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Document Based Activities for the Middle Grades;

Document Based Activities for the Middle Grades;

Charlotte Jaffe

Through these activities, students will improve their abilities to analyze, create, discuss, hypothesize, and evaluate. These are skills that are required in state standardized tests.
Hatchet: L-I-T Guide

Hatchet: L-I-T Guide

Charlotte S. Jaffe

Teacher's guide, based on Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, includes essay and multiple choice questions, activities, glossary, and answer key.
Thinkathon 1

Thinkathon 1

Charlotte Jaffe

They may be used as an exciting contest between groups, classes, or even schools. The book is divided into 6 sections: Brainstorming Skills, Categorizing Skills, Memory Skills, I.Q. Testers, Analogies, and Language Skills.
Narrative Wrtiting

Narrative Wrtiting

Charlotte Jaffe

The first part of the book teaches about narrative writing, reviews important composition skills, and provides opportunities for youngsters to practice those skills. Also included are a Writer's Checklist and an Editorial Symbols sheet.
To Kill a Mockingbird: L-I-T Guide

To Kill a Mockingbird: L-I-T Guide

Charlotte Jaffe

ABOUT THE L-I-T GUIDE SERIES: These excellent teaching aids integrate the reading of outstanding works of children's literature with important reading-comprehension, speaking, writing, and listening skills.
Towards the Ecology of Human Communication

Towards the Ecology of Human Communication

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In Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives edited by Alexandra Jaffe, 53-71. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jaffe, A. 2009. “Introduction: the Sociolinguistics of Stance”. In Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives edited by Alexandra Jaffe, 3-28.
The Whipping Boy: L-I-T Guide

The Whipping Boy: L-I-T Guide

Charlotte Jaffe

Teacher's guide based on Sid Fleischman's The whipping boy, includes essay and multiple choice questions, activities, glossary, and answer key.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: L-I-T Guide

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: L-I-T Guide

Charlotte Jaffe

ABOUT THE L-I-T GUIDE SERIES: These excellent teaching aids integrate the reading of outstanding works of children's literature with important reading-comprehension, speaking, writing, and listening skills.
The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope ...

The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope ...

Tim Tzouliadis

The victim was Harry Jaffe, the tenor who had once stood next to Thomas Sgovio singing solos in the AngloAmerican Chorus in Moscow. For the others, Jaffe's suicide strengthened their awareness that they had been abandoned to their fate,  ...
Why Bernie Sanders Matters

Why Bernie Sanders Matters

Harry Jaffe

With reporting from inside the campaign and Sanders' inner circle, as well as meticulous research, reporter Harry Jaffe offers an engaging portrait of this outsider candidate.
The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post ...

The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post ...

Eric Jaffe

The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America Eric Jaffe ... “The name of it may be the Boston Post Road but in Eric Jaffe's hands it becomes more like the Rosetta Stone—away of decoding American history from  ...
The Witch of Blackbird Pond: L-I-T Guide

The Witch of Blackbird Pond: L-I-T Guide

Charlotte Jaffe

Teacher's guide, based on Elizabeth George Speare's The witch of Blackbird Pond, includes essay and multiple choice questions, activities, glossary, and answer key.
Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington,

Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington,

Harry S. Jaffe

Jaffe and Sherwood have chillingly chronicled the descent of the District of Columbia—congressional hearings, gangland murders, the establishment of home rule and the inside story of Marion Barry’s enigmatic dynasty and disgrace.
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a ...

A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a ...

Eric Jaffe

He never thought of leaving her or finding another companion. As a young father Harry Jaffe had short dark hair combed neatly back from the crown. He wore spectacles slightly down on his nose, in front of an intense pair of hooded blue eyes.
The Years with Laura Diaz

The Years with Laura Diaz

Carlos Fuentes

“What did you tell them, Harry Jaffe?77 “Harry Jaffe, rest in peace.” They all went back to Cuernavaca. Laura Diaz—in consternation, agitated, perplexed—went to get her belongings from the little house in Tepoztlan. She also gathered up her ...
Forbes

Forbes

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In writing a perceptive and moving tribute to one of Charlotte, N.C.'s most extraordinary achievers, President and Publisher Rolfe Neill of the Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte News leads off with this unfortunate Truth: “Oliver Rowe is a ...
Spelling and Society: The Culture and Politics of ...

Spelling and Society: The Culture and Politics of ...

Mark Sebba

As Alexandra Jaffe puts it (Jaffe 2000: 506), As a linguistic boundary-marking device, orthography both differentiates a code from other codes, and displays the internal coherence and unity (sameness) of that code. In this respect, orthography ...

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