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Explains the crucial factors that spinners, knitters and weavers need to know in order to create yarn, describing 21 different breeds of sheep, their characteristics and history and the structure, grease content and fiber diameter of each one's fleece.
Discover how English teachers and their students confront the climate crisis using critical inquiry, focusing on justice, and taking action. Working in today's politically polarized environment, these teachers know first-hand about teaching and learning in communities that support and resist climate education. This much-needed book describes outstanding English instruction that includes creative and analytical writing; critical place-based learning; contemporary "cli-fi"; young adult, Indigenous, and youth-authored literature; Afrofuturism; critical media analysis; digital media production; and many other ways in which students can explore the crisis and have their voices heard and respected...
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Lora Fitzgerald gets word from her parents attorney, Mason Kile, that she must cross the Oregon territory and return home. While Kile is reluctant to send for Lora, he sees no other way: He is only seeking to fulfill the last will and testament of the Fitzgeralds. Good intentions wont make the journey for Lora easier, but she does have a mountain man from Montana and a blacksmith-turned-farmer who is closer than a brother as traveling companions. Although shes reluctant to go, she travels from grassland to seashore, by stagecoach, barge, and railroad as she bravely seeks to get to her final destinationFitz Landingthe home her deceased parents so carefully tended. Even if she arrives unharmed, it will be an unfamiliar world inhabited by seamen who are capable of killing just for the fun of it. Plus, a swarthy old man named Boggs wants nothing more than to destroy Lora once and for all.
Expert Beth Smith teaches you everything you need to know to spin your own yarn, from choosing a spinning wheel to every stage of preparing your fiber, plying, winding off, and finishing. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions make it simple and easy!
If Students Need to Know It, It’s in This Book This book develops the math skills of fourth graders. It builds skills that will help them succeed in school and on the New York State test. Why The Princeton Review? We have more than 20 years of experience helping students master the skills needed to excel on standardized tests. Each year, we help more than 2 million students score higher and earn better grades. We Know the New York State Testing Program Our experts at The Princeton Review have analyzed the New York State test, and this book provides the most up-to-date, thoroughly researched practice possible for the Grade 4 Mathematics test. We break down the test into individual skills to familiarize students with the test’s structure, while increasing their overall skill level. We Get Results We know what it takes to succeed in the classroom and on tests. This book includes strategies that are proven to improve student performance. We provide • content review, detailed lessons, and practice exercises modeled on the skills tested by the New York State Grade 4 Mathematics test • engaging puzzles, riddles, and word problems • 2 complete practice New York State Math tests
Knitters are branching out and exploring options for creating their own handspun yarn. This is the book that equips them with the confidence and knowledge to realize their vision every step of the way--from fiber braid to dream yarn to knitted project.
Romeo and Juliet’s families caused all sorts of problems, but the two lovers took that poison themselves, the idiots. When Beth Ellingson meets Ethan Brooks, it’s because her aunt and father are conspiring to steal the Birch Creek Ranch from the handsome young man. It wasn’t the cutest way to meet, but just as roses grow best when fertilized with manure, sometimes beauty springs from tragedy. Beth’s father’s definitely a stinker, and she wants to spare Ethan the misery of affiliating with him. But Ethan’s never been afraid of a fight when the cause is just. Can these two young but beloved Birch Creek characters find their happily ever after? Or will the biggest surprise of their young lives derail all their plans and poison their future?