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Teaching Multiple Literacies and Critical Literacy to Pre-service Teachers Through Children’s-Literature-Based Engagements
No full textThis paper presents a pragmatic way of introducing pre-service teachers to multiple literacies and critical literacy through children\u27s-literature-based engagements. The concepts of multiple literacies and critical literacy are reviewed, and their interrelationship is explained. Two instructional engagements, which connect theory to practice through children\u27s books, are then discussed in detail. This paper argues that the instruction of multiple literacies and critical literacy is aligned with the definition of literacy as multiple social practices, which should be examined critically. In addition, the utilization of children\u27s books provides a feasible way to help such instruction take root in the classroom
Floristic implications of two contemporaneous inland upper Neogene sites in the eastern US: Pipe Creek Sinkhole, Indiana, and the Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee (USA)
No full textLate Neogene floras of North America are mainly represented by sites located along the east coast Piedmont and the Great Plains. To date, there are only two upper Neogene inland localities in the eastern half of North America, the Pipe Creek Sinkhole (Indiana) and the Gray Fossil Site (Tennessee). At both sites, a lacustrine environment was formed from sinkholes that preserve fossil assemblages including invertebrates, vertebrates, and plant remains. We reviewed the floristic record (micro and macrofossils) of each site to determine the late Neogene composition of the flora, its vertical stratification, and to provide insight into the changes associated with warmer and drier conditions in the eastern deciduous forest. The Pipe Creek Sinkhole flora when compared to extant pollen floras of the eastern US is nested within the Beach-Maple-Basswood forest type of Dyer; however, the Miocene forest is dominated by a pine-hickory or pinehickory-cottonwood association. The Gray Fossil Site flora when compared to extant pollen floras of the eastern US is nested within the Mesophytic Forest and is dominated by an oak-hickory-pine assemblage. The Pipe Creek Flora and the Gray Fossil Site Flora lack the common sub story and understory taxa and are dominated by specific woody taxa and an array of herbaceous taxa that have high light requirements and indicate some disturbance. The lack of vertical forest structure indicates that at both sites, woodland to woodland savanna to prairie-like habitats may have prevailed. The common occurrence of charcoals in the lacustrine sediments indicates that fire was a frequent disturbance factor, which may have suppressed the development of a structured forest with a closed canopy at both localities. This was further exacerbated by the impact of large herbivores. Both fossil floras, despite changes in the vegetation composition and vertical stratification when compared to the extant indigenous deciduous forest, include the major elements from their respective extant mesophytic C3 floristic associations that currently exist at these locations, i.e. the Beech-Maple-Basswood (Pipe Creek Sinkhole) and the Hickory-Oak-Pine Mesophytic Forest (Gray Fossil Site). The Miocene-Pliocene climate, in comparison to the extant climate, affected the vegetation in eastern North America by the selective elimination of those taxa that could not tolerate the warmer and drier conditions; the concomitant increase in fire frequency and the impact of large herbivores further contributed to maintaining woodland/savanna communities at both localities
The Victorian Four-Volume Novel
No full textThroughout the Victorian period, publishing novels in multiple volumes was a common format for new fiction. Overwhelmingly, fiction appeared in one-, two-, or three-volume editions but nineteen novels were published in the relatively rarer four-volume edition. Publishers used the four-volume format over the century primarily for long historical novels and novels written by well-established authors, including a brief resurgence in the 1870s instigated by George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch (1872). The article examines the use of the format by authors and publishers and gives a list of the four-volume novels published during the Victorian period
The Struggle for Recognition
Get PDFBre Anne Briskey is a graduate of Swanton High School in Swanton, Ohio. She is a second year Chapman Scholar, majoring in psychology. Bre Anne is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, the National Society of Leadership and Success, and Psi Chi. She is participating in the Honor Program at IPFW and is a member of its student group, the HonorDons. Bre Anne presented her statistics research project at the 2015 Student Research Symposium
\u22At Least They Aren’t Wearing Pants!\u22: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
No full textFiona Sackett is a sophomore History major with a minor in Theatre who is also part of the Honors Program at IPFW. She is interested in American cultural history from the Civil War era until post-World War II, with a specific interest in popular fashion of the different eras. She is from Huntington, Indiana and the oldest of four siblings
The Solute Specificity Profiles of Nucleobase Cation Symporter 1 (NCS1) from Zea Mays and Setaria Viridis Illustrate Functional Flexibility
No full textThe solute specificity profiles (transport and binding) for the nucleobase cation symporter 1 (NCS1) proteins, from the closely related C4 grasses Zea mays and Setaria viridis, differ from that of Arabidopsis thaliana and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii NCS1. Solute specificity profiles for NCS1 from Z. mays (ZmNCS1) and S. viridis (SvNCS1) were determined through heterologous complementation studies in NCS1- deficient Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains. The four Viridiplantae NCS1 proteins transport the purines adenine and guanine, but unlike the dicot and algal NCS1, grass NCS1 proteins fail to transport the pyrimidine uracil. Despite the high level of amino acid sequence similarity, ZmNCS1 and SvNCS1 display distinct solute transport and recognition profiles. SvNCS1 transports adenine, guanine, hypoxanthine, cytosine, and allantoin and competitively binds xanthine and uric acid. ZmNCS1 transports adenine, guanine, and cytosine and competitively binds, 5-fluorocytosine, hypoxanthine, xanthine, and uric acid. The differences in grass NCS1 profiles are due to a limited number of amino acid alterations. These amino acid residues do not correspond to amino acids essential for overall solute and cation binding or solute transport, as previously identified in bacterial and fungal NCS1, but rather may represent residues involved in subtle solute discrimination. The data presented here reveal that within Viridiplantae, NCS1 proteins transport a broad range of nucleobase compounds and that the solute specificity profile varies with species