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  McGuffey's Eclectic Readers: Sixth

  William McGuffey

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  Born in 1800, William Holmes McGuffey had a remarkable ability to memorize, and could commit to mind entire books of the Bible. After becoming a teacher at the age of 14, classroom size was just one of several challenges faced by McGuffey. 
  In many one-teacher schools, students' ages varied from six to twenty-one, and few textbooks existed. In 1835, a publishing firm asked McGuffey to create a series of graded Readers for primary level students. The series consisted of stories, poems, essays and speeches and it is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. 
  Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single person's name has come close to that mark. McGuffey's 6th Reader is appropriate for a variety of ages/reading levels, but most closely approximate 10th through 12th grades, and beyond.

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  English Synonyms and Antonyms

  James Champlin Fernald

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  English Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each entry gives a list of synonyms, followed by a paragraph that briefly explains or exemplifies the subtle distinctions between the listed words. The entries sometimes close with a few words on the prepositions that follow selected synonyms, but more often with a list of antonyms. 
   
  By "synonyms" we usually understand words that coincide or nearly coincide in some part of their meaning, and may hence within certain limits be used interchangeably, while outside of those limits they may differ very greatly in meaning and use. It is the office of a work on synonyms to point out these correspondences and differences, that language may have the flexibility that comes from freedom of selection within the common limits, with the perspicuity and precision that result from exact choice of the fittest words to express each shade of meaning outside of the common limits. (Summary by DSayers and the author from the entry "Synonymous")

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  Learn Spanish - Level 6: Lower...

  Innovative Language Learning

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  No longer a Spanish beginner? Welcome to Lower Intermediate Spanish, Volume 2!Master Spanish conversation the fun, fast and easy way! Speak with anyone, anywhere. Start speaking Spanish in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Lower Intermediate Spanish.Our native Spanish hosts break down all the sentences, grammar, and more in a simple, easily understandable way!Here are a few topics covered in this audiobook: How to emphasize in Spanish Using the future tense to speculate Describing actions that just happened Spanish indirect object pronouns Spanish cultural tips and more!This isn't stale textbook material - it's fun, effective, and practical! You learn Intermediate Spanish conversation that you can use immediately! What you get in Lower Intermediate Spanish: 180+ pages of Spanish learning material (accompanying PDF) 25 Spanish lessons: dialog transcripts with translation, vocabulary, sample sentences and a grammar section 25 audio lesson tracks (over four hours of Spanish lessons) 25 audio review tracks (practice new words and phrases)  25 audio dialog tracks (read along while you listen)Interactive. Effective. And fun! Discover or rediscover how fun learning a language can be with the future of language learning.Download the PDF and read along:https://bit.ly/2IeY9ar

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  Vocabulary Voyage - Expanding...

  Sophia Mitchell

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  This audiobook is intended to develop understanding and comprehension of more advanced vocabulary for a 10th grader looking to broaden their exposure to the English language. The sort of words that are included in this title, for example, are pragmatic, meticulous and harbinger. One must be exposed to a word multiple times in different context to start to understand it and use it correctly. That's why this 10-session audiobook uses a number of different techniques to describe words from their definitions to using them in context in stories and sentences, providing synonyms as well as antonyms and many other methods. This repeated interaction with the words in the course, means that you approach vocabulary from different angles making it easier to retain the words that are learned and promoting a broader understanding of meaning in context. This course will expand the listeners' vocabulary by over 100 age-appropriate and challenging words. This content may also be useful in preparation for parts of certain standardized testing where vocabulary is tested, as well as advanced learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). This proven course is an ideal, effective and age-targeted way to broaden vocabulary.

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  Terry Nation - The Man Who...

  Alwyn W. Turner

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  A “splendidly entertaining” biography of the British tv writer acclaimed for his invention of a fictional alien race for Doctor Who (Dominic Sandrook, author of State of Emergency—The Way We Were: Britain 1970–1974). 
   
  The Daleks are one of the most iconic and fearsome creations in television history. Since their first appearance in 1963, they have simultaneously fascinated and terrified generations of children, their instant success ensuring, and sometimes eclipsing, that of Doctor Who. They sprang from the imagination of Terry Nation, a failed stand-up comic who became one of the most prolific writers for television that Britain ever produced. Survivors, his vision of a post-apocalyptic England, so haunted audiences in the Seventies that the BBC revived it over thirty years on, and Blake’s 7, constantly rumored for return, endures as a cult sci-fi classic. But it is for his genocidal pepperpots that Nation is most often remembered, and now, more than 50 years after their creation they continue to top the Saturday-night ratings. Yet while the Daleks brought him notoriety and riches, Nation played a much wider role in British broadcasting’s golden age. He wrote for Spike Milligan, Frankie Howerd and an increasingly troubled Tony Hancock, and as one of the key figures behind the adventure series of the Sixties—including The Avengers, The Saint and The Persuaders!—he turned the pulp classics of his boyhood into a major British export. In The Man Who Invented the Daleks, acclaimed cultural historian Alwyn W. Turner, explores the curious and contested origins of Doctor Who’s greatest villains, and sheds light on a strange world of ambitious young writers, producers and performers without whom British culture today would look very different.

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  Learn Chinese: A Quick and Easy...

  Lynn Franklin

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  Do you want to learn Chinese?  Do you think learning a new language is hard?  This  guide provides a fun and easy way for all to get a handle on all aspects of Mandarin Chines., writing, speaking, and listening—as well as a look at the fantastic culture of China.

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