New Releases by Anne Collins

For years, students have been taught to cross multiply when presented with proportion problems. Few understood what they were doing or why they were doing it. Rarely were students invited to think about various representations to determine the relationship between the two ratios being compared. The ideas and activities in this guide will help you provide students with the conceptual understanding of ratios and proportional thinking that is essential for solving real-world problems and achieving success in higher-level mathematics. It’s All Relative includes thirty modules, which are aligned to specific Common Core State Standards. Each module in this accessible, spiral-bound flipchart addresses specific mathematical practices and common misconceptions; features timely classroom examples; includes proven, ready-to-use activities; and provides ideas for adapting activities to meet the needs of individual learners. The authors particularly emphasize how to use visual models—tables, tape diagrams, graphs, and double number lines—to represent ratios and proportional thinking. These visual models, which may be new to many teachers, enhance students’ conceptual understanding and improve their ability to solve a wide range of proportional reasoning problems.

A history of one family''s decision to leave their native Island Guernsey during the depression and sail to Australia in a French tunny boat. The book also records the arrival of the family in Australia and includes letters family members wrote to their relatives in England.

Like a traveller''s journal written in prose and poetry, Listening to the Deep Song records Anne Collins'' travels through various regions of Spain, which took place over many years. The book offers a meditation on Spain''s many-layered history and culture, reflecting on history, landscape, expressions of culture, and change. It reveals places of connection and friction within Spain and across the world; as far as Anne''s home in lutruwita-Tasmania (Australia).The writing turns on a poetic dialogue and an embodied praxis; the latter being expressed through both Anne''s physical immersion in Spain, and her practice and knowledge of flamenco dance. The latter engages with, especially, the life and works of Federico Garcia Lorca, as well as with other poets and writers of and about Spain.Listening to the Deep Song is deeply personal, yet it offers much that resonates deeply with contemporary concerns. Anne Collins'' writing is varied, thoughtful, observant, poignant and beautiful.

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The first in-depth exploration of the rise and evolution of abstract, symbolic, and conceptual portraiture in American art This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Featuring over 100 color illustrations of works by artists from Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O''Keeffe to Janine Antoni, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, and Glenn Ligon, this timely publication probes the ways we think about and picture the self and others. With particular focus on three periods during which non-mimetic portraiture flourished--1912-25, 1961-70, and 1990-the present--the authors investigate issues related to technology, sexuality, artist networks, identity politics, and social media, and explore the emergence of new models for the visual representation of identity. Taking its title from a 1961 work by Robert Rauschenberg--a telegram that stated, "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so"--this book unites paintings, sculpture, photography, and text portraits that challenge the genre in significant, often playful ways and question the convention, as well as the limits, of traditional portrayal.

The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill CreateTM includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your course. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create, or you can search by topic, author, or keywords. Each Taking Sides issues is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an Exploring the Issue section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, and Additional Resources and Internet References. Go to McGraw-Hill CreateTM at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com, click on the "Collections" tab, and select The Taking Sides Collection to browse the entire Collection. Select individual Taking Sides issues to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Smith/Smith: Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Moral Issues, 14/e ExpressBook for an easy, pre-built teaching resource by clicking here.

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Anne Collins. ''Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.'' More than fifty years ago, the new US President, John F. Kennedy, spoke these words. Millions of Americans listened, and they were filled with hope. With Kennedy as president, surely there was a great future ahead for their country. But Kennedy would not finish his four years as president. In November 1963, the world stopped as terrible news came from Dallas, Texas. . .

Language plays an indispensable role in the transmission, maintenance, and formation of culturally shared beliefs. Yet beliefs about groups, in particular, are shared despite the existence of prohibitive norms that act to inhibit their expression. This apparent incongruity suggests that cultural beliefs become shared through linguistic means other than explicit expression. In support of this, the linguistic bias paradigm proposes that linguistic bias is the implicit and unintentional expression of beliefs through the differential use of linguistic abstraction (Franco & Maass, 1996; Maass, 1999; Maass, Salvi, Arcuri, & Semin, 1989), as defined by the Linguistic Category Model (Semin & Fiedler, 1988). According to this paradigm, linguistic bias not only reveals the speakers'' privately held beliefs but also transmits these beliefs to recipients, leading to belief sharedness. The consequences of exposure to linguistic bias, however, have yet to be shown and this is the aim of the present research program. The first study focuses on belief transmission, by determining if there is a direct causal effect from linguistic abstraction to individual impression formation. Results show that biased language transmits information about individuals but the communication context, specifically whom the message is about, is also important. Given this, it is likely that the content of the message will also affect the reception of biased language. The second study thus focuses on belief maintenance, by considering the relative effects of different levels of linguistic abstraction on pre-existing beliefs. Results were inconclusive, but may have been affected by methodological limitations. The third study addresses these limitations while focusing on belief formation, by measuring the impact of biased language in the absence of pre-existing beliefs. Recipients, in general, formed beliefs that corresponded to the biased language to which they were exposed. Together, these studies suggest that linguistic bias plays a role in belief sharedness as a mechanism through which cultural beliefs are transmitted and formed. Linguistic bias, however, must be understood within the specific communication context, which also independently affects reception.

Now it’s as easy as pie to make delectable desserts from centuries past From Wet Bottom Shoo Fly Pie to basic American Apple Pie, you’ll find them all—transparent pies such as Butternut Maple; cake pies such as Quakertown Pie; custard pies such as Union Pie; cream pies such as Cherry Cream Pie; and fruit pies such as Crabapple Pie. Each recipe has been carefully tested and brings with it a veritable trip down memory lane. Pies have graced American tables from the days of the Pilgrims, and variations have evolved into regional favorites around the country. Now you can recreate those pieces of history in your own kitchen.

New poetry collection by poet and essayist Anne Collins.

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.

A definitive volume on the work of R. Luke DuBois: ground-breaking composer, artist, and performer in the prime of his career.

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.

Differentiate problem solving in your classroom using effective, research-based strategies. This lesson and problem solving task require students to read a graph to solve a problem. The problem-solving mini-lesson guides teachers in how to teach differentiated lessons. The student activity sheet features a problem tiered at three levels.

The study of past hurricanes to help interpret the patterns of current and future tropical storms is vital to our economy, society, and infrastructure. Understanding how hurricanes are influenced by a warm climate is critical, and hurricane reconstructions from former periods of the Holocene (the last ~11,500 yr) will be beneficial. Paleotempestology is the study of past tropical cyclones and uses historical, biological, and geological proxies to reconstruct tropical cyclone activity to create a record of historical hurricane patterns. A tropical cyclone (TC) is a chaotic weather event that is influenced by several elements, including warm ocean waters from which TCs directly draw energy. In this study, linear regression was iteratively performed on tree-ring data developed at Lake Louise in Valdosta, Georgia, with monthly climate values (precipitation, temperature, PDSI) and monthly oscillation indices (ENSO, AMO, NAO). Residuals were drawn from the tree growth responses and then compared to data obtained from the National Hurricane Center’s North Atlantic Hurricane Database (HURDAT), which comprised all storms that entered two buffer zones (100-km and 150-km) during the period 1894 to 1999. Low values in residuals of tree-ring growth (narrow rings) were determined to be less than –0.3 (very low growth) and –0.4 (extremely low growth). Twelve residuals displayed very low growth while seven residuals displayed extremely low growth. For the storms that occurred within the 100-km buffer, 6 of the 12 very narrow rings and 4 out of 7 extremely narrow rings occurred the year directly after a TC event. For the storms that occurred within the 150-km buffer, 8 of the 12 very narrow rings and 6 out of 7 extremely narrow rings occurred the year directly after a TC event. A superposed epoch analysis was also used and found a statistically significant relationship between hurricane events and extremely low growth years. The latter analysis further corroborated the negative response of tree-ring growth to hurricane disturbances. Additional research stemming from this study should include a strengthening of the disturbance signal by accounting for events that could also have affected tree growth, such as fire, insects, and human activity.

Developed in conjunction with Lesley University, this classroom resource for Level 6 provides effective, research-based strategies to help teachers differentiate problem solving in the classroom and includes: 50 leveled math problems (150 problems total), an overview of the problem-solving process, and ideas for formative assessment of students'' problem-solving abilities. It also includes 50 mini-lessons and a student activity sheet featuring a problem tiered at three levels, plus a ZIP file with electronic versions of activity sheets.This resource was developed with Common Core State Standards as its foundation, is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and supports core concepts of STEM instruction. 144pp.

It includes: 50 leveled math problems (150 problems total), an overview of the problem-solving process, and ideas for formative assessment of students'' problem-solving abilities. It also includes 50 mini-lessons and a dstudent activity sheet featuring a problem tiered at three levels, plus digital resources that inc electronic versions of activity sheets. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and supports core concepts of STEM instruction.