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“He was unbearable, vain, proud, brutal, inconsistent, human.Without him, I would have rotted to death. . . . He was my guardiandevil.” As the descendant of two prominent French families and directorof one of the world's most celebrated champagne houses, PhilippePozzo di Borgo was not someone in the habit of asking for help.Then, in 1993, right on the heels of his wife being diagnosed witha terminal illness, a paragliding accident left him aquadriplegic. Passing his days hidden behind the high walls of his Paristownhouse, Philippe found himself the modern equivalent of an“untouchable”—unable to reach out to others, as others were afraidto reach out to him. The only person who seemed unaffected byPhilippe's condition was someone who had been marginalized hisentire life—Abdel, the unemployed, uninhibited Algerian immigrantwho would become his unlikely caretaker. In between dramas andjokes, he sustained Philippe's life for the next ten years. A Second Wind, the basis for the
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Give your students practice in understanding story sequence. Cut apart sentences, arrange in order, and paste on fully illustrated sheets for a complete story.
Build children's alphabet-recognition skills and phonemic awareness with this engaging kit that includes 52 colored upper- and lowercase letters, 26 picture cards, 13 two-sided, write-on/wipe-off learning mats, and a pack of crayons. Children match the letters to the letters printed on the mats, identify the picture card that starts with each letter, then practice writing the letters on the mats. Includes an activity guide. Helps promote these important developmental skills: ? Name alphabet letters ? Match uppercase and lowercase letters ? Write uppercase and lowercase letters ? Identify beginning consonant sounds (picture-letter match) ? Identify short and long vowel sounds (picture-letter match) For use with Grades K-2. ,
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Give your students practice in understanding story sequence. Cut apart sentences, arrange in order, and paste on fully illustrated sheets for a complete story.
Develops skills in English grammar with ready-to-reproduce practice pages on such topics as sentence types, tenses, subject-verb agreement, and punctuation.,
