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Lanterns

Author : Marian Wright Edelman
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807071994
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Lanterns written by Marian Wright Edelman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am grateful beyond words for the example of the lanterns shared in this memoir whose lives I hope will illuminate my children's, your children's, and the paths of countless others coming behind.--Marian Wright Edelman, from the Preface Marian Wright Edelman, "the most influential children's advocate in the country" (The Washington Post), shares stories from her life at the center of this century's most dramatic civil rights struggles. She pays tribute to the extraordinary personal mentors who helped light her way: Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, William Sloane Coffin, Ella Baker, Mae Bertha Carter, and many others. She celebrates the lives of the great Black women of Bennettsville, South Carolina-Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate-who along with her parents formed a formidable and loving network of community support for the young Marian Wright as a Black girl growing up in the segregated South. We follow the author to Spelman College in the late 1950s, when the school was a hotbed of civil rights activism, and where, through excerpts from her honest and passionate college journal, we witness a national leader in the making and meet the people who inspired and empowered her, including Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Howard Zinn, and Charles E. Merrill, Jr. Lanterns takes us to Mississippi in the 1960s, where Edelman was the first and only Black woman lawyer. Her account of those years is a riveting first-hand addition to the literature of civil rights: "The only person I recognized in the menacing crowd as I walked towards the front courthouse steps was [a] veteran New York Times reporter. He neither acknowledged me nor met my eyes. I knew then what it was like to be a poor Black person in Mississippi: alone." And we follow Edelman as she leads Bobby Kennedy on his fateful trip to see Mississippi poverty and hunger for himself, a powerful personal experience for the young RFK that helped awaken a nation's conscience to child hunger and poverty. Lanterns is illustrated with thirty of the author's personal photographs and includes "A Parent's Pledge" and "Twenty-five More Lessons for Life," an inspiration to all of us-parents, grandparents, teachers, religious and civic leaders-to guide, protect, and love our children every day so that they will become, in Marian Wright Edelman's moving vision, the healing agents for national transformation.

Stop-Time

Author : Frank Conroy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101549491
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Stop-Time written by Frank Conroy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-02-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the road; of odd jobs and lost friendships, brutal schools and first loves; of a father's early death and a son's exhilarating escape into manhood.

The Mentor

Author : Jay Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317790227
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Mentor written by Jay Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine a moving, personal narrative about growing up gay in the south! Students, teachers, and anyone interested in gay studies and experiences will find that The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity (a 2001 Lambda Literary Foundation Gay Male Biography/Autobiography Award finalist) delivers a captivating and honest look into the challenges of growing up gay through the context of firsthand experiences, revelations, and realizations. This unique book is an intelligent and personal narrative that considers the social, religious, and emotional aspects of what it is like to grow up as a gay male in the south and examines the enormous social changes regarding homosexuality that have taken place in America during the last half of the century. Written to reveal the importance of the author's mentor in helping him form his self-identity and educating him about being gay, this book challenges the stereotypical idea that, unlike heterosexuals, gay men are not able to form nurturing, fulfilling bonds between themselves. The Mentor delivers an inspiring story about accepting and understanding your sexuality with the help and guidance of other men who have traveled the road to a successful gay identity. This unique book offers the courage, strength, and support of a mentor to help guide you through the trials that many young gay men experience, such as: recognizing the possibilities of exploitation by older gay men due to a lack of emotional and social experience creating a loyal relationship with a man that does not include sex but which satisfies emotional needs that many gay men need and long for discovering the importance of a mentor to gay youths, since there are few homosexual role models to learn from Sincere and well-written, The Mentor provides insight into everything from the author's experience with intolerance of homosexuality by certain religions to struggles with fidelity and infidelity, illustrating the difficult yet universal challenges of life relationships. The Mentor contains suggestions that will help you recognize that your feelings of desire and love and your quest for human connection as a gay man are not the distorted reflections of a heterosexual image, but a healthy gay identity. With this unique book, you will discover how to make the shift from confusion to full acceptance of your gay identity, you will understand that you are not alone, and perhaps you will be encouraged to pass on the legacy of a mentor to other young gay men.

Mentor: A Memoir

Author : Tom Grimes
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 0982569106
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Mentor: A Memoir written by Tom Grimes and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at the writing life, the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, the fickle publishing world, and an extraordinary friendship with Frank Conroy. A chance encounter between two writers, one young, one older, develops into a wonderful friendship neither expected. Frank Conroy, author of the classic memoir Stop-Time, meets Tom Grimes, an aspiring writer and an applicant to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which Conroy directs. First as teacher and student--and gradually as friends—their lives become entwined, and through both successes and disappointments, their bond deepens. Exquisitely written, Mentor is an honest and heartbreaking exploration of the writing life and the role of a very important teacher.

The Writer's Portable Mentor

Author : Priscilla Long
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 082636005X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Writer's Portable Mentor written by Priscilla Long and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet's ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every writer's work.

Mentors, Muses & Monsters

Author : Elizabeth Benedict
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438443501
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Mentors, Muses & Monsters written by Elizabeth Benedict and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty writers look back at the the people, events, and books that launched their literary lives.

The Mentor

Author : Lee Matthew Goldberg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250083559
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Mentor written by Lee Matthew Goldberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house. When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn’t be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to his girlfriend, Jamie, and the three have a great time. When William mentions that he’s been writing a novel, Kyle is overjoyed. He would love to read the opus his mentor has toiled over. Until the novel turns out to be not only horribly written, but the most depraved story Kyle has read. After Kyle politely rejects the novel, William becomes obsessed, causing trouble between Kyle and Jamie, threatening Kyle’s career, and even his life. As Kyle delves into more of this psychopath’s work, it begins to resemble a cold case from his college town, when a girl went missing. William’s work is looking increasingly like a true crime confession. Lee Matthew Goldberg's The Mentor is a twisty, nail-biting thriller that explores how the love of words can lead to a deadly obsession with the fate of all those connected and hanging in the balance.

Mentor

Author : Chuck Lawless
Publisher : Lifeway Church Resources
ISBN 13 : 9781415873922
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Mentor written by Chuck Lawless and published by Lifeway Church Resources. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is both a practical and spiritual guide to biblical mentoring, providing easy-to-model life application for how to have and be a mentor. Mentoring is a vital aspect of true discipleship, and it all begins with a desire to grow.

Writing with the Master

Author : Tony Vanderwarker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628739150
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Writing with the Master written by Tony Vanderwarker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker is astonished when John Grisham offers to take him under his wing and teach him the secrets of thriller writing. “The beginning and the end are easy,” Grisham tells him. “It’s the three hundred pages in the middle that’s the hard part.” To ensure his plot doesn’t run out of gas, Grisham puts Tony though his outline process. Tony does one, and then Grisham asks for another … and another … and another. As they work together, Grisham reveals the techniques that have helped him create compelling bestsellers for more than two decades—for instance, “You’ve got to hook your reader in the first forty pages or you’ll lose them.” After a year of constructing outlines, Grisham finally gives Tony the go-ahead to start writing. Writing with the Master immerses the reader in the creative process as Tony struggles to produce a successful thriller. It’s a roller coaster ride, sometimes hilarious, and often full of ups and downs. Grisham’s critiques and margin notes to Tony reveal his nimble imagination and plot development genius. For Grisham fans, Vanderwarker’s memoir pulls back the curtain on his writing secrets, and for aspiring writers, it’s a master class in thriller writing. In the end, Tony resolves to take Grisham’s teachings to heart and eventually decides to write what he thinks he was meant to: a book about the creative process and his incredible two years working with John Grisham.

The Casual Mentor

Author : Hank Hoppin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491784598
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book The Casual Mentor written by Hank Hoppin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank Hoppin never fully appreciated it as it was happening, but he reaped the rewards of mentorship throughout his life. His father died when Hank was twelve years old, and his mother began mentoring himreminding him that Dad would not be happy, if still alive, to witness the boys misbehavior. She also kept him busy with a paper route to teach him the value of hard work. Once he entered the professional ranks, he was mentored by others and enjoyed twenty-five years of success as district manager at one of Americas leading pharmaceutical companies. He traces what he learned about mentoring in this memoir. Learn how to: adapt mentoring practices to help people of all ages; create and develop a mentoring program; modify mentoring approaches to fit different leadership styles; incorporate storytelling into mentoring. Filled with case studies and inspirational quotes, youll also learn ten advantages to a casual mentoring relationship, the top ten key attributes of the most influential corporate mentors, five undeniable benefits of highly functional teams, and the top five advantages of informal partnerships. Get your team on the right track and enhance business operations with the revealing insights in The Casual Mentor.

Mentor

Author : George Drake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998652849
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Mentor written by George Drake and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What usually struck people about Joe Rosenfield was his wit and unwavering love for Grinnell College. In fact, Rosenfield once said about the college: "After about my third week in the place I'd fallen in love with it. A team of horses couldn't have dragged me away." His passion for the college and its success shined in his dedication to the Grinnell Board of Trustees, where he served from 1941 until his death in 2008. Rosenfield's favorite sport, even counting his 5 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs, was making money for Grinnell. His own out-of-the-box thinking and close friendship with famous investor Warren Buffett helped grow Grinnell College's endowment from $78,000 at the beginning of Rosenfield's board service to just over $1 billion more than a half-century later. "Mentor" will take you on a journey through Rosenfield's life, from his days as a Grinnell student in the early 1920s to serving as the chairman at Younkers to becoming an instrumental figure in Grinnell College history. The stories inside display Rosenfield's steadfast desire to make a positive impact, one of the many reasons he was beloved by so many.- KAY BUCKSBAUM George Drake first came to Grinnell as an undergraduate in the class of 1956. After a sojourn at the University of Chicago to receive his Ph.D., Mr. Drake began his career as a historian and dean atColorado College. He returned to Grinnell in 1979as President, serving in that capacity until 1991.During his presidential tenure, he taught British history several times.From 1991-93, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho, teaching English in a Catholic mission school. Since his return to Grinnell, he has pursued his interests in British and Southern African history.

One Minute Mentoring

Author : Ken Blanchard
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062429280
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book One Minute Mentoring written by Ken Blanchard and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling co-author of the legendary The One Minute Manager® and a former Twitter executive join forces to create the ultimate guide to creating powerful mentoring relationships While most people agree that having a mentor is a good thing, they don’t know how to find one or use one. And despite widespread approval for the idea of being a mentor, most people don’t think they have the time or skills to do so. Positive mentoring relationships can change the way we lead and help us succeed. In One Minute Mentoring, legendary management guru Ken Blanchard and Claire Diaz-Ortiz, a former Twitter executive and early employee, combine their knowledge to provide a systematic approach to intergenerational mentoring, giving readers great insight into the power and influence of mentoring and encouraging them to pursue their own mentoring relationships. Using his classic parable format, Blanchard explains why developing effective communication and relationships across generations can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. One Minute Mentoring is the go-to source for learning why mentoring is the secret ingredient to professional and personal success.

Writing with Mentors

Author : Allison Marchetti
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9780325074504
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Writing with Mentors written by Allison Marchetti and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing with Mentors, high school teachers Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell prove that the key to cultivating productive, resourceful writers-writers who can see value and purpose for writing beyond school-is using dynamic, hot-off-the-press mentor texts. In this practical guide, they provide savvy strategies for:--finding and storing fresh new mentor texts, from trusted traditional sources to the social mediums of the day --grouping mentor texts in clusters that show a diverse range of topics, styles, and approaches --teaching with lessons that demonstrate the enormous potential of mentor texts at every stage of the writing process.

Theda Bara, My Mentor

Author : Joan Craig
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476662835
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Theda Bara, My Mentor written by Joan Craig and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As movie patrons sat in darkened theaters in January 1914, they were mesmerized by an alluring temptress with long sable hair and kohl-rimmed eyes. Theda Bara--"the vamp," as she would come to be known--would soon be one of the highest paid film stars of the 1910s, earning an unheard of $4,000 per week, before retiring from the screen in 1926. In 1946, at age five, the author met Bara--then 61--at her Beverly Hills home and the actress became her mentor. This memoir is the story of their friendship.

Mentor Author, Mentor Texts

Author : Ralph J. Fletcher
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9780325040899
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Mentor Author, Mentor Texts written by Ralph J. Fletcher and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Fletcher has long mentored writing teachers-now he presents the ultimate mentor-text resource for teaching students to write. In Mentor Author, Mentor Texts, Ralph shares 24 short, high-interest texts and accompanying Writer's Notes with your students. Arranged from least difficult to most challenging, they are ready for writers at every level. Online, Ralph also provides whiteboard-ready versions of the texts as well as recordings where he reads of 17 of his pieces. Mentor Author, Mentor Texts Includes: 24 mentor texts written by Ralph, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more Writer's Notes that give students a peek into Ralph's thinking and craft Online access to whiteboard-ready versions of Ralph's mentor texts Online access to recordings of Ralph reading 17 of his pieces Suggestions from colleagues nationwide for using Ralph's texts in the classroom. Let your teaching mentor become your students' writing mentor... ...with engaging mentor texts written and read by Ralph Fletcher... "I wrote all 24 pieces in this book. You'll find an assortment of genres: stories, memoir, poems, essays, and excerpts from novels. The various texts are ordered from easiest (least challenging) to hardest (most challenging). I tried to select short, high-interest pieces. Each one stands on its own with a beginning, middle, and ending. I tried to choose pieces that would bring a sense of closure by the end." ...writer's notes that give students an inside peek into craft... "My Writer's Notes introduce the text, explain my thinking behind various decisions, and point out a few things I want kids to notice. With certain pieces, especially the last three, I highlight revisions I made along the way. I tried hard not to take the mystery out of good writing. Instead these notes are my way of opening the door and leading the student into the text." ...and practical, classroom-tested suggestions like this from your colleagues "One of my students, Suzy, knows that she struggles to provide enough detail in her non-fiction pieces. For her piece about soccer, she told me that she knew she needed to include more details because she didn't want the reader to be confused. We had already read Ralph's "Squirming Wizards of Recycling," so we looked at the Writer's Notes. Ralph said he had brainstormed questions that readers may have had as they read about worm composting, and he then tried to include the answers to those questions in the piece. Suzy decided that she would write down questions that she thought her reader might still have about soccer and then make sure those questions were answered in her writing. Since both Suzy and I have already developed a relationship with Ralph through his texts, it felt like we were inviting an old friend to join our conference." Kate Norem Morris, Teacher, The Bush School, Seattle, Washington

How Do You Spell Win?

Author : Robert Crook Collins
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9780578854526
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book How Do You Spell Win? written by Robert Crook Collins and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take me back to the days when mentoring was a well-respected craft and a highly sought after profession by young people. First-time author Robert Collins delivers a passionate, spell-binding account of his life as an athletics coach and mentor spanning more than two decades of his life. His memoir is chock-full of delightful and compelling stories and experiences both on and off the playing field. Collins' paints vivid pictures of fond memories experienced as well as painful and insightful lessons learned and shared with the young people under his tutelage. His story-telling skills are immeasurably captivating and will keep the reader, even those of us without knowledge of athletics, engaged until the very end! A must read for anyone seeking strategies, skills and inspiration for how to win in life!

Mentoring Your Memoir

Author : Goldie Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980357219
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Mentoring Your Memoir written by Goldie Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldie Alexander, successful author, lecturer and teacher, shows us how to document our own life histories. This guide offers a practical and stimulating approach that will lead you through the creative process from research, structure, crafting, beginning and endings, to controversial issues and publishing.As well as offering practical hints for both experienced and novice writers, Goldie writes about her own early years and provides the reader with many examples of how these influenced her later work.As a true resource, this may be the only 'how to write a memoir' book you'll ever need. Goldie Alexander writes books, short stories and articles for adults and children of all ages.Fiction for older children.Hedgeburners - an A-Z PI mystery (Interactive Publications).My Australian Story: Surviving Sydney Cove (Scholastic) This diary tells the story of the First Fleet and the hardships they went through.Killer Virus (Phoenix Education) 10 stories about boys for both boys and girls.My Horrible Cousins and other Girl Stories (Teaching Solutions) - Teachers' Notes.Bridging the Snowy.Astronet For 9-12 year old readers. (MacMillan Education Australia).Trapeze (MacMillan Education Australia 2005.Fiction for younger children.Lame Duck Protest - Published by Interactive Publications.Seawall (Nelson Thomson Learning) 7-9 year old readers.Shape Shifters.Fiction for little readers.A Hairy Story.Captain Gallant (MacMillan Education Australia).Fiction for adults.Body and Soul: Lilbet's Romance.UnJust Desserts.UnKind Cut.Drama (co-written with Hazel Edwards).Right or Wrong 5 plays to make you think (Teaching Solutions).Dramatics (Teaching Solutions).Non fiction.12 Health and Understanding booklets (Blake Education).2 Health and Understanding Big Books (co-written with Shelley Underwood).The Business of Writing for Young People (co-written with Hazel Edwards).The History of Bread.An Interview with Cindy Centipede.Beyond the Thicket (Macmillan Education)