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Read about the first year of the Korean War in “War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent.” The author, Marguerite Higgins, was the first woman to win a Pulitzer for international reporting. The book is about the battles at the start of the war as the armies moved up and down the […]
See how the volume of reading influences reading comprehension. Could the volume of reading matter more than intelligence in reading comprehension? What did Anne S. Cunningham and Keith Stanovich discover in their research? https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/cunningham.pdf What are the barriers to more reading which Cunningham and Stanovich advocate? How do literacy practices influence the achievement gap in […]
Samples of all of our titles are available on Amazon so that you and your faculty, and students can see if the narratives are engaging. The ebooks are a combination of young adult and regular trade biographies. These books were not published in the last couple of years. Typically, they are trade biographies or young […]
The writer, Heath Bowman, does not slow down to spell out the details of the two revolutions in this story. So the preface and introduction which add some details about the settings which may be useful to you. People have died to own land for generations around the world. Bowman asks us when these deaths […]
Here is the story of the slavery issue from the first slave traders through the African-American part in early American history and the Civil War, and the events and people who played a part in the history-making document, the Emancipation Proclamation. Read about Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner who led revolts, and the settlements of […]
These instructions work for both Android and iPads. You or your school can add ebooks to your Overdrive bookshelf without purchasing them through Overdrive. If you email a book to your student’s gmail account, they will have the choice of loading it in an app such as Google Play books or saving it. By saving it, […]
All of the information below about sharing ebooks also applies to free downloads from OERCommons.org Using Google Play Books to share new ebooks with your students iPads and iBooks Questions? How can you distribute copies to your students? As the user of a school-wide license or a download from OERCommons.org, you can give copies to […]
Let it be said at once that this book, whatever its defects, is absorbingly interesting. The author, obviously, is thoroughly acquainted with Franklin literature and has had access to a great mass of unpublished material. But in a sense it is not a biography. Rather it is a picture, an excellent pen-picture, which even with […]
Download in the epub format for Android and Apple devices: Download in the mobi format for Amazon devices: A self-made man with little formal education, Thomas Edison had a remarkable mind and possessed the imagination, creative ability, self-confidence, and perseverance to succeed brilliantly in his field. It was he who perfected the incandescent electric bulb, […]
Download an epub version here: Download a version for Kindle Fires and other Amazon devices: An excerpt from a review in The New York Times: Paine’s Career Highly Dramatic Mr. Woodward writes of Paine with the brisk and lively vigor that has distinguished all his books. Subtleties of character analysis and beauties of language he […]
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