Mrs. Olinski returns to teaching sixth grade after a car accident that killed her husband and left her in a wheelchair. The four students she selects for her academic bowl team not only exceed everyone's expectations in the competition, but also form a unique bond of friendship that nurture...
The best novels about prep school share a few common themes: a general search for meaning, good versus evil, suicide and suicidal thoughts, lost love, unrequited love, and waning youth. The protagonists from these academies might be students (Gene Forrester, in John Knowles’ A...
While the unenlightened bourgeoisie among today’s students focus on final exams, graduation ceremonies and securing summer internships, the pro-Palestinian protesters gird for a major disruption of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August. Chicago, of all places! Google “1968 democrati...
listened tothe audiobook narration by Guy Lockard: the story was AMAZING in his voice, and delivered a wholly satisfying story. Funny thing: my 11-year-old is starting this book TODAY—I was thrilled when he announced it's the next book club selection for his fifth grade class.More info...
Maple Hills students Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a party celebrating the end of the academic year, where a drinking game results in them having a passionate one-night stand. Never one to overstay her welcome (or expect much from a man), Aurora slips away before Russ ...
George James and Freeman Hawk, a Richmond patrician and a hard-luck North Carolina scholarship student, were unlikely friends. But as Vietnam-era college students, that’s what they became. They were going to “quit the club” and go to Canada together. One did, and one didn’t. Now, ...
For native Chinese speakers, our program ensures full development and mastery of English language arts while helping them become more fluent in their mother tongue. Our Classrooms The CDLIP serves primary school students, from kindergarten through second grade. Grades 3, 4 and 5 will be added in...
Jacob has his master's in English and has taught multiple levels of literature and composition, including junior high, college, and graduate students. Ford Madox Ford was a 20th-century author famous for his trilogy, titled ~'The Fifth Queen.~' Explore the life of Ford Madox Ford, his infl...
USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS TO FACILITATE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS' COMPREHENSION OF INFORMATIONAL TEXT Students in second, fourth and fifth-grade classrooms in a South Texas elementary school served as both the experimental group and the control group to compare the traditional read-and-discuss method of instru...
so I look at my students as my children. In short year I have the opportunity to touch their lives. I want to teach each child that he or she is special because of who he or she is. During one year of teaching of fifth- grade class, I was shown how important my actions and less...