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There aren't many good books that deal with the death of loved ones - but this is one. It does deal with the death of a Grandmother, but it deals with it in a wonderful way - it shows the circle of life - that life goes on - and it is ok to be happy after the death of someone you love.

Research emphasizes the importance of scaffolding instruction in order to lead students to independent, proficient application of the more complex and diverse writing and reading strategies required in middle school. But what does "scaffolding instruction" look like and sound like in the middle grades? The authors of these articles clearly explain how to use demonstrations, shared, and guided experiences to increase student achievement. Each approach is defined: when to use it, why we should use it, the teacher's role, the students' role, issues to consider when planning and choosing resources. This is the resource I have been looking for!

This (1890)is one of two large collections of Omaha and Ponca texts prepared by the Rev. James O. Dorsey for the Bureau of American Ethnology (now incorporated in the Smithsonian Institution). The other is Omaha and Ponka Letters (1891), which is a supplement to this. Two or three texts remain in the National Anthropological Archives unpublished. One referred to a Congressman of the time in disparaging terms, and the others were obscene.

This material was part of a slated series, to include also a grammar and a lexicon. These were never published, due to Dorsey's untimely death. The manuscript(s) for the grammar, based loosely on the Riggs Dakota (Santee) grammar can be consulted at the NAA, which also holds the estimated 20,000 slips of Dorsey's Omaha-Ponca lexical files, and numerous other documents accumulated by him in the course of his Siouan work.

The Cegiha language consists of two volumes bound together with a common introduction. The volumes are indexed. Each volume consists of a series of texts in Dorsey's Government Printing Office version of his orthigraphy for Omaha-Ponca. Traditional literary texts come first, then more recent stories shading into historical texts and culminating in letters. Dorsey apparently kept copies of letters of the Omaha-Ponca text of letters that he wrote for members of the two tribes.

The details of the arrangements he made in connection with the letters are unknown, but as Dorsey seems to have been scrupulous in his dealings with the Omaha and Ponca and neither his colleague Francis LaFlesche (an Omaha) or any others at the time or soon after ever made any complaints on this score, I assume this keeping and publication was done with the knowledge of the authors and did not concern them. The letters are especially valuable as historical records, besides presenting contexts for linguistic constructions that might not otherwise be as well exemplified.

Apart from the numerous individual letter dictators (and in one case, writer) with whom Dorsey worked, he worked with a series of Ponca and Omaha individuals, mainly members of or associates of the LaFlesche families. Several Omaha individuals also assisted him in editing the material, and their useful comments, sometimes attributed, are listed in the notes.

Each text is presented in interlinear literal word (or phrase) by word translation, followed by a free translation. Each text has individual end notes and there are also end note series for the two volumes.

The texts have various faults that are due to the technology for recording them (rapid ink pencil handwriting on wrapping paper) or the early state of investigation of Omaha-Ponca and other Siouan languages, and they are not without some printing errors or mistranslations, but they are a priceless linguistic, literary, and historical testament to the Omaha and Ponca people of the 1880s and their neighbors.

In addition, even without Dorsey's numerous other publications, and the large body of fieldnotes, notes, and manuscripts in progress that Dorsey left behind at his death, this volume and its companion would establish Dorsey as scholar of stature, and through Franz Boas, who used this material in seminars with his students, as a seminal influence on American anthropology and linguistics. Student after student of Boas compiled grammars and collected texts in the original on Dorsey's model as a preface to their anthropological investigations, not always willingly, but to the continuing benefit of both the Native American groups involved and subsequent generations of anthropologists and linguists.

Charles The Throwback by Ted Own is an inspired and intuitively humorous tale of a genetically flawed calf and his mother as their escape from slaughter brings them far greater adventure then expected. Engaging readers with such a unique and catching storytelling style, Charles The Throwback introduces the reader to the thought process of a cow and the very same everyday tediums which humans and cows alike endure. Charles The Throwback is recommended to all general fiction readers, particularly those enjoy farming related stories.

This is such a great book. It covers a lot of the history of Chicago that appeals both to kids as well as adults. My nephew really liked the book and had a lot of fun doing the crafts. It was refreshing to have so much fun with a book instead of trying to bear through it. Owen Hurd wrote this in such an intelligent way that it is as entertaining for adults as it is for kids.

This book was easy to read to my nieces and nephews and I enjoyed the flow of the book. It was also easy for them to read it. Very educational and would recommend it to parents as an aid to teach children about other children in different parts of the world.

As many academics and progressives have noted, Western logic is filled with rigid dichotomies: good/bad, black/white, powerful/powerless, Christian/"heathen", male/female, virtue/vice. In this book, Dr. White shows how the French struggled to deal with the children of African women and the French men that impregnated them and left. What to do with people that are black and white? Can we deem them black OR white? Can we put them in middle-management jobs and give them limited power? What will the Africans say when we made all these babies but talk about celibacy as a Christian, European virtue in a condescending manner to them? These are all areas that Dr. White tries to uncover.

Through no fault of the author's, this book is painful to read in many instances. It's filled with all these eugenicist comments about mixed-race people being infertile and sickly with no evidence to back it up. Though the Africans are not enslaved as in the Americas, they are still treated as less than human. Dr. White briefly comments that though biracial children were under the care of clergy, they were also in lice-infested quarters where tuberculosis and other diseases were rampant. Honestly, I think the chapter on eugenics should have come before the chapters on orphanages and employment. As worthy as this book is, be prepared to be upset.

Please also note that this book is a top-down discussion: the ideas of white Frenchmen is the focus, not the concerns of Africans, whether biracial or monoracial. On the one hand, the French probably left a lot of evidence in their bureaucratic files for Dr. White to uncover. Further, their ideas are the ones rich with academic and policy-based analysis. Dr. White's tenure board may want to see all of that. Nevertheless, we are speaking of a period when many Africans, again both monoracial and biracial, could read, write, and be expressive for themselves. This book suggests that there were many m'etis societies and then never says much about them. I am not sure whether to fault the author, but I do think other academics have plenty of room to pick up where he left off.

In the United States' earlier years, interracial sex was rarely consensual, usually involving the rape of black women by white male masters. Antimiscegenation laws and unpunished lynchings then deterred much race-mixing. In this book, however, Dr. White shows how race-mixing was mutually beneficial. African women served as translators for French men and taught them how to survive in the hot environment. This unoppressive joining of two groups is so different from the United States, at least historically, that it almost seems novel.

I doubt that this is a translated text. Though based in Britain, Dr. White must be fluent in French and was knowledgeable about France and Francophone West Africa. His strong cross-cultural wisdom shines throughout the book.

Francophiles will love this book. It's filled with accented French names and fancy-sounding French social organizations. Unfortunately, some of French's exoticism is lost as words in names are smashed together and letters get put in the lower case. When LeRoux becomes Leroux and de la Vignette becomes Delavignette, it just doesn't feel like the French that excited me in junior high school.

At least in African-American studies texts, many phenomena start in West Africa and make their way to the "New World." However, Dr. White illustrates how the gray area of multiraciality was not solved in West Africa until late in the 20th Century. That controversy was solved centuries ago in the Caribbean and in the United States with its hypodescent rule (i.e., "one drop of black blood makes you black"). This book was a first for me where patterns were reversed.

This book should be read alongside many others. Dr. White freely admits that Ann Stoler has covered the French on their Eurasian children and that Hyam has wrote about sexuality in the British Empire. This book covered whites in Africa, but if you want to know about blacks in France, see Stovall's "Paris Noir." Robert Aldrich discusses colonialism and homosexuality in his powerful book.

This book is a must-read for those interested in multiracial people or mixed-race couples. It will truly make you want to learn more on the various subjects it presents.

If you're like me you have a difficult time wrapping things. Some people don't have the patience to do so, and admittedly I'm one of those people! You can't deny the beautiful and original flower designs on this particular giftwrap paper, so I recommend you buy and use it whenever you have to wrap a gift for someone. So what if you don't do a good job wrapping it- it's the thought that counts.

As I looked through the library, I noticed there was hardly anything on a Paramedic. In this book it takes Paramedics own experience and delivers it in an interesting and moving way. I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in becoming a Paramedic or enjoys reading.

I have found that students can benefit greatly from working through Owen's short chapters on central Christian topics. He is always clear and focused. This is a great tool for teaching how to read Theology intelligently.