Maasai Dreamer: A Story from Kenya - Couverture souple

Schaffer, Julia; Smith, Michael W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1426350996 ISBN 13 : 9781426350993

Editeur : National Geographic Society, 2007

Synopsis

A school well project helps a Maasai community in Kenya.

With the Kids Around the World series, use the power of content-based fiction to explore the relationship between traditional cultures and contemporary society. Students learn some of the many challenges modern life can pose to traditional values and ways of life - and explore how cultures can thrive even in the midst of change. Each book highlights a different cultural group. (Genre: Realistic Fiction)

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Professor, College of Education Temple University Dr. Michael Smith joined the ranks of college teachers after eleven years of teaching high school English. He has won awards for his teaching at both the high school and college levels. His research focuses on how experienced readers read and talk about texts, as well as what motivates adolescents� reading and writing both in and out of school. He has written eight books and monographs, including �Reading Don�t Fix No Chevys� Literacy in the Lives of Young Men, for which he and his co-author received the 2003 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English. His writing has appeared in such journals as Communication Education, English Journal, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Literacy Research, and Research in the Teaching of English.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: National Geographic Society
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1426350996
• ISBN 13: 9781426350993
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 48
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible