![]() The heroine, Maureen, has a good heart but also realistic, understandable flaws. ![]() This realistic, relatable middle-grade story deals with changing relationships with family and friends, building confidence, and challenging yourself. The bad news: Maureen is shy and a nervous public speaker, and doesn’t really know what she’s doing, and now Fran is mad at her for joining the race. The good news: she has new friends who will help with her campaign. Maybe that’s why she decides to run against Fran for student president. She hates the idea of drifting apart from her sister-not to mention the awkwardness of splitting up their friend group!-and is frustrated with Fran for acting this way. She’s changed her style so that the two of them look less alike. She’s taking different classes from Maureen, and joining different clubs. They’ve always done everything together!Įxcept that suddenly, Francine is different. Still, at least she has her twin sister, Francine. ![]() ![]() As a new middle schooler, she will have to navigate new and confusing class schedules and all kinds of new expectations, and Maureen isn’t sure she’s ready. Maureen is nervous about starting sixth grade. ![]()
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![]() This lyrical, life-affirming story is about losing and finding home and, most importantly, finding yourself. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is. ![]() The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US - and her new label of “Middle Eastern”, an identity she’s never known before.īut this life also brings unexpected surprises - there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for. In this activity, students will create a storyboard that defines and illustrates key vocabulary found in the book Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives.Īt first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. Starting a unit or lesson with the key vocabulary aids in overall comprehension and retention. Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. ![]() Choose a Storyboard That character to represent each of the book characters. Student Instructions: Identify the main and supporting characters in Other Words for Home and type their names into the different title boxes. ![]() A gorgeously written, hopeful middle-grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the US, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. Objective: Create a character map for the characters in Other Words for Home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Star Wars: Coruscant Nights I - Jedi Twilight by REAVES, MICHAEL Book reviews and ratings are trustworthy and the product description given above is true to the best. ![]() For imported books, the price may change frequently due to exchange rates.
![]() Abrams and Matt Reeves, for two seasons, as previously reported last month. Additionally, the streamer has officially picked up Batman: Caped Crusader, from executive producers Bruce Timm, J.J. * Prime Video has acquired the DC animated film Merry Little Batman, as well as the spinoff series Bat-Family. Caught in the crosshairs when her lover falls victim to the dangerous and shadowy London underworld, Helen’s employer’s call in Sam to protect her.” In the series, Knightley’s character Helen “embarks on a passionate affair with a man who has no idea what her secret identity is. * Netflix has picked up the thriller Black Doves, starring and executive-produced by Keira Knightley, our sister site Deadline reports. Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets? Well… ![]() ![]() ![]() Red, White & Royal Blue on Prime April 26, 2023 Love gets royally complicated on August 11th when #RWRBMovie comes to /Yz2USMJDOc View the key art/date announcement below: ![]() ![]() They make a pact to pretend to court each other, for both of their benefits-Simon to be rid of the attention of predatory mothers and their daughters, and Daphne to peek the interest of the potential suitors. Daphne and Simon take an immediate friendly liking of each other, feeling comfortable in each other’s presence. Simon is a young duke who spent his entire youth keen on being the opposite of the son his father, the late duke of Hastings, desired. Her fate takes a sudden turn with the appearance of Simon Basset in her life. Having three older brothers, Daphne is very confident in her knowledge of men and feels comfortable to interact, but all the men she’s interested in see her as a friend. Being over twenty years of age, Daphne’s mother Violet is desperate to find her a husband, but all the men which are interested in her are either too old or not of the intellect she desires. The novel is set in England at the beginning of the 19th century, and it revolves around the noble English family, the Bridgertons, the eldest daughter of the family Daphne in particular. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. 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And unlike many of his other books, that’s the case with Clarke’s 1956 classic, The City and the Stars. ![]() It’s certainly not hard science fiction, even when it comes from the mind of one of the most celebrated authors of hard SF, Arthur C. But when a writer ventures far into the future, speculating about the emergence of technologies that bear no recognizable relationship to what is known today about how the universe is organized, it’s difficult to regard the product as anything other than fantasy. That line is hard and fast when an SF story is firmly grounded in known science. Between science fiction and fantasy the line is often blurry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ever since the 20th-century studies by Sir Lewis Namier and his followers, most scholars ceased believing that George was an ignorant fool bent on subverting the constitution to become an arbitrary Stuart-like ruler. The many caricatures and censures of King George in the American press are popular legacies of the Declaration of Independence, which condemned him as “a Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant,” and someone “unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” They do not, however, represent modern scholarly opinion. ![]() In The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, he laments that hardly a day passes without some publication in the United States holding up George III as a “power-mad little petty tyrant” who should be both hated and feared. But that is just one among many such libels, writes Andrew Roberts, the celebrated British historian and author of well-received biographies of Churchill and Napoleon. The show-stopping portrayal of George as at once a comic and sinister character in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical, is perhaps the most memorable recent slander of America’s last king. George III, the king who lost his North American empire to the American Revolution, has always had a bad press in the United States. ![]() ![]() This notion elaborates on the author’s argument about the empirical nature of knowledge: for Hume, impressions are the experiences that form ideas, or knowledge. Hume also divides people’s perception of the world into two categories, ideas and impressions, where one is dependent on the other: “the ideas I form are exact representations of the impressions I felt nor is there any circumstance of the one, which is not to be found in the other” (Hume 3). The author argues that innate ideas no longer exist: “the principle of innate ideas has been already refuted, and is now almost universally rejected in the learned world” (Hume 158). ![]() ![]() This sentence summarizes the entire argument of Book I Hume claims that all human knowledge is based on experience or in some way derived from it. He follows the popular notion of empiricism by arguing that experience and observation are essential in most science subjects, as well as in the study of human nature: “as the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences, so the only solid foundation we can give to this science itself must be laid on experience and observation” (Hume xx). In the introduction to Book I, Hume claims that all sciences are ultimately dependent on human knowledge, yet the subject of knowledge is rarely addressed adequately by the scholars (xix). ![]() ![]() ![]() “Knisley's candid storytelling, deadpan humor, and clear-line storytelling make the book entirely accessible. “Lucy Knisley is bringing comics into the kitchen.” - USA Today ![]() Step aside, Joy of Cooking.” -Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home “Lucy Knisley's delightful drawings don't just tell great stories, they're a crystal-clear how-to guide to everything worth doing in the kitchen. Her language, like her drawings, is precise and uncluttered." - New York Times "Between chapters, Knisley offers simple, neatly diagrammed recipes (chocolate chip cookies! pesto! sangria!). "Lovingly illustrated and annotated in her bright, cartoony style." -NPR Her graphic memoirs include Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride and Kid Gloves. Her travelogues ( French Milk, An Age of License, and Displacement) and web comic series ( Stop Paying Attention) have been lauded by critics, and her combined work has built her a devoted readership for her honest and thoughtful true-life stories. It was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into five languages. Her Alex Award-winning graphic novel, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, tells the story of her childhood steeped in the food industry. Lucy Knisley is the author and illustrator of beloved graphic novels about memory, identity, food, and family. ![]() |