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Thorn: The Tree
No full textThorn is a one-hundred year-old oak tree with a consciousness. He is discovered on the top of a mountain in Maine by a lumberjack named Tucker and his mathematician friend, Paxton. They begin a two-week long conversation with Thorn through mental telepathy. Thorn explains that he acquired his vast knowledge through the airwaves and his spiritual acuity through meditation, where it is possible to visit The Chords and examine both past and future lives. They help each other unravel their past incarnations and witness a future Earth devastated by war and natural disaster, which Thorn warns could be close at hand.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1094/thumbnail.jp
The Modern Percussion Revolution: Journeys of the Progressive Artist (Routledge Research in Music)
No full textMore than eighty years have passed since Edgard Varèse’s catalytic work for percussion ensemble, Ionisation, was heard in its New York premiere. A flurry of pieces for this new medium dawned soon after, challenging the established truths and preferences of the European musical tradition while setting the stage for percussion to become one of the most significant musical advances of the twentieth century. This \u27revolution\u27, as John Cage termed it, was a quintessentially modernist movement - an exploration of previously undiscovered sounds, forms, textures, and styles. However, as percussion music has progressed and become woven into the fabric of Western musical culture, several divergent paths, comprised of various traditions and a multiplicity of aesthetic sensibilities, have since emerged for the percussionist to pursue.
This edited collection highlights the progressive developments that continue to investigate uncharted musical grounds. Using historical studies, philosophical insights, analyses of performance practice, and anecdotal reflections authored by some of today\u27s most engaged performers, composers, and scholars, this book aims to illuminate the unique destinations found in the artistic journey of the modern percussionist.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1000/thumbnail.jp
Thorn: the Prophet
No full textThe story of the sentient oak tree continues as Thorn, Paxton and Tucker go back into The Chords to unravel more of their past, and future lives. Having recently discovered that he was the founder of the Bahai religion in his last incarnation, Thorn pushes farther into his past to reveal many other extraordinary lives. Meanwhile Paxton tries to find a way to retrieve the knowledge contained in his past life as Albert Einstein so that he can continue his work on Unified Field Theory while Tucker struggles to save Thorn from the impending clear-cut on Blueberry Hill.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1093/thumbnail.jp
The Relationship Between NWEA’s, DRA’s, and Educator’s Methods of Identifying Students who Qualify for Gifted and Talented Services
No full textThis mixed methods study was conducted in SAD #44 with teachers at the three elementary schools. It first examined the relationship between Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) Scores and Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) Score. Second, the study investigated methods used by teachers, as well as their opinion of identifying students for gifted and talented services. The data collected found a moderate correlation between the NWEA and DRA data in reading. It also found that NWEA and DRA scores were not identifying the same group of students for gifted and talented services. Lastly, it established that teachers use a range of methods to qualify students
Coaching secondary students’ historical inquiry and textual interpretation using a contrasting case intervention
No full textThis study presents findings from a Documents-Based ABA study conducted at a rural high school in Maine. The study focused on three history topics, and examined the impact of a contrasting-case intervention on secondary student’s historical inquiry and textual interpretation skills. The intervention was conducted with ten participants who engaged in a lesson that modeled historical thinking. The intervention lesson used two hypothetical student samples: one featured sophisticated strategies used by experts, and the other simple strategies commonly employed by secondary school students. Students compared and contrasted the two protocols. A Multiple Text Strategy inventory adapted from Braten and Stromso’s self report inventory, (2010) was also used to see how participants valued specific textual and intertextual elements. The findings revealed that after the intervention half the students demonstrated growth in historical inquiry and textual interpretation. Additionally 80% of participants experienced growth in at least one element of the essay task. We discuss the instructional implications of the Documents-Based Lesson and the Cognitive Apprenticeship model in bringing disciplined historical inquiry into the social studies classroom are also presented
The Family
No full textThe Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today.Annual Editionsare updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. EachAnnual Editions volume has a number of features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use: an annotatedTable of Contents, a Topic Guide, an annotated listing of supporting websites,Learning Outcomes and a brief overview for each unit, and Critical Thinking questions at the end of each article. Go to theMcGraw-Hill Create™ Annual Editions Article Collection at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/annualeditions to browse the entire collection. Select individualAnnual Editions articles to enhance your course, or access and select the entireWilliams: Annual Editions: The Family, 41/e ExpressBook for an easy, pre-built teaching resource. An onlineInstructor’s Resource Guide with testing material is available for each Annual Editionsvolume. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is also an excellent instructor resource. Visit the Create Central Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/createcentral for more details.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1071/thumbnail.jp
The Correlation of Grades and Achievement in Standards-Based and Non-Standards-Based High School Science Classrooms as Measured by the Maine High School Assessment Science Test
No full textThe purpose of this study was to compare the degree to which standardized test scores and grades corresponded in both standards-based and non-standards based science classrooms. Data was gathered from three high schools in Maine: one standards-based, and two non-standards-based. The correlation of student grades and test scores was calculated using Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation and Kendall’s Tau-b Correlation. Although the results show a striking similarity between two of the schools, when the third school is factored in there is no significance in the difference between the correlations in any of the systems
Orion rising : collected poems
No full textDoug Rawlings\u27 poems about the Vietnam War, full of anger, shame, suffering and solace, are hard to bear—-as they should be. His poems about family life, children, the passing of friends since the war are honest, vulnerable, playful and loving. Together they allow him, and us, full humanity, an expansion of humanity that is particularly poignant in light of its denial to those on both sides who did not survive the war. — Rob Shetterlyhttps://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1053/thumbnail.jp
Hoo-doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos : Conceptions of the African American West
No full textHoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented in studies focused only on traditional literary material. The book engages heretofore unexamined writing by Rose Gordon, who wrote for local Montana newspapers rather than for a national audience; memoirs and letters of musicians, performers, and singers (such as W. C. Handy and Taylor Gordon), who lived in or wrote about touring the American West; the novels and films of Oscar Micheaux; black-cast westerns starring Herb Jeffries; largely unappreciated and unexamined episodes from the golden age of western television that feature African American actors; film and television westerns that use science fiction settings to imagine a postracial or postsoul frontier; Percival Everett\u27s fiction addressing contemporary black western experience; and movies as recent as Quentin Tarantino\u27s Django Unchained.
Despite recent interest in the history of the African American West, we know very little about how the African American past in the West has been depicted in a full range of imaginative forms. Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos advances our discovery of how the African American West has been experienced, imagined, portrayed, and performed.https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1033/thumbnail.jp