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LeAlan Marvin Jones (born May 8, 1979) is an American journalist who lives in Chicago's South Shore. His radio documentaries have received critical acclaim and numerous awards. Jones was the Green Party 's 2010 nominee for United States Senate from Illinois .
Our America is a film based on the book Our America: Life And Death on the South Side of Chicago. [ 1 ] It premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival , and aired on American television later that year.
In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . [ 1 ] It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska (called Maryna Zalewska in the book), her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendancy to American stardom.
Whole language is a philosophy of reading and a discredited [8] educational method originally developed for teaching literacy in English to young children. The method became a major model for education in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, [7] despite there being no scientific support for the method's effectiveness. [9]
Teach Us All is a documentary about the inequality of schooling in America. [3] The film is split into three parts, discussing the teachers’, students’, and communities’ role in fighting for better education. [1] It begins with an overview of the Little Rock Nine, including interviews with two of the original members of the group. [4]
Pages in category "Books about American English" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Made in America (book) W. Webster's Third New ...
British descriptions of English intonation can be traced back to the 16th century. [5] Early in the 20th century the dominant approach in the description of English and French intonation was based on a small number of basic "tunes" associated with intonation units: in a typical description, Tune 1 is falling, with final fall, while Tune 2 has a ...
Among the other books by Kozol are Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America, which received the Robert F. Kennedy Book award for 1989 and the Conscience-in-Media Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, which won the New England Book Award and was a finalist ...