The literature piece I choose was the book Flat Stanley. There are several versions of books about Flat Stanley now where he is sent to places like Mexico, China, Japan and even India. The first version of Flat Stanley was a children’s book about a young boy named Stanley who has a younger brother named Arthur. Stanley and Arthur were given a giant bulletin board to hang all sorts of posters and pictures on in their room. The board was right next to Stanley’s bed and one night the bulletin board falls from the wall when they are sleeping and flattens Stanley, though he still survives. Stanley in the book makes the best out of the situation that he is in and begins to find new ways to interact with his friends and family. Stanley realizes now that he can go under locked doors without having to unlock them as well as his brother Arthur and him play by turning Stanley into a kite. Stanley also has a group of friends that live in California which can be a very expensive trip to send someone on, but now that Stanley is flat his parents can fold him up and mail him across the United States in an envelope so that he can visit his friends! One of the most exciting parts …show more content…
This books shows students that even when something unexpected happens that they can still try and make the best out of the situation until it is resolved or find structure in their lives again. I think this is really important to share in middle school because when something unexpected happens and a middle schooler sees it as the worst thing that could happen to them they go on a downward spiral. To relate this to a student coming from another country, maybe they were not expecting to move or maybe they didn’t want to leave their friends in their old home to come to a new unknown place and this book can help them to know that they can overcome any struggle that they may be having in their
“Soldier’s Home” tells a story of a soldier returning from the war to end up living a life in solitude while enjoying the simple everyday aspects of it. “In Another Country” details a warrior recovering from a non-lethal but physically handicapping wound in a foreign country with no familiar allies. From this he is driven to a state of extreme mental stress in which he originally chooses to endure alone. “A Cat In The Rain” is a short story expressing an Italian man and his American wife traveling great distances in order to see a famous war monument, while spending a majority of their time in their hotel room. In “Soldier’s Home,” “In Another Country,” and “A Cat In The Rain,”
The book which I chose to share called Peter’s Chair written by Ezra Jack Keats. In the story, there is a boy named Peter whose parents just have a new born baby. Peter notices many things have changed around his house. His parents paint his old cradle, high chair and crib in pink and give them to his baby sister. Peter knows he needs to do something to prevent giving away of his favorite chair. Therefore, Peter decides to run always with all his favorite things and his dog, Willie. While Peter is being outsides, he sits on his chair and realizes that he is too big to the chair. He goes back home and tells his father that he would like to paint the chair in pink and give it to his little sister.
This novel is about a young boy’s life (the author). It starts of f him describing
The students think about the person whose name they drew and write one positive comment, a sentence or two, on the heart. As an example, I created Grinch Grams for my homeroom students and put them on my hallway bulletin board for the
Richard Wright’s “Big Boy Leaves Home” addresses several issues through its main character and eventual (though reluctant) hero Big Boy. Through allusions to survival and primal instincts, Wright confronts everything from escaping racism and the transportation (both literal and figurative) Big Boy needs to do so, as well as the multiple sacrifices of Bobo. Big Boy’s escape symbolizes both his departure from his home life and his childhood. Big Boy, unlike his friends, does not have a true name. This namelessness drives his journey, and Big Boy is constantly singled out in one way or another. The moniker ‘Big Boy’ is a contradiction—is he a large boy or is he a grown man?—and drives all of Big Boy’s actions. Throughout the story he hinges between childhood and adulthood, and his actions vary depending on which side he falls on at that exact moment.
...when Alice reunites with the Doorknob, she wakes up and realizes she was having a dream.
"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions", is not a romance in the modern sense of the word. The book was written at the tail end of the Romantic Period in Europe. It is a fanciful view of what a world might look like if it contain only two dimensions. The book is "illustrated" with two dimensional drawings by the author. The story of flatland begins with a description of the world in two dimensions. People in this world have no concept of depth, only length and width. The world appears to be vertical because the rain simply falls from north to south. The houses are made in the shape of a pentagon. Fog is fairly common in this world. In Flatland, the men are all polygons, and the women are lines. The fewer equal sides a person contains, the
Stanley does not take notice of his wife’s concern, but instead continues on his original course, asserting his own destiny, without any thought to the effect it may have on those around him. This taking blood at any cost to those around him is foreshadowed in scene one, with the packet of met which he forces upon his wife. It is through actions such as these that Stanley asserts power, symbolic of the male dominance throughout patriarchal society. He also gains a s...
Their similarities helps them understand each other; through their experiences. For one, they are both outcasted socially. Stanley has no friends and always bullied, by Derrick Dune in school, and by X-Ray and his gang in Camp Green Lake. Speaking of Camp Green Lake, both have nicknames given by X-Ray and the two are just children. Similarly, Zero and Stanley were unlucky at some point. Stanley bears his family curse of luck, while Zero lost his mother and is homeless. Zero and Stanley are misunderstood. For example, Stanley was accused for stealing Clyde Livingston’s shoes; and Zero being assumed to be dumb. Finally, to end in a happy note, Stanley and Zero are rich at the end of the
The first strategy of found with the chapter is “Say it, Write it”,” this strategy is used in a grade Kindergarten and 1st grade in addition to 3rd cursive handwriting. The teacher will provide each student with a dry erase board and marker for the activity. The teacher will say the letter she wants the students to write and then demonstrate by writing the letter on their own dry erase board. The teacher will then hide the demonstration and tell the students to “write it” in 10 seconds. When the time is up, the teacher will make note of the students who was unable to write the letter. The teacher will advise the student to erase the letter and rewrite it with only 7 seconds, they will complete this practice within 5 seconds until they get to 2 seconds to which they are to show legible handwriting. As mention before, the student I am working with struggles with legible handwriting, therefore this strategy will be used a as practice for the student to build her writing
He makes no motion to stop, runs up the stairs and explains to his wife what’s going on, similar to what would occur in an equal relationship. Instead, he continues down the street like a boy with no responsibilities. Stella yells, “Where are you going,” and then asks if she could come to watch, he agrees but doesn’t stop waiting for her. This scene demonstrates how Stella follows Stanley along, and serves him according to what he wishes to do and when he wants to do it. In scene three, Stanley is having his poker party (pg. 57).
The subject is a six years old girl named Nayali. She lives in a small apartment with her mother and aunt. Nayali was born in Cuba and she just move to United States 3 month ago to live with her mother and aunt. Nayali seem to be in discomfort with the changes experienced. She is a Spanish speaking and the first thing that seems to bother her is the new language. The client has obvious emotional changes because she does not understand the new customs. Subject rapidly changes from happiness to anger. She complains constantly to her mother why she is living so far from her friends and loved ones. In her past life she used to play along with her friends. Since she moved here she has to make new friends to play. She has a strong character and
“Paper Menagerie,” by Ken Liu, is an emotional story of a selfish son and his interactions with his out-of-place mother, who had immigrated from Asia to be his father’s wife. Jack is a half-Chinese, half-American boy who lives in Connecticut. In the beginning of the story, he is very attached to his mother, but certain incidents with other kids make him want to be as distant as possible from his Chinese mom. He demands that his mom converts to being a “normal” white American mom and that he and his family should give up all Asian customs. This beautiful story shows that selfishly basing your actions on the need to fit in can harm yourself and others.
look down on the humble Kowalski apartment. Stanley tells her that she'll probably see him as
... executed in order to set off into the world alone. The influence that independent travel has on an individual is a splendor upon riches because it does so much for a person, and provides humans with a sense of the world. How a person can makes new friends and learn about new cultures and accept other people’s way of living. With its educational purposes traveling alone can bring, offers an endless amount of living data that tops any history book or internet page. Traveling is concrete history that is continuing around everyone. It can provide people to look through different lenses and experience aspects of life that they know they will never experience again in their lifetimes. Traveling alone provides an endless journey and an empty page in the minds scrapbook that is waiting to be filled with new memories and the endless amount of true belonging and bliss.