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    • and a turkey a few days ago as they went to Chuichupa. My cancer is about the same, my sight very poor. Broughton is out hunting today. We have hired Alice Rowley to look &er Sarah's family while she is off Aunt Elien is much the same as she has...
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    • Thomas Jones worked with the Deseret Iron Company through this time and lost about all of his wages through the failure of the undertaking." At the industry's peak, the population of Cedar City grew to 928 inhabitants and with its abandonment, the...
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    • this opportunity to send you these few lines again, hoping it will reach you and find you all well as it leaves us at present through the mercy of God." " We received your most welcon~e and loving letter, my dear children, and we were most happy to...
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    • had to be cleared of sagebl-ush and greasewood. Heavy d r a p were made of tree trunks and poles, and the t~rushwas hurned. T h e plows were made of mountain mahogany and the shares of iron. Often, the land was hard and dry, and water for the...
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    • away, people would sometimes send for the prearhcr and ask him for whom the hell tolled, and the preacher would say to them that the bell tolled for everyone. "No man is an i l a n d entire to itself", he said, "every man is a piece of the...
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    • level. Now, Brother Jones, of course, didn't have those qualities alone, but I think you will agree with me, among those who did, he was outstanding. Men of vision are in a sense the eyes of a community. They see ahead and sometimes when others of...
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    • Epilogue Sometimes, in the colonizing and building up of the West, the obstacles seemed virtually imponihle, and almost too overwhelming to conquer; but nothing was really unconquerable for the pioneers and the huilders of the western communities....
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    • vii Acknowledgments There are many wonderful people in my community who made this thesis possible. First, I would like to thank my third-grade students and their parents from the 2010-2011 school year who participated in this study. The trust and...
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    • 10 deprived of learning because of their social isolation and lack of interaction, which affected their overall cognitive functioning. As a result, Vygotsky set out to transform education in Russia by creating new pedagogical styles that would...
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    • 13 community to display children’s work, bringing children’s artifacts from home to display at school, and sharing photographs outside the classroom (Feiler et al., 2008). In conjunction with the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDOE)...
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    • 14 the school by using funds from the Effective Teaching and Learning Literacy Program (USDOE, 2010a). These government programs are examples of how educators and scholars are redefining literacy as the term expands into the experiences and lives...
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    • 19 when they enter school compared to children from poor HLEs. However, those children from low-SES families and ethnic backgrounds had the most variability of literacy experiences in the home environment. “Relating these profiles to SES and...
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    • 20 one in which parents may still value literacy and their children’s education; however, they are less educated and engage in fewer literacy activities in the home. Students from literacy-oriented communities have proven to be more prepared for...
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    • 21 there is a possibility that someone else in the home is (Haneda, 2006). ELL out-of-school “literacy practices are typically bilingual or multilingual in nature” (Haneda, 2006, p. 339), as they are associated with religion and parental...
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    • 22 students’ investment in school learning appears to increase” (Haneda, 2006, p. 343). ELLs can then feel safe to learn in this type of school environment as it allows them become active readers and writers when exposed to new texts. It is not...
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    • 23 of the school, McLaughlin noticed that other Western-based institutions, such as the local Christian churches, provided religious reading material in Navajo and that Navajo literacy classes were established by members of the community. In terms...

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