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Here is everything you need to develop and teach an information literacy curriculum that is integrated with core subject areas.Over twenty lessons (complete with learning objectives, instructional guidelines, and ready-to-use teaching tools) cover keyword research, library and library materials organization, using nonfiction books, using the library catalog, using online databases, using the Internet, note-taking, creating bibliographies, and more. You will also find planning and assessment forms, checklists, tables, and worksheets for developing, implementing, and instructing your information literacy programs—all reproduced in the book and accompanying CD-ROM.In all new sections, Langhorne walks readers through establishing a mission statement, utilizing standards and benchmarks, and using literature as the foundation for information literacy.Completely updated and expanded, this edition includes proven strategies for collaborating with administrators and teachers, developing assessment tools, and communicating results.This all-in-one resource—with over 100 pages of model lesson plans and student worksheets—gives you the directions for developing a successful program and ready-to-go tools to implement it.The CD-ROM contains the forms, handouts, and transparencies needed to teach the lesson plans and units formatted in Microsoft Word. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Chapters: History of Davenport, Iowa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Davenport, Iowa was part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1814, during the War of 1812 the British military, along with the Saux and Fox Indian tribes fought against the Americans near Davenport. In August, Major Zachary Taylor, later President, fought a battle east of what is now Credit Island Park, in Davenport. An outpost was set up at Fort Armstrong and George Davenport and Antonie LeClaire were stationed there. Davenport was established in 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and named after his good friend Colonel George Davenport. The first settlers of Davenport were mostly Germans. After a county seat dilemma with neighboring town Rockingham in 1840, Davenport was established as the county seat of Scott County. Davenport was declared to be Iowa's first military headquarters just before the Civil War by Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood. In November 1865, the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home was opened in Davenport to take in children left orphaned by the Civil War. In 1895, the city hall was built, and in 1897, the first chiropractic school in the world, Palmer Chiropractic College was opened. Davenport experienced an economic and building boom in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Capitol Theatre, the baseball stadium, the Kahl Building], the Parker Building, and the Blackhawk Hotel are a few of the buildings built during this time period that are still standing. The Great Depression brought economic tough times to the city. The inclusion of new factories in the 1940s and 1950s helped turn the economy around after World War II. Davenport was on hard times once again with the farm crisis of the 1980s, when the The Caterpillar Plant closed, costing 35,000 jobs. The city was rejuvenated once agai...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15245986 ... Read more

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Frontispiece, 16 full-page color illustrations; Herman Zapf's Aldus types; 350 copies on Monadnock Dulcet paper; gray wrappers with flaps, titled in black on spine, and on the upper wrapper in dark green. Designed by Jerry Kelly; printed at the Stinehour Press. Thes catalogue accompanied the public exhibition K.K. Merker: Serving the Muse. Stone Wall Press and Windhover Press, 1956-1996, curated by Michael Peich, held March 4 -May 3, 1997. ... Read more

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Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods.

The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power. ... Read more

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Absorbing and Provocative
This opened my eyes to women's status in the Gilded Age in a typical good-sized Midwestern town.I couldn't put it down.

Revelations about Davenport in the Gilded Age
My godson is taking his orals for his PhD, and as a requirement, was told to read this, among 100 other assigned books. As he knew I was a Davenport native, he thought I might enjoy reading this.As a female, I found it especially fascinating as it deals mostly with the status of women, both prostitutes and women who owned small businesses, worked as clerks and in other professions, in the Gilded Age.I had no idea that prostition was once legalized in Davenport and such establishements were licensed.I also was surprised to learn how the German influence led to widespread flauting of Prohibition.I had gone to the Lend-A-Hand club as a small girl after school, and reading the history of that venerable institution was really heartening.My grandfather ran a Shell Service station at the base of the Government Bridge and it was amazing to read how that area was a hotbed of vice from 1880-1920.

I bought this book for my mother, who grew up in Davenport, and who is now 90.She knew many of the names in the book, attended school with one of the girls, and was amazed to hear all this come to life.Many of the facts and stories were told her by HER mother, and she was taken back in time when these stories were confirmed.She is now busily engaged in digesting the book.


But the book is better than simply a Davenport history snapshot.As a woman, I was disheartened in the extreme to read of the cruelty practiced on young girls, as young as 11 who were forced into prostitution after having been raped.The Good Shepherd Home in Dubuque proved a godsend for many of the unfortunate girls.They were given a new life and dignity.It left me with new respect for the work of the Catholic Church in restoring people's lives.


This book gave me a view of middle America that caught me off guard.I hope this book gains wide currency, as it deserves it. ... Read more

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Examines the influence of a broad range of New Deal programs on Iowa from the perspective of the programmatic alteration of culture. ... Read more

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In forty-fve years as one of Chicago's liveliest journalists for Time, Life, and the Chicago Tribune, Jon Anderson has established a reputation for picking up on what someone once called "the beauty of the specific fact." Part "Talk of the Town," part On the Road with Charles Kuralt, Anderson's twice-a-week "City Watch" columns in the Chicago Tribune seek out interesting and unexpected people and places from the everyday life of what the author calls the "most typical American big city." In the process he discovers the joys and triumphs of ordinary people.

Anderson writes with wit and insight about those who find themselves inspired or obsessed with alternative ways of viewing life or getting through the day. Like the man who started with one light pole, then painted all the poles in his southside neighborhood. Or the founder of Cats-Are-Purrsons-Too, a nun who lives with sixty-seven cats. Or the philosopher who, with no financial success, still publishes a newsletter called "The Meaning of Life." After years of hunting down moments of everyday life that have drama and meaning, Anderson offers a book that has curious power, because all of its stories are true.

Drawn from the best of Anderson's columns, City Watch introduces readers to an eclectic mix of social clubs, subcultures, and minor celebrities. From Foraging Friends, a group of penniless ecologists who forage for wild foods in a county forest preserve, to the annual Dumpster Diver fashion show, from the Oakton Elementary School chess team to a group that calls itself Some Chicago Anarchists, readers will discover the characters and events that define Chicago's local color. ... Read more

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Looking for a 'feel good' read?
Jon Anderson is a national treasure. His insights are wise, his words, witty and his take on his city and its people, delightful.

Anderson Renders Chicago Life a Page Turner
Exceptionally well written, the book is both funny and compassionate, astute and compelling as it profiles some of the the people and institutions that call the third coast home.Anderson's vignettes challenge those who believe that New York City is the only REAL city in America with anyone/anything worth watching. The book will appeal to those wtih a taste for things cultural and intellectual, as it includes an interview with the late poet John Nims, as well as writing on such plances Hemingway's childhood home and the "Book Orphanage," and well as those readers drawn to the more material practices of a city, for example: "Clothes found in the Rubbish don't have to look trashy" (a Dumpster-Diving Fashion show) and "Finding the Humor in Haggis" (the dinner of the Illinois St. Andrew Society). Anderson's book provides the reader with a kind of "back-stage pass" to the city, as well as serving as a primer for how to write non-fiction that is as riveting as any novel.His strong voice and intellegence unites the peices and makes the reader want to get to know Anderson himself.I haven't enjoyed a work of non-fiction this much since "naked" by David Sedaris. ... Read more

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The ability to make decisions by locating and usingneeded information may well be the key skill for success in the 21stCentury. Here is all the information you need to implement this provenintegrated curriculum in your school. Developed by the recipient ofthe 1997 National Library Media Program of the Year Award, thiseasy-to-follow manual provides a complete information literacy modelwith a matrix for recording which units cover which skills.

Included are a K-12 curriculum with details on when key basic information, research, and production skills should be introduced, expanded, and reviewed and over 100 pages of model lesson plans and units for specific curricular areas. This unique how-to provides planning and assessment forms, 100 possible student products (such as photo essays, I-Search papers, and hypermedia stacks), and all necessary documentation - assessment tools, sample forms, in-service and policy documents. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the forms, handouts, and transparencies needed to teach the lesson plans and units. ... Read more

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Amazingly Useful!
This is one of the most useful books I have found for educational purposes.It provides solid information, but even better it has forms /work sheets.These are located in the book (for Xeroxing) and on theCD-ROM (for printing).You can alter the forms on the computer (CD-ROM) ifyou need to. For teachers, or librarians who work with the Internet anddatabase programs, this is great. ... Read more