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The life of maria montessori5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Then I called upon all the children to sing they sang, but the little girl continued undisturbed, repeating her exercise even after the short song had come to an end. ![]() I watched the child intently without disturbing her at first, and began to count how many times she repeated the exercise then, seeing that she was continuing for a long time, I picked up the little arm-chair in which she was seated, and placed chair and child upon the table the little creature hastily caught up her case of insets, laid it across the arms of her chair, and gathering the cylinders into her lap, set to work again. ![]() The expression on the child’s face was one of such concentrated attention that it seemed to me an extraordinary manifestation up to this time none of the children had ever shown such fixity of interest in an object and my belief in the characteristic instability of attention in young children, who flit incessantly from one thing to another, made me peculiarly alive to the phenomenon. ![]() I was making my first essays in applying the principles and part of the material I had used for many years previously in the education of deficient children, to the normal children of the San Lorenzo quarter in Rome, when I happened to notice a little girl of about three years old deeply absorbed in a set of solid insets, removing the wooden cylinders from their respective holes and replacing them. ![]()
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A Very Different School by Peter Pollock5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The book assists readers in cultivating a greater understanding of the pitfalls and possibilities of everyday race talk and clarifies previously murky discussions of "colorblindness." By bridging the gap between theory and practice, Colormute will be enormously helpful in fostering ongoing conversations about dismantling racial inequality in America. While a major concern of everyday race talk in schools is that racial descriptions will be inaccurate or inappropriate, Pollock demonstrates that anxiously suppressing race words (being what she terms "colormute") can also cause educators to reproduce the very racial inequities they abhor. Sometimes people use them without thinking twice at other moments they avoid them at all costs or use them only in the description of particular situations. ![]() Pollock illustrates the wide variations in the way speakers use race labels. Based on the author's experiences as a teacher as well as an anthropologist, it discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality. Viewing "race talk" through the lens of a California high school and district, Colormute draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial when to speak about people in racial terms. ![]()
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![]() “I relate so strongly to the book and I relate so strongly to Anne that I’m constantly drawing connections between my life and Anne’s. “I’ve loved Jane Austen my whole life, and ‘Persuasion’ has always been my favorite novel,” Winslow says. Instead, the writers wanted to bring a contemporary tone into a classic tale. Frederick Wentworth, Anne bemoans that they are now “worse than exes, we’re friends.” Austen, of course, didn’t write that in her 1817 novel, but the sentiment resonates with the sense of longing the English author evoked.įor screenwriters Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, who collaborated on the adaptation, the goal wasn’t to alter Austen’s intention or story. ![]() ![]() As she muses on her relationship with former flame Capt. In “Persuasion,” a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel made for Netflix, protagonist Anne Elliot speaks directly to the camera, addressing the audience like an old friend. ![]()
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Over sea under stone book5/31/2023 ![]() The children decide it is time to confide in Great-Uncle Merry. That night, the Grey House is burgled while everyone is sound asleep. He asks some probing questions which arouse Jane's suspicions again, and she decides to return home. The man at the vicarage is not the writer of the guidebook, but he offers to help Jane. She realises that the map in the guidebook is similar to the secret map, but also different somehow, so she decides to visit the vicar. While Jane is alone in the Grey House, she finds a guidebook to Trewissick in an old trunk, written by the local vicar. The boys are thrilled, but Jane feels suspicious and declines to join them. Withers and his sister Polly, who invite them to go fishing on their yacht. The family are visited at the Grey House by a very friendly Mr. The children decide to keep the discovery to themselves. The children examine it, and Barney realises that the map refers to King Arthur and his knights. One day, while playing indoors, the children find an attic and Barney discovers a map and manuscript hidden under a floorboard. ![]() ![]() They stay in The Grey House, which belongs to a Captain Toms, who has left behind his red setter Rufus for them to look after. Simon, Jane and Barney Drew visit the seaside village of Trewissick in Cornwall with their parents, to stay with " Great-Uncle Merry". 015259034X Over Sea, Under Stone, UK 1st ed. ![]() |