Choices for the High School Graduate: A Survival Guide for the Information Age
Choices for the High School Graduate is an excellent choice for teens still searching for their road after high school. Chapters include information about study-abroad programs, internships, volunteer opportunities, and work.
Encyclopedia Britannica 2013 Ultimate Edition (Win/Mac OSX)
The Encyclopædia Britannica 2013 Ultimate DVD offers you more than ever, including extensive new and revised articles to put you at the forefront of recent advances so you can spend less time searching and more time learning. Written by 4,300 expert contributors the Encyclopædia Britannica 2013 Ultimate DVD is an invaluable resource for all the family, and as it’s from Britannica you know it is information you can trust! For 2013 our three-age specific, easy to use learning areas have all been updated with a wealth of new information.
This title includes the following features: Teaches essential language skills for travellers so that they can communicate confidently and effectively.; Contains 11 units, each about a different aspect of travel, e.g. Making travel arrangements, At a hotel, Ordering a meal, Hiring a car, Seeing a doctor, Shopping.; Emphasis is on understanding authentic English; on practising the structures needed to ask questions and understand the replies; and on extracting information from brochures, regulations and instructions.; Vocabulary illustrated in context, with American English variants.; Accompanying Teacher's Guide provides teaching notes and additional ideas.
Teaching the Information Generation: Strategies for Helping Primary Readers Understand the Fact-Filled Texts They Encounter Throughout Their School Years (Theory and Practice)
In Journalism, Ian Hargreaves uses his unique position within the media to examine how we get this information and the many practical, political, and professional decisions that the journalist has to make, as part of the process of delivering that information to us. Hargreaves argues that the core principles of "Freedom of the Press" and the necessity of exposing the truth are as vital today as they ever were. He examines the ethical responsibility of the journalist to respond to the demands of civil society, as opposed to the demands of the state, and focuses on contentious issues in contemporary journalism, such as ...