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The authors share their experiences of teaching English in various types of block schedules at the middle and high school levels. Includes descriptions of specific teaching strategies, suggestions for conferencing with students, options for assessing student performance, and ways to manage classroom time and student behavior.

Discover the life of Blackbeard (Edward Teach), among the most famous pirates of all time.

Tells the story of how the Marshall family came together while looking for their lost golden retriever, Gonker, that had bolted into the woods of the Appalachian Trail.

Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day.

In the summer of 1956, while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.

When Skye's cousin Hiroshi and his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings and both children are unhappy at the changes in their lives--will flying the dragon kite finally bring them together?.

"Examines the Wilderness Trail by discussing how and why it came to be, and the immediate and lasting effects it had on the nation and the people who traveled it"--Provided by publisher.

"The year is 1867, and the South has lost the Civil War. Those on the lowest rungs, like Shad's family, fear that the freed slaves will take the few jobs available. In this climate of despair and fear, a group has formed. Today we know it as the KKK"--Provided by publisher.

What if you were born into slavery in 1805? And what if the man who owned you...was also your father? And what if he were one of the most important men in America? And what if he wanted the fact that you were his son kept a secret? Such was the world of James Madison Hemings. This is his story.

The friendship and loyalties of two indentured servants, are tested when the English settlers plan a raid on an Indian village.