Literacy In The Mountains

Author : Samantha NeCamp
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813178882

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After the 2016 presidential election, popular media branded Appalachia as "Trump Country," decrying its inhabitants as ignorant fearmongers voting against their own interests. And since the 1880s, there have been many, including travel writers and absentee landowners, who have framed mountain people as uneducated and hostile. These stereotypes ultimately ward off potential investments in the region's educational system and skew how students understand themselves and the place they call home. Attacking these misrepresentations head on, Literacy in the Mountains: Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia reclaims the long history of literacy in the Appalachian region. Focusing on five Kentucky newspapers printed between 1885 and 1920, Samantha NeCamp explores the complex ways readers in the mountains negotiated their local and national circumstances through editorials, advertisements, and correspondence. In local newspapers, community action groups announced meeting times and philanthropists raised funds for a network of hitherto unknown private schools. Preserved in print, these stories and others reveal an engaged citizenry specifically concerned with education. Combining literacy and journalism studies, NeCamp demonstrates that Appalachians are not—and never have been—an illiterate, isolated people.

Author : Samantha NeCamp
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780813178875

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Literacy in the Mountains by Samantha NeCamp Pdf

After the 2016 presidential election, popular media branded Appalachia as "Trump Country," decrying its inhabitants as ignorant fearmongers voting against their own interests. And since the 1880s, there have been many, including travel writers and absentee landowners, who have framed mountain people as uneducated and hostile. These stereotypes ultimately ward off potential investments in the region's educational system and skew how students understand themselves and the place they call home. Attacking these misrepresentations head on, Literacy in the Mountains: Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia reclaims the long history of literacy in the Appalachian region. Focusing on five Kentucky newspapers printed between 1885 and 1920, Samantha NeCamp explores the complex ways readers in the mountains negotiated their local and national circumstances through editorials, advertisements, and correspondence. In local newspapers, community action groups announced meeting times and philanthropists raised funds for a network of hitherto unknown private schools. Preserved in print, these stories and others reveal an engaged citizenry specifically concerned with education. Combining literacy and journalism studies, NeCamp demonstrates that Appalachians are not—and never have been—an illiterate, isolated people.

Author : Nancy Churnin
Publisher : Creston Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781954354197

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Manjhi Moves a Mountain by Nancy Churnin Pdf

Dashrath Manjhi used a hammer and chisel, grit, determination, and twenty years to carve a path through the mountain separating his poor village from the nearby village with schools, markets, and a hospital. Manjhi Moves a Mountain shows how everyone can make a difference if their heart is big enough.

Author : Traci Sorell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525555124

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At the Mountain's Base by Traci Sorell Pdf

A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots. At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war. With an author's note that pays homage to the true history of Native American U.S. service members like WWII pilot Ola Mildred "Millie" Rexroat, this is a story that reveals the roots that ground us, the dreams that help us soar, and the people and traditions that hold us up.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pearson Scott Foresman
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0328941875

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Myview Literacy 2020 Big Book Grade K Unit 1: A Trip to the Mountains by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Elder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047080505

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Reading the Mountains of Home by John Elder Pdf

Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."

Author : Shalini Atwal
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477724859

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Mighty U.S. Mountains by Shalini Atwal Pdf

Mighty U.S. Mountains is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.9 and Literacy.L.3.1g. Readers are introduced to the mountain ranges of the United States with full-page color photographs along with narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with “Mountains of the United States" (9781477724712) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

Author : Joyce Jeffries
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477724712

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Mountains of the United States by Joyce Jeffries Pdf

Mountains of the United States is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.9 and Literacy.L.3.4a. Full-page color photographs along with narrative nonfiction text introduces readers to the mountain ranges of the U.S. This book should be paired with “Mighty U.S. Mountains" (9781477724859) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

Author : Katrina M. Powell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0813926289

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The Anguish of Displacement by Katrina M. Powell Pdf

This book constitutes a counternarrative to Shenandoah National Park official history, using 300 letters in park archives written by families who were displaced upon the creation of the national park, authorized by Congress in 1926. Using this significant, newly catalogued corpus of letters, Powell reveals the many facets of the poor, disadvantaged writers, who took up letter writing to address the powerful park bureaucracy, despite their educational disadvantages. They wrote to resist the rhetorics used to describe them and created their own representations through their letters.

Author : Catherine Weyerhaeuser Morley
Publisher : Mountain Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0878425829

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Where Do Mountains Come From, Momma? by Catherine Weyerhaeuser Morley Pdf

A little girl and her mother were taking a walk in the mountains. The mountains were so big, and each one looked so different. The girl began to wonder. Join her as she asks questions and learns about the inner workings of planet Earth.

Author : Joy Cowley
Publisher : Learning Media Ltd
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Readers (Elementary)
ISBN : 0478204787

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I'm the King of the Mountain by Joy Cowley Pdf

A flea proves who is really king of the mountain.

Author : David Tunkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 1740650107

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Going Up the Mountain by David Tunkin Pdf

Author : Frank L. Salomon,Mercedes Nino-Murcia
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822350270

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The Lettered Mountain by Frank L. Salomon,Mercedes Nino-Murcia Pdf

Andean peoples joined the world of alphabetic literacy nearly 500 years ago, yet the history of their literacy has remained hidden until now. In The Lettered Mountain, Frank Salomon and Mercedes Niño-Murcia expand notions of literacy and challenge stereotypes of Andean “orality” by analyzing the writings of mountain villagers from Inka times to the Internet era. Their historical ethnography is based on extensive research in the village of Tupicocha, in the central Peruvian province of Huarochirí. The region has a special place in the history of Latin American letters as the home of the unique early-seventeenth-century Quechua-language book explaining Peru’s ancient gods and priesthoods. Granted access to Tupicocha’s surprisingly rich internal archives, Salomon and Niño-Murcia found that legacy reflected in a distinctive version of lettered life developed prior to the arrival of state schools. In their detailed ethnography, writing emerges as a vital practice underlying specifically Andean sacred culture and self-governance. At the same time, the authors find that Andean relations with the nation-state have been disadvantaged by state writing standards developed in dialogue with European academies but not with the rural literate tradition.

Author : Kristin Schuetz
Publisher : Blastoff! Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1600149707

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Mountain Lions by Kristin Schuetz Pdf

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces mountain lions to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--

Author : Rebecca Sabelko
Publisher : Blastoff! Readers
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1644876078

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Mountains by Rebecca Sabelko Pdf

"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to mountains. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--