Need a private secretary?
Need a record keeper?
Need a super organizer?
That is what lesson planners are for!
Without a doubt, lesson planners are pivotal to any classrooms: to the teachers at their desks, to the homeschooling parents sitting at the kitchen table or any inviting niche in the house. A day, a week, a month, a year planned out provide structure to learning and a blueprint to ensure that academic goals are met. Extra pages to jot down attendance, grocery lists, chores, and phone numbers, along with snippets of daily inspirational quotes make lesson planners a must-have for all who understand that organization must start first in your mind. Hence the yearly trial-and-error search for lesson planners that will work for them.
But how about the students themselves? As much as teachers are trying to organize the day-to-days of teaching, shouldn’t students take ownership of their day-to-day learning and draft up their learning plan? They too need a private secretary, a record keeper, and a super organizer. If students are encouraged to be self-motivated independent learners, they need their own lesson planners, not just an empty blank sheet but a flexible yet structured pages that will give young minds something to start with. Along with fall, winter, and spring term calendars and daily schedules, pages to write down their memories and accomplishments, space to reminisce the learning of the day, place to jot down the books read, and a picture frame to paste or draw in their self-portrait will make the lesson planners a personalized learning diary that will be for keeps, not to mention a great record keeping log book for the mandatory 180 school days. Spaces for teachers/parents to provide their daily inputs as well as pages to provide the end-of-the-year assessments will further encourage a recorded conversation, making the book an interactive student-teacher lesson planner. That is what a self-motivated independent leaners need—a lesson planner that will be structured yet flexible and personal yet interactive.
 Voilà! Here in your hands is the lesson planner that encourages young learners to take ownership of their learning, not to mention finish the given tasks of the day. If you would like to keep a compilation of the daily plans, a student-driven record keeping log, a year’s worth of learning diary memorable for years to come, provide your students with the right resource--The Dailiy Checkpoints from Start to FInish. With 180 days of daily checkpoints and space to personalize the learning diary as their own, students will be empowered with a lesson planner that will serve them well for the whole school year. Finally! A perfect lesson planner that will walk daily with motivated learners. Empower your students with a private secretary, a record keeper, and super organizer today!

Daily Checkpoints from Start to Finish: A Lesson Planner for Students

Children's Books

Anna Miss

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Lumpy Publishing

Sijo Shijo Goshijo: The Beloved Classics of Korean Poetry on the Matters of the Heart, Mind, and Soul

The mountains green... 
The waters blue... 
Friends they were, 
Sincere and true.\nAh, nature! It was a nexus of inspiration. Poets embraced it and celebrated it. They praised its virtues as they savored the beauty of each season. Regarded as a friend, a teacher, a muse-nature inspired deep contemplations and reflections about love, life, and everything else that mattered to the human heart, mind, and soul. Needless to say, nature had a huge following and a huge poetic collection devoted to it! The lofty green mountains, a moonlit night, the ever-flowing waters, and even a single stem of a flower evoked wonders and stirred the hearts of the poets to compose these classical poetry called 'goshijo'. So, if you are fascinated with everything Korean and if you just happened to cross paths with the world of sijo, do draw near and fancy a simple bloom and a starry night through the eyes of the poets of old.\nMiss Anna wrote this book with a singular audience in mind--people all over the world who are aspiring to learn Korean, children included. Hence, she has poured in all her creative energy to make classical sijo, also called goshijo, more accessible to language learners. You will find in this book:\n1. Vivid illustrations with captions in Korean and English. 
2. A simple pronunciation guide for each word for the everyday English-speaking people (not the McCune-Reischauer transliteration nor the commonly employed Romanization of Korean which are geared more for language experts and the linguists of the land). Note that some sounds cannot be accurately transcribed and taught through a book. Therefore, to get the correct nuance of the Korean letters, please consult a native speaker of Korean. 
3. The most accurate sense of words and meaning of the words (and groups of words) in English. 
4. Definition of words and groups of words in modern Korean for native speakers of Korean as a way to refresh their understanding of the sijo. 
5. The thematic undertone of each poem. 
6. Miss Anna's version of the sijo in English. (In all cases, the inherent music and the overall rhythm of a language are forever lost in translation. Hence, she focused on providing the most accurate sense and meaning behind each sijo on behalf of the poets.) 
7. A short story behind each poem and the poet. This narrative does much to provide a fuller and a richer understanding of the poem. As the reader gets acquainted with the historical backdrop behind each piece, he/she will perceive its underlying emotions as well.\nThis book contains twenty favorites of the Korean poetry called sijo, 'shijo' to pronounce it correctly. Putting aside everything political, there are poetic contemplations from nature, poetic expressions of love, and poetic advises and admonitions that still ring true in the 20th century. Included in the collection are two poems written by the famous courtesan, Hwang Jini, and a masterpiece-of-a-poem composed by the Grand Prince Wolsan. Elegant and classic, all twenty of these poems are masterpieces still loved and cherished by the Korean people today. As a fun aside, you will also learn why artists celebrated the chrysanthemums and drew painting after paintings of these sumptuous blooms and why, ironically, you have to think twice before buying the mums as a gift. Buy the book and discover the timeless gems that have preserved the passing thoughts and the flutter of emotions from a yonder time.

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Sijo Shijo Goshijo: The Beloved Classics of Korean Poetry on Timeless Reflections and Everything Wise (1500s-1800s)

A treasure-trove it is, This poetry called sijo.It's full of words of wisdomWritten down ages ago. Here is a question for you. Are sijos (or "goshijos"--the classical poetry from long ago Korea) worth the read?As you can surmise, they are terribly old. As some are almost 700 years old, they sound mummified at best. It's not hard to imagine ancient dust strewn about the disintegrating manuscripts. Besides, these poems allude to a time altogether different from the world we now live. But the truth of the matter is, despite the achievements mankind has made as a whole, man has not really changed. The human nature and the internal sensibilities of man--the need of familial warmth, loyalty in friendship, man's quest for love, the desire for fame and recognition, the yearning for inner happiness and peace, to name a few--are as inherent to man today as they were hundreds and thousands of years ago. That is why sijos have been loved. Sijos still speak clearly to the man within, albeit hundreds of years down the line. So, here is a loud "Hear, hear " for sijos. Come and unearth the golden treasure that has been faithfully preserved from the bygone kingdom days of Korea Miss Anna wrote this book with a singular audience in mind--people all over the world who are aspiring to learn Korean, children included. Hence, she has poured in all her creative energy to make classical sijo, also called goshijo, more accessible to language learners. You will find in this book: <ol><li>Vivid illustrations and captions in Korean and English.</li><li>A simple pronunciation guide for each word for the everyday English-speaking people (not the McCune-Reischauer translation nor the commonly employed Romanization of Korean which are geared more for language experts and the linguists of the land). Note that some sounds cannot be accurately transcribed and taught through a book. Therefore, to get the correct nuance of the Korean letters, please consult a nature speaker of Korean.</li><li>The most accurate sense of the words and the meaning of words (and groups of words) in English.</li><li>Definition of words and groups of words in modern Korean for native speakers of Korean as a way to refresh their understanding of the sijo.</li><li>The thematic undertone for each poem.</li><li>Miss Anna's version of the sijo in English. (In all cases, the inherent music and the overall rhythm of a language are forever lost in translation. Hence, she focused on providing the most accurate sense and meaning behind each sijo on behalf of the poets.)</li><li>A short story behind each poem and the poet. This narrative does much to provide a fuller and a richer understanding of the poem. As the reader gets acquainted with the historical backdrop behind each piece, he/she will perceive its underlying emotions as well.</li></ol> In this book, you will find twenty classical sijos very much beloved by the Korean people. There are ruminations about life and words of wisdom that the poets wished to impart. What are some topics? Filial duty, the sentiments of the elderly, the call for industry in life, and the longing desire to have inner peace are just some of the themes covered in this collection. To sing its praises, the illustrations are just wonderful The English translation ideal and to the point And the background narrative of each poetic piece telling and altogether meaningful All in all, this book is illuminating, interesting, and highly enjoyable (and shhh...educational). So, do sit before the enduring words of these ancient poets and peruse alongside them. Who knows? There may be much to glean from their understanding and from their take on life, even though they lived hundreds of years prior to you. Buy the book and uncover the ancient paths well hidden within the sijos. Discover the sijo at its contemplative best

Literature & Fiction

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