![]() To support and connect with Autism in Black: ĭon't miss this informative episode on universal design learning and the importance of disability-inclusive education for students with disabilities. To register for the third annual Autism in Black Conference and hear more from Patrinia, visit. Listeners can connect with Patrinia Baksmaty via her website at, on Instagram and on LinkedIn as Patrinia Baksmaty. ![]() Additionally, Patrinia talks about her journey into advocacy, her practice, and the work she does. Listeners will gain insight into the importance of disability-inclusive education and the impact it can have on students with disabilities. In this discussion, Patrinia shares her expertise in universal design learning and how it can bring disability-inclusive learning experiences to public elementary schools. Patrinia is also a speaker at the third annual Autism in Black Conference happening virtually from April 28th through the 30th. ![]() ![]() On this episode of Autism in Black Podcast, host Maria Davis-Pierre, LMHC, founder, and CEO of Autism in Black Ink, speaks with Patrinia Baksmaty, an education disability inclusion strategist, founder of The Kaleidoscope Collaborative, and Harvard-certified Universal Design Learning practitioner. ![]()
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![]() ![]() These sources enable one to provide a chronological and numerical account of the death and suffering as the famine spread from the southern and central regions to the rest of the country. ![]() This study is based on British diplomatic reports and semi-official sources, European travel accounts, Persian documents and writings, British and American newspapers, and the reports by American missionaries who witnessed the famine. This famine in Iran killed on a scale similar to the 1876–79 famine in China, which has been called the worst to afflict the human species. ![]() This study is the first monograph on the subject in the English language. While the famines that ravaged China and India during 1876 to 1902 have received some recent scrutiny, the precursor of these cataclysmic famines, the Great Famine of 1869–1873 in Iran, has remained practically unknown. The Great Famine of 1869–1873 in Iran took 10–12 million lives, or two-thirds of the population, and is part of this secret history. The death by famine of tens of millions of human beings in Asia and Africa during the Victorian era (1837–1901) is “the secret history of the nineteenth century” about which Western history books contain nothing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The twin themes of Go Set a Watchman are disillusion and nostalgia. Historical fiction, even when it’s set just a few decades back, has a tendency to congratulate the present for overcoming, or starting to ameliorate, the moral failings of the past. ![]() Moral clarity is harder to come by in fiction that dramatizes the present. And even if she had, I doubt it would have had the makings of a blockbuster book or a Hollywood film. Seeing the present, in the form of a novel, wasn’t a trick she’d mastered. ![]() If it was the clarity of a white savior, well, that’s the best you could find, or invent, in 1930s Alabama, when desegregation wasn’t yet on the horizon. Instead, to hear the publishers tell it, she traded the contemporary setting of Watchman, circa 1955, for the 1930s, and in writing To Kill a Mockingbird was able to tell a story of simple moral clarity. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.” These lines are delivered near the end of Harper Lee’s new lost-and-found book Go Set a Watchman, and they neatly explain why the book might have been better off lost. “Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. ![]() ![]() Also, this stuff is rocket fuel, it doesn’t need cinchona bark, it’s 3 parts gin 1 part vodka! I can’t imagine James Bond could stand after 5 let alone 20 before going on a high speed chase in a Aston Martin DB5.Īnother thing we used that James would not have is Tito’s Vodka because, well, that’s what we had on hand. To be 100% up front and honest we didn’t use the cinchona infused liquor, partly because I didn’t want to do a science experiment just to get shitfaced like 007. Add gin, vodka, Lillet, and the cinchona infusion to a cocktail shaker filled with ice.2-3 Dashes Cinchona Infused Liquor (to taste).I’d take a nicer picture but my lenses aren’t awesome, also this was my second Vesper in… we’re lucky it’s in focus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Terupt, coming soon! The characters are authentic and the short chapters are skillfully arranged to keep readers moving headlong toward the satisfying conclusion.-School Library Journal, Starred Review Quotes An NPR Backseat Book Club Selection An E. And dont miss the conclusion to the series, Goodbye, Mr. Terupt? Find out what happens in sixth and seventh grades in Mr. Terupt suffers a terrible accident, will his students be able to remember the lessons he taught them? Or will their lives go back to the way they were before-before fifth grade and before Mr. Not until a certain new teacher arrives and helps them to find strength inside themselves-and in each other. They dont have much in common, and theyve never gotten along. Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, whos having a hard time fitting in Alexia, a bully, your friend one second, your enemy the next Peter, class prankster and troublemaker Luke, the brain Danielle, who never stands up for herself shy Anna, whose home situation makes her an outcast and Jeffrey, who hates school. Its the start of a new year at Snow Hill School, and seven students find themselves thrown together in Mr. ![]() Book Synopsis Seven students are about to have their lives changed by one amazing teacher in this school story sequel filled with unique characters every reader can relate to. About the Book Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by rookie teacher Mr. ![]() ![]() Digitally tinted drawings begin with endpapers revealing Anna’s home, which is set between a shoreline and a bustling city, by day and by night. Tobia illustrated the Anna Hibiscus chapter books with gray scale drawings, but here she presents Anna in full color. Atinuke (Anna Hibiscus, 2010, and its sequels) brings Anna to a picture-book audience in this gentle evocation of modern West African life. Her grandparents relax, her aunties pound yam, cousins scatter corn. ![]() In amazing Africa, Anna Hibiscus discovers her own special way to show her happiness after trying out what other family members do.įrom her perch in a mango tree, Anna Hibiscus observes the activities of her extended family in the compound where she lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. ![]() But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance-and the subsequent cover-up-will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. ![]() "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season." Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is due to occur in order to create room for a motorway bypass. SUMMARY: Arthur Dent faces the bulldozing of his house. It was during the Classical period and its accompanying cultural Enlightenment that the novel first developed as a literary genre. She never loses sight of propriety, economic practicalities, and perspective, as when she reminds Marianne (impulsive, independent) that their mother would not be able to afford a pet horse or that it is indecorous for her to go alone with Willoughby to Allenham. Elinor represents the characteristics associated with eighteenth-century neo-classicism, including rationality, insight, judgment, moderation, and balance. ![]() CONTEXT: Austen wrote this novel around the turn of the eighteenth century, on the cusp between two cultural movements: Classicism and Romanticism. In contrast, Marianne, her younger sister, represents qualities of "sensibility": emotion, spontaneity, impulsiveness, and rapturous devotion. SUMMARY: Difference between "sense" and "sensibility" Characters: Elinor, the older sister, represents qualities of "sense": reason, restraint, social responsibility, and a clear-headed concern for the welfare of others. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She met Frank Berton in the nearby mining town of Granville shortly after settling in Dawson and teaching kindergarten. His mother, Laura Beatrice Berton (née Thompson), was a school teacher in Toronto until she was offered a job as a teacher in Dawson City at the age of 29 in 1907. His family moved to Dawson City, Yukon in 1921. He was a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, and won many honours and awards.īerton was born on July 12, 1920, in Whitehorse, Yukon, where his father had moved for the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. He was a reporter and war correspondent, an editor at Maclean's Magazine and The Toronto Star and, for 39 years, a guest on Front Page Challenge. He also wrote critiques of mainstream religion, anthologies, children's books and historical works for youth. Berton wrote 50 best-selling books, mainly about Canadiana, Canadian history and popular culture. ![]() (J– November 30, 2004) was a Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster. Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, CC, O.Ont. ![]() ![]() Three brothers conjure a bridge to make an impossible crossing at twilight. This is the origin story of the Deathly Hallows. ![]() To children who grew up in wizarding families, ‘the Hopping Pot and the Fountain of Fair Fortune are as familiar’ to them ‘as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle (non-magical) children’. For centuries, the fables have been the staple of wizarding childhoods, the sound of bedtime stories. This just about sums up why the tales are so special. ‘You’ve never heard of The Tales of Beedle the Bard?’ Ron asked Hermione incredulously in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. A wizard who was sympathetic to Muggles, ‘mistrusted Dark Magic’ and believed that ‘kindness, common sense and ingenuity’ were more admirable than even the most powerful magic. Aside from his facial hair, it’s impossible to truly know Beedle, but perhaps we can catch a glimpse of him in his stories. ![]() There is also one surviving woodcut that depicts him with ‘an exceptionally luxuriant beard’. Although much of his life remains a mystery, we do know he was born in Yorkshire and that he was a wizard. ![]() Beedle the Bard was a storyteller who wove his tales in the 15th century. ![]() |