<p>In this debut fiction collection--the first by a nurse who served in Viet Nam--Susan O'Neill offers a glimpse into the war from a female perspective. These stories are about women, and men, who served in three combat hospitals in 1969 and 1970. They are interconnected, peopled by one-time "stars" and recurring characters, and they deal both with both the minutia of everyday life in wartime, and grander, more over-reaching themes--love and loss, faith and despair, morality, futility, military idiosyncrasy, magic, and the cost to the soul of a year in war's very particular hell. The stories are purely fictional, yet based loosely on the author's experiences, and they are laced as liberally with black humor as with pathos. </p>

Don't Mean Nothing

Biographies & Memoirs

O'Neill, Susan

True Crime

Serving House Books

The folktale recounted in this unit is titled Three Lost Princesses. It is illustrated with charming line art that will help hold your students' attention, as they begin their education in Italian culture and family life. Complete follow up instructions and suggestions bring Italian clothing and food, as well as Italian vocabulary, to the forefront and help students produce their own picture book of the story. Cut-out characters and a story mat are included.This unit also helps children learn by making Carnevale masks, horns and streamers, as well as mosaics. There's also a recipe for pizza, words and music to a traditional Italian song, and a rules for playing Bocce. Language is addressed with An Italian Conversation, a dialogue for two students to learn and recite. Other pages feature Celebrating Carnevale, Creating a Classroom Trattoria, Wonderful Foods of Italy, and Using Italian Money.The Flag of Italy, Maps of Italy and Europe, a counting chart, and a glossary of terms are also included. Activities are always begun with a paragraph of Cultural Background and a Preparation list, followed by complete, step-by-step instructions. All pages are reproducible and perforated for easy removal.

Italy (Around the World Series)

Children's Books

Betsy Franco

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Evan-Moor Corp.

In this powerful story collection―the first such work of fiction by a woman who served in Vietnam―Susan O'Neill offers a remarkable view of the war from a female perspective. All the nurses who served there had a common bond: to attend to the wounded. While men were sent to protect America's interests at any cost, nurses were trained to save the lives of anyone―soldier or citizen, ally or enemy―who was brought through the hospital doors. It was an important distinction in a place where killing was sometimes the only objective. And since they were so vastly outnumbered, women inevitably became objects of both reverence and sexual desire. For American nurses in Vietnam, and the men among whom they worked and lived, a common defense against the steady onslaught of dead and dying, wounded and maimed, was a feigned indifference―the irony of the powerless. With the assistance of alcohol, drugs, and casual sex, "Don't mean nothing" became their mantra, a means of coping with the other war―the war against total mental breakdown.Each or these tales offers new and profound insight into the ways the war in Vietnam forever changed the lives of everyone who served there.

Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam

Literature & Fiction

United States

University of Massachusetts Press

Why Multimodal Literacy Matters: (Re)conceptualizing Literacy and Wellbeing through Singing-Infused Multimodal, Intergenerational Curricula

Literacy research has focused increasingly on the social, cultural, and material remaking of human communication. Such research has generated new knowledge about the diverse and interconnected modes and media through which people can and do make meaning and opened up definitions of literacy to include image, gaze, gesture, print, speech, and music. And yet, despite all of the attention to multimodality, questions remain that are fundamental to why multimodal literacy might matter to people and their communities. How, for instance, might multimodal literacy be implicated in wellbeing? And what of the little-researched sonic in multimodal ensembles? For centuries singing, as a basic form of human communication and tool for teaching and learning, has been used to share knowledge and pass on understandings of the world from one generation to another. What, however, are the implications of singing and its effects on people’s prospects for learning and making meaning together? In this thought-provoking book, the authors explore notions of wellbeing and what is created when skipped generations are brought together through singing-infused multimodal, intergenerational curricula. They argue for the import of singing as a multimodal literacy practice and unite theoretical ideas, practical tools, and empirical research findings from a ground-breaking seven-year study of intergenerational singing in multimodal curricula. Educators and researchers alike will find in the pages of this interdisciplinary book responses to the question of why multimodal literacy might matter and a sample curriculum designed to foster the expansion of people’s literacy and identity options across the lifespan.

Education & Teaching

Heydon, Rachel

Schools & Teaching

Sense Publishers

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