文档介绍：Unit One
The Icy Defender
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Nila Banton Smith (1889–1976)~~
Date of birth：
Date of death：1976
Nationality：USA
Education：Columbia University
Nila Banton Smith was a teacher, administrator and specialist in reading instruction. For her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University ,she wrote An Historical Analysis of American Reading Instruction. In 1934 Silver Burdett published American Reading Instruction, an important contribution to the history of reading education in the United States. Smith's publishing career spanned the years from 1922 to 1976.
A special edition of American Reading Instruction was reissued in 2002 which attests to the importance of the historical research Smith undertook. An added feature is a new final chapter on American Reading Instruction since 1967 authored by P. David Pearson, a leader in contemporary reading education
To honor Nila Banton Smith the International Reading Association offers two grants in her name. One is an award to honor middle or high school teachers who have translated theory and research into practice .
The second award is to support a member of the International Reading Association working on a dissemination project for the educational community .
cultural background
Hitler gained power in a Germany facing crises after World War I. He used charismatic oratory and propaganda, appealing to economic need, nationalism and anti-Semitism to establish an authoritarian regime.
With a restructured economy and rearmed military, Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum and triggered the European theater of World War II by invading Poland.
At the height of their power, Germany and the Axis Powers occupied much of Europe, but they eventually were defeated by the Allies.
By then, Hitler's racial policies had culminated, with Hitler's knowledge, in the genocide of