Stories Make the World
Stories Make the World

Author: Stephen Most

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2017-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1785335766

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Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author’s decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.

The Truth about Stories
The Truth about Stories

Author: Thomas King

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0887846963

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Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Addition Facts that Stick
Addition Facts that Stick

Author: Kate Snow

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1933339926

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The fun, engaging program that will help your child master the addition facts once and for all—without spending hours and hours drilling flash cards! Addition Facts That Stick will guide you, step-by- step, as you teach your child to understand and memorize the addition facts, from 1 + 1 through 9 + 9. Hands-on activities, fun games your child will love, and simple practice pages help young students remember the addition facts for good. In 15 minutes per day (perfect for after school, or as a supplement to a homeschool math curriculum) any child can master the addition facts, gain a greater understanding of how math works, and develop greater confidence, in just six weeks! Mastery of the math facts is the foundation for all future math learning. Lay that foundation now, and make it solid, with Addition Facts That Stick!

Telling Stories to Change the World
Telling Stories to Change the World

Author: Rickie Solinger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-16

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1135901260

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Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from locations across the globe—including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Orleans, and Chicago—describe grassroots projects in which communities use narrative as a way of exploring what a more just society might look like and what civic engagement means. These compelling accounts of resistance, hope, and vision showcase the power of the storytelling form to generate critique and collective action. Together, these projects demonstrate the contemporary power of stories to stimulate engagement, active citizenship, the pride of identity, and the humility of human connectedness.

The Seven Basic Plots
The Seven Basic Plots

Author: Christopher Booker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2005-11-11

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 1441116516

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This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.

The Story of the World
The Story of the World

Author: Susan Wise Bauer

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780329838515

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Chronicles the history of the world from 1600 to 1850; discussing important events and prominent figures. Includes maps and illustrations.

First Grade Math with Confidence Instructor Guide (Math with Confidence)
First Grade Math with Confidence Instructor Guide (Math with Confidence)

Author: Kate Snow

Publisher: Peace Hill Press

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 715

ISBN-13: 1952469066

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Easy-to-use, comprehensive coverage of all essential first grade math topics. This scripted, open-and-go program from math educator Kate Snow will give you the tools you need to teach math with confidence—even if you’ve never taught math before. Short, engaging, and hands-on lessons will help your child develop a strong understanding of math, step by step. Counting, comparing, and writing numbers to 100 Addition and subtraction facts to 20 Addition and subtraction word problems Beginning place-value and mental math Shapes, money, time, and measurement

My World, Your World
My World, Your World

Author: Melanie Walsh

Publisher: Corgi Childrens

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780552550550

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Shows the similarities and differences between children all around the world.

It's Our World, Too!
It's Our World, Too!

Author: Phillip Hoose

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-09-25

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0374336229

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A collection of essays about children who have made notable achievements, arranged in the categories "Taking a Stand," "Reaching Out to Others," "Healing the Earth," and "Creating a Safer Future," accompanied by a handbook for young activists.