CHARITY ~ SUPPORT LITERACY PROGRAM

SUPPORT LITERACY PROGRAM

Our mission with The Foundation for Greater Opportunities in Learning is to provide opportunities and resources which allow children and adolescents to become successful learners. The Foundation places special emphasis on the educational development of children and adolescents in at-risk circumstances.

Activities:

• The Literacy Program at Edelman Children’s Court

Current developments under way for the upcoming Literacy Project at the Edelman Children’s Court include collaboration with the California State University Writing Project, which is under the direction of Dr. Robert Land.

• Mentor/Tutor Project for Children in Foster Care

Current Developments include collaboration with County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, Pasadena Region. A research-based program is currently also under development.

• Annual Breakfast with Santa and Toywrapping Party

Are you looking for a great way to get involved and meet wonderful people along the way? Help us get ready for the 2011 12th Annual Breakfast with Santa Event and Toy/Gift Wrapping Party!! December 15th, 6PM at Buster’s. [2011]

DONATIONS INVITED AT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE:

Foundation for Greater Opportunities in Learning  http://4greaterlearning.org/donate.html/

Sample The eBook: JOURNEY TO THE M.A. DEGREE by Charlotte M. Liebel @Amazon.com

SAMPLE  Journey to the M.A. Degree’ by Charlotte M. Liebel @Amazon.com and other Booksellers. The book is recommended for ESL students, Learners, and Teachers. #Read the 10-Lesson Composition Series #Course published in #Kindle and #Nook eBooks and Soft Cover.

Read poetry, essays, and college courses to give understanding and remove the mystery of higher learning. Let us promote education as the building blocks for competing in the workforce on every level and in every desired career. Learning can be taught to adults away from studies for years. You can start to study to earn degrees in your first year at college.

Enjoy a SPECIAL history of Mark Twain from a completed project at college.

My Lost Mexico ~ James A. Michener

 

  MY LOST MEXICO

by James A. Michener © 1992

[FOLLOW-UP NOVEL]

[Recommended by Charlotte M. Liebel © 2011]

James A. Michener published his separate book-length guide to the novel MEXICO in the commentary: MY LOST MEXICO. In his own voice and pen, he teaches what I call: the Art of Writing. I am reading it for the first time. He says he wrote 10 Chapters of MEXICO with history & photos of his characters… became disillusioned, boxed it, and resurrected it 30 years later. Michener was born: February 3, 1907 – Died October 16, 1997 = 90 yrs of age.

I recommend the commentary book especially to writers for Michener’s significant expertise in creating a history about what he was about to write. He called it: MY LOST MEXICO. It was a significant book because he wrote it as a follow-up of the novel MEXICO telling everyone how he lived the novel. He devoted his book to the details about how he met and plotted every character, every town, and every family history. In it, he records meeting bull fighters and writes them into the book. He photographs scenes of people and places and includes descriptive details in the ultimate story. He establishes how his characters’ relationships developed in America and Mexico and how it came to be that their ancestors lived in territories he mentions in his original novel. This is a book I recommend to all writers. This is one-hundred percent worth the read whether or not one reads the fictional storybook.

It surprised me to find several new copies of this book available at Amazon.com for pennies. His fans aren’t interested in the development of his story … they only want to read the finished product. On the other hand, I am awed at the “journey” and the “author.” His studies about people, cultures, countries – were published in an anthology, as well.