A brilliant biography of a facinating figure from French history.
A reasonably short and easy listen biography of Catherine De Medici, the Italian daughter of the banking (non-aristo) family that became Queen of France during the start of the religious reformation and attempted to steer France through a turbulent accommodation between established Catholic institutions and the new protestant philosophies.
Joe Carpenter’s wife and two children perished with more than three hundred others in the crash of United Airlines Flight 353. But one year later, haunted by the loss of his family and desperate to find purpose in life, he discovers that the official story of Flight 353 is a treacherous lie. They say it was an accident. It was not. They say there were no survivors: that the crash was too devastating for anyone to live through it. But incredibly, Joe discovers one woman walked away from the disaster, with a secret...
Crystal-clear and comprehensive yet concise, this text describes the steps involved in the curriculum design process, elaborates and justifies these steps, and provides opportunities for practicing and applying them. The description of the steps is done at a general level so that they can be applied in a wide range of particular circumstances. The process comes to life through plentiful examples of actual applications of the steps. Each chapter includes:
Under 7 years (kindergarten or first year of primary school) Alison Blair and Jane Cadwallader A starter course for the very young that introduces English through play. Children are introduced to language through play, ensuring that their first encounter with English is non-threatening and fun. Children join the characters Katy and Tom as they travel around an island inhabited by animals in Zig-Zag Island, the first level, and around another island occupied by magic characters in Zig-Zag Magic , the second level.
Since Wicked was first published in 1995, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion—the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked.
Under 7 years (kindergarten or first year of primary school)
