Heart Maps

Heart Maps
Author: Georgia Heard
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325074498

How do we get students to "ache with caring" about their writing instead of mechanically stringing words together? We spend a lot of time teaching the craft of writing but we also need to devote time to helping students write with purpose and meaning. For decades, Georgia Heard has guided students into more authentic writing experiences by using heart maps to explore what we all hold inside: feelings, passions, vulnerabilities, and wonderings. In Heart Maps, Georgia shares 20 unique, multi-genre heart maps to help your students write from the heart, such as the First Time Heart Map, Family Quilt Heart Map, and People I Admire Heart Map. You'll also find extensive support for using heart maps, including: tips for getting started with heart maps writing ideas to jumpstart student writing in multiple genres from heart maps suggested mentor texts to provide additional inspiration. Filled with full-color student heart maps, examples of the resulting writing, along with online access to 20 different uniquely designed reproducible heart map templates, Heart Maps will be a practical tool for awakening new writing possibilities and engaging and motivating your students' writing throughout the year.

Georgia's Heart

Georgia's Heart
Author: Elease Bills- Hunt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0557626226

As Mahalia read through the magazine trying to find a way to save the most important thing in her life, she saw Mason Jackson's ad for a temporary wife. Mason's first marriage had been a disaster and he had no children. He decided to advertise for a woman he could marry for the express purpose of producing a child, then divorce her right after the birth. At least that had been the plan until Mahalia answered the ad. Can two people get past what they want and realize what they need?

Awakening the Heart

Awakening the Heart
Author: Georgia Heard
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, p, e, i, s, t.

My Thoughts Are Clouds

My Thoughts Are Clouds
Author: Georgia Heard
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250244676

A poetry collection that both illustrates what mindfulness is and encourages young, growing minds to be present, from poet and educator Georgia Heard, with art by Isabel Roxas. Poets have long observed the world in a mindful way. They point out beauty we might have missed, draw our attention to our inner thoughts, and call us to see our society in new ways. But as daily life become more and more chaotic, children grow distracted. According to the CDC, 9.4% of children have ADHD and 7% have anxiety/depression. And these numbers continue to climb. As treatment doctors recommend healthy eating, physical activity, plenty of sleep, and mindfulness techniques. Georgia Heard is a poet and educator—and she has long had her own meditation practice. In My Thoughts Are Clouds, she uses poetry to demonstrate what mindfulness is and gives kids—and their parents and teachers—accessible ways to learn mindfulness tools.

Georgia's Smile

Georgia's Smile
Author: Lee-Ann Graff Vinson
Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452413118

Georgia parked in front of the flower shop where she worked. Her eye throbbed behind her dark sunglasses. She knew she had to leave her husband, Philip, but after last night’s threat of what would happen if she did, she was even more scared to go. Little did Georgia know that when she opened her car door to go into work that morning, she would run into the man who was willing to change all of that. Marc Ramos was a man, a very handsome, but married, man. A man who made Georgia’s heart beat again after years of neglect. His mere touch sent chills through her body and took her breath away. Never before had Georgia felt such passion for a man, and definitely not a man she had almost brought to his knees with her car door.

Peculiar Tribe of People

Peculiar Tribe of People
Author: Richard Jay Hutto
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-10-19
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0762767057

On May 12, 1960, as John F. Kennedy campaigned for the presidency, Chester Burge—slumlord, liquor runner, and the black sheep of the proud (and wealthy) Dunlap family of Macon, Georgia—lay in a hospital bed, recovering from surgery. He listened to the radio as the news reported that his wife had just been murdered. Police soon ruled out robbery as a motive, and suspicion centered upon the Ku Klux Klan, which two weeks earlier had descended upon his house to protest his renting of homes in white neighborhoods to black families. Then, on June 1, Chester was charged with the murder, and when the trial finally began, the sweet Southern town of Macon witnessed a story of epic proportions—a tale of white-columned mansions, an insane asylum, real people as “Southern grotesque” as the characters of Flannery O’Connor, and a volatile mix of taboo interracial relationships and homosexuality. This was a story as fantastical as a Greek tragedy, complete with a stunning conclusion. It is told in riveting detail in Richard Jay Hutto’s A Peculiar Tribe of People. Chester Burge was a walking streak of deception and sex. After weaseling his way to be the caretaker of the last Dunlap sister and forcing his way into her will, Burge and his family inherited a fortune as well as one of the family mansions. Then came his numerous assignations with men—including his black chauffeur—and, either single-handedly or with help from a lover, the murder of his wife. The trial would spawn the first testimony in Georgia history of a black man disclosing that he had been a white man’s sexual partner. Burge would be acquitted of murder, but convicted of sodomy. And yet, this Southern grotesque tale would take even more twists and turns before coming to an explosive conclusion.

The Civil War in Georgia

The Civil War in Georgia
Author: John C. Inscoe
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 082034138X

"A project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia"

Bloody Good

Bloody Good
Author: Georgia Evans
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780758234810

Alice Doyle, a county doctor during World War II, discovers that Nazi vampires are attacking rural England.

What Nature Suffers to Groe

What Nature Suffers to Groe
Author: Mart A. Stewart
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780820324593

"What Nature Suffers to Groe" explores the mutually transforming relationship between environment and human culture on the Georgia coastal plain between 1680 and 1920. Each of the successive communities on the coast--the philanthropic and imperialistic experiment of the Georgia Trustees, the plantation culture of rice and sea island cotton planters and their slaves, and the postbellum society of wage-earning freedmen, lumbermen, vacationing industrialists, truck farmers, river engineers, and New South promoters--developed unique relationships with the environment, which in turn created unique landscapes. The core landscape of this long history was the plantation landscape, which persisted long after its economic foundation had begun to erode. The heart of this study examines the connection between power relations and different perceptions and uses of the environment by masters and slaves on lowcountry plantations--and how these differing habits of land use created different but interlocking landscapes. Nature also has agency in this story; some landscapes worked and some did not. Mart A. Stewart argues that the creation of both individual and collective livelihoods was the consequence not only of economic and social interactions but also of changing environmental ones, and that even the best adaptations required constant negotiation between culture and nature. In response to a question of perennial interest to historians of the South, Stewart also argues that a "sense of place" grew out of these negotiations and that, at least on the coastal plain, the "South" as a place changed in meaning several times.