Chrysanthemum kevin5/11/2023 ![]() Students choose the main idea for sections of the story from a few possible choices. ![]() Students graph the number of letters in their names. The second item in this collection is related to 3 pages Adobe Reader required.įourteen MORE Activities for the First Days of School! Lesson plan includes vocabulary, enrichment activities, assessments. At the end, the wrinkles in the hearts indicate the lasting impression of unkind words. Students fold a paper heart each time someone says something unkind to Chrysanthemum and then unfold it when someone says something kind. It's a great book to use for lessons on cause-and-effect, friendship, bullying, feelings and/or self-esteem. Provided is a model of how to think aloud about Chrysanthemum's dilemma of being teased about her name and the effect that the teasing caused to her self-esteem. Adobe Reader required.Ī series of pre-reading and post-reading discussion questions and learning activities will help students explore the meaning and value of their names.Ī variety of post-reading activities designed to be compatible with the Four Block program. Emphasis on how to deal with teasing, bullying. ![]() ![]() Summary and 4 sets of discussion questions based on different aspects of the story. Follow tabs for downloadable chart, worksheet. It includes vocabulary and background knowledge. A list of teacher-tested learning activities, including vocabulary, making predictions, dealing with teasing, valuing names, learing quotation marks, more.Īn extensive list of learning activities. ![]()
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Lucy and the Bully by Claire Alexander5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, coming from Walker in 2022, The Think-Ups is a delightful new picture book. She regularly visits schools, and enjoys drawing for and with children.Ĭlaire is author and illustrator of the popular Ploofers series for Quarto - A Little Bit Different, A Little Bit of Courage and A Little Bit of Respect. She's been teaching it ever since - in local libraries, bookshops, and more recently at the House of Illustration. In 2007 Claire created her own picture book course, a guide to picture book creation for aspiring author illustrators. She first studied Fine Art at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury.īut it was while she was studying children’s illustration at Putney School of Art that she produced her first dummy book - Small Florence. Its publication marked the start of her dream career as a children's author illustrator. ![]() She loved drawing from a very young age, and remembers being asked to draw rabbits for her schoolmates!īorn in Bath, Claire grew up in Kent. Claire Alexander is an award-winning illustrator and author of children's books, including A Little Bit Different and The Think-Ups. ![]() I came as a shadow5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Out of the several alternate costumes she offers him, the narrator selects a Zulu chief outfit consisting of a feathered headdress and a loincloth. Realizing that his costume will work against him-because shareholders don’t like “angry black men” (6)-he goes to Octavia for help. The narrator badly needs a promotion because he is saving up for a cosmetic procedure to give his son, Nigel, “a normal face” (5). ![]() Riley informs the narrator that the party is in fact a competition between the three of them: Whoever wins will be promoted to shareholder, and the losers will be fired. ![]() The narrator is dressed as a Roman centurion, but the other Black lawyers, Franklin and Riley, have come as a prisoner and a busboy respectively. Including the narrator, Seasons has only three Black employees. He retells the party’s events, hosted at the extravagant house of Octavia Whitmore, the narrator’s boss at the law firm of Seasons, Ustis & Malveaux. The lessons he leaves behind with this, his final gift to us, are more important than ever. ![]() John saw himself first and foremost as a teacher. It's the story of how his large life unfolded amidst our nation's ongoing struggle to deal honestly with race. Against the backdrop of a lavish costume party, the reader is introduced to the novel’s first-person narrator, who claims that his name doesn’t matter and describes himself only as “a phantom, a figment” (1). I Came As a Shadow is pure John Thompsondirect, honest, and uncompromising. ![]() Shadow fall star wars5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The only thing standing in his way? The most mismatched squadron in the New Republic Navy, led by his former mentee: the traitor Yrica Quell. Once adrift in the aftershocks of the war, Keize has found meaning again, leading the lost soldiers of his unit through to safety. Soran Keize, last of the Imperial aces, has stepped into the power vacuum at the head of Shadow Wing, reinvigorating the faltering unit in their hour of need. Determined, Quell works with New Republic Intelligence's contentious Caern Adan and the legendary General Hera Syndulla to prepare the riskiest gambit of her starfighting career-a trap for Shadow Wing that could finish the chase once and for all.īut in the darkness, their enemy has evolved. Yrica Quell's ragtag Alphabet Squadron still leads the search for Shadow Wing, but they're no closer to their goal-and the pressure to find their quarry before it's too late has begun to shake them apart. ![]() And none are more dangerous than Shadow Wing. But some old ghosts are harder to banish than others. In its wake, the capital ships of the newly legitimized galactic government journey to the farthest stars, seeking out and crushing the remnants of imperial tyranny. News of the New Republic's victory still reverberates through the galaxy. Alphabet Squadron's hunt for the deadliest TIE fighters in the galaxy continues in this Star Wars adventure! ![]() Mr darcy from pride and prejudice5/10/2023 ![]() Darcy is sexy and compelling because he is a strong and powerful figure, but also because he respects the strength and power of Elizabeth Bennet. They had to do with a desire for total admiration from someone worthy to give it. ![]() But my fantasies had nothing to do with wanting, deep down, a patriarchal, dominating or controlling man. Darcy when I first read Pride and Prejudice. I myself sighed quite a few yearning sighs over Mr. Darcy, assuming that he is the “epitome of the dominant patriarchal male” and that upon marriage he will turn out to be “rigid, dominating and controlling.” But Potter-like Elizabeth Bennet herself-has utterly misread Mr. Darcy, especially among “educated literary feminist women,” reflects confusion about what women really want. ![]() Potter believes this predilection for Mr. ![]() ![]() Darcy from “Pride and Prejudice” remains the heterosexual women’s “favorite fictional romantic icon.” As she notes, he is the character women across generations most want to date, according to a poll of 1,900 women by the Orange Prize for Fiction. I am disturbed by a 2004 editorial in “The Guardian”, which I found during my last Austen research spree. ![]() Dominic by la casey5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() | Dominic wants Bronagh and the only way he can get to her, is by dragging her from the boxed off corner she has herself trapped in the only way he knows how. ![]() ASSAD, SEAN M, ASSIGNMENT, LA PENDING, ASSINI, REBECCA, ASSINI, REBECCA S. Attention from everyone except the beautiful brunette with a sharp tongue. MARNER, JAMES E, MCDONALD, SCOTT, MCGINLEY, CASEY F, METCALF, D. | Dominic is used to attention, and when he and his brothers move to Dublin, Ireland for family business, he gets nothing but attention. When Dominic Slater enters her life, ignoring him is all she has to do to get his attention. いいねの数:97booklover4713 (ティックトック) 動画:「Book: Dominic (Slater Brothers Book 1) Author: LA Casey #book #booktok #spicybooktok□ #spicybooktok #lacaseyauthor」。After a car accident killed her parents when she was a child, Bronagh Murphy chose to box herself off from people in an effort to keep herself from future hurt. ![]() Book: Dominic (Slater Brothers Book 1) Author: LA Casey #book #booktok #spicybooktok□ #spicybooktok #lacaseyauthor ![]() Gilgamesh the king zeman5/10/2023 ![]() How am I to know myself without you.” (p. Out of the two version he quotes, I prefer the Hines version, taken from Gilgamesh: A Powerful New Version of the World’s First Epic: Next, Anderson takes a look at translations of the epic poem, in particular passages that speak of Gilgamesh mourning Enkidu’s death. ![]() Have a listen this rendering of Gilgamesh, performed by a modern-day troubadour: Gilgamesh, by Baba Brinkmanīrinkman’s modern twist on this oldest of tales exemplifies the enduring power of story and storyteller to entertain, captivate, and resonate. ![]() A Wild Man, Tarzan of the HighlandsĪnderson begins by featuring a contemporary take on the ancient poem performed by Baba Brinkman, a Canadian rap artist and scholar who has built a career connecting hip-hop with literary poetry. Anderson explores modern re-imaginings of the tale of Gilgamesh in music, translations, and art while highlighting the connections between nature and culture that lies at the heart of this Mesopotamian epic. With this quote and the tale of Gilgamesh and Enkidu still fresh in my mind, I came across a piece titled A Wild Man, Tarzan of the Highlands over at The AnthropoEccentric. “More familiarity with our own mythology might help us to relate to theirs.” – Jean-Luc Picard, from last week’s piece on Darmok ![]() Fearless tia louise pdf5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t get an answer, so I place my hand on the doorknob, and the door gently falls open a crack. Pepper has school tomorrow, so I don’t want to disturb the house. “Hutch?” I call softly, tapping on the heavy wooden door. Inspecting my outfit, I decide I’m decent, and he said to let him know if I needed anything. He has to have more blankets somewhere in this house. I may be fearless, but how I feel about him scares me most of all.Ĭreeping softly across the living room, I’m disappointed to find nothing. I have to keep my head and my heart in line-not to mention my body.Įvery part of me wants him in every possible way. It gets worse when I accidentally see him naked in the shower, moaning my name. Moving into his family estate is the real test. ![]() Not since he used it to ruin my life at sixteen.īut when my best friend turns up dead and my uncle goes missing, Hutch is my only option. Hutch Winston may be sexy as hell, but I won’t fall for his white knight, alpha-protector act. Still, I’m the last person she wants helping her.īlake van Hamilton hates me, but it won’t stop me from doing my job. Now I’ve been hired to guard her against a band of criminals who want her money, and maybe even her life. ![]() With killer curves, silky brown hair, and silvery-blue eyes, she’s been an inconvenient object of my lust since we were teens. My job is to protect the innocent, but Blake van Hamilton has never been innocent. He’s intense, he’s fearless, and he’ll stop at nothing to save her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is Sherlock Holmes okay for the kids?Ans: Although Sherlock Holmes is said to be okay for kids but owing to its Violence & Scariness, the books are fit for teenagers only. ![]() The authors have used uncomplicated language making the stories very easy to read and understand. Anyone with a decent grasp of the language can read Sherlock Holmes novels. Can a 14-year-old read Sherlock Holmes?Ans: Yes. How many Sherlock Holmes books are there?Ans: There are a total of four Sherlock Holmes novels in the market followed by 56 short stories featuring the beloved Sherlock Holmes character which are divided into 5 books. The complete list of the titles of these short stories is mentioned below:īuy Now: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)įrequently Asked Questions: Best Sherlock Holmes Novels Q1. Finally the last and best Sherlock Holmes book of 12 short stories featuring the iconic character, "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle was published in 1927. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide They also show how much thought and research Rowling had put into the series to create a rich and believable world. Even if you’re a fan who isn’t interested in the supplemental texts and theories about the Harry Potter series (as I was), you’ll get a kick out of reading these e-books. These e-books are short, quick reads, and the content will appeal to fans who, like me, want to know more about Rowling’s wizarding world. Though these collections do not contain stories, my craving were satiated by the short pieces within them that provided facts about beings, individuals, places, and occurrences at Hogwarts and in the wizarding world. I was driven to these e-books by my craving for more stories set in the Rowling’s wizarding world. (I’d still prefer a physical copy of them, though.) However, this year I succumbed to my curiousity and purchased all three e-books because of the convenience of having all that content in one place and not having to click around on a website to find it. Last year, I didn’t see the point in purchasing these e-books since their content were (probably are) available for free on Pottermore. ![]() Although I was curious about these e-books, I held out for as long as I could on purchasing them in hopes that physical copies would be printed and available at my library. Rowling had written about Hogwarts and the wizarding world and its people. Last year, Pottermore collected and published in 3 separate e-books the supplemental texts J.K. ![]() |