¡Cuenta conmigo! La feria de la escuela

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source book explores California’s unique geography: the coastal region, the Central Valley, the mountain region, and the desert region. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade...

Invite readers along on the preparations for a soccer tournament! With informational, Spanish-translated text, vibrant photos and charts, children are engaged from cover to cover while utilizing mathematical skills to increase understanding of all aspects of soccer, including sportsmanship and tournaments.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...

Helps students successfully pass written and oral examinations, offering techniques for memorizing, creating, and summarizing all kinds of texts.

Esta obra, finalista del Premio Planeta 2003 y ganadora del Premio de Novela Vargas Llosa 2005, narra la historia de Mario García, Un joven escritor de provincias que a sus 23 años ha leído mucho- tal vez demasiado- pero apenas ha salido de su pueblo y lo desconoce todo de la vida, indignado porque han dejado desierto el premio de un certamen de poesía al que, seguro de su éxito, había enviado sus poemas, decide que ha llegado el momento de viajar a Madrid y demostrarle al mudo que él es el mayor de todos los poetas.

En septiembre de 1978, el llamado "papa de la sonrisa" moría después de treinta y tres días de haber sido elegido. La versión oficial anunciaba su muerte como debida a un infarto de miocardio. David A. Yallop inició su investigación a petición de ciertas personas residentes en el Vaticano que se sentían preocupadas por las extrañas circunstancias que rodeaban esta muerte. Tras tres años de investigación, el autor descubrió la existencia de una red de corrupción que se detalla en este libro.