ThinkAlive: The Story of the Andes SurvivorsAll Creatures Great and SmallAll I Thought About Was Baseball: Writings on a Canadian PastimeAll of Baba's ChildrenAlternatives to Grading Student WritingAmerican Sports PoemsThe Andromeda StrainAnne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank FamilyAnne Frank: Beyond the Diary: A Photographic RemembranceAnswer My PrayerApollo 13The Art of ListeningARTiculating: Teaching Writing in a Visual WorldAs Long as the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native AmericansAssessing Literacy With the Learning Record: A Handbook for Teachers, Grades 6-12Assessment and ESL: On the Yellow Big Road to the Withered of OzAssessment in the Learning Organization: Shifting the ParadigmAuthorWorks: World AuthorsThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman(I/M) This novel recounts the brutal abduction of two Inuit youths who are taken to Norway to be the objects of scientific examination. Osuqo describes her peaceful community in Greenland, the deception that results in sailors kidnapping her and the hunter she is soon to marry, the physical and sexual abuse suffered at the hands of the sailors. She also relates the gradual realization by a jailer that her prisoners are truly human and have been unjustly kidnapped and confined. Alternating sections of the book present the European perspective as told by one of the sailor's daughters. This is an easily read, almost poetic account of the disastrous events resulting from the meeting of conflicting cultural values.
Suggested Use: Equality
This is an account of the physical endurance and ingenuity displayed by Sir Wilfred Grenfell. Trapped on an ice flow in frigid Atlantic waters, he survived 24 hours till rescued. This is a very easily read resource suitable for students needing added support.
Suggested Use: Easily Read Resource
Steven Callahan relates the harrowing events that ensued when his small sloop sank and he found himself adrift on a raft with minimal food and water. This true adventure in the Caribbean details the courage and ingenuity shown by Callahan as he struggled to survive.
Suggested Use: Challenges
(WCP) This resource provides a comprehensive examination of the changing conceptions of literacy in high schools and prompts teachers to reconsider their teaching practices relating to the English language arts. The book advocates movement beyond traditional literacy models toward an ever-expanding variety of oral, print and other media texts. The 20 essays in this resource, written by a broad spectrum of educators from across Canada, focus on issues such as multicultural literature, the Internet, television, writing and assessment. Advocating Change presents a challenging and philosophical analysis of teaching practices in a changing technological world.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
The relationship between a 15-year-old girl, Rachel, and her dying grandfather is explored in this Newbery Honor book. Rachel, the protagonist, models the writing process as she uses her writing to explore her feelings and sentiments. The realism as Rachel deals with her grandfather’s terminal illness is honest and straightforward. This book is an unforgettable portrait of two spirited human beings.
Suggested Use: Decisions
This book is based on the principle that experiencing literature from many cultures can work to break down borders between people of differing cultures. The first section of the book provides pertinent comments on topics such as multiculturalism, authorship by a person not from the culture, and political correctness. Focusing on epic journeys, heroic tales, and stories of outsiders, friendship, and families, the book discusses literature as a vehicle for exploring universal thoughts and needs. In the second section of the book, the author offers reviews of books and films that illustrate racial oppression and that feature major American ethnic groups.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
(I/M, SK) This eloquently written, well-researched historical work with its emphasis on authentic voice, oral tradition and primary documentation speaks volumes on the shared history of Canada and Ahtahkakoop's people. Ahtahkakoop: The Epic Account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, His People, and Their Struggle for Survival, 1816-1896 offers valuable support for serious students of Canadian history at the secondary and post-secondary levels. The use of numerous maps and illustrations in both black-and-white and colour adds to the appeal. An index and a table of contents are provided.
Suggested Use: Canadian Frontiers and Homeland; The Unknown
Other Use: Canadian Studies; English Language Arts 20
Alas, Babylon (Print-Fiction). Frank, Pat. HarperCollins Canada Ltd. (HCP), 1993. 312 p. ISBN 0-06-081254-0 ($10.50 pbk.).When nuclear bombing destroys much of the country, the residents of Fort Repose in Florida are cut off from access to communication and energy sources. Led by Randy Bragg, the community struggles to overcome lawlessness as well as the lack of food and medical supplies.
Suggested Use: Challenges
Pen and ink visuals by artist Charles Keeping illustrate Charlotte Cornwall's dramatic reading of the poem. Following the poem, several people, including an artist, a historian, and a former prison inmate, offer their differing responses to the poem. This video provides an interesting model of response to literature.
Suggested Use: The Unknown
This gripping account of airplane crash survivors' ten-week ordeal in the Andes explores human capacity for endurance. When 46 Uruguayan rugby players, their relatives, and friends crashed, they suffered from severe cold, malnutrition, and bouts of despair. From details provided by the 16 survivors, the author recounts the group's decision regarding cannibalism and how their attitudes to living changed as a result of their experience.
Suggested Use: Challenges
This is a humourous account of a veterinarian's adventures in the Yorkshire Dales.
Suggested Use: Environment and Technology
(CAN) The short stories, articles, and essays in this collection present cultural, historical, and gender perspectives on Canadian baseball. Teachers are advised that some topics and vocabulary in this resource are of a sensitive or potentially offensive nature. The book concludes with a table of contents and Canadian baseball bibliography.
Suggested Use: Challenges; Short Prose
(CAN) This is an eloquent testimony to the courage and determination of Ukrainian settlers in Western Canada. The author delineates the political and social conditions in the Ukraine that persuaded people to emigrate, their suffering in the early years because of poverty and cultural prejudice, farm and community life, and how poverty played a role in limiting the education of many Ukrainian women. Later chapters focus on the effects of World Wars I and II on the Ukrainian community, political and economic influences, and the struggle to retain pride in the Ukrainian culture within a Canadian identity. Included are a table of contents and source notes. This is a clearly written and comprehensive study from which excerpts are useful for reading and discussion.
Suggested Use: Canadian Frontiers and Homeland
This collection of essays looks at ways of involving students collaboratively in assessing their writing, creating carefully articulated criteria, providing ample response to students' work, and communicating with parents about student progress and achievement. The book includes a table of contents.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
Other Use: English Language Arts: Grades 6 to 9
Ranging from complex meditations to lighthearted doggerel, this collection contains more than 100 poems about sports. Included are varied cultural, historical, and gender perspectives. This book contains a table of contents and an index.
Suggested Use: Challenges; Poetry
Speculating on the possibility of spacecraft introducing lethal bacteria into Earth's atmosphere, this novel chronicles scientific and political blunders as well as examples of heroism and intelligence.
Suggested Use: The Unknown; Environment and Technology
Miep Gies was one of more than 20,000 Dutch people who helped hide enemies of the Nazis. In her memoirs, Gies describes the role that she and her husband played in hiding the Franks and their friends in a hidden annex, the Franks' life in hiding, their arrest, and the return of Otto Frank following the war. This is an easily read, gripping story of what Geis has termed "ordinary people during extraordinarily terrible times." Included are a table of contents and a 24-page photograph insert.
Suggested Use: Equality
A photobiography of Anne Frank, this is a compilation of black and white photographs from the Frank family album as well as photographs and maps of their hiding place, the concentration camps, and Otto Frank in later years. The book contains a table of contents, chronology, and index.
Suggested Use: Equality
When Lydia prays for help in saving the country's precious jeepwood forest and in protecting a young sculptor from the regent's wrath, her request is so unselfish that two angels hear her prayer and fly earthward in answer. This is a gentle fantasy featuring two angels, two loving young couples, and a subtle environmental message.
Suggested Use: The Unknown
This is a riveting third person account of the Apollo 13 space flight, from pre-flight training exercises to spashdown. The book is framed by chapters describing previous Apollo missions and the final flights of the Apollo space program. Included are photographs of the Apollo flight, an index, and appendixes giving timelines, personnel, and brief data about the Apollo missions. See also: Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which is the original title of the book.
Suggested Use: Challenges
Seven keys to better listening are identified and modeled in this video. Using workplace, school, and home scenarios, the video discusses body stance, note-taking, awareness of filters, maintaining interest, open-ended feedback questions, listening without interrupting, and listening between the words. Note: While the information presented is excellent, one host speaks in a somewhat strident manner.
Suggested Use: Language Resource
(WCP) Recognizing that representing is an integral aspect of the initial stages of writing, the authors of this teacher resource offer practical strategies for connecting visual and verbal learning. In each of the eight chapters an author describes in detail a successful classroom experience that links visuals and writing. Another author responds with practical and theoretical support, a personal evaluation and suggestions for follow-up learning experiences. The authors promote active student engagement in creative and critical thinking. A bibliography is included.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
(I/M) This resource provides biographies of nine famous American Aboriginals. The book contains accounts of historical and contemporary figures including Geronimo, Will Rogers, Maria Tallchief, and Louis Erdrich. Included is a portrait of each person, a table of contents, a bibliography, and an index.
Suggested Use: Challenges; Short Prose
(WCP) This resource provides clear explanations of the Learning Record (portfolio-based learning assessment), guidelines for observing and recording student learning activities and examples of actual learning records kept by classroom teachers. The roles of all educational stakeholders are addressed as students work toward agreed-upon goals. The book includes reproducible forms for compiling and organizing evidence of student progress in talking, listening, reading and writing. In addition, the resource includes developmental scales for reading and writing.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
(CAN) A useful handbook for educators instructing students for whom English is a second language, this resource suggests practical strategies for assessing language progress of students from kindergarten to grade twelve. Focusing on finding out what students know, the book gives ideas for setting up and managing the assessment of students, including topics such as initial placement, anecdotal records, conferences, and collaboration with parents and other teachers. Included are examples of students' work, anecdotes describing varied strategies for use with students with differing needs, a table of contents, an appendix of grading guidelines for writing, sample checklists and recording forms, a bibliography, and an index. This is an easily understood manual.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
Other Use: English Language Arts: Elementary Level; English Language Arts: Grades 6 to 9
In this collection of writings, outstanding educators present personal experiences in the classroom and their insights into assessment practices. They discuss how assessment should involve systems thinking, feedback to promote continual learning, and use of a developmental continuum that helps students set goals. Included are a table of contents, index, and recommended readings.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
Other Use: English Language Arts: Elementary Level; English Language Arts: Grades 6 to 9
System Requirements:
" Macintosh: System 7.1.1.; 8MB of RAM
" All versions: 4x speed CD-ROM drive; monitor; sound card; mouse; printer; speakers.
System Requirements:
Windows: 486/33 Mhz or Pentium processor; Windows 3.1/95 operating system; 8MB of RAM
All versions: 4x speed CD-ROM drive; monitor; sound card; mouse; printer; speakers.
(WCP) This software package offers opportunities for literary research on 12 internationally acclaimed authors including Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, Alan Paton and others. The two CD-ROMs are categorized by author and organized thematically. Topics are cross-referenced by index and are also hot-linked within text. A wide range of material is presented through text, audio clips, photographs and slide shows. Students can use the resource to conduct research, record information and plan and create presentations.
The teacher. s guide provides an overview, identifies learning objectives, suggests introductory learning activities, presents research project ideas and offers assessment and evaluation suggestions. This resource is technically appealing, engaging and easy to access.
Suggested Use: Student/Teacher Reference
In tape-recorded recollections, 110 year old Miss Jane Pittman describes her experiences as a slave in the Civil War era and as a housekeeper and cook during the Black militancy of the 1960s. This novel presents a compelling and credible insight into the African American culture. The dialect included is readily understood.
Suggested Use: Equality