Cuenta Tus Gallinas

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. Introduce students to California's early settlers including John Bidwell, Jim Beckwourth, Jedediah Smith, Sarah Royce, Charley Parkhurst, Kit Carson, the Donner party, and more. 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 ...

Desde la más remota antigüedad las personas han sentido fascinación por la luna, el astro más cercano a nuestro planeta. Los babilonios y los aztecas, por ejemplo, confeccionaron calendarios muy precisos basándose en las observaciones de la luna. Nuestro satélite natural en el momento en que se encuentra más cerca de la tierra está a 365.000 kilómetros de distancia. El estudio de la luna tuvo un gran impulso cuando el gran científico italiano Galileo Galilei inventó el telescopio en 1610 y con ayuda de este instrumento pudo realizar interesantes observaciones que le permitieron...

Suitable for training advanced level students in writing texts in different styles and registers in Spanish

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...