Oxford makes history with its new textbook series."Kids love to read a good story, so why not give them a textbook textbook Informatics A treatise on a particular subject. See Bible. that reads like a novel or short story?" asks Nancy Toff, vice president and editorial director of school and young adult publishing for Oxford University Press. This philosophy drove the creation of alternative history books for its middle-school history/social science program. Instead of one huge book. the company developed several small books for ancient history, medieval/early modern history and U.S. history. The latest offering, The World in Ancient times, is a nine-volume set for sixth-graders. Each mini book was co-written by a scholar and a children's fiction author. "I found the format stimulating and most of the students liked it as well," says Marsha Yoder Yoder is a surname originating in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland. The surname is a shortened version of St. Theodorus, the first Roman Catholic bishop of Octodurum in present day Martigny, Switzerland. Theodorus -- also known as St. Theodore of Grammont, St. , a teacher at Lawton Chiles Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. In a career spanning four decades, Chiles, a Democrat who never lost an election, served in the Florida House of Representatives (1958-1966), the Florida Middle Academy in Lakeland, Fla. "It made history seem more real and they related to the human aspect as opposed to a recitation rec·i·ta·tion n. 1. a. The act of reciting memorized materials in a public performance. b. The material so presented. 2. a. Oral delivery of prepared lessons by a pupil. b. of facts." www.oup.com/us/k12 |
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