Margarita Engle: 2010 National Book Festival
Author Margarita Engle appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Margarita Engle is a Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse. "The Surrender Tree" received a Newbery Medal, Pura Belpre Medal, Jane Addams Award, Americas Award, Claudia Lewis Award and Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor. Her first picture book was "Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian." Her most recent work is "The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba" (Henry Holt). Based on the diar
M.T. Anderson: 2010 National Book Festival
Author M.T. Anderson appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: M.T. Anderson writes for readers of all ages through his picture books for children, stories for adults, adventure novels for young readers and books for teens and adults. His satirical book "Feed" was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party" won the 2006 National Book Award for Young People. Volume 2 of t
Phillip M. Hoose & Claudette Colvin: 2010 National Book Festival
Authors Phillip M. Hoose and Claudette Colvin appear at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Phillip M. Hoose is the widely acclaimed author of books, essays, stories, songs and articles, including the National Book Award-winning "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" (Macmillan). (Colvin will appear with Hoose during his presentation.) Hoose is also the author of the multi-award winning "The Race to Save the Lord God Bird," the National Book Award finalist "We Were There Too!:
Allegra Goodman: 2010 National Book Festival
Author Allegra Goodman speaks at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Allegra Goodman began writing short stories in high school, and the summer after she graduated in 1985, she submitted her story "Variant Text" to Commentary magazine, which accepted it for publication. Goodman continued to write for the magazine, and on her graduation day in 1989 from Harvard, her first book was published - a collection of stories. At Stanford, she studied William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlo
Poetry Out Loud: 2010 National Book Festival
This program encourages high school students to memorize and perform great poems. Poetry Out Loud invites the dynamic aspects of slam poetry,spoken word and theater into the English class. This exciting program helps students master public speaking skills, build confidence, and learn about their literary heritage.
Jane Smiley: 2010 National Book Festival (Poetry)
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley appears at the 2010 National Book Festival, poetry tent.
Speaker Biography: Jane Smiley is the author of several critically acclaimed and popular novels, including "The Age of God," "The Greenlanders," "Ordinary Love and Good Will," "A Thousand Acres" (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award), "Horse Heaven," "Good Faith" and the new young-adult novel "The Georges and the Jewels" (Knopf). She has also written for The N
Michele Norris: 2010 National Book Festival
Journalist Michele Norris speaks at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Michele Norris is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience. In 2002 she began hosting NPR's newsmagazine "All Things Considered," public radio's longest-running national program, with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block. Before coming to NPR, Norris was a correspondent for ABC News. She reported extensively on education, inner city issues, the nation's drug problem and poverty. She ha
Harold Varmus: 2010 National Book Festival
Nobel Prize winning scientist Harold Varmus appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: In 1989 Harold Varmus and Michael Bishop shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their "identification of a large family of genes which control the normal growth and division of cells." Varmus is the former director of the National Institutes of Health and is the former chief executive officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In July, he became the d
Jules Feiffer: 2010 National Book Festival
Author and cartoonist Jules Feiffer appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children's book author and illustrator Jules Feiffer has had a remarkable creative career turning contemporary urban anxiety into witty and revealing commentary for more than 50 years. From his Village Voice editorial cartoons to his plays and screenplays including "Little Murders" and "Carnal Knowledge," Feiffer's satirical outlook has influenced countless othe
Jonathan Safan Foer: 2010 National Book Festival
Author Jonathan Safran Foer appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of novels and nonfiction works. His work has received numerous awards and been translated into 36 languages. His thesis from Princeton became his novel "Everything Is Illuminated," which won the National Jewish Book Award and was made into a motion picture. His second novel, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," used the events of 9/11 to tell the story of a 9-year-old
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich: 2010 National Book Festival
Chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is one of the best-loved chefs on television, a best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Her cookbooks include her most recent titles, "Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy" (Knopf) and "Nonna Tell Me a Story: Lidia's Christmas Kitchen" (Running Press Kids), as well as "Lidia's Italy," "Lidia's Family Table," "Li
Eye Anatomy Review
This is a lesson on eye anatomy for demo purposes
Swedish book exposes royal secrets
A controversial new book detailing the private life of the Swedish king is set for release Thursday.
dichtung digital
This is the homepage of Dichtung Digital (Digital Fiction), an online newsletter in German devoted to "contributions on digital aesthetics." The site contains annotated links to and commentary on a broad range of electronic literature; hyperfiction; Latin American cyberculture and cyberliterature; canonized hypertexts; trans-medial narrative theory; and digital poetry that references prehistoric texts and symbols. The site publishes reviews on digital literature and art; interviews with author
American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM)
The American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) aims to encourage “education, training, and research in laboratory animal medicine; to establish standards of training and experience for veterinarians professionally involved with the care and health of laboratory animals; and to recognize qualified persons in laboratory animal medicine by certification examination and other means.” The ACLAM website provides information on education and training activities, access to key publications
Heatwave plan for England : protecting health and reducing harm from extreme heat and heatwaves
This Department of Health (DH) publication “Heatwave plan for England: protecting health and reducing harm from extreme heat and heatwaves” was published in March 2010. The plan aims to “enhance resilience in the event of a heatwave.” Additional DH documents on the topic of heatwave are also available from this site.
Climate communication: improving understanding of global warming: the science and solutions
Susan Joy Hassol, a climate change communicator, analyst and author, has produced this website to show the wide range of work she has undertaken over two decades to improve human understanding of climate change science. Since 1998 Susan Hassol has been an independent analyst working on such projects as the US National Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change and the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment as well as writing and speaking widely about this fundamental issue. The website gives a profil
Fire safety risk assessment : sleeping accommodation
This guide, from the UK Department for Communities and Local Government Publications applies to England and Wales only. It provides "recommendations and guidance for use when assessing the adequacy of fire precautions in premises providing sleeping accommodation. Other fire risk assessment methods may be equally valid to comply with fire safety law. The guide also provides recommendations for the fire safety management of the premises." The full guide (May 2006) is 147 pages and is freely availa
Live Performance Australia (LPA) The LPA website features informa
Live Performance Australia (LPA) is the trading name of the Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA). Representing producers, venues, promoters, performing arts companies, festivals and industry suppliers such as ticketing companies and technical specialists, its members "work in the live performance sector across all artistic genres, including contemporary and classical music, musicals, theatre, comedy, dance, opera, circus and physical theatre".
Lesson Plan
This is a lesson plan for my 811 class.
