Elements of Literature, Grades 9-12 Reader/Writer Notebook: Holt Elements of Literature (Eolit 2009) - Softcover

Beers, Kylene; Jago, Carol; Appleman, Deborah; Christenbury, Leila; Kajder, Sara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0554002574 ISBN 13: 9780554002576

Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 2009

Synopsis

"Miss Miranda Sawyer?s old-fashioned garden was the pleasantest spot in Riverboro on a sunny July morning."

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About the Author:

Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labour. In 1873, hoping to ease Albion Bradbury's lung disease, Kate's family moved to Santa Barbara, California, where Kate's stepfather died three years later. A kindergarten training class was opening in Los Angeles under Emma Marwedel (1818–1893), and Kate enrolled. After graduation, in 1878, she headed the first free kindergarten in California, on Silver Street in the slums of San Francisco. The children were "street Arabs of the wildest type", but Kate had a loving personality and dramatic flair. By 1880 she was forming a teacher-training school in conjunction with the Silver Street kindergarten. Sunnybrook farm, classic girl stories, teen fiction, Chronicles of Rebecca, Rebecca

About the Author:

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith (1856-1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the "Silver Street Free Kindergarten"). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty (1883), The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887), Polly Oliver's Problem (1893), A Cathedral Courtship (1893), The Village Watchtoer (1896), Marm Lisa (1897) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0554002574
• ISBN 13: 9780554002576
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232