Torey Hayden, Teaching With Words: Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives
Teaching With Words By Cleo Lampos Narrative nonfiction is a writing style that makes true events read like a novel. Is it any wonder that when Torey Hayden submitted her manuscript for One Child that the publisher snatched it up and put her under contract?…
Bertha Bracey: Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives
The Sound of a Train Whistle By Cleo Lampos For five years, Bertha taught school in Birmingham,England. She wrote lesson plans, dictated sentences, encouraged written expression, calculated math problems and cared for the children in her class. Each student gained her attention and concern. As a Quaker, she respected…
The Story of Thomas Galaudet: Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives
CHILDREN OF SILENCE By Cleo Lampos Thomas struggled to take a breath in the spring air. As the other children ran around him, playing, pushing, screaming, he tried to inhale enough oxygen to walk to the stoop of his home. The oldest of twelve children, Thomas did…