![]() I'm gonna do this withĪn extremely light touch. Keywords in those questions, and mark things in the margins, making what we call a map of the passage. So I'm gonna see if there'sĪnything to be gleaned from a super quick skim So maybe it's not going so great, since it leads, after all, The blurb also gives us this notion that it's tumultuous, He's writing this in 1790,Īnd the assembly was formed, it says, in 1789, so Guy, is gonna be giving us his perspective on howįrance's new government, this National Assembly, is doing. ![]() Year, "the French formed a new governmental body knownĪs the National Assembly, ushering in the tumultuous period of social and political change," gotta underline tumultuous, "known as the French Revolution." Okay, this is just loaded ![]() ![]() "This passage is adaptedįrom Edmund Burke, 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.' Originally published in 1790. The passage in big chunks, doing questions as I go along. First, I'll read the blurb, then I'll skim the questions for targets and map out the passage. I'm not scared of you, the past! Here's the plan. We are gonna take control of this passage by being careful and methodical. So what do you do? You take a deep breath and ![]() I mean, look at this thing, three huge, fat, dense paragraphs full of intimidatingġ8th-century language. I want you to imagine it's test day, and you turn the page only to see this scary-looking passage sitting here. Looking at the history part of the SAT reading section. ![]()
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"Arise, O sleeper!" is his word to us, and yet if we heed the call, we will see that to arise is not to stand, but to kneel before the God of heaven in humble contemplation. TOZER (18971963) began his lifelong pursuit of God after hearing a street preacher in Akron, Ohio, at the age of seventeen. Tozer writes from his knees, a posture fit for presenting the character of God in all its demanding grandeur. He reminds us that life apart from God is really no life at all. With prophetic vigor and flowing prose, he urges us to replace low thoughts of God with lofty ones, to quiet our lives so we can know Gods presence. ![]() Tozer brings the mystics to bear on modern spirituality, grieving the hustle and bustle and calling for a slow, steady gaze upon God. ![]() So it is in this Christian classic by the late pastor and evangelist A. Sometimes the voices that speak most clearly in the present are those that echo from the past. Tozer's bestseller, this book has been called "one of the all-time most inspirational books" by a panel of Christian magazine writers. ![]() ![]() She asks her mom to make her turkey sandwich for lunch instead of a traditional family meal. We are not told why Kanzi and her family moved from Egypt to America but we can relate to how Kanzi wants to fit in with the other kids. The book confronts the fears of being in a new place. ![]() The illustrations were vibrant and colorful. provided by the Author, Aya Khalil Review In the end, Kanzi’s most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one. Next day her teacher sees the poem and gets the entire class excited about creating a “quilt” (a paper collage) of student names in Arabic. That night, Kanzi wraps herself in the beautiful Arabic quilt her teita (grandma) in Cairo gave her and writes a poem in Arabic about the quilt. When Mama wears a hijab and calls her daughter Habibti (dear one). Kanzi’s family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. ![]() ![]() It sounded really interesting, therefore I contacted the author and ask to review the book. A fellow multicultural blogger recently shared this awesome book “The Arabic Quilt” by Aya Khalil on Facebook. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Big things happen while he is in China (the Three Gorges Project is in full swing and Deng Xiaoping dies), but it is the everyday stuff that is so affecting. There are his students-a poignant, watershed generation who delight him to no end. There is this river city of steps pressed against hills there are ridgelines cut with ancient calligraphy and pictographs that disappear under water during the rainy season. There is the gentle knock of the croquet ball in the morning when the court below his window comes to life. Hessler’s writing is unselfconsciously mellow, a lazy pace that works admirably in conjuring up Fuling as a place. This account is a chronicle of the author’s days in Fuling and of a brief summer interlude of travel farther afield. In 1996, Hessler reported for his Peace Corps duty to Fuling, a city of some 200,000 souls astride the murky Yangtze River, which cuts through the green and terraced mountains of Sichuan Province. ![]() A two-year sojourn in a small city in central China yields this youthful, gracefully impressionistic portrait of a time and place from newcomer Hessler. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just seeing someone who plays hockey, who goes to college, who has it all ahead of him, is tough for him. When Whit runs into Rainn in the bookstore, Rainn is virtually triggered by Whit. While he’s good at and loves hockey, his dream is to run the family farm with his older brother, Campbell. He’s in his senior year of college studying farm management. Leighton “Whit” Whittaker is an openly gay hockey player for Moo U in Burlington. Hockey was everything to him and without it he doesn’t know who he is. ![]() He’s not dealing with the loss of his dream career. Rainn’s family is in Rhode Island but he’s basically cut them out of his life. He’s been working at Vino & Veritas in the bookshop and as the book begins, picks up some extra shifts in the bar to supplement his meagre income. He was only a semester away from graduating with a degree in sports management, but he doesn’t believe there’s much point to that career now and hasn’t been back. It’s been four years since then and he’s stuck. Rainn Richardson is a former hockey player, scouted to play for the NHL in his senior year in college but injury put paid to that dream. Headstrong is book three in Vino & Veritas, a queer contemporary series written by various authors in Sarina Bowen’s True North World and set in and around the bookstore/bar Vino & Veritas. ![]() ![]() In the spring of 2020, production was about to begin on the project when the pandemic hit. ![]() Written and directed by Lena Dunham, the film is out Friday on Amazon Prime Video.ĭunham, perhaps best known for her dramedy TV series Girls, obtained the rights to Catherine, Called Birdy from the book’s author, Karen Cushman, almost a decade ago. And now Catherine-like Jo, Matilda, and Hermione before her-has made the leap from the pages of a novel to the silver screen in Catherine, Called Birdy, an adaptation of the 1994 novel of the same name. Birdy, in a longsleeve blue dress, grabs fistfuls of mud at a village cottage raisingīella Ramsey stars in 'Catherine Called Birdy' Credit - Alex Bailey-Prime VideoĬatherine-called Little Bird or Birdy, daughter of Rollo and the lady Aislinn, sister to Edward and the abominable Robert, of the village of Stonebridge in the shire of Lincoln, in the country of England, in the hands of God-ranks right up there with heroines of pop culture known for their stubbornness and strength: Jo March ( Little Women), Matilda ( Matilda), and Hermione Granger ( Harry Potter), to name a few. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them!
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