Writing to Explore
Writing to Explore

Author: David Somoza

Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1571107878

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In Writing to Explore, David and Peter demonstrate how to teach adventure writing, which integrates nonfiction and fiction and motivates students to write with imagination, curiosity, and a hunger to learn everything about their topic. The book starts with a solid foundation in the basics of good writing: setting descriptions, writing atmosphere, and character development. The authors then explore the specific elements of adventure writing--from setting the stage to conducting research; from combining history and geography to effectively utilizing technology. The result is an adventure-based paper that is "rooted in real places, supported by facts, and developed with detailed description of images from real locations." Teachers will find handouts, sample activities, student writing examples, research sources, and tips to help them create a nonfiction writing program based around the adventure writing model. Research papers don't have to be boring to read or to write. This book will show you how to get vibrant papers from your students--papers that teach both reader and writer something new.

The Dead Queens Club
The Dead Queens Club

Author: Hannah Capin

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1488034265

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If your school’s homecoming king had a little too much in common with Henry VIII, would you survive with your head still attached? You’d think being the new girl in a tiny town would equal one very boring senior year. But if you’re me—Annie Marck, alias Cleves—and you accidentally transform into teenage royalty by entering Lancaster High on the arm of the king himself? Life becomes the exact opposite of boring. Henry has it all: he’s the jock, the genius and the brooding bad boy all in one. Which sort of explains why he’s on his sixth girlfriend in two years. What it doesn’t explain is why two of them—two of us—are dead. My best friend thinks it’s Henry’s fault, which is obviously ridiculous. My nemesis says we shouldn’t talk about it, which is straight-up sketchy. But as the resident nosy new girl, I’m determined to find out what really happened to Lancaster’s dead queens…ideally before history repeats itself.

Red's Nature Adventure
Red's Nature Adventure

Author: James Dworkin

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-05

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9780692079430

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An adventurous dog. A lesson about nature. Red the Irish setter is back for yet another escapade! This time he and his human friends head out for a day of exploration in a local nature preserve. Along the way, adventurous Red meets some special new friends who come to his aid as they teach him about the world in which they live. Beautifully illustrated by artist Michael Chelich, the story is set in the real-life northwestern Indiana nature preserves of Shirley Heinze Land Trust. The appendix includes information about the importance of protecting these natural places and how you can visit them.

Rock, Paper, Fire
Rock, Paper, Fire

Author: Marni Jackson

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781894773676

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A collection of the best poems and short stories written about various, sometimes risky wilderness experiences and adventures around the world, written for The Banff Centre's Mountain and Wilderness Writing program.

Paper Maps, No Apps
Paper Maps, No Apps

Author: Johnny Welsh

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06-23

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780996307895

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What starts off as a dare turns into a social experiment that becomes a way of life. A young couple creates a fun way to stay connected by disconnecting. Unplugging the phones and being present are the rules. This travel adventure quickly turns into a self-deprecating comedy about bad smartphone habits. Chance encounters and characters met on the road are intertwined throughout. Is the smartphone addiction phenomenon driving you crazy? Are we relying too much on instant technology? There can be life without these devices, but where is this balance between the tech and physical worlds? Discover how reduction in technology can lead to your serendipitous adventure. WARNING: Strange things might happen, like conversations and live interactions. You may even develop an insatiable desire for traveling unplugged.

Adventure Capital
Adventure Capital

Author: Julie Kleinman

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0520304411

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Paris’s Gare du Nord is one of the busiest international transit centers in the world. In the past three decades, it has become an important hub for West African migrants—self-fashioned adventurers—navigating life in the city. In this groundbreaking work, Julie Kleinman chronicles how West Africans use the Gare du Nord to create economic opportunities, confront police harassment, and forge connections to people outside of their communities. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, including an internship at the French national railway company, Kleinman reveals how racial inequality is ingrained in the order of Parisian public space. She vividly describes the extraordinary ways that African migrants retool French transit infrastructure to build alternative pathways toward social and economic integration where state institutions have failed. In doing so, these adventurers defy boundaries—between migrant and citizen, center and periphery, neighbor and stranger—that have shaped urban planning and immigration policy. Adventure Capital offers a new understanding of contemporary migration and belonging, capturing the central role that West African migrants play in revitalizing French urban life.

Find Your Adventure
Find Your Adventure

Author: Nicole LaRue

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781419729188

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Whether you're embarking on an epic trip, starting a new phase of life, or looking to kickstart your curiosity, this illustrated guided journal is sure to rouse your sense of adventure. Take it along on short jaunts around your hometown or tuck it into your suitcase on fantastic trips abroad! Brimming with prompts that encourage you to break out of a rut and take a fresh look at your surroundings, Find Your Adventure is tailor made for exploring the world around you. Each of the four chapters centers around a different type of adventuring, so you can skip around and choose activities that fit your mood. Discover new locales as you map your day's route in the Wandering chapter, pay attention to overlooked details as you compose a poem with street names in the Noteworthy chapter, get in touch with your feelings as you list what made you smile in the Authentic chapter, and be bold and outgoing as you photograph intriguing people in the Daring chapter. Beautiful details like a grain-embossed cover, foil stamping, and ribbon markers make the journal an ideal keepsake to remember all your adventures by.

A Is for Adventure
A Is for Adventure

Author: Irene Kilpatrick

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-04-24

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1416927794

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Each letter of the alphabet is paired with an illustration of the Backyardigans doing or involving something beginning with that letter, including "B is for baking blueberry pies" and "N is for ninjas."