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Title of Book: Frindle Author: Andrew Clements ISBN: 978-0-689-81876-9 Summary ‘Frindle’ is a captivating story about a fifth grade boy, Nick Allen, who loves to outsmart his teachers at school. This was until, he was challenged by his language arts teacher, Miss Granger, to discover how words were created. Nick’s greatest plan to invent a new word – frindle, will start a trend to spread like wildfire not only in Lincoln Elementary School but also worldwide! The book’s theme on friendship and school life is what makes it so attractive and entertaining to readers. Prominent Literary Features I.

Every time the children talk about the Jack-in-the-box, it is grey days. The children are making stories about the Jack-in-the-box and his personality, such as him being an evil wizard or that his box is a Pandora’s box and that Jack is there as a guardian to prevent all the bad things from coming out (page 72, lines 3-8). Notwithstanding of the fact that the children have never seen him (the Jack-in-the-box), they still make these stories about him. The whole idea about the children making all these stories up contributes to the fact that one of the themes is childhood. Since they are children, they do not know how to describe it correctly, so they use their creativity to explain it to the best of their

In “Violent Media is Good for Kids”, Gerard Jones argues that violent media gives good impact for psychology development of the children. This good impact has been implemented to himself and make him a writer as well as his son who transformed bloodthirsty dinosaur into a stimulation to enter preschool; a Power Ranger into self endowment by joining social competition in Kindergarten. He likewise has helped a little girl named Emily who really likes exploding violent action, to have more self-controlled and socially competent by letting her wrote stories and drew comic to express her emotion. From his experiences, he believes that violent entertainment in which people might think it is the trashiest pop culture has its own developmental function.

But his passion for reading, makes him realize what other Indians cannot, that they do not need to become what others expect from them: failures who need to show fear for non-indians. This makes him defy his position in society and pursue his dreams while fighting against the ignorance that comes with stereotypes. He reads everything he can, and manages to save his life from these stereotypes that hold prisoner Indian boys. This stands as an example of the importance reading can have on a person’s life, as the person becomes aware that they can fight the ignorance others want them to have. Nowadays, Alexie has become a successful writer who visits schools at Indian reservations to teach children to read and write in order to save them just as he saved himself, through the simple spark of reading a

He was raised in an orphanage, after his father left his pregnant mother and his mother died in childbirth. He caused many problems with the other children because of his ability to use magic, until the age of 11 when Professor Dumbledore came to offer him a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He was a very bright child and thrived at his new school, earning respect from teachers and finding the many secrets of the castle, though never truly having friends. At around the age of 15 he began to focus on his new goals: to become the most powerful wizard of all time, to kill or remove all muggle-borns from the wizarding society, and to become immortal. He changed his name to Lord Voldemort and set out to make 7 Horcruxes, each housing a small part of his soul.

The article “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out” by Guy Martin, researches the story of several New York High Schools, participating in an end of year activity that is involved with mediocre violence, made for kids to have some fun with their town, and their classmates. These role playing games are very beneficial for students to participate in, because they teach kids that team work, and extraordinary skills are needed to “survive”. Role playing games with simulated violence are diverting for kids, because they teach and allow kids to be boisterous. The game allows the students to plan, organize, and concoct a plan, for a game that involves nearly the whole city and school. As seniors in highschool prepare for graduation and adulthood, this game gives them the freedom to be kids again.

Rachel Lewis Honors English 5th Miss. Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children Summery Miss. Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children is the story of Jacob Portman, a moody teen who discovers, through a series of dangerous adventures, that his grandpa's fables of monsters and children with strange powers are actually true. As it crosses back and forth between the past and present, and as Jacob learns past truths about his grandpa and new truths about himself, therrative pays thematic attention to the question of what constitutes individual identity, and also explores the differences between appearance and reality. Jacob Portman starts his story by describing his relationship with his grandpa - specifically, how Grandpa Portman told intriguing

Harry potter and the cursed child is the best book in the entire saga. This is story about Harrys kids well mainly one kid Albus Severus potter the second child of harry potter. This goes through albus’s schooling at Hogwarts as he deals with being different than every other student except one which happens to be Malfoys child Scorpius he is a very smart gifted child. But this is mainly about how Albus and Scorpius are trying to go back in time and change a mistake that changes how the entire world is and things in this new world are entirely different and they need to change it back so this is a story on how they get into this mess and how they get themselves out of this mess.

This story is convincing to the audience, and it enables them to look at Robinson’s talk with a critical mind and hence appreciate his assertion that indeed schools kill creativity. Robinson prompts the crowd to imagine further what it would be if they allowed children to explore their talents while still young. He mentions that the society is wary of making mistakes and the idea has been coined in the children’s minds that they grow up wishing to be experts and this shuts down their creativity( 5:21). Robinson provokes the crowd into thinking about William Shakespeare and makes a joke about his father shutting him down his style of speech since it was not clear to other people (7:28). The strategy is useful since it touches on people’s emotion and even allows them to imagine a way they would change their parenting

The Oedipus Complex In The Light Of Early Anxieties Priya Venkataraman (Page 370 to 397) In this paper Melanie Klein presents the case of 10-year-old Richard to illustrate her theory about how early anxieties in children contribute to the Oedipus complex. The material presented is from six analytic hours with Richard. She describes him as “a precocious and gifted child” who was interested in nature (only its pleasant aspects).

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Several research groups are looking into ways to reboot children’s “number sense” with games and puzzles. The article tells that scientists are optimistic because of the way

Young Percy is the protagonist of the series. When we meet him is a 12 year old student at a private school for troubled kids. We also learn that Percy has dyslexia and ADHD which sometimes helps him when he is on quests.

(A Brilliant Young Mind, 2015). A Brilliant Young Mind movie based on true events begins with this monologue from the main character, Nathan. During his primary years, Nathan was diagnosed with being on the spectrum of autism combined with synaesthesia which is a sensitivity to change of light and patterns. He was so extremely gifted in math, that his mother sought out a school setting to support this gift and he began receiving instruction at the high school level with a specific math teacher trained in the International Math Olympiad (IMO).

Paul Collard & Janet Looney did research about creativities benefits in the classroom. In one case, there were a group of elementary schoolboys who were having trouble paying attention. As a result of this, the teacher took a creativity building approach to get them to listen to the teacher. The students were instructed to “create their own superheroes, not based on the comic books, but derived from their own imagination” out of clay (Collard 5). They did this and then proceeded to teach the boys about sculpture and art.