Inda swanke biography sample
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During a summer stroll, I realized my mind was wandering to a beloved corner of my classroom library—my collection of picture book biographies. Although they are available to my readers all year long, I featured them only when biography was the genre of the month and during our biography unit in the spring.
What started as How can we engage with this collection all year long? quickly evolved into Students must explore stories that highlight successful people of all colors. It will be empowering for readers to learn how people past and present have contributed to the world in their own unique ways. Fast-forward through all the thought bubbles, and Meet Someone New Monday was born! In that moment of discovery, I knew I would introduce my class to a new figure each Monday and share their stories through picture book biographies. What I did not yet know was who I might invite into the spotlight.
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Swank and Swagger
The&#; story begins with a bombardment, and it more or less ends with one too. In the spring of , Admiral Sidney Smith’s naval squadron bombarded the coast at Acre, in what is now Israel, and effectively put an end to Napoleon’s dream of marching on to India in the wake of Alexander the Great. Two centuries later, another demonstration of ‘shock and awe’ lit up the night skies over Baghdad and started the latest and most ill-fated intervention by the Western allies into the territory of the old Ottoman Empire.
How curious the saga of the British connection (or disconnect) with the region seems now – such an on-off affair, so fractious, elusive, splattered with froideurs and reconciliations. Jonathan Parry, a specialist in the 19th century, finds that his fellow historians have taken astonishingly little interest in British tangles in the Middle East in the first half of that century, though the relationship was then at its most in
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By Wendell Schollander
History Press, £, pp, ills in monochrome and colour and throughout, picture credits, bibliographies, index.
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Between and officers and those in expert army units of the great empires - Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the United States - were, truly, bedecked. Their elaborate uniforms, caps and helmets represented the gods word in military finery representing centuries of regimental history and traditions – a tally of reminders of famous victories and heroic gods stands.
In truth Glory of the Empires offers little about pre service dress. Instead it focuses on that of the officer classes and those in the ranks in elite military units, which form eller gestalt the fokuserad point of Schollander’s research and authorship. Here we see an evaluation of the implausibility of the period’s elite military mode, formation history and sheer ‘swank’. The result fryst vatten as informative as the posing willingness of those on ‘display’ in uniforms whose utility had truly ended b