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Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The book was included in Advocate's "What Book Changed the Lives of Our '40 Under 40'?" [7] Explaining the choice, staff writer Erica Anderson wrote, "I love that it teaches tolerance and acceptance and makes pride something everyone can celebrate. The book also includes a reading guide for parents." [7]
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America is a ten-hour, ten-part television miniseries that aired on the History Channel from April 9 through April 14, 2006. The material was later adapted and published as a book by the same title.
Within days, my dad had checked out all the Tamora Pierce books at the local library, and in one we found another Easter egg: Daja’s Book, a 1998 novel, was dedicated to “the teachers who ...
Upon release 12 Books That Changed the World received criticism from reviewers who noted that several items in the list were not considered books. [4] Others also criticized the list as focusing on works put out by white British men, as well as the length of the list. [5] [6] Miles Kingston noted that the list was absent of any foreign texts. [7]
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them is a non-fiction 1999 book written by The Freedom Writers, a group of students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, and their teacher Erin Gruwell.
A powerful and captivating book.” [9] The San Francisco Book Review wrote: Every fifty years or so, a book is written with the power to change lives and reveal a totally new way of looking at the world. Buck is a work of genius and is such a book. To such writers as Dickens, Twain, Douglas, Lee, Angelou and Kerouac we now add the name Asante ...
The homelessness and 'Chevron deference' Supreme Court decisions change law for the worse. They never would have happened if Hillary Clinton had won in 2016. Opinion: The Supreme Court's purely ...