The Village of Monroe

Royal Fireworks Publishing

The teacher manual for Poetry and Humanity includes the full text of the student book plus special boxes that contain tips and further questions for the instructor, activities for further study, suggestions for implementing the student book, answers to the exercises, a review test, and study poems for in-depth examination with the students. The second edition of this book includes QR codes that link to audio of Michael reading the poems in the book.

Poetry and Humanity: Teacher Manual, Second Edition

Michael CLAY THOMPSON

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Successfully Navigating Family Court in New York

Maria Patrizio, Esq.

Twice-exceptional children are those who are both gifted and have a learning disability or an attentional or behavioral disorder. Because they have exceptionalities at both ends of the spectrum, their needs tend to go unmet. Often they are able to compensate for their disability with their giftedness, and their disability typically masks their giftedness, leaving them struggling enormously to perform at average levels, unnoticed by school systems. The Inconvenient Student, by Dr. Michael Postma, tackles the problem of identifying gifted kids who have dyslexia, dysgraphia, sensory processing disorder, auditory and visual processing disorders, ADD, autism or Asperger's, ODD, OCD, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Postma explains in detail what these children are like and how to accommodate their needs in the regular classroom so that they can strengthen their weaknesses and maximize their strengths.

The Inconvenient Student: Critical Issues in the Identification and Education of Twice-Exceptional Students

Dr. Michael Postma

How many chords are there? A question I have been asked many times. Truly, there is no answer to this question. A change of one finger will change the name of a chord. One formation may be called by two or more names. A chord may be played in as many as fifty or more formations! Where then, does it stop? It would be humanly impossible for a person to remember every form of every chord. Actually, the chords should be learned as the need for them arises. You can, however, choose one form of each of the most commonly used chords and begin a gradual memorization of these forms. You will find many forms of the same chord in this book. Try different forms of the same chord and choose the one which best lends itself to your accompaniment. In choosing each form listen to the sound of the chord before. Choose each chord so that a progressive flowing sound is achieved. Two or more forms of the same chord may be used one after the other so that the voicing is changed, and a “different sound” is achieved. With enough practice your chords will flow smoothly and your rhythm accompaniments will sound continually better. I have included chords which are used in the modern music of today, in folk, rock, standard and all other contemporary music. The chords that have been used in years past and are still (of course) being used today have also been included. A great need for these “new” chords has been fulfilled with the completion of this book. Many, many, many hours were spent in the writing of this book and I hope it serves you well. As always, the book was written particularly for, and with you, the guitarist, in mind. A complete explanation of all signs and symbols is given from pages A-38 through A-62.

12,000 Plus Chords for the Guitar

Don Comanda

David was a master violinist with perfect pitch at age 11 but the day after he turned 12 he became deaf. His challenges changed from Tchaikovsky to American Sign Language lip reading and learning to fit into a world so suddenly changed for him. Michael Thal; 2011 119 pages; soft cover. Item Weight - 1 lbs.

Goodbye, Tchaikovsky

Children's Books

Michael Thal

Literature & Fiction

Driven by grinding poverty in the 1860s, the Ytterhorn family of sharecroppers in northern Norway sells the furniture to pay for a passage and the promise of a better life in North Dakota. With their scant belongings and determination against all odds, they typify the migrants' experience in a moving and vivid story. And it is a very long journey, beset by tragedy and hardship. During the sea voyage, young Ma Ytterhorn dies from childbirth fever and her husband doubts his decision to submit his family to such a perilous undertaking. He, the new baby and his other children, call upon his wife's best friend to come out and join them. They then together face the winter trek overland by wagon. Along the way they encounter plenty of helping hands and, eventually, land to cultivate, a new homestead and a new beginning.

A Long Journey to a New Home

Esther Allen Peterson

A story about dolphins, villains, and relationships in an unconventional family. Since Leah's mother abandoned her in the care of her stepdad Noah, Dolphin World has become Leah's second home. She loves the dolphins, and Noah's work as an artist there gives her daily access to the show, the sea-life, and the inter-staff rivalries. Mysterious and publicly dangerous events begin happening as soon as her devastatingly attractive 15-year-old stepsister Summer arrives for a visit. Pink flamingos are let out; the ticket office swarms with angry bees and there is a near-deadly encounter with an electric eel. It becomes obvious that someone is sabotaging Dolphin World, and Leah, 13, must unmask the person responsible before the park closes its doors forever, which of course is what the Swim Free animal rights group encamped outside the gates would like. Is Summer sabotaging Dolphin World, as well as Leah's relationship with Noah? Is Swim Free up to anything sinister? Following her stepsister to Dolphin World by night, Leah comes face-to-face with even more danger, and makes discoveries about Summer that will change their relationship forever. Author Shannon Teper says she has been writing since she could hold a crayon. She worked at Marineland of Florida, the World's First Oceanarium, some years ago, and says that while none of the mysterious events in her book actually happened at Marineland, and all of the characters are fictional, "it was fun to imagine mysterious events that could have happened and how my characters would react to them. My close childhood friendship with my cousin was an inspiration behind Leah and Summer's relationship." Also by Shannon Teper: Through the Door to Danger, Mystery with a Civil Rights focus.

Danger at Dolphin World

Shannon Teper

Set during the last year of World War I, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland. Author Black has created the novel out of his grandmother's memories of growing up there. In an environment of war hysteria, the great influenza pandemic, and the racial divides of 1918 Baltimore, seventh grader, Eleanor Blizzard, attempts to make friends and to do what she knows to be right. Before the Great War was really over, an erroneous French report of armistice spread worldwide over the wire services. Historically accurate, Liberty Girl captures the glorious moment and its jubilation that the peace announcement brought. Too, the novel explores the empty feeling in the hearts and minds of the neighborhood as the mistake came to light. The Spanish influenza epidemic also involves the characters in varying degrees of difficulty.

Liberty Girl

Robert Black

Stephanie S. Tolan set out as a concerned mother to help her highly gifted son have a school experience that matched his intellectual ability and pace of learning. In the process, she became an advocate for gifted children and, as a founding member of the Columbus Group, played a major part in reshaping thinking about giftedness itself. Her essay "Is It a Cheetah?" is justly renowned for its power and worldwide influence. Other essays deal with spirituality, the problem of pain, self-esteem and the gifted adult, imagination, and intuition. Here, collected for the first time, are her essays and talks that are now part of the fabric of the most advanced thinking about gifted people. From the introduction: "For more than 30 years now, I’ve written and spoken about the difficulties this rare population of kids and their families face in a world that doesn’t recognize their differences or—if it does—offers little to help them accept and cope with, let alone take joy in, those differences. It can still be difficult for such a child to think or believe, 'It’s okay to be me.'” The author goes on to say: "In this volume I’ve collected many of the articles and essays I’ve written about the gifted and highly gifted precisely because (in spite of the enormous changes in the world: computers, internet, wi-fi, social media, the legalization of home schooling, the invention of charter schools, and the veritable explosion of information—and arguments—about the gifted)..., children and families still face the same basic challenges." Stephanie S. Tolan has been named a SENG Educator of the Year and a North Carolina Gifted Association Outstanding Parent of the Year. Stephanie S. Tolan has written and published poetry, plays, and more than two dozen books for children and young adults, including the 2003 Newbery Honor-winning Surviving the Applewhites.

Out of Sync: Essays on Giftedness

Stephanie S. Tolan

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