This book. with 61 maps, while briefly following the war in the north, to where North Carolina sent a brigade early in the con-flict, focuses on events in the south. In 1771 North Carolina, Governor William Tryon, at the head of his provincial army, killed many men in battle, hanged others, and marched through the countryside burning homes. He responded to people who had the effrontery to demonstrate against extortion by county clerks, lawyers, and appointed sheriffs. In 1775, when people in Massachusetts also had the effrontery to demonstrate against abuses, British troops spilled blood on marching against Lexington and Concord. All thirteen colonies then joined hands to fight a war. In 1780, after the fall of South Carolina, and with Johann de Kalb the senior soldier in the south, the Continental Congress ordered the so-called hero of Saratoga., Horatio Gates, to that command. At Camden, S.C., Gates' militia bolted and Gates raced them to Charlotte, with no word to de Kalb who stayed the fight with his Continentals and suffered mortal wounds. Congress then allowed Washington to appoint the next commander. It was Nathanael Greene, who finished the war in the south as local heroes emerged.

Poorest of the Thirteen

History

Johnston, Peter

Americas

Infinity Publishing

Fragile Evidence: A Critique of Reading Assessment

Fragile Evidence--a critique of reading assessment informed by newly emerging conceptualizations of validity and reliability--brings psychometric theory, reading theory, and social critique to bear on reading assessment. Taking its lead from contemporary psychological theory and other fields which ponder the role of evidence and argumentation in making claims about social issues, this text examines the historical and contemporary ways in which such claims have been made for reading assessment. Traditional individualized and standardized tests are critiqued from a variety of perspectives. The assumptions and operational bases of contemporary revisionist assessments (e.g., large-scale performance-based assessments, authentic assessments, etc.) are considered in terms of what they include and what they omit. Collected here in one volume is a systematic analysis of several different reading assessment instruments and conceptualizations of reading assessment, with particular emphasis on the evidence of reading they provide--a type of analysis usually found only in separate articles in journals and edited volumes. This important volume:  * Offers a systematic (rather than generalized) critique of popular standardized norm-referenced group and individualized measures of reading. *Looks at the consequential validity of standardized tests. * Includes interviews with stakeholders who consider the question of how to describe reading without making reference to standardized tests. * Considers how tools such as miscue analysis influence reform. * Provides a critical analysis of contemporary reform efforts.

Reference

Hansen, Jane

Murphy, Sharon

Shannon, With Patrick

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

Words, Language & Grammar

Critical Literacy/Critical Teaching: Tools for Preparing Responsive Teachers (Language and Literacy Series)

This book describes and documents an exciting new approach to educating literacy teachers. The authors show how to help teachers develop their own critical literacy, while also preparing them to accelerate the literacy learning of struggling readers. The text takes readers inside a literacy lab in a high-poverty urban elementary school, reveals the instructional approach in action, and provides many excellent examples of critically responsive teaching. Featuring a synthesis of several fields of theory and research, this book:
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<li> Illustrates teacher preparation and development as personal and social transformation―demonstrating that this process requires changing the ways teachers think about students, language, culture, literacy, learning, and themselves as educators.</li>
<li> Provides pedagogical tools―including the history of the innovative literacy lab, the context of the instructional interactions, and the transition from a university-based to a school-based project.</li>
<li> Combines critical and accelerative literacy instruction―showing how teachers can accelerate the slowest developing readers in their classrooms and also build a sense of engagement for students with the social world.</li>
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Rogers, Rebecca

Dozier, Cheryl

Teachers' College Press

This book describes and documents an exciting new approach to educating literacy teachers. The authors show how to help teachers develop their own critical literacy, while also preparing them to accelerate the literacy learning of struggling readers. The text takes readers inside a literacy lab in a high-poverty urban elementary school, reveals the instructional approach in action, and provides many excellent examples of critically responsive teaching. Featuring a synthesis of several fields of theory and research, this book: Illustrates teacher preparation and development as personal and social transformation―demonstrating that this process requires changing the ways teachers think about students, language, culture, literacy, learning, and themselves as educators. Provides pedagogical tools―including the history of the innovative literacy lab, the context of the instructional interactions, and the transition from a university-based to a school-based project. Combines critical and accelerative literacy instruction―showing how teachers can accelerate the slowest developing readers in their classrooms and also build a sense of engagement for students with the social world.

Teens Choosing to Read: Fostering Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Growth Through Books (Language and Literacy Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ivey, Gay

Psychology & Counseling

In 1964, a group of 20 Aboriginal women and children in the Western Desert made their first contact with European Australians patrol officers from the Woomera Rocket Range, clearing an area into which rockets were to be fired. They had been pursued by the patrol officers for several weeks, running from this frightening new force in the desert. Yuwali, 17 at the time, remembers every detail of the drama first seeing these devils’ and their rocks that moved’, escaping the strange intruders. Her sharp recollections are complemented in a 3-part diary of the chase’ by the colourful official reports of the patrol. These reflect a similar drama arguments within Government about the treatment of desert inhabitants and public scepticism about the Government’s intent. Line-drawn maps and black &amp; white illustrations complement the text. Yuwali’s story also resonates in today’s debate about the future of many Indigenous desert communities. Cleared Out combines three oral histories, detailed archival research and a wealth of photographs and rare film footage from the patrol. Through one extraordinary episode, the multiple perspectives on the moment of contact are revealed.

Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert

Davenport, Sue

Yuwali

Australia & Oceania

Aboriginal Studies Press

A genealogical record of the descendants of Peter Johnston, who came to America from Lockerby, Scotl

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