Una no-guía del juego

En enero de 1917 la Primera Guerra Mundial estaba en un trágico punto muerto. Los ingleses sabían que Europa sólo se salvaría si los Estados Unidos intervenían. Pero el presidente Wilson se aferraba a su neutralidad y a sus esfuerzos por mediar en la negociación de la paz. Y entonces, de pronto, el instrumento para empujar a los norteamericanos a entrar en la guerra llegó a una tranquila oficina inglesa. Uno de los miles de mensajes interceptados por el equipo de descodificadores británico era un telegrama en clave de Arthur Zimmermann, secretario de Asuntos Exteriores alemán. Un...

Once there was a lazy boy whose mother would send him out to look for work every day. Each day something terrible would happen to him and he would return home empty handed. Then one day he finds work that leads him to happiness.

In my job as substitute teacher and teacher of after-school, I help the children with their homework’s. One of the most difficult homeworks for first, second, and third graders is to write short stories using high-frequency words. The teachers give them the words, and they must write the stories using that words. This book is a collection of some of these short stories. It will also a pleasure to read of benefit for the young students and teachers.

If we want to prepare our children to face an uncertain future, the best we can offer them is an education in Critical Thinking. This book presents a concrete, simple and practical methodology with which teachers and parents have worked for years.