Unique to this market, this book's philosophical and theoretical premises value interdisciplinary themes as vehicles for inquiry learning by students in upper elementary grades.  Guides readers through discussion of the inquiry process and habits of thinking that are important in all fields of study. Presents a continuum for instructional roles that teachers may assume depending on their instructional situation, student needs, and personal talents. Describes a wide variety of resources.  For Educators and School Administrators.

Interdisciplinary Inquiry in Teaching and Learning

Education & Teaching

Martinello, Marian L.

Cook, Gillian E.

Schools & Teaching

Merrill Pub. Co

Unique to this market, this book's philosophical and theoretical premises value interdisciplinary themes as vehicles for inquiry learning by students in upper elementary grades. Guides readers through discussion of the inquiry process and habits of thinking that are important in all fields of study. Presents a continuum for instructional roles that teachers may assume depending on their instructional situation, student needs, and personal talents. Describes a wide variety of resources. For Educators and School Administrators.

Interdisciplinary Inquiry in Teaching and Learning (2nd Edition)

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Pearson

Stories for young readers detailing historical accounts of Afro-American Texan individuals.

Personal History: The Afro-American Texans

Sauce, Melvin M.

University of Texas, Institute of Texan Cultures

The Search for Pedro’s Story recreates the life experiences of Pedro Péres, a leather jacket soldier in the Spanish colonial army in eighteenth-century Texas. Each chapter begins with a signpost artifact related to one of Pedro’s roles—soldier, horseman, explorer, guard, spouse, messenger, and cowboy—and ends with a fictional account of an event in Pedro’s life from the findings. The discipline of history usually focuses on heroic deeds and people, but Martinello thinks its methods of detection should also reveal how ordinary people lived. In The Search for Pedro’s Story, fragments of a real life are pieced together from things Pedro knew, including taming a mustang and playing cards. The book suggests how to ask questions, seek sources, and make sense of findings that history, especially the history of the ordinary, demands.

The Search for Pedro’s Story

Literature & Fiction

Nesmith, Samuel P.

United States

TCU Press

Blending careful research and creative storytelling, The Search for a Chili Queen explores the lantern-lit world of the young hostesses who staffed nightly chili stands and vied for loyal customers on the plazas of late nineteenth-century San Antonio. The Search for Emma’s Story and The Search for Pedro’s Story, this search for a chili queen serves as an invaluable model of historical investigation for teachers and students, as well as an engaging read for anyone whose interest is piqued by Lupe’s captivating historical counterparts. As a humanities detective, Marian L. Martinello chronicles her step-by-step investigation into the life and times of the chili queens, making frequent reference to the unique sources that guided her inquiry. The pages of the book are replete with nineteenth-century photographs and paintings, in addition to modern photos of artifacts in museum collections and even chiles from the author’s local supermarket. All of this evidence leads to informed conclusions about the persona, trade, and surroundings of the chili queens on San Antonio’s Military Plaza. Martinello subsequently brings life to her subject through an entertaining yet historically credible bit of creative reconstruction. She crafts the fictional character of Lupe Peréz, a spunky teenage queen who endeavors to bolster business at her family’s stand through hard work, a knack for entertaining customers, and the allure of a remarkable fringed rebozo. Following in the footsteps of Martinello’s previous books, The Search for Emma's Story and The Search for Pedro's Story, this search for a chili queen serves as an invaluable model of historical investigation for teachers and students, as well as an engaging read for anyone whose interest is piqued by Lupe's captivating historical counterparts.

The Search for a Chili Queen: On the Fringes of a Rebozo

Industries

“It happened on the plaza that never slept—my favorite place in the whole of the city,” writes Lupe Pérez, to begin her memoir. A mix of historical fact, vintage photos and maps, recipes, music, folklore, and south Texan culture, Lupe’s story offers an eyewitness account of life on Military Plaza in San Antonio during the 1880s. Facing the impending failure of her family’s chili stand, Lupe is certain she can improve profits. But her older sister and hostess, Josefa, resists Lupe’s arguments—until Tom O’Malley, an itinerant vaudeville actor, arrives. By default, Lupe becomes Chili Queen, but each new venture presents new challenges for the struggling chili stand. Peter Meyer comes to town from the Hill Country to pursue his dream of becoming a shopkeeper. Despite their cultural differences, he and Lupe are drawn to one another by more than romantic feelings. They share a common entrepreneurial dream, and Peter helps Lupe grow in her business savvy. Just as business improves, word spreads of a new city hall on the plaza and the subsequent eviction of all chili stands. Where will they go? What will they do? The choice is Lupe’s to make. And her response is bold.

Chili Queen: Mi historia

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

Cedar Fever

During World War I, a young Texas girl of German descent learns to cope with the conflicts that arise among neighbors because of ethnic differences.

Teen & Young Adult

Corona Pub. Co

A day in the life of seven-year-old Domingo, who migrated with his family from the Canary Islands to the Spanish Province of Texas.

With Domingo Leal in San Antonio, Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-Four

History

Univ of Texas Inst of Texan

Ready's gifts

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

MindCatcher Press

Pathways for inquiry

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