Eve Bunting's Fly Away Home

It might seem like “Great Lakes Ghost Ship” and “Fly Away Home” are different kinds of stories. One is a long book about kids that are in a ghost ship. The other story is a short story about a homeless kid. But if you look deeper into both stories, you will see that both stories share a common theme.

People have the need to always prove their self worth to everyone. In the poem The Leaving, Brigit Pegeen Kelly demonstrates how an individual’s environment and expectations of others encourages a person’s actions. In the poem the girl is so dedicated to her work that she’s willing to stay late even when her father doubts her. The speaker takes on the challenge to prove to her father that she can complete her task, and she successfully proves to him that she can do it. By proving her self worth to her father, the speaker faces new challenges along the way that test her own thoughts and decision making which ultimately determines the pursuit of her hard work.

One beautiful day in summer two brothers Dom and Fred decide to go out to Fred's cabin out in the middle of nowhere. When they get there it seems that someone had been living there and abounded the cabin. That's when the two boys decide to go into town to get equipment to fix up the place. They grab a tent and camping supplies also because the cabin is in no shape to sleep in. They start heading out to the cabin and they clear and spot for their equipment and a place for a tent.

Pre-Civil War, period in which reformers emerged to fight against slavery, and the elimination of racial and gender discrimination. They wanted to create a change in society to get a better world for future generations. More significantly, reformers created campaigns to "reduce drinking, establish prisons, create public schools, educate the deaf and the blind, abolish slavery, and extend equal rights to women (Digital History). " Then, inequality between white or black, women or men, rich or poor are the common differences that society is facing from long ago. This is the case of Sue Monk Kidd, who presents a story from the nineteenth century.

Eric Carle book assignment Read the book by Eric Carle that you have been assigned. As you read, study the illustrations and think about the way they flow from page to page. Be prepared to share your responses to these questions with your classmates. What feelings do the colors convey?

The Giver Hero’s Journey "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." Joseph Campbell. Jonas from Lois Lowry’s The Giver makes that example true by making the choice to fight against the community. While his journey might differ slightly from what is considered an orthodox Hero’s Journey, he still has a journey consisting of steps and goals.

Misleadingly, the story commences with the boys assuming that the uninhabited island they are on is correspondent to paradise and is a place of "enchantment" where "flower and fruit grew together on the same tree" yet as the story progresses,they begin to realise there is a presence of evil and the island becomes sinister, even a dystopia. Early on in the first chapter, piggy questions the boys " are there any grown-ups at all?" and Ralph responds "No grown-ups. " The two boys respond differently to the news about the fact that there are no grown ups on the island. Since piggy is one of the most insecure boys out of them all, he completely relies on the adult world for protection which leads to his immediate shock.

Identity defines who somebody is; when one loses their identity, it can be caused by many reasons. Lord of the Flies is a novel about a plane full of boys aged six through twelve landing on an island during a war, without any adult supervision; they try to find ways to survive; they reveal the dark side of humanity. Some of the boys violently kill each other, which causes them to not trust each other. The events that occur on the island scar them, and they will never go back to the way they used to be. Roger, Ralph, and Jack all lose their identity on the island over time, and there are many factors that contribute to their loss of identity.

The setting of The Four-Story Mistake is the countryside of New York State during World War II. The Melendys used to live in a brownstone in New York City, until they moved. The children were very upset about moving. They loved their brownstone. The most upset was Randy.

The movie covers the subject of the devastating terrorism attack of America on the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001. It covers the journey two port authority police officers went through that day and what they experienced. Real life events. The plot of the movie surrounds two New York port authority police officers (John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno) who are called in to help with the attack on the twin towers in NYC on 9/11.