{"title":"Monica Edinger","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"africa-is-my-home-book-monica-edinger-9780763676476","title":"Africa Is My Home","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A remarkable story of resilience, faith, and hope.\" -- \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Inspired by a true account, here is the compelling story of a child who arrives in America on the slave ship \u003ci\u003eAmistad\u003c\/i\u003e--and eventually makes her way home to Africa. Narrated in a remarkable first-person voice, this fictionalized book of memories of a real-life figure retells history through the eyes of a child. Lush, full-color illustrations by Robert Byrd, plus archival photographs and documents, bring an extraordinary journey to life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49515971510545,"sku":"GOR009204291","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49664961413393,"sku":"GOR008288433","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49917527752977,"sku":"CIN0763676470G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50208162480401,"sku":"CIN0763676470VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52487773618449,"sku":"NIN9780763676476","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0763676470.jpg?v=1751442497"},{"product_id":"using-beloved-classics-to-deepen-reading-comprehension-book-monica-edinger-9780439278607","title":"Using Beloved Classics to Deepen Reading Comprehension","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49630277337361,"sku":"GOR013459552","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50094280179985,"sku":"CIN0439278600G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0439278600.jpg?v=1751007172"},{"product_id":"seeking-history-book-monica-edinger-9780325002651","title":"Seeking History","description":"Primary sources are real stuff and real stuff is powerful stuff. Civil War photographs. E.B. White's drafts for \u003ci\u003eCharlotte's Web\u003c\/i\u003e. An heirloom quilt. Birth certificates. All evoke actual past times and events. And no matter how well written, no textbook can provide the same sense of being there, of the realness that primary sources provide. They help us as nothing else does to begin to understand the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeking History\u003c\/i\u003eis one of the first books about using primary sources in elementary and middle school classrooms to enhance and deepen students' grapplings with history. You'll read about students working as scholars as they tussle with old language and spelling in a three-hundred-year-old journal . . . compare their own photographs of a local street with others taken in 1904 and 1975 . . . view an early film to see what it can tell them about early twentieth-century immigrants . . . examine household objects to determine what life was like long ago. And they do even more, taking what they've discovered to create interpretations of their own. These students use primary sources as historians, literary scholars, artists, writers, and more. Primary sources enrich every facet of their learning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBest of all, Monica Edinger offers lots of ideas and resources you can put to immediate use: types of primary sources; tips on finding and preparing primary sources for student use; personal, local, and remote history activities; detailed descriptions of immigration, Constitution, and Africa projects; guidelines for using primary sources to teach literature, writing, and art; and teaching strategies for interpreting text, images, and objects. A companion CD, packaged with the book, offers even more support with links to websites, reproducible handouts, and sample student work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49989023170833,"sku":"CIN0325002657G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50992019767569,"sku":"CIN0325002657VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0325002657.jpg?v=1750909854"},{"product_id":"nearer-my-freedom-book-monica-edinger-9781728464077","title":"Nearer My Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Permit me to lay at your feet\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe following genuine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarrative . . .\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOlaudah Equiano was a writer and abolitionist whose autobiography, The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano, captured the attention of British readers at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. The account of his childhood in the African kingdom of Benin, the details of his kidnapping and enslavement as a young boy, and the chronicles of his life as a sailor were influential in ending the British slave trade and continue to inspire the work of academics, activists, and artists over two hundred years later.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNearer My Freedom retells Equiano's remarkable life story in found verse, shaping his own words into impassioned, striking poetry, allowing readers to discover it anew. Supplemented with detailed and illuminating annotations, authors Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge offer a new means to engage with one of the most famous texts of the abolition movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50169797443857,"sku":"CIN1728464072VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50214587891985,"sku":"CIN1728464072G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50432245334289,"sku":"GOR013948049","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50989534478609,"sku":"NIN9781728464077","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1728464072.jpg?v=1751153159"},{"product_id":"nearer-my-freedom-book-monica-edinger-9781728450988","title":"Nearer My Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Permit me to lay at your feet\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe following genuine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarrative . . .\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOlaudah Equiano was a writer and abolitionist whose autobiography, The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano, captured the attention of British readers at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. The account of his childhood in the African kingdom of Benin, the details of his kidnapping and enslavement as a young boy, and the chronicles of his life as a sailor were influential in ending the British slave trade and continue to inspire the work of academics, activists, and artists over two hundred years later.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNearer My Freedom retells Equiano's remarkable life story in found verse, shaping his own words into impassioned, striking poetry, allowing readers to discover it anew. Supplemented with detailed and illuminating annotations, authors Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge offer a new means to engage with one of the most famous texts of the abolition movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51048001569041,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51048004747537,"sku":"NIN9781728450988","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51694584070417,"sku":"CIN1728450985G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1728450985.jpg?v=1751279510"},{"product_id":"far-away-and-long-ago-book-monica-edinger-9781571100443","title":"Far Away and Long Ago","description":"If you want to make your history teaching more meaningful to your students and more rewarding to yourself, welcome to Monica Edinger's classroom, where studying long ago events and far away places is a vital, exciting collaboration. Monica's fourth-grade students are historians. They consider events from their own lives, use oral history to explore other people's stories, investigate multiple perspectives, and examine documents and artifacts to interpret historical events. They experiment with ways of telling history: writing personal histories, creating picture books, producing research reports, and staging performances. Together Monica and her students grapple with the complexities of the past in order to make better sense of the present. Examining immigration from the perspective of a recent arrival from the Caribbean or from a Pilgrim hundreds of years ago makes history real and compelling to these young historians. As one classroom teacher's personal narrative on the development, teaching, and assessment of her curriculum, Far Away and Long Ago features: an overview of current issues regarding history in the elementary school; curriculum units ranging from the near to the far, from the recent to the distant past including topics such as memoir, immigration, Native Americans, and the Pilgrims; detailed descriptions on how each unit was developed, taught, and assessed; examples and analysis of student work; teaching goals and reflections on the complexities of teaching history today. Woven throughout this personal narrative are practical suggestions written by co-author, Stephanie Fins, a museum educator, who collaborated with Monica as she developed and taught her history curriculum. Stephanie provides a rich variety of practical teaching suggestions, topic extensions, and professional resources: Zooming In: informational essays on topics that support the historical content; Booktalks: reviews of relevant professional books; Tools of the Trade: practical ideas to support and extend classroom work; and On-Line Resources: related Internet sites that offer text, images, audio material, and virtual tours of historic sites. Far Away and Long Ago will expand the ways teachers think about history and provide elementary and middle school practitioners with new ways to teach this lively subject.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51323248902417,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51323251753233,"sku":"CIN157110044XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/157110044X.jpg?v=1750719344"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-monica-edinger.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}