Make Colorado history more interesting to your students with this hands-on activity book that is packed with 48 pages of information. With "My Colorado," students write, color, complete challenging games, create, analyze, practice their critical thinking skills, and more. Best of all, students learn to make connections between the past and their own lives in present-day Colorado. Use "My Colorado" as a supplement to your existing Colorado textbooks. Or use "My Colorado" as your basic text and your other books as resource materials "My Colorado" addresses fourth-grade geography, history, and...

The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Through a coincidence of time and place, Gaetano Guadagni was on the forefront of the heroic opera reform, and many forward-thinking composers of the age created roles for him. Author Patricia Howard reveals that Guadagni may have been the only singer of the time fully able to understand the demands and opportunities of this reform, as well to possess the intelligence and self-knowledge to realize that it...