welcome, mr. white’s ela class! i hope you enjoy this booktalk! -mrs. ussery (almost ) school...
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Welcome, Mr. White’s ELA Class!
I hope you enjoy this Booktalk!
-Mrs. Ussery(Almost ) school
librarian
Cowboy
I’ve always said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction can sometimes dig into that truth a bit more clearly. That’s why I write fiction inspired by real life.
My newest book Ghetto Cowboy began when a series of arresting photos in LIFE magazine literally stopped me in my tracks.-G. Neri
Illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson
I'm like a mash-up DJ of a writer: I sample real life and re-mix it into story. - G
ASYLUM
• a·sy·lum•[ ə sləm ]1.protection from extradition: protection and immunity from extradition granted by a government to somebody who has fled another country, e.g. because of political oppression
2.shelter and protection: protection from danger or imminent harm provided by a sheltered place
3.offensive term: an offensive term for an institution for people with psychiatric disorders
More about this author and his books:
http://www.danpoblocki.com/
Packed with
thrills and
chills to keep you in suspense and quickly turning pages!
Avi writes:Strange but true: the opening episode in this book is something that actually happened to me. The telephone call came shortly after I moved into a new apartment and had just received my phone. It was in fact, the first call that came in—on a land line desk phone. The who, the why, and how, I never learned. It was nonetheless, very troubling, very disturbing. I could not get it out of my mind.
The way I worked my way free of the event was by writing about it—something writers sometimes do—inventing a who, a why, and how. Some of my readers tell me Wolf Rider is the scariest book I have ever written. Perhaps it is. It surely is creepy. And . . . it did really happen. At least the beginning.
More about this author and her books.
An American Indian reservation is an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. There are about 310 Indian reservations in the United States, meaning not all of the country's 550-plus recognized tribes have a reservation—some tribes have more than one reservation, some share reservations, while others have none. In addition, because of past land allotments, leading to some sales to non-Indians, some reservations are severely fragmented, with each piece of tribal, individual, and privately held land being a separate enclave. This jumble of private and public real estate creates significant administrative, political, and legal difficulties.
The name "reservation" comes from the conception of the Indian tribes as independent sovereigns at the time the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Thus, the early peace treaties (often signed under duress) in which Indian tribes surrendered large portions of land to the U.S. also designated parcels which the tribes, as sovereigns, "reserved" to themselves, and those parcels came to be called "reservations."[5] The term remained in use even after the federal government began to forcibly relocate tribes to parcels of land to which they had no historical connection.As of the year 2000, a majority of Native Americans and Alaska Natives live somewhere other than the reservations, often in big western cities such as Phoenix and Los Angeles.[6][7]
In 2012, there were over 2.5 million Native Americans with about 1 million living on reservations.
Sherman Alexie
ma·fi·amutually supportive clique: a close-knit or influential group of people who work together and protect one another's interests or the interests of a particular person
Queen of Egypt
Born: Egypt, 69 BC
Died: Egypt,August 12,
30 BC39 years old
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