...Lacey Cusano Subject area 2: Class 9 Make up work Book 1: The Crayon box that talked The crayon box is a great book to talk about being different and unique. When reading the story at circle time I would ask what the children think might be wrong on the page that says, “Something here is wrong?” I would then ask what they thought the crayons were saying after the page that said “And as I did the crayon box had something more to say!” After reading the book I would talk about what unique means and our differences. I would then make a graph to graph our eye or hair color to let children see their differences. In art we would create a picture using all of the crayons in the box with one picture and only one color in a different picture and compare the different pictures at circle time again and chart what the children said about the different pictures on our paper chart to place In the hallway for the parents to read. Sight Words: The, that, We Book 2: From head to toe I love reading from head to toe in circle time with any age group. The book gets any age group up and moving. As the different animals bend and move the children can get up and move their body parts like the animals. For younger children they are able to learn different body parts that are not as common and for older children it helps them get up and move and get their wiggles out. In older classrooms I ask the children to be an animal and have the class imitate what their animal can do. In center time we...
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...by Lauren Oliver, published in January 2011 by HarperCollins (HarperTeen), about a young girl, Lena Haloway, who falls in love in a society where love is seen as a disease. Plot The story is set in Portland, Maine, in an alternate present. Civilization is concentrated in those cities which escaped the severe bombings of decades past. Travel between cities is highly restricted. Electric fences separate the city from the Wilds—unregulated territory which was presumably mostly destroyed by bombs. The totalitarian government teaches that love is a disease, named amor deliria nervosa, commonly referred to as "the deliria". A surgical cure for the deliria has been developed and is mandatory for citizens 18 years old and over. Lena has looked forward to the procedure for years, convinced as she is by the government that love is a horrible disease that must be destroyed from mankind's system. However, mere months before her scheduled procedure, Lena falls in love with an Invalid (a person over 18 who has not taken the Cure and lives in the Wilds) named Alex. He was born in the Wilds outside the city, and has pretended to be cured in order to live undetected in the city and be in the resistance. He offers Lena the means of escape from the procedure that will destroy her ability to love. The two of them would leave the city and live in the Wilds, joining the rebels who oppose the procedure and the government. Although Lena struggles with the thought of leaving her life behind, she ultimately...
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...Into the wild essay Who is Chris McCandless? If you read the book into the wild, then you would probably think he is a young, go getter who went on an Alaskan adventure that went horribly wrong. According to some of the locals in Alaska, there were some obvious key mistakes that he had made that any normal person could have made that would have saved McCandless's life. Could it be that McCandless was just your average idiot? If you were a local is Alaska then your answer would probably have been a strong yes. The book starts off with McCandless dying, which is never a good thing to have in your soul searching adventure. The book then goes back to tell the story about how he make it up to Alaska. A Lot of the things just go against common sense and may even show signs of mental illness. He starts off by leaving his family with nothing, not even a note saying goodbye. He then goes on a long journey to get to Alaska so that he can finally be at peace in the wild. On this journey he meets a band of hippies that take him in and help him get part of the way up to Alaska, on the rough they stopped at a place called slab city where he meets a girl who falls in love with him and wants him to stay...
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...Winterdance. In the book Paulsen uses symbols and metaphors to further the reader’s experience. At the beginning of the book Paulsen lives in Minnesota and runs trapline dogs, after a run where he meets many wild animals he realizes he wants to run the Iditarod. After this Ruth (Gary Paulsen’s wife), helps him get dogs and prep for the race. The theme is the main message of a story, it’s universally understood and is always a full sentence. One theme in the book is “things are not always as they appear”, you can see this many times in Winterdance including in the chapter “Beginnings” when Paulsen and his team encountered a beaver. He thought it wouldn’t end well because beavers are quite viscous, but as it turned out neither the beaver nor the...
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...101 ranvhOutline Thesis: The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was great in part to performers like Will Rogers and Bill Pickett. I.Introduction A. Opening remarks B. Thesis statement II.Will Rogers A. Childhood B. Joins ranch C. Life after ranch and death III. Bill Pickett A. Childhood B. Joins ranch C. Steer wrestling D. Life after ranch and death IV. 101 Ranch Wild West Show A. Will Rogers' contributions B. Bill Pickett's contribution V. Conclusion The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was a great, if not the greatest wild west show of all time. Its diversity and showmanship gathered thousands of people from around the world to watch and be amazed at the spectacular show that was put on. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show combined the thrills of the Wild West with the acts and performances found in a circus; from trick riding and roping to elephants and their trainers (1927 Show Roster, 2013). The 101 Ranch Wild West Show traveled the world and many people got to bask in its glory during its hay day. The show was a masterpiece put together by visionaries and it brought many people jobs and even stardom. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was great in part to performers like Will Rogers and Bill Pickett. Will Rogers was born on the 4th of November in 1879 (Biography, 2013), in the area that is now Oologah, Oklahoma. He was part Indian descending from the Cherokee tribe (Rodeo Star, 2013). Will Rogers...
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...Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.” is a quote by Charles Bukowski explaining how it’s not right by feeling to spend time alone. By being alone you do not have the input of other and their opinions or knowledge and along the lines with that you can make severely bad decisions and mistake that could possibly take your life, and lastly you isolate yourself which can possibly make you go crazy or insane! One of the main dangers of being alone is you do not have much input or help from the book "Into The Wild" Christopher McCandless adventures into the wild on his own without anyone's help. During his journey he get offered by a older gentleman by the name of Jim Gallien offered to buy him all new supplies and food since he was not carrying much on his back which concerned...
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...There are many different points in the story Into the Wild where things Chris McCandless does and ways that he acts suggest that he had a transcendentalist way of thinking about things. From his distaste for money, need to find his true self, and his views on how society was corrupt and impure, Chris exemplifies his high moral standings and his outlook on how things should be. There are many good examples that help to prove that McCandless was a transcendentalist in the essay Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. One belief of transcendentalists that McCandless expresses multiple times throughout the book is a need to disconnect from corrupt society and find his inner self by taking trips with strange motives, and retreating into the wild...
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...INTO THE WILD, AN EXTENSIVE REVIEW Both The book and film 'Into the Wild' give an account on a genuine story of Christopher J McCandless, a knowledgeable and capable young fellow from a decent family who pursued his fantasies and desire. In the wake of graduation from Emory University, Chris gave the parity of his instruction sparing record to Oxfam and vanished from society to carry on with the life of a loner and endeavor into domains where relatively few have challenged. He ended up giving up obviously, his family and companions in doing as such. The book recounts the story from impeccable outsiders he met, his adolescence, his adventures and disappointments prompting his troublesome passing. The book and film additionally gives you samples of different experiences that have likenesses to Chris and additionally the writer who can identify with Chris' enthusiasm forever. It is an extraordinary story and surely one that inspires. I just cannot get enough of this story, the movie is epic, but it’s the novel that is the topping in the dessert. The moral lessons are immensely impactful, not only that, they are very relevant in the contemporary society. I have chosen to review this work of art due to the extensive applicability in real life and the lives of the majority of us in the contemporary society. I love the movie more since it brings the characters to live, in a manner that very few Hollywood blockbusters have achieved. This allows the audience to connect and identify...
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...truly are is by going through a journey of self discovery. That person would have to remove themselves from everything and everyone they know in order to have a clear path to get wherever they want to go without having something or someone holding them back. In the book "Into The Wild" the main character Chris has to tap out in order to find who he really was. The reason why tapping out was the most essential to Chris' self discovery journey is because Chris had to give up his old identity and become Alexander Supertramp. The way that Chris was able to find his true self was by...
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...In Burning a Book, Stafford conveys in the poem a theme where taking the risks in our lives is what the best choice is. Stafford's proves that taking risks is the best choice in eliminating censorship. He does this by using literary device to emphasize a tone of disappointment towards it. Stafford uses many literary language which causes him to develop the meaning on what the meaning of books mean. The very first stanza helps with describing what books are like and what they represent and mean in our world. In the next stanza, Stafford uses a metaphor to emphasis the negative aspects in our society and how they are like the books being burned, “more disturbing than book ashes are whole libraries that no one got around to writing----desolate towns, miles of unthought in cities, and the terrorized countryside where wild dogs.” (Stafford) Additionally in the very last stanza, “so I’ve burned books....
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...Why does the wilderness have to be so harsh? The things that make the wild such a harsh place is based off of animals, climate, the surroundings of the wilderness and many other things. The environment of the wilderness is a harsh and cruel place. There are many ways of struggles while in the wilderness. Struggles can be very unsafe and not healthy. In the movie The Revenant, Glass has to struggle with finding a way back to civilization during a harsh winter. What makes Glass journey a struggle is that he was just brutally attacked by a bear and has serious wounds, on top of that, the winter is very bad and Glass has to take drastic measures into surviving. In the book, Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls and her family have to struggle in the everyday life with having zero money. The Walls family has to eat out of garbage, fight for food, or do whatever it takes because they have no money to buy anything they need. Lastly, in the book Into the Wild, Chris struggles with many things. He has to try and hunt for food, survive in cold winter, and find shelter on his journey. Chris doesn’t know how to hunt so it was hard for...
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...Book Review 1 Floca, Brian (Illustrator) Locomotive New York: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 2013. The history of the first locomotive, families traveling long and far distances to begin a new life, in a new place. Appropriate Age/Grade Level: Elementary Age (7-10 years) Evaluation Criteria: 1. Content The content of this book teaches as it tells a story of a family’s journey from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California in 1869. This book is great for elementary age children who are learning the history of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. As we read this book, we are able to experience the passengers point of view as they passed the time and we are able to experience the sights and the sounds made by the train. We learn how the locomotive operates – with the help of engineers, but also get to experience the trip as it travels across the country....
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...Ever wondered about the savagery of the wild? White Fang, by Jack London, gives you a glimpse into what it’s like. This book is fiction because it follows wolves and dogs and knows what they are thinking. Most of White Fang takes place in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, but toward the end of the story, the setting changes to California. The book is during the Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang is written in third person point of view. This helps with the plot because we know what everyone is thinking. The main protagonist of White Fang, is White Fang, the son of a half dog, half wolf and a full bred wolf. He had many siblings, but he was the only one who could survive the famines. White Fang is born in the wild, so he has great instincts....
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...I could not imagine the excruciating pain of telling your parents’ that one of your siblings had just died. Krakauer really captures the emotions of what the people are saying. One thing that I really liked was that he gives background information on the family and kind of makes you question why Chris actually left. I like how Krakauer reflects on the problems that could have...
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...subject of Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild, was not ignorant or unprepared, but he was going out into the wilderness to find the true meaning of life and to see what it was like to live out in the wild on his own. Chris was a great role model for kids all across the country; because he was trying to live out his dream and do what he thought was right in the wild and would not listen to what anyone told him to do. Chris McCandless was a loving and caring person who cherished for all creation and wanted to get away from the society and live free to find the meaning of life. I feel that Chris McCandless was a person in the world who didn’t like society and wanted to get away from people to become free in the wild. Chris never liked being in society with people and wanted to get away from them as much as he could. When the book opens, we see Chris hitchhiking into the wilderness trying to get away from society when he gets a lift from Jim Gallien. Chris was going to hitchhike to Denali National Park and get away from society and be free. Jim Gallien picked him up and drove him there. When he dropped him off, Chris did not bring much and his only food was a ten pound bag of rice because he wanted to experience the wild and be a part of it. In college at the Emory University, he never had a good social life with people and Krakauer states when people tried to talk to him at parties, “It was hard to get him to open up.” His studies were the only thing he was interested in talking about...
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