This book is named “Acceleration” and is written by Graham McNamee. In this book a young teen named Duncan is required to do his community hours because he was charged for stealing a toilet and instead of going to jail, his father bailed him out. During his boring adventures for the TTC lost and found, he finds a mysterious leather book that was written by an anonymous person. The lesson that Duncan learns is that he forgets his fear of saving a little girl named Maya. The ways he tries to forget about Maya is, staying away from water in order to forget the incident, protecting Kim (his ex-girlfriend,) from the people who live near where she works and finding Roach in order to protect the female targets…
Dr.Seuss’s Butter Battle Book Many kids can recall reading Dr.Seuss's stories and rhymes. They are simple yet always have a story or message about them that anyone can understand. Whether it's about green eggs and ham or colorful fish. Dr.Seuss books Green Eggs and Ham, 1 Fish 2 Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and The Butter Battle Book are all great children's stories that even adults can enjoy.…
A Single Shard This book that i read was about these three men who was potters. One day the master of the potter store who was named Min went out and had to go find another potter who was good at it. Because Min had a large order to get done for a good person he knew so he got this boy who was 13 years old and he was a really good potter. So the next day the boy came and started done pottery for the large ordered he had coming up so Min started the boy on the potting wheel and started working on the large ordered he had. Some of the main characters who was mostly in the whole book was Min the potter master,Tree-ear was one of the boys and crane man was also a potter in the story.…
Poetry, poetry, what boring and confusing words, They say we have to learn and write it, how absurd. It light of it all, learning it can be thrilling and fun, Reading poetry now is second to none! I like the book Donna O’Neeshuck Was Chased By Some Cows by Bill Grossman.…
Picture Books in the Health Curriculum Health classes are another area of middle school curriculum that could benefit from utilizing picture books. Many social and health issues are covered in picture books targeting the middle school students. As an introduction to the topic of mental health, The Red Tree by Shaun Tan is a great example of a well-illustrated picture book that creates of a visual image of depression. The symbolism of the red leaf throughout the story can be discussed as it pertains to the hope in the struggle with depression.…
How My Carpet Came to be Mathian Shuen While walking to the trash can, the tissue suddenly went up in flames. The smoke wafted up to my nose, and to the back of my throat and it had the welcoming aroma of roasting marshmallow and the raspy taste of burnt toast. "Ah!!! " I cried out in shock. Before we get to that, let's start from the beginning of the story.…
Lennie is so irritating, demanding this and that. I am sat here doing all the work, I am the one hussiling and he contributes nothing. We were doing so well in Weed had a good job, paid well but Lennie justy has to come and mess it up. We just can't keep a job with Lennie, always messing things up He strocked a girls dress in Weed, the woman screamed and he clenched harder. Then we had to spend a whole day in an irragation ditch with men trying to look for us and kill us.…
Kristin Characters and point of view Characters: The main character in the story is Ponyboy Curtis, who’s fourteen. He has brown, almost red hair and greenish eyes. He’s smart and is always getting good grades. However, he never uses his head outside school that’s why he keeps getting in trouble.…
Finn is a young boy in the first grade who is reading below level. Finn Enjoys reading in his spare time, along with being with family and shopping; his favorite color is pink and enjoys princesses such as the TV show, Sofia The First and movie Anastasia. Finn likes both Fiction and Nonfiction books, his favorite genres are Fairy Tale, Folk Tales, Poetry and Funny stories. Based off of Finn’s interest survey I am concluding that the norms for typical gender roles are nearly nonexistent.…
Mo Willems began his career as a writer and animator for the show Sesame Street on PBS. During this time, he earned 6 Emmy Awards for his writing. Willems worked on Sesame Street for nine seasons and created two animated series The Off-Beats for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City. Codename: Kids Next Door was another show where Willems served as head writer at Cartoon Network, it was during this time that Willems began writing and illustrating books for children (Willems, Mo. FAQ). “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” was Willems debut book.…
Ooo yay, they’re coming to see me, I’m so excited my tail might fly off, it’s been ten minutes since I last got a pat. Why are they closing the door? Why are they waving and saying bye? Noooo! They’re going out!…
The picture book, The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, is written and illustrated by Dan Santat. The intended age and grade level for this book is preschool to first grade, recommended for ages three to seven. With the controlled vocabulary, limited word count, and vividly colorful pictures it is aimed at the younger ages in that spectrum. In the book, the reader is taken on a colorful and fictional journey about finding friendship. The story begins with the protagonist, an imaginary friend that has yet to be imagined, being born on the imaginary friend island.…
In this Action Research paper, I am going to discuss the demographics and break down of my classroom library, and the possible deficits it presents to the students who populate it. This is significant because the more a child is exposed to a rich and dynamic library of books the better he or she has to be fluent in both reading and writing (Tompkins, 2015). It is also essential to to remember that a lack of culturally variegated texts may have an negative impact on children. I will first discuss the context that contains all the breakdown of the district, secondly the individual makeup of what my school looks like and finally represent the individual classroom demographics.…
In a world where there lived a city where they ban your favorite TV show. A duo of friends that are named Brandon Nguyen and Sponge Lob Circle Pants that are 13, try to find out why and try to make the rules fair. Brandon Nguyen who is smart, helpful, talented, humble, and determined. Sponge Lob Circle Pants who is smart, weird, and determined. They find many things bad about this city where the government makes everyone have a bad life.…
1. The Polar Express was written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg and it was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1985. This book is a classic children’s book that was later made into a feature film. The story is about a boy who goes unnamed though out the whole book, and his journey on a magical steam engine to the North Pole in the middle of the night. Van Allsburg evokes such a vivid visual world through is text and visuals.…