Capture the interest of struggling readers with these riveting, eight-page, illustrated mini books on key American history topics like The Boston Tea Party, Our First President, Lewis and Clark, Oregon Trail, the Gold Rush, Civil War, Immigration, and more. Includes background information, discussion prompts, writing extensions, vocabulary, and book links. Fully reproducible. For use with Grades 4-8.

15 Fun-To-Read American History Mini-Books

Education & Teaching

Sanders, Nancy I.

Sanders, Jeff

Schools & Teaching

Scholastic Teaching Resources

What if you could be convinced that you create and sustain all of your stress? What if your personality is what you do and not who you are? These 51 lessons give you the tools to unleash the excellence that exists behind your habitual excuses, mental anxieties and emotional failures. Learn to tolerate your current potential and gain insight into how you manipulate your personality and fuel your dysfunctions to maintain your limiting comfort zone.

The Discomfort of Happiness: Mastering the Art of Vitality, Lessons 1-51

Self-Help

E.B.B. Redmond Publishers

Chino Valley was once part of the immense Rancho Santa Ana del Chino grant conferred in 1841 to Don Antonio Lugo, the former alcalde of Los Angeles. Forty years later, a portion of the rancho was sold to Richard Gird, an American entrepreneur and prospector from Tombstone, Arizona. With characteristic Yankee ingenuity, Gird increased his holdings to nearly 50,000 acres in a short period of time, planned and developed the present-day city of Chino, and transformed the valley into an agricultural empire based on sugar beet production. Chino later emerged as the center for the California dairy industry, evolved into a suburban weekend refuge for pleasure-seeking Los Angelenos, and continues today as a desirable community for growing businesses and comfortable living.

Chino (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

De Martino, Thomas

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Find the time, clarity, and mental space to achieve your goals The Free-Time Formula helps you slow down time and get the important things done. We're all overworked, stressed, and always being asked to do more, and do it better; the days aren't getting any longer, so something has to give―don't let it be your sanity. This book provides a real-world framework for more effective time management that helps you prioritize, focus, clarify, and go. You'll begin with a time audit to assess your current stress, strategies, and output―and the results may shock you. From there, you'll work step-by-step toward a new daily routine that will help you become the focused, efficient achiever you've been trying to be for so long. It's not about cramming more into your precious 24 hours, it's about figuring out what really matters to you, and getting the most important things done first. Every day. Never miss another big deadline, never flake on an important meeting, never be late to an appointment again. It is possible with great planning, and this book is your personal guide. 
Focused on action, not filler, this book is an excellent resource for those who want to achieve more, but do less. With a few simple changes, you'll find the time you've been missing and put it to more productive use. 
<ul>
<li>Define and prioritize your personal and professional goals and responsibilities</li> <li>Cut the distractions and clarify your daily objectives</li> <li>Adapt your workplace tools and environment to facilitate actual work</li> <li>Periodically self-assess, course–correct when needed, and plan for the future</li> </ul>
Rather than rush through another day leaving things un-done and roses un-sniffed, take a beat and a breath, and take back your day with The Free-Time Formula.

The Free-Time Formula: Finding Happiness, Focus, and Productivity No Matter How Busy You Are

Religion & Spirituality

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Business activity monitoring, or BAM, provides real-time business intelligence by capturing data as it flows through a business system. By using BAM, you can monitor a business process in real time and generate alerts when the process needs human intervention. Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk 2009 focuses on Microsoft's BAM tools, which provide a flexible infrastructure that captures data from Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, .NET applications, and BizTalk Server. This book shows why BAM is an important component of any business intelligence strategy because it bridges the gap between business intelligence and business process management. Part One of the book covers the basics of BAM. It teaches you how to install BAM, and then it leads you through a complete but simple project to capture data from a WCF service Part Two of the book describes the BAM tool set. It shows you how to define the data that is captured by BAM, wire up a BizTalk application for BAM, and view BAM data using the BAM Portal Part Three of the book focuses on monitoring applications written in WCF or WF. It also shows you how to use the BAM API Part Four of the book covers advanced topics in BAM. These topics include integrating BAM with Microsoft's BI stack, creating relationships between BAM activities, managing BAM servers, and monitoring BizTalk applications using BAM This book contains numerous exercises to help you learn BAM. Source code for the samples is available from Apress.com. For many CIOs, business intelligence is at the top of their priority lists. Learn why with Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk 2009. What you'll learn Show users what your application is doing and how their business Implement a BAM solution without writing any code Monitor applications written in WCF, WF, and BizTalk Server Create an observation model to define the data that BAM will collect from your app

Pro BAM in BizTalk Server 2009 (Expert's Voice in BizTalk)

Business & Money

Snowman, Geoff

Management & Leadership

Apress

Chino Valley was once part of the immense Rancho Santa Ana del Chino grant conferred in 1841 to Don Antonio Lugo, the former alcalde of Los Angeles. Forty years later, a portion of the rancho was sold to Richard Gird, an American entrepreneur and prospector from Tombstone, Arizona. With characteristic Yankee ingenuity, Gird increased his holdings to nearly 50,000 acres in a short period of time, planned and developed the present-day city of Chino, and transformed the valley into an agricultural empire based on sugar beet production. Chino later emerged as the center for the California dairy industry, evolved into a suburban weekend refuge for pleasure-seeking Los Angelenos, and continues today as a desirable community for growing businesses and comfortable living.

Chino

History

Americas

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Readers Theatre for African American History features a collection of twenty scripts covering a comprehensive span of history from Africa before the transatlantic slave trade through current events in our nation. In participating in these scripts, students will listen to storytellers from Africa and share the rich oral tradition about wealthy explorers who came to the Americas from Africa before Columbus. They'll experience such events as Emancipation Day on the South Carolina Sea Islands, the founding of the North Star by Frederick Douglass, and the extraordinary 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert by Marian Anderson. They'll attend an imaginary political convention where they'll meet our nation's first five African American U.S. Senators, including Senator Barack Obama. African American history is rich with opportunities for creative learning. This book brings them alive. Grades 4-8

Readers Theatre for African American History

Teen & Young Adult

Libraries Unlimited

Incorporating leveled reading within each script, readers theatre plays offer teachers the flexibility to include readers of every ability in the same read-aloud play.
 • 15 plays with staging illustrations and activities for three different grade levels of readability: 4th grade and lower, 5th-6th grade, and 7th-8th grade
• A readability-level chart broken down by character, based on vocabulary and the Flesh-Kincaid scale, as well as by word lists for graded readability

Hello Hi-Lo: Readers Theatre Math

The 5 A.M. Miracle is a resource guide for high-achievers. It is for anyone who has a wild passion for life and is in search of a structured system that will hone those passions, clarify their big goals, and produce real, amazing results. 1. Begin Your Day the Right Way Yes, it's true, I'm a big fan of early mornings. But, more importantly than waking up at an arbitrary time like 5:00 a.m., I'm a strong believer in intentionality. Choosing to wake up with a written plan is something most people just never do, and it's astonishing how much it can change your life once you embrace this single habit. 2. The 5 AM Blueprint: 7 Steps to Extraordinary Productivity The bulk of the book breaks down my blueprint for unprecedented progress. From healthy habits and productivity strategies, to review systems and professional-grade daily routines, you will find more actionable content than you could possibly imagine. 3. Built-In 30-Day Action Plan Let's not forget that at the end of the book I summarize the multitude of ideas into an easy-to-follow 30-day plan just so you have a clear plan of action.

The 5 A.M. Miracle: Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast

Success

Ulysses Press

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Books by Sanders, Jeff

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15 Fun-To-Read American History Mini-Books

The Discomfort of Happiness: Mastering the Art of Vitality, Lessons 1-51

Chino (Images of America)

The Free-Time Formula: Finding Happiness, Focus, and Productivity No Matter How Busy You Are

Pro BAM in BizTalk Server 2009 (Expert's Voice in BizTalk)

Chino

Readers Theatre for African American History

Hello Hi-Lo: Readers Theatre Math

The 5 A.M. Miracle: Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast

The 5 A.M. Miracle: Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast