"The authors have translated Eckhart's original sermons and academic texts, both from Latin and German into English and from prose into poetry. They consider their work a "carrying over" of his insights for readers "for whom the style of his writings might not be easily accessible."--From the Publisher's Weekly review.
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.
Grades 2–5 Everyone loves baseball! Bring the love of the game into your music room and your students will thank you. Taken directly from Mark Burrows’s classroom experience, "Play Ball!" is a collection of musical games and activities inspired by baseball. Use the activities as part of a thematic unit or pick and choose your favorites to use throughout the year. This collection includes songs, compositional activities, Orff arrangements, and active games. Your students, like Mark’s, will be asking you to throw the first pitch. / General Music / Unison, Orff Instrument, Small Percussion, Games
Grades 2-6 * So often world drumming resources are more about the world and less about the drumming. And while those books definitely belong on your shelves (see Planet Jams (30/2191H), sometimes we just want the music. That's where Just Jams comes in. Starting with fundamental rhythms from various countries/regions, Mark Burrows has built engaging and accessible jams to strengthen students' rhythm skills. Meaningful speech parts for each jam are included, allowing for a teaching process of speech to body percussion to playing, as are suggestions for developing each jam into a performance piece. Diverse in its rhythms--from West Africa, Brazil and Cuba, along with Gaelic, Hawaiian, and Rock 'n' Roll rhythms, and even spoken word slams to Mother Goose rhymes, to name just a few--Just Jams is also diverse in instrumentation, featuring jams for the Orff instrumentarium, Boomwhackers® and sound effects in addition to those for drums and other non-pitched percussion instruments.
Word count 1,928 CD: American English Suitable for young learners
When Tonya and her friends decide to sail around the world they want to see exciting things and visit exciting places. But one day, they meet an orca - a killer whale - one of the most dangerous animals in the sea. And life gets a little too exciting.
This graphic novel for adult English-language learning follows the story of a man, the recent recipient of a cell phone, who suddenly becomes a prisoner in a highjacked taxicab in the dark streets of an empty city. Includes glossary and reading acitivities
"The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meet a man, alone, standing on an empty road a longway from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange ..."--Back cover
"The Body Electric" celebrates the music inside us while exploring ways to express this music using the greatest instruments of all-our bodies. Part handy reference, part idea-generator, this collection is all fun as it introduces a self-contained instrumentarium that is convenient, inexpensive, physical, adaptable, self-affirming, educational, and, most of all, fun. An overview of and targeted examples for a variety of body, vocal and mouth sounds are included within the first two sections; great to teach the basics and to help student internalize rhythmic concepts. The last section includes songs that employ various combinations of all the introduced sounds. Reproducible student parts are included, as is a CD with helpful performance models of the sounds and pieces.
From the outside looking in, drum circles can seem mysterious. And the drum circle facilitators can seem even more mysterious. The way they seem to bring so many people together into mesmerizing, pulsating rhythms while saying virtually nothing-surely they must hold some secret, some intangible quality bestowed upon only a few. Not true! In "The Accidental Drum Circle," Mark Burrows shares how, with no more than two hand-drum lessons to his credit, he put together a drum circle program that reached hundreds of elementary students. This humorous "quick read" addresses everything from how to arrange the instruments and students to the basics of drumming to how to start a groove to how to have a drum circle without drums, and dozens of topics in between. As Mark writes, the purpose of drum circle is immediate-connect people through a shared musical experience that builds community while celebrating individuality. This resource will help you do just that, immediately and successfully!