Entries by Jim McCabe

Guardians of Liberty: Sam Adams and John Hancock by Olga Hall-Quest

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including Send-to-Kindle. As you may know, Amazon has changed to the epub format to use with the Send-to-Kindle program. A great feature of the Send-to-Kindle program is that the file will go directly to your Library folder, and not have to be searched for […]

BROTHERS: BLACK SOLDIERS IN THE NAM BY STANLEY GOFF & ROBERT SANDERS

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including Send-to-Kindle. As you may know, Amazon has changed to the epub format to use with the Send-to-Kindle program. A great feature of the Send-to-Kindle program is that the file will go directly to your Library folder, and not have to be searched for […]

Shirley Chisholm by Susan Brownmiller

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including the Send-to-Kindle feature in Amazon. Download  the mobi file for Amazon devices except the Send to Kindle feature  here. Critics’ Corner: “The author chronicles major events in Shirley Chisholm’s life and career from her childhood in Barbados through her first year as Representative […]

Use Websites to Build the Habit of Reading-Part 1

Every week as the media reports on the pandemic, you can see students diligently looking at computer screens in their classrooms. But are they reading books or playing computer games? Given that national reading scores have not improved for the last eight years as Chromebooks have poured into classrooms, (See NAEP data for more on […]

More about John Brown

More from the Washington Post: His Truth Goes Marching On By Jonathan Yardley January 28, 1973 “HERE IS A book of surprising breadth, insight, compassion and historical vision—the first of what is to be a two-volume study of John Brown and his times. It recreates the whole fabric of our period of greatest national crisis, […]

Using Free Ebooks Efficiently-Part 1

Can all of your students read the history textbook which you are about to hand out? When I taught in the Cleveland Public Schools fifty years or so ago, this was a major problem. The only advice I received about students and reading was “Don’t call on anyone to read out loud. You don’t want […]