Hoffman amazing grace6/28/2023 Grace teaches us that instead of feeling overwhelmed or defeated about discrimination, we should address the issue and show people that a change can be made! It is so important for students to understand that not only is it okay to be different but also that being different does not stop you from doing what you believe in. Amazing Grace teaches us just that, as Grace is able to make a change and show her classmates that a black girl can too play the role of Peter Pan. They said things like"that's a boy's name" and "he isn't black", but this would not stop Grace from playing a role she wanted to play!Įlement 4 asks teachers to share stories of everyday people standing up to address the issues of social injustice and that ordinary people can make a change. So when her teacher shared with the class that they would be performing the show Peter Pan, Grace knew exactly who she wanted to be! Grace's classmates did not agree with Grace's decision on wanting to be Peter Pan. But most of all Grace loved to act out stories and fairy tales. She had a great personality for exploration and could make anything ordinary seem extraordinary. Grace is a girl who loves stories and enjoyed acting them out. Element 4: Social Movements and Social Change
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Lenny henry who am i again6/28/2023 Lenworth George Henry was born at Burton Road Hospital in Dudley, on 29 August 1958, to Winston Jervis Henry (1910–1978) and Winifred Louise Henry (1922–1998), who had emigrated to Britain from Jamaica. Henry is the chancellor of Birmingham City University. He appears in the Amazon Prime series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. He has appeared in numerous other TV programmes, including children's entertainment show Tiswas, sitcom Chef! and The Magicians for BBC One, and in his later years has transitioned toward acting roles in stage and screen. In 1985, he co-founded the charity Comic Relief with the comedy screenwriter Richard Curtis. He was the most prominent black British comedian of the time and much of his material served to celebrate and parody his African-Caribbean roots. Henry gained success as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s, culminating in The Lenny Henry Show in 1984. Sir Lenworth George Henry CBE (born 29 August 1958) is a British actor, comedian, singer, television presenter and writer. Torment by lauren kate6/28/2023 Francesca is described as tall, blonde and speaks highly of Shelby and the quiche. Luce then goes to the mess hall with Shelby and talks to Francesca for the first time. Upon her arrival at Shoreline, Luce wakes up in a dorm room which she is to share with a girl name Shelby, who Luce realized wasn't there last night because she had snuck out as Francesca was showing Luce to her room. Luce expresses her desire to stay with Daniel and not go to Shoreline, but she is taken there anyway. Next, we are shown Luce's trip to Shoreline with Daniel, he drives her there in a car from one of her past lives. This scene ends with Cam and Daniel finding a starshot, a special arrow made for killing angels and demons, and the knowledge that Daniel cannot see Luce for a while because of something he must do. Daniel tells Cam how Gabbe, one of their angel cohorts, has set Luce up to be cared for by Francesca, the person who is closets to Gabbe, as she works at a school. They express their concern for Luce, Daniel's mortal girlfriend and Cam's love interest. Torment starts with Cam and Daniel killing a human on a beach. Things half in shadow by alan finn6/28/2023 Many who have lost loved ones in the war seek solace in Spiritualism and the belief that loved ones can communicate from the afterlife. Things Half in Shadow is set in the Philadelphia of 1869, where the specter of the Civil War remains a haunting presence. The pair want to clear themselves from suspicion, but a search spanning the houses of the wealthy to the underside of nineteenth-century Philadelphia unearths a buzzing beehive of past murder, current danger, and supernatural occurrences that cannot be explained. by Alan Finn Gallery Books, January 2015, 16. The mysterious murder of noted medium Lenora Grimes Pastor as Lucy and Edward attend her séance results in a plum story for Edward-and a great deal more. And since Edward has a hidden past, he reluctantly agrees that they should collaborate in exposing only her rivals. He uncovers her tricks, but realizes to his dismay that Lucy is more talented at blackmail than she is at a medium's sleights of hand. Edward's investigation of the beautiful young medium Lucy Collins has unintended consequences, however. In the Philadelphia of 1869, photographs of Civil War dead adorn dim sitting rooms, and grieving families attempt to contact their lost loved ones. Then an assignment to write a series of exposés on the city's mediums places all that in jeopardy. Postbellum America makes for a haunting backdrop in this historical and supernatural tale of moonlit cemeteries, masked balls, cunning mediums, and terrifying secrets waiting to be unearthed by an intrepid crime reporter.Įdward Clark is a successful young crime reporter in comfortable circumstances with a lovely, well-connected fiancée. What belongs to you a novel6/27/2023 Through his eyes we see the object of his desire, Mitko B., a “thin but broad-shouldered” hustler with a “jagged tooth” and a smell of “alcohol that emanated not so much from his breath as from his clothes and hair.” This description is spread across one page, each line followed by the narrator’s interpretation of that line, creating a work that is bookended by prolonged sessions of self-restraint that unravels in the in-between. Set almost entirely in Sofia, Bulgaria, Greenwell’s relative sliver of a novel plants us in the head of its unnamed American narrator, a gay man who teaches English to kids who in any other country would be called privileged. And now that backlash has arrived as a novel, in the form of Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You, a book about a gay love so utterly specific and self-aware that it might as well be viewed through an inverted microscope. The problem, if you can call it that, came months after the initially flurry of praise, when the book experienced a kind of backlash to that excess. Yanagihara filtered trauma through literary excess and so found a home with urbanites and literati who claimed that trauma and excess as their own, catapulting her book into best-seller status and landing it on many, many awards shortlists. Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life was the surprise smash of 2015, its stark orgasmic cover unfolding into 700-plus pages of melodramatic gay heartbreak and daydream art-career success. Though Wilder and her Little House series have been immensely popular with generations of American readers, only in recent decades has her work received serious critical attention from scholars. The first book, Little House in the Big Woods, was published in 1932 when the author was 65 years old. At first, publishers passed it over, so Wilder reworked her story into a series. It took several years before she heeded her daughter’s advice and began recording her childhood experiences in a manuscript titled Pioneer Girl. At the time, Wilder was living in Missouri and writing columns for a regional farm magazine. Just over a century ago, Rose Wilder Lane wrote to her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and suggested that she write about her memories growing up on the American frontier. Mean streak book6/27/2023 Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Emory Charbonneau, a paediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. Number One New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with another suspenseful thriller Dr. When one of Riordan’s most vicious clients gets involved in the case, a smile won’t be enough to keep him alive. The most powerful defense attorney in New York has been accused of taking bribes, and he needs Cass to keep him out of jail. Not long after Riordan runs out on her, Cass sees his smiling face on the cover of New York magazine. A hard-boiled defense attorney who’s made a living going toe to toe with the meanest bastards in Brooklyn, Cass nevertheless fell for the Riordan charm-right until he broke her heart. That charisma worked on Cass Jameson, too, even though she should have been smart enough to know better. His clients may be mobsters, but Riordan never seems to have any trouble winning sympathy for them. Ruggedly handsome, with a sharp wit and a voice like Belgian chocolate, he could woo any jury. In the highest-profile case of her career, Cass defends her ex-lover in federal court in this Edgar Award–nominated legal thriller It’s hard not to be charmed by Matt Riordan. Alexie has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (in 2010, for War Dances), the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction (in 2001), and the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature (in 2007, for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian). He also wrote and co-produced the movie Smoke Signals, which featured an all-Native cast, crew, and creative team, and was based on several of the stories collected in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Over the course of his long and storied career, Alexie has published 26 books, including poetry, novels, collections of short stories, a young adult novel, a picture book, and a memoir. He has been a self-described “urban Indian” since 1994, when he moved to Seattle-he still lives there with his family. Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, was born in Spokane and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA. Michael tolliver lives6/26/2023 Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life, the tender alliances that sustain him in the hardest of times, Michael Tolliver Lives follows its protagonist as he finds love with a younger man, attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida, and finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady. Now, almost twenty years after ending his groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice. Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classic Tales of the City series, is arguably the most beloved gay character in fiction. Pillars of the earth world without end6/26/2023 They said, "you know, you've had a lot of success with these thrillers, are you sure you want to write about building a church?". When I started talking about the idea, some of my friends were quite shocked. Before too long, it occurred to me to channel this enthusiasm into a novel. I would go to a town, like Lincoln or Winchester, check into a hotel and spend a couple of days looking around the cathedral and learning about it. I became a bit of a train spotter on the subject. I read a couple of books on architecture and developed an interest in cathedrals. When I started writing, back in the early Seventies, I found I had no vocabulary for describing buildings. It's overwhelmingly the book that readers talk to me about when I meet them in bookshops. It still sells about 100,000 copies a year in paperback in the US, it was number one in the UK and Italy and it was on the German best seller list for six years. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age. Against this backdrop, lives entwine: Tom, the master builder, Aliena, the noblewoman, Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge, Jack, the artist in stone and Ellen, the woman from the forest who casts a curse. In a time of civil war, famine and religious strife, there rises a magnificent Cathedral in Kingsbridge. |