Fantasy books for middle schoolers and older We’ve categorized these fantasy works as “for middle schoolers” and older based on their having slightly darker themes and more advanced language. However, note t
Director Jon Watts said that audiences responded well to the high school student excursion to Washington D.C. monuments inHomecoming, so it was a no-brainer to take those students abroad. But some parents might wish that the kids traveled with a teacher who wasn’t cut from the Disney Chann...
I have tried a few other genres. In the poetry realm I have written lyrics for a set of “New Age” compositions whose melodies I loved so much I felt compelled to put words to them. In the past five years I have also tried my hand at adult prose in the form of a short story (...
children's responses to the two novels, and these included applications of the central ideas of the novels related to the human experience, the Divine, and the mysterious.;The findings of this study offer several implications for both research and teaching in elementary language and literacy ...
College was easier for me to navigate in some ways. As an adult, in classroom situations, I get confused easily when hearing verbal instructions. However, college-level textbooks aren’t as ambiguous as those we had in elementary school. If I am given handouts with the high points written ...
Over the next few years, these incidents came along faster and closer together. And in 2012 came the Aurora movie theater shootings and the horror of Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 second-graders and six adults were brutally murdered in their classrooms. I’m not even going to discuss...