...L’Engle- A Wrinkle In Time. More specifically, A Wrinkle In Time is a book about a girl (Meg), and how her father disappeared. In the book, the government told them he was on a top secret mission, while in the movie, he disappeared after Charles Wallace was born. Meg, Calvin, and Charles work through Camazotz and Uriel to find Meg’s father. This happens in both the story and the movie. Mrs Which, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Whatsit also helped them on their mission along the way. The story was more powerful than the movie because of its dialogue, setting, and plot. Following that, The story was better than the movie because of its dialogue. For example, “But Mrs Whatsit came to her and...
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...that it’s basically trapped in a file book. Only I have the key to open it. I’m the owner of my name, Bethany Kendall Sheely. I already know half of what’s in my file book about my name. Bethany comes from the New Testament in the Bible. Lazarus, Mary, and Martha lived and did their studies there. My name also means House of Figs, House of Song, and House of Mary. Bethany is also Hebrew and used mostly by Catholics. Kendall is an English baby name which means Royal Valley. Also means valley of the River Kent. Now I didn’t know much on Sheely. I knew it’s Irish and...
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...Lexington Public Library 50 Books to Read in Kindergarten is a diverse list of titles including award-winning books, notable children’s authors, and promising new works chosen by experienced Children’s Librarians at the Lexington Public Library. More... See the original "50 Books to Read In Kindergarten" and "50 More Books to Read In Kindergarten" lists Showing 50 results Print This List A Splendid Friend, Indeed A Splendid Friend, Indeed (Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book (Awards)) Author: Suzanne Bloom Publisher: Boyds Mills Press (2005) Binding: Hardcover, 32 pages IllustratorSuzanne Bloom Item Call NumberE BLOOM When a studious polar bear meets an inquisitive goose, they learn to be friends. Questions to talk about with your child • The polar bear has to be very patient with goose's questions. When was a time you had to be patient? Was it hard to wait? • How would the story be different if the polar bear wasn't patient and lost his temper? How do you think the goose would feel? • Who is your best friend and why? • Do you know what makes a friend? • Can you be friends with someone who is different than you? Fun things to do together • Look at the many colors in Bloom's illustrations. Ask what colors the different objects are. See if your child can locate these colors in his/her room or clothing. • Pack a snack and blanket. Enjoy a picnic outside with your child. • Play "Goose, Goose, Bear" instead of "Duck, Duck, Goose" • Draw a picture of you and your best friend doing...
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...depends on what you mean by ‘lived,’” she said...We counted eleven places we had lived, then we lost track. (pg. 29) Situation: Jeannette and her older sister, Lori, talk about how many times they have moved in their life. At the time, Jeanette is four and Lori is seven when they have this conversation. Analysis: The passage shows how the parents kept moving their children around to so many different places that they never were able to get established in their community. In the book, it talks about how the family keeps moving and moving. When they move, they would find very remote or unusual places to stay that was not always the best living conditions for the children. The author chooses to add this to her...
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...to read a book. I never understood just how important reading was let alone the impact reading would later have on my life. During my years in elementary school I had such a rough time just trying to understand anything. My parents would take their time and help teach me to read. That wasn’t the best of experiences as I fought with everything I had to not have to learn. Later once I hit middle school and then high school things weren’t so tough for me. I was reading but only what I had to read and nothing more. At this point in my life I still thought that reading was pointless and a waste of time. It wasn’t until 2005 that reading would start to become a daily part of my life. It wasn’t long before I had realized that books had become my best friend, and I would always have a best friend and somewhere to turn when things turned sour from time to time. For many years I made many new friends within the books that I read. Then just like a long distance relationship I knew that they were there but never talked to them or in this case read them for another couple years. In 2010 I was given a very precious gift and from the very beginning before my daughter was even born I would read to her. Even to this day I am still reading to her with one big difference she is learning at an early age that books can be your best friend and that they make for a great way to pass the time if you need to. I don’t want my daughter to have to learn late in life just how important books can and will...
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...In the book “The Body In The Woods,” the setting took place in Portland, Oregon. Most of the characters time are located in Forest Park. This is because they work with a search and rescue crew, and plenty of people get lost out in the woods. The book did not state when this occurred because it was fiction, but from textual evidence the author is trying to based it off of the time era we are currently living in. One of the evidence is that they have cell phones in the book, and we can assume that the time frame could not be in the 1500’s because they did not have phones back then. Alexis is one of the main characters in this book. She is a teenage girl who lives with her mom who deals with mental illnesses. Alexis does not like to discuss about her mom’s problem to other people. She is apart of Portland Country Search and Rescue which is also known as SAR. Through SAR she becomes friends with Nick and Ruby. In the book she would protagonist. She is the protagonist because the book talks about her life and the struggles she had to go through with her mom. Also, the end of the story she had to make a big decision to hit a man to help save her friends life. After she made the decision to hit him, she became a hero to saving her friends life. Nick is a main character who is also involved in SAR. His father died in the army when Nick was little. He likes to act like he is brave. Nick does have a fear that he will not be as good as the others. He is also a protagonist. He is a protagonist...
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...Author project Author: Rick Riordan By: What did you do before you wrote books? Rick was a teacher. Where did you get the idea for Percy Jackson? Rick's son Haley, asked to hear a Greek myth every night and when there was none left he asked rick to make up his own with new characters. What is different between writing a kid's book and writing an adult book? When rick was writing Percy Jackson he did not find it much different from writing. Rick made sure to not "write down" to kids. Why does Percy have ADHD and dyslexia? Ricks own son was going through testing to see if he had ADHD/dyslexia and found that people that had those conditions were creative, and outside...
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...person who has it harder than Lennie from the book, Of Mice and Men. He goes through so much to find things that make him happy or proud of himself then George just puts him down right after. Lennie doesn’t know any better though. He thinks just like a kid, but how can you handle a kid who’s bigger and stronger than you? There’s no way he could survive on his own, which is another reason why we will all say. Poor ol’ Lennie. There are many things that the reader finds out about Lennie. He has Autism, his Aunt died very early on, and George did some mean things to him. Autism? But Lennie has gotta be a young boy traveling with a family member. Think again. Lennie does act like a small child but not because he is young, he can’t help it, his mental state isn’t everything it should be....
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...stealing from Ms. Watson and leaving Jim as a slave. Huck did decided that even though stealing from Ms. Watson would surely send him to “Hell” he still went with his gut and freed Jim, But with that later in the story shortly after Ms. Watsons death Huck and Jim found out that in her will she had freed Jim anyways. The ending of that situation in this story is what I choose to critique because of the cloudy message that is being given to the reader. It does not support...
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...learning with Moshe the Beadle, the Hungarians evacuated all foreign Jews as-well with Moshe. Moshe was able to escape and returned several months later, and explained the brutal treatment that they encountered, but most people did not believe him. 1944 the Nazis gained power in Hungry, and all Jews were crowded into a small ghetto. After a while the Nazis started to deport all the Jews in the ghetto to Auschwitz. On the train the Jews were packed in, with almost no air to breathe, everyone was thirsty and hungry. After some days of traveling the Jews arrived in Czech, and a German officer takes over the train. The officer warned everyone that to give of their valuables or get shot. The train doors were then nailed to prevent people from escaping. Madame Schächter, was the first person to go crazy on the train, she starts to yell about a fire, which is not there. After some time a few boys beat her to silent as her son watches in fear, but the next night she started to yell once again. The Jews arrive in Auschwitz, but it was not as they have been told. They were told although it is a labor camp; the families will be kept as one. As the train traveled through the barb wire they see chimneys of smoke, and there is terrible smell, which they later find out that it is human flesh. The camp that they arrived in is the processing camp for Auschwitz. At Birkenau the Nazis make a selection form those who will live and those who will die. Some of the elders in the camp convince Ellie...
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...Wars, Before The Awakening by Greg Rucka is a three stories in one book. The first story is about FN-218 (Finn), second story is about Rey and the third about Poe. I’ll will be doing FN-218 (Finn) because I find his story really good. This book tells you about the new heroes of Star Wars and what there did before the movie Star Wars: the force awakens. Number of Pages: The book has 240 pages. Plot of the story: The book starts off by saying “there are four in a firing team”. The firing teams leader is FN-218. His nick name is Finn but, he gets this name in the movie that is based on the movie. The second leader is Nines, then Zero and there is also Slip. These are the five main characters in Finns story. The book starts right...
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...just keep our skeletons in different places.” OBJECTIVE/ STANDARD: Introduce the word “skeleton” to the students and what it means. Students will find and feel their own skeleton underneath the skin. Using a magnifier, students will observe ants have their skeleton on the outside. SKCS6. The Nature of Science: Students will understand the important features of the process of scientific inquiry. Students will apply the following to inquiry learning practices: SKCS6.b. Tools such as rulers, magnifiers, and balance scales often give more information about things than can be obtained by just observing things without help. MATERIALS: Scholastic’s The Human Body by Steve Setford, National Geographic Kids Ultimate Bug-opedia by Darlyne Murawski and Nancy Honovich, magnifiers, petri dishes, freeze dried ants, tweezers, plastic human bones, pencils, and a science notebook. ADVANCED PREPARATIONS: 1. Go to a pet store to buy a container of freeze dried ants. 2. Bring in Scholastic’s The Human Body by Steve Setford, and National Geographic Kids Ultimate Bug-opedia by Darlyne Murawski and Nancy Honovich. 3. Go to a teacher supply store, or if close to October any retail store, to buy a few plastic human bones. 4. Place a few ants in the petri dishes. 5. Collect all materials and bring to classroom. 6. Set up a station where materials will be kept in the classroom. 7. Stage classroom. PROCEDUER: Motivating question: “Do ants have a skeleton?” How to do it: On...
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...with trying to find the meaning in the author’s words, because the books didn’t make sense to me. It always felt as if it was fight that I’d never win. I felt this way for some time till I read, ‘The Not So Lonely Good Company of Books’ by Bryce Shoemaker. Instead of searching for a meaning Shoemaker’s essay confirms how books are a learning experience and how the reader chooses to apply that knowledge to their everyday life. This furthered my idea that not everyone is able to be successful at reading, but can still have learned something that will impact their life. Inside the student essay Bryce Shoemaker shares his opinions on literature as well as his thoughts on an essay,...
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...The changed Ciguapa Have you ever wanted to turn a famous monster into a good one, or would you rather show people that this monster or person is innocent? You have a favorite monster that you think is cool but is too mean to be considered an idol? Do you wish that you could change it to be seen as a monster? Well that's exactly what I did, I changed a latin folklore monster into a good one in the book, The Summer of the Mariposas, written by Guadalupe Garcia McCall. Now I'll explain how I did it. Modernized Monster In the book, The Summer of the Mariposas, there was a monster in the book called the chupacabra that I replaced for my own folklore monster. She is called The Ciguapa. I made her to be a nice person, kind, beautiful, helpful and is mostly misunderstood by most...
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...genre but through my research I have come to conclusions with the fact that the novel choices of men are less emotional when compared to women but there are a few cases of exceptions. The purpose of this research paper was to find out whether females still read more emotional centered novels than males using survey techniques. Key Terms: Emotions, Gender, Novels This research was conducted for the purpose of understanding human behaviors and gender stereotypes within those behaviors. Emotions are an important aspect for humans to make judgments and choices (Huebner, Dwyer, & Hauser, 2009) hence my research will be based on the choices we make and whether gender plays a role in it or not. Objectives Primary Objective: * To find out whether there are male students who choose emotional novels as compared to females in Manipal University, Dubai. Also, whether females do not choose to read emotional novels regardless of the general stereotype of their emotional behavior. Secondary Objective: * To find out what genres of novels the students of Manipal University prefer * To find out their favorite novelists * To find out which sex reads the most number of novels Literature Review A novel is a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing...
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