6/22/2023 0 Comments Mathew b brady photographyBrady photographed Abraham Lincoln many times Lincoln credited his presidential election to the Cooper-Union speech and Brady’s portrait.īrady was the first photographer to completely document a war. He photographed princes and presidents, authors and actors, scientists and explorers. It was the name Mathew Brady that drew the famous to his studio. Although most photographs were thought to be taken by the operators, there can be no doubt that they labored under the direction of Mathew Brady, a relationship perhaps analogous to that of the draftsman and the architect. Because of his impaired vision, the studios employed operators who took photographs as well as a staff of technicians and retouchers. During his photographic career he operated two studios in New York and twice operated a studio in Washington, D.C. Mathew Brady was an ambitious, hard-working perfectionist, who was hampered by very poor eyesight. Brady published a volume of 12 portraits of historically important figures, The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, in 1850. One year later he began the very ambitious project of photographing the important Americans of his time. Brady opened his first New York studio in 1844 and immediately began winning awards. Brady came to New York City at age sixteen by age seventeen he was a student in the first photography school in America, opened in 1840 by Samuel F.
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Abdollahi’s bright collages of handmade and hand-colored paper show Thinker with his joyful, brown-skinned family, in a welcome addition to the too-small canon of lighthearted animal fantasy (and poetry) featuring children of color.įrom the July/August 2019 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Beautifully composed in a variety of stylesrap, blues, and free versethese 18 poems offers a black child’s insights into his own heart and mind, and into the lives of family and friends. “I pat him on the back, / and I say, / ‘You’re cool, Thinker. / Keep on being your / cool self.’” The poems range from free verse, sometimes with well-paced internal rhyme (“fast or slow, high or low / I stop and I go, almost / like singing, making / word-music”), to more structured rhyming poems, culminating in “Thinker’s Rap” (and Greenfield characterizes rap as “real poetry” in her child-friendly author’s note). Thinker has to be himself, though, and when Thinker visits Jace’s classroom on Pets’ Day and blurts out a funny poem, Jace is proud of him. Greenfield touches on themes of growing up, the death of a mother, family, friendship, learning from elders, optimism, and love. Free, a nine year-old African American boy. Thinker likes to recite poetry aloud, but Jace, a poet himself, worries that Thinker will talk in front of other people. Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist is a book of poetry for elementary students describing the philosophy of Nathaniel B. The two philosophize about poetry and life while getting to know each other. 1/11) here presents a series of poems, some from new puppy Thinker’s point of view, some from young owner Jace’s. by Ehsan AbdollahiĬoretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award recipient Greenfield ( Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems Nathaniel Talking, rev. 6/21/2023 0 Comments Zero to one book reviewHis largest recent company is Palantir, which helps large organizations including governments use their data to make decisions.
6/21/2023 0 Comments Ghost by jason reynolds chapter 2Some of the examples are to write a letter to a character.Second, I have multiple journal responses that I use throughout the unit that are engaging and assess student comprehension. Lunch Box Notes Emojis for Boys and Girls by Teacher for Inclusion () Teach Ghost by Jason Reynolds. I like to keep definitions as simple as possible because when you use long definitions there is a low chance of student retention. Students are to write a simple synonym for the definition. I start by passing out a vocabulary sheet in which students have the page number and the vocabulary word. Teach Ghost by Jason Reynolds: How to Teach It! Vocabulary The coach puts Ghost on the right path giving Ghost a fighting chance in his future. He makes friends and learns about what it means to be on a team when he joins the track team. The main character lives in a flat in the back of convenient store with his mother because his father tried to kill him and his mom and landed in jail. Ghost is a story about a young boy who is trying to find his way in life and finds a place on the track team. Teach Ghost by Jason Reynolds which is an inspiring book about personal empowerment, poverty, family, and loss. Teach Ghost by Jason Reynolds What it’s about. 6/21/2023 0 Comments Miles morales vol 7He was featured in the Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man comic book series, and after Marvel ended the Ultimate imprint in 2015, Miles was made a character in the main Marvel Universe ( Earth-616), beginning with stories under the All-New, All-Different Marvel branding that debuted that same year. The 13-year-old biracial teenage son of an African-American father and a Puerto Rican mother, he is the second Spider-Man to appear in Ultimate Marvel, an imprint with a separate continuity from the mainstream Marvel Universe called the Ultimate Universe ( Earth-1610). Miles Morales first appeared in Ultimate Fallout #4 (August 2011), following the death of Peter Parker. He is one of the characters known as Spider-Man, having been created in 2011 by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli, with input by Marvel's then-editor-in-chief Axel Alonso. Miles Gonzalo Morales ( / m ə ˈ r æ l ə s/) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Bio-electric energy threads produced from fingers.Superhuman strength, speed, agility, and reflexes.(based upon Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko) 6/20/2023 0 Comments Mossflower by Brian JacquesMeanwhile, Abbess Germaine and the surviving members of Loamhedge, an abbey stricken with a plague, arrive and join the woodlanders. While in the dungeons, Martin eventually meets Gonff the Mousethief, who was imprisoned for stealing food from the Kotir storages. She places her brother in prison and takes the throne for herself. Meanwhile, Tsarmina poisons Verdauga with the help of the vixen Fortunata and blames it on her brother Gingivere. While there, his sword is broken by Verdauga's daughter, Tsarmina, and he is imprisoned within the Kotir dungeons. When a mouse from the north by the name of Martin the Warrior travels to Mossflower Woods, he is captured and brought to the castle Kotir. The story begins in the Mossflower Wood, where a community of animals suffers under the tyranny of a ruling wildcat named Verdauga Greeneyes. 6/20/2023 0 Comments A great reckoning a novelThe three sons were all killed on the same day in a World War I battle devastated, Marie moved away from Three Pines and stopped including it on the many maps she produced of the region. Marie lived in Three Pines with her three sons. In the early 20th century, a woman named Marie Valois worked as a cartographer under the pseudonym of Antony Turcotte she had to use a male name since it was not considered appropriate for a woman to have a profession. Sometime later, the cadets and the villagers finally solve the mystery of the orienteering map. “How came you here? Did you follow me after I ordered you to remain at Westcott? Know you the danger you have placed yourself in?” “Alyssa?” Swinging his legs over the side of the bed, he rose and started toward her. Her hands, the color of moonbeams, emerged from her sleeves and rose to divest herself of her hood.Īnxiety creased the beautiful features she revealed.ĭillon bolted upright. A familiar shadow, nigh lost amongst the others, stood several paces from his bed. Prying open eyelids that weighed almost as much as his horse, Dillon propped himself up on his elbows and searched the room. She had been playful and affectionate in all of his other dreams. Only warm, passionate interludes with his beloved wisewoman. He had done so every night since he had left her standing on the steps of the castle, frustrated by his inability to glimpse her features. A smile lifted the corners of Dillon’s lips. Its focus is the relationship between Forché and her mentor Gomez - a cousin of Claribel Algería whose poetry Forché was translating - that is the central pole on which swirls a cascade of often bizarre and cryptic meetings with corrupt high-level military officers, disenfranchised campesinos and endless safe houses. Renowned poet and human rights activist Forché’s new memoir, “What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance,” is a lyrical, potent book specific to a time and place. With his polymath mind and dimless passion for his country’s survival, he entices the sheltered young woman to follow him to El Salvador to see for herself what is happening to his country during the lead up to the Salvadoran Civil War, the years the stranger refers to as “the silence of misery endured.” It’s as a 27-year-old Catholic-schooled writer teaching in Southern California that Carolyn Forché first opens her door to an enigmatic Salvadoran man, Leonel Gomez Vides. 6/20/2023 0 Comments Max by Bey DeckardSo, if you’ve ever seen the movie Primal Fear and recall the way you felt the moment Edward Norton’s character, Aaron, revealed himself at the end-not to mention the way Richard Gere’s Martin Vail must have felt in that exact moment he realizes he’s been played-then you’ll know how it feels to read this book. Review: Sometimes the best way to describe the mood and tone of a book is to draw a connection between it and something else. When the professional line between them thins, who gets to define where one man ends and the other begins? Charming, manipulative, and amoral, Max has exactly the sort of mind Crane finds himself drawn to with fictional characters.Īs Max weaves himself into Crane’s life, Crane realizes that while fiction might be safe, Max certainly is not. Crane takes on a new patient who both intrigues and unnerves him. Category: Transgressive, Psychological ThrillerĪt a Glance: There is a chilling thrill of psychopathy and a growing emotional and physical dependency in this story that makes every moment spent reading it horrifying and intense.īlurb: Fresh out of school, Dr. |