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Author |
: Ervin R. Stutzman |
Publisher |
: MennoMedia, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2014-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780836198980 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0836198980 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jacob's Choice by : Ervin R. Stutzman
Jacob Hochstetler is a peace-loving Amish settler on the Pennsylvania frontier when Native American warriors, goaded on by the hostilities of the French and Indian War, attack his family one September night in 1757. Taken captive by the warriors and grieving for the family members just killed, Jacob finds his beliefs about love and nonresistance severely tested. Jacob endures a hard winter as a prisoner in an Indian longhouse. Meanwhile, some members of his congregation—the first Amish settlement in America—move away for fear of further attacks. Based on actual events, Jacob's Choice describes how one man's commitment to pacifism leads to a season of captivity, a complicated romance, an unrelenting search for missing family members, and an astounding act of forgiveness and reconciliation. Free downloadable study guide available here.
Author |
: Deborah Lynn Jacobs |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2007-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1596432179 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781596432178 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Choices by : Deborah Lynn Jacobs
Overcome with guilt over her brother's death, a teenaged girl shifts between multiple universes in an attempt to find one in which he is alive.
Author |
: Lynn Domina |
Publisher |
: Modern Language Association |
Total Pages |
: 151 |
Release |
: 2024-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781603296564 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1603296565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by : Lynn Domina
One of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is rightly celebrated for its progressive and distinctive appeals to dismantle the dehumanizing system of American slavery. Depicting the abuse Jacobs experienced, her years in hiding, and her escape to the North, the work evokes sympathy for Jacobs as a woman and a mother. Today, it continues to inform readers about gender and sexuality, power and justice, and Black identity in the United States. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," discusses different editions of the work and suggests background readings. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," explore Jacobs's literary techniques and influences, drawing on autobiography theory, medical humanities, and theology, among other perspectives. Contributors also propose pairings with historical and recent literary works as well as teaching approaches involving visual arts, geography, archives, digital humanities, and service learning.
Author |
: Bob Hostetler |
Publisher |
: Northkill Amish |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1936438356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781936438358 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Northkill by : Bob Hostetler
Winner of ForeWord Review's 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Award for historical fiction. In 1738 Jakob Hochstetler and his family immigrate to America, seeking sanctuary from religious persecution in Europe and the freedom to live and worship according to their nonresistant Anabaptist beliefs. Along with other members of their church, they settle in the Northkill Amish Mennonite community at the base of the Blue Mountains, on the frontier between white and Indian territory. They build a home near Northkill Creek, for which their community is named. For eighteen years, the community lives at peace with its Indian neighbors. Then while the French and Indian War rages, the Hochstetlers way of life is brutally shattered. On the night of September 19-20, 1757, their home is attacked by a war party of Delaware and Shawnee Indians allied with the French. Facing almost certain death with his wife and children, Jakob makes a wrenching decision that will tear apart his family and change all of their lives forever. Northkill is closely based on an inspiring true story well-known among the Amish and Mennonites. It has been documented in many publications and in contemporary accounts preserved in the Pennsylvania State Archives and in private collections."
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 926 |
Release |
: 2002-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSB:31205030001992 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Author |
: Sarah Hoffman |
Publisher |
: American Psychological Association |
Total Pages |
: 18 |
Release |
: 2020-11-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781433835483 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1433835487 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jacob's Room to Choose by : Sarah Hoffman
2020 ALA Rainbow Book List Selection 2020 NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Selection Jacob doesn’t wear the same kinds of clothes as most of the other boys in school. When Jacob goes to the boys’ bathroom, he is chased out by other boys who think he looks like a girl. The same thing happens to his friend Sophie when she tries to go to the girls’ bathroom.Their class gets together to try and make things better.
Author |
: A. J. Jacobs |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2008-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780743291484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0743291484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Year of Living Biblically by : A. J. Jacobs
The bestselling author of The Know-It-All takes on history's most influential book.
Author |
: Rebecca Miller |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2013-03-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443418287 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443418285 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jacob's Folly by : Rebecca Miller
Jacob is a Jewish peddler living in eighteenth-century France; Leslie and Deirdre Senzatimore are a settled American couple; and Masha is an alluring, young, ultra-Orthodox Jew who is gravely ill. In Jacob’s Folly, these four individuals will find their fates intertwined and the courses of their lives irrevocably altered when Jacob is reincarnated as a housefly in contemporary Long Island. Through the unique lens of Jacob’s consciousness, Miller explores transformation in all its different guises—personal, spiritual and literal. As she considers the hold of the past on the present, the power of private hopes and dreams, and the collision of fate and free will, Miller’s world—which is our own, transfigured by her startlingly clear gaze and by her sharp, surprising wit—comes to vibrant life. Leslie’s desire to act as hero and rescuer; Jacob’s disastrous marriage to the childlike Hodle, and his intense obsession with Masha—Miller sketches her characters’ interior lives with compassion, subtlety and an exceptionally light touch. Jacob’s Folly is wildly inventive, and ultimately moving; it will leave the reader, no less than its characters, transformed.
Author |
: Princeton Review |
Publisher |
: Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 770 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780375428340 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0375428348 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis 1,037 Practice Questions for the New GMAT by : Princeton Review
Provides more than one thousand math and verbal questions from the GMAT along with test-taking tips and a full-length assessment exam.
Author |
: Diana T. Slaughter-Kotzin |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2011-11-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798216054368 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Educational Choice by : Diana T. Slaughter-Kotzin
This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K–12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. Closing the K–12 achievement gap is critical to the future welfare of African American individuals, families, and communities—and to the future of our nation as a whole. The black-white academic achievement gap—the significant statistical difference in academic performance between African American students and their white peers—is the single greatest impediment to achieving racial equality and social justice in America. Black Educational Choice provides parents, citizens, educators, and policymakers the critical knowledge they need to leverage the national trend toward increasing and diversifying K–12 school choice beyond traditional neighborhood public schools. Parents can use this information to optimize the success of their own African American children, while policymakers and educators can apply these insights to help close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America. The book collects the interdisciplinary, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic perspectives of education experts to address the questions of millions of anxious African American families: "Would sending our children to a private school or a charter school significantly better their chances of closing the achievement gap and becoming successful individuals? And if so, what kinds of challenges would they likely experience in these alternative educational settings?"