Designed for advanced students, this series enhances history learning through engaging narratives and encourages critical thinking with extended writing tasks. It includes video suggestions and incorporates historical fiction to stimulate interest and deepen understanding of historical events and themes.
The narrative centers on a young girl and her grandmother who embark on bicycle adventures along Queensland's beaches, collecting seashells and stones. Their journey sparks meaningful conversations about the value of nature, the significance of their collections, and the balance between abundance and excess. Through these explorations, they delve into the mysteries of the natural world and the insights gained from observing it with focused attention, fostering a deeper appreciation for both nature and their personal experiences.
A sensitively rendered portrait of a biracial family in 1947 Florida, Too Blue to Fly presents a family stretched to its limits. When 11-year-old Wally McManus suffers the loss of his mother to cancer, he must move in with his father, a famous writer and a man he's never met. Arriving in Belle Glade, Wally confronts the stark realities of his new situation: an alcoholic father living with a black woman at the edge of town, a ramshackle house with no modern conveniences, a black half-brother who calls him "Precious," and the prospect of indefinite neglect and ridicule. Abandoned by their guardians to long solitary days, the boys forge an uneasy alliance for the summer. They manage their independence well enough-until they encounter a curious, sexually precocious girl. Sparks fly in a powder keg of race and class, leaving the tenuous freedom of the family and the life of every black person in town in jeopardy.
Rule #1 of being a hired killer: never get to know your target . . . and definitely don' t fall in love with them Taking lives has taken its toll. Her moral justifications have faltered. Do any of the people she has killed-- some of them heinous, but all of them human-- deserve to die? Her next target is Cameron Walker, a rancher in Arizona. When she arrives at his remote desert estate to carry out her orders, she discovers that he is a kind and beautiful man. After a lengthy tour of the ranch, not only has she not killed him-- she' s wondering who might want him dead. She procrastinates, instead growing closer to Cameron. She learns that he' s passionate about wild horses and has been fighting a losing political battle to save mustangs that live on protected land near his ranch-- he' s even received death threats from his opponents. Suddenly, she' s faced with protecting the man she was sent to kill, encountering kidnappers, murderers, horse thieves, and even human traffickers along the way. Can she figure out who has hired her before they take matters into their own hands? Perfect for fans of Dean Koontz and Tana French While the novels in the Endings Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is as follows: Endings Exit Strategy Dead West Insensible Loss (coming 2024)
Her assignment is different this time--to keep someone alive. Being a hired killer has taken its toll, though not as much as losing her whole family before she made that abrupt career change. She's tired and depressed, but keeping the beautiful CTO of a hot tech company alive seems worthwhile. There are complications and some people have to die as she protects her target--and the invention that will change the world for good. Perfect for fans of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Dexter
The Heinemann History Scheme uses sources and activities to explain complex issues and helps students think through historical concepts for themselves. Every QCA Scheme topic is covered, and the tasks offer progression and integrated extended writing for literacy skills. schovat popis