Given her prominence in current popular culture, Margaret Atwood is an author our students should know. This short story about a fairy-tale writer receiving some “constructive criticism” on how to make their story more inclusive is sure to inspire reactions among your middle or high schoolers....
Also ranks #15 on The 25 Best Movies For Middle Schoolers Also ranks #24 on Movies Based On Books You Should Have Read In 4th Grade 47 Big Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia 61 votes In the classic comedy-drama Big, Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) is an everyday 12-year-old boy ...
Also ranks #2 on The 25 Best Movies For Middle Schoolers Also ranks #3 on The 50+ Best PG Action Movies, Ranked Also ranks #5 on The 30 Best Dinosaur Movies For Kids 25 Blank Check Brian Bonsall, Karen Duffy, Miguel Ferrer 15 votes Blank Check follows Preston Waters (Brian Bonsall),...
and is an engaging, funny read for middle schoolers. Three friends form the "Qwikpick Adventure Society" and in this opening book in the series their mission is to see the local "poop fountain" (a sewage treatment area). Honestly, it's pretty funny, even with all the gross-ness. In ...
Bobbing for apples probably has multiple origins. The timing is such that apples are abundant after the harvest, thus allowing experimenting with apple games at Halloween. In the Middle Ages, witches were tortured on ducking stools, hence children could mimic this gruesome ceremony using apples as...
“Water you waiting for?” How does Darth Vader like his toast? On the dark side. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common? The same middle name. How did the barber win the race? He knew a shortcut. How do modern-day pirates keep in touch? SEA-mail. Why ...
Matthew was a 10-year-old orphan who lived with his aunt, a bitter, middle-aged woman greatly annoyed with the burden of caring for her dead sister’s son. She never failed to remind young Matthew, that if it hadn’t been for her generosity, he would be a vagrant, homeless waif. St...
My other office mate who is a poet like me often tells me she dreads ever looking for another job. She doesn’t want to dress up. I chuckle in my pink hoodie, still intact.English MajorI used to work until the middle of the night plugging data into a spreadsheet, analyzing the data...
- Lucas: Sorry for breaking the love moment. Please don't hate me. - Tomas & Cassie: It's not what you're thinking! Episode 10 - World War III (Tomas was so enraged with Lucas that he mocked him even on the middle of a battle where their forces were losing) - Lucas: I was...
So they did not have to leave the confines of their warm, comfortable, AND VERY NICE home. He got my attention as I see him walking in the middle of street after he made the delivery. I said outloud “what does this guy think he is doing?” As I initially thought he was a...