![]() Ask your students why the little boy put tape around his body.Īppalled – surprised (not in a good way)/shocked The little boy didn’t know that children lose their teeth and grow new ones and that everyone’s hair falls out. Unfamiliar – it has never happened before/never had the experience Ask your students why the little boy thinks he is coming unstuffed. He doesn’t know what is going on with his body! He has noticed that his hair is coming out, his tooth is loose, and his skin is peeling. ![]() The little boy in the story is so confused. Guide them with questions and support their answers by repeating back what they say and expanding on it, while encouraging use of the target vocabulary. Use these easy conversation starters to help support your students’ learning from this week’s book. ![]() The second read focuses on the characters’ thoughts and feelings about the key events and continues to push in target vocabulary. The first read focuses on explaining the key events of the story and pushing in target vocabulary. First, watch read alouds of the book and see how you can tie the story into activities for your students. ![]() Create an engaging and literacy-building lesson plan for your Pre-K students around one of our favorite books: Parts by Tedd Arnold. Make the most of story time with the children you teach. ![]()
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An elderly man is assassinated as he takes his morning walk. ![]() ![]() The first book in the hugely popular Danny Black series by the creator of the hit TV show Strikeback. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is there in the cinematic settings of the novel, in the ecstatic flow of Feliciana’s words, in the intertwined stories and many textual layers that underpin the novel like roots anchored in soil. Witches, the vivid third novel by acclaimed Mexican author Brenda Lozano and her second to appear in English, here in a masterful translation by Heather Cleary, is a work of fiction that pulses with life, barely contained anger, and something gentler yet somehow undefined – an awareness, perhaps, of the beauty of things, of how certain forces exist in the world just beyond the human grasp. ![]() ![]() Jarvis was also upset with any organization that used Mother's Day for anything but children honoring their mothers including charities that used the day for fundraising even though it was to help poor mothers.Īs I look at what happened I can understand Jarvis's feelings about keeping the day pure of commercialization but without all the florists and candy makers and other gifts the holiday would probably not have become so widespread and popular. When the price of carnations quickly went up Jarvis sent a press release condemning florists and urged people not to buy flowers. Since Mother's Day is on a Sunday it has been widely celebrated in churches and white carnations, which were Jarvis' mother's favorite flower had become the symbol. Jarvis' vision for Mother's Day was a special day as a homecoming when children honor their mothers. She was so upset she went on to spend every penny fighting the commercialization of Mother's Day. Jarvis (1864-1948), who had no children of her own, but created a day to honor mothers on the second Sunday in May, was appalled the day became commercialized. She wasn't against mothers but it became a different celebration than she envisioned. ![]() ![]() Mother's Day is a day to celebrate mothers and women who have mothered children.Īnna Marie Jarvis is well known as the founder of Mother's Day, but not as well known as the woman who tried to stop the commercialization of Mother's Day. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilcox, located in the fictitious village of Hilton in Hertfordshire County, just north of Greater London. ![]() Howard’s End is the name of the family home of Mrs. This was a brief period of calm before World War I unleashed the modern age, with its conveniences and terrors. The Victorian era had ended, and the Edwardian Age was underway, where faint embers of gender equality could be seen. Automobiles and electricity were changing how people lived. In this, he looks at the English social class system. This novel is considered one of Forster’s two masterpieces, the other being his 1924 novel, A Passage to India. Both are social commentaries. Differences – eternal differences, planted by God in a single family, so that there may always be colour, sorrow perhaps, but colour in the daily grey.” ![]() “It is part of the battle against sameness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps this is to be expected from people making judgments on the human condition. They are clearly historians in The Story, taking the view, in Will Durant’s words, that “the real history of man is…in the lasting contributions made by geniuses to the sum of human civilization and culture.” In The Lessons, they are advocates, learning from history but also using history to buttress their philosophical positions. One sees the same authors in both, but their attitude is different in The Lessons. This provides a different perspective on the book than one would get reading the Durants for the first time. ![]() I come to The Lessons of History later in life, having read The Story of Civilization three times. It is a short book, less than 100 pages, in which they comment on lessons they have learned from history as it pertains to the earth, biology, race, character, morals, religion, economics, government, and war. Having completed the 10 th volume of The Story of Civilization (with The Age of Napoleon yet to come), Will and Ariel Durant took time to reflect in The Lessons of History. ![]() ![]() ![]() All the main characters are men, and most of the minor characters are, too. And I also don't buy that these characters would not have met a woman of note during their several decades in New York City. Maybe the book is trying to make that point: that people are basically the same no matter the years and their experiences. ![]() Not even Jude, who you might think would achieve some form of catharsis. They all breeze up the ranks, but no one seems to grow other than in their wealth and prestige. ![]() Other than Jude, no one really seems to struggle at all, and his struggle is personal rather than professional. What is also odd is that all the characters become wildly successful in their respective fields: Jude the lawyer, JB the painter, Malcolm the architect and Willem the actor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Post Office is based on autobiographical elements and relates Bukowski’s years as a postman in Los Angeles. First-names are important here as Bukowski used Charles for his pen name and Henry for his literary alter-ego Henry Chinarski. ![]() His parents started to call him Henry after they moved in America. Though it dates back to 1978, the incident was famous and scandalous enough to be related in the foreword of the French edition of Post Office.Ĭharles Bukowski (1920-1994) was born in Germany from a German mother and an American father. When I told my mother I was reading Bukowski she said “Isn’t he the guy who was drunk at Apostrophes and caused a scandal?” Apostrophes was the most famous live literary talk-show in France from 1975 to 1990. ![]() A writer who praised John Fante is a good recommendation for me, so I thought I should read one of his books and when I saw Post Office in Guy’s Top 10 books for 2010, I decided to read it too. Foreword: I have read this in French and I will probably make mistakes in using vocabulary related to the post office environment as I had to look for words in the dictionary.īukowski wrote the foreword of Ask the Dust by John Fante, a writer he adored and contributed to re-discover. ![]() |