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Creating Adaptations in a Long Eighteenth-Century Literature Course
No full textStudents in an upper-level undergraduate literature course read Restoration adaptations of Shakespearean plays and Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko; mid-18th-century prose adaptations of Pamela; and 20th- and 21st-century prose and film adaptations of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Students first read corresponding hypotexts that influenced the adaptations. A semester of studying these texts ultimately prepares students for the course’s final project: an adaptation
Engaging the Alternative Learner: An Examination of Active Learning Practices within World History
No full textThis mixed methods study sought to examine the effects of active learning practices in a World History class on both the general population and alternative education students. 14 freshman and sophomore high school students participated. Although there is some evidence to suggest that students can learn more information from active teaching practices than traditional methods, the findings of this study remain inconclusive in determining one dominant or preferred method of teaching. In fact, this study found that students clearly identified the need for both instructional practices
Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens: The Handbook for Outdoor Learning
No full textEnvironmental education expert David Sobel joins with a variety of colleagues to share their experiences and steps for creating a successful forest kindergarten program. Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens walks you through the European roots of the concept to the recent resurgence of these kinds of programs in North America.
Going well beyond a history lesson, these experts provide the framework to understand the concepts and build a learning community that stimulates curiosity and inquisitiveness in a natural environment. This helpful guide provides the curriculum, ideas, and guidance needed to foster special gifts in children. It also gives you the nuts and bolts of running a successful nature preschool business, such as potential obstacles, staff and curriculum design, best practices for success, site and facility management, and business planning.
Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens provides the mentorship and guidance to become a leader in nature-based education.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1001/thumbnail.jp
Day Treatment’s Impacts on Office Disciplinary Referrals and Attendance
Get PDFThis mixed methods study explored the effects of implementing a day treatment program on attendance and office disciplinary referrals in a rural school district in Western Maine. Parental perceptions of the program were assessed through a qualitative survey. Parents reported day treatment has affected student behavior positively. Attendance and office disciplinary referral patterns were examined using two-tailed t-tests. These analyses showed no significant difference in attendance for both general student populations and subpopulation of day treatment students. Significant differences were found in regards to office disciplinary referrals for general student populations and for day treatment students after implementation. Further research is needed to assess the fidelity of the program
The Effects of Music on Children’s Sleep Patterns at Naptime in an Infant/Toddler Classroom
No full textThis mixed method study investigates the effects of type and timing of music on children’s sleep latency and duration at naptime in an infant/toddler classroom. Sleep is critical in the early years of life to ensure healthy growth and development and music has been known to promote relaxation and the preconditions for sleep. Data was collected in one infant/toddler classroom at an Early Head Start site in the Northeast. The type and timing of music exposure prior to naptime were varied for six weeks. Children’s length of time it took to fall asleep, how long they slept for, and notes about other factors that may have influenced sleep patterns were recorded. Results showed that type and timing of music did not have a significant effect on children’s sleep latency or duration. The findings provide evidence that there are numerous factors influencing sleep at naptime and that any soothing music can be beneficial
A G.I. in America: The Government Issue Chronicles and Selected Poems
No full textPoetry is meant to summarize universal feelings. Doug Rawlings\u27 poems capture beautifully the revulsion to war and the spirit of those who work for peace. — Ann Wright, US Army Reserve Colonel (ret) and former US diplomat. Rawlings has written powerfully about the different facets of the veteran’s experience. His poems will be cathartic to some and revealing to others. Perhaps they will be most revealing to those who hang around veterans and who have trouble understanding. — Dr. Jon Oplinger, Vietnam Veteran and author of Quang Tri Cadence: Memoir of a Rifle Platoon Leader in the Mountains of Vietnam. Doug’s poems communicate strength and clarity, pain, moral injury, gentleness, struggle. And always honesty. These poems are faithful companions to anyone who has been part of the veterans’ experience — and in one way or another, that’s every one of us. — Chuck Searcy, Vietnam Veteran and Director of Project RENEW.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1054/thumbnail.jp
Bar Harbor in the roaring twenties : from village life to the high life on Mount Desert Island
No full textFrom the end of the Great War until the onslaught of the Great Depression, Americans had a good time, and nowhere was that more true than in Bar Harbor during high season. Amid peace and prosperity, the wealthy flocked to Mount Desert Island, foxtrotted at the Swimming Club and tangoed at the Dreamwood Ballroom on Ireson\u27s Hill. Rumrunners made covert pickups from isolated coves along the Mount Desert Narrows while Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Astors coasted serenely in and out of Frenchman\u27s Bay. Horse-drawn carriages found a haven in the quiet roads of Lafayette National Park while roadsters sped along Bay Drive. Year-round residents faced brutal winters, but even then they had spirited celebrations with Winter Carnivals and Hayseed Balls as the \u2720s roared on in Bar Harbor.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1077/thumbnail.jp
Mansfield Park Comes to Life: Teaching and Staging Elizabeth Inchbald’s Lovers’ Vows in an Austen Course
No full textThis essay discusses how I incorporated readers theatre into a senior seminar on Jane Austen and her contemporaries. The article recounts how my students read Elizabeth Inchbald’s 1798 drama, Lovers’ Vows, and Austen’s 1814 novel, Mansfield Park, and then were inspired at the end of the seminar to take part in a readers theatre production of the play. In order to set up this pedagogical example, the essay addresses the theatrical episode of Mansfield Park, the controversies surrounding Lovers’ Vows, and the ways in which I edited the play and prepared students to create a “little theatre”—to quote Austen character, Tom Bertram—at my university and become their own version of The Mansfield Players. The essay concludes by explaining what students can learn about drama and the novel by partaking in such an exercise
Trimming and Planing Rough-Cut Wood For Efficient Dendrochronological Sample Preparation and Storage
No full textWood samples larger than increment cores collected for tree-ring studies are often obtained using chainsaws and, less frequently, 2-person crosscut saws. Saw marks on cross-sectional wood samples can be quite deep and uneven, and sanding rough-cut wood cross-sections is inefficient in terms of processing time and wear on sanding belts. Trimming rough-cut wood samples with a band saw or treating with a surface planer creates a smoother initial surface for sample sanding and polishing. Sample trimming with a band saw or surface planer is also useful for post-analysis archiving and wood storage, when excess wood can be removed and smaller samples entered into storage. Band saw and surface planer safety techniques are also discussed
Milton on Film
No full textIn January 2012, shooting was set to begin in Sydney, Australia, on the Hollywood-backed production of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper cast as Satan. Yet just two weeks before the start of production, Legendary Pictures delayed the project, reportedly due to budgetary concerns, and soon the company had suspended the film indefinitely. Milton scholar Eric C. Brown, who was then serving as a script consultant for the studio, sees his experience with that project as part of a long and perplexing story of Milton on film. Indeed, as Brown details in this comprehensive study, Milton’s place in the popular imagination—and his extensive influence upon the cinema, in particular—has been both pervasive and persistent.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1007/thumbnail.jp