Listening and Reading for English Language Learners: Collaborative Teaching for Greater Success with K-6

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gita Sahgal, Aishwarya Rai, The Great Khali, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Shanti Devi, Sashi Menon, Yagya Dutt Sharma,. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: , pronounced ; 2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He pioneered satyagraha-resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence, which helped India to gain independence, and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma Gandhi (; Sanskrit: महात्मा mahātmā or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore), and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: , bāpu or "Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence. Gandhi first employed civil disobedience while an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, during the resident Indian community's struggle there for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he organised protests by peasants, farmers, and urban labourers concerning excessive land-tax and discrimination. After assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, end untouchability, and increase economic self-reliance. Above all, he aimed to achieve Swaraj or the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led his followers in the Non-cooperation movement that protested the British-imposed salt tax with the 4...http://booksllc.net/?l=en