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Series
Secret school volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Have you ever wondered what it was like to attend a one-room school, to be in the same classroom as your older brother or younger sister, or to have your teacher live with your family for part of the school year?
In One Room Schools, Susan Apps-Bodilly chronicles life in Wisconsin's early country schools, detailing the experiences of the students, the role of the teacher, and examples of the curriculum, including the importance of Wisconsin
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, Fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over teaching the classroom at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies".
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 670L
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of a man who became lost and delirious after an unsuccessful trek to the top of K2, was saved by the locals of a remote Himalayan village, and kept his vow to return one day to build them a new school as a gesture of sincere appreciation and gratitude for what they did for him in his time of need.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This newly revised edition describes how building a school was a priority once an early community became established. Students of all ages shared one teacher and the same four walls year after year. A One-Room School describes how the teacher, a respected member of the community, was entrusted with the responsibility of teaching reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Children will enjoy seeing inside a one-room schoolhouse and discovering what subjects...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
A story about a village teacher who introduces education for local self-development explores the relationships between progressive activists, entrenched social interests, traditional belief system and rural Africans. Sango Malo offers American viewers an intimate and engaging portrait of the complex social dynamic underlying economic and political change in a typical African village. It argues passionately that a populist education must be a key component...
10) Prairie school
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a country school on the South Dakota prairie and the children who attend it during the winter of 1949-1950.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story--that she died proclaiming her faith. But it's not true. I know because I was with her when she died. I didn't say anything then, and people got hurt because of it. Now Sarah's parents are publishing a book about her, so this might be my last chance to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book provides descriptive accounts of what the one-room school era was like for teachers, students, and the wider community, encompassing school infrastructure, school events both typical and unusual, teacher-student relationships, and other factors relative to the culture of an educational system that began in pioneer times and ended during the 1950s to the 1970s, primarily in the 1960s.
14) A fine start
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Description
In this book Meg brings her prairie diary to an end describing her days in the Kansas Territory, a deadly twister, and the start of school.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fond recollection of the West's one-room school houses, this book celebrates an American institution with stories of heroism and perseverance. Illustrated with archival images of classrooms and students, One Room reflects the earnest striving and innocent hopes of pioneers forging communities" --
Author
Pub. Date
[1940]
Language
English
Description
During the three generations of teaching school, we witnessed an evolution from the most primitive type of American school, the isolated one-room log building with earthen floor and backless benches to the modern small-city type, and everybody riding to it in a bus. In the ninety years our nation reached westward to the Pacific, boundless forest were replaced by farms and a new America built.
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