And Saskia thinks that if Max found out who she really is, the most fantastic friendship of her life would be all over in an instant. What Saskia doesn’t know is that Max is really a 14-year-old geeky Londoner named Noah (Jack Blumenau), who transforms each night into ‘Max Hammer’ the hero in Noah’s online comic. Noah knows that if Indy ever learned the truth about him, she would run screaming. Through their avatars 'Max’ and 'Indy’, Noah and Saskia make a great team publishing Noah’s online comic strip. The animated Max and Indy interact with each other in a number of internet environments, but they also appear as ‘real’ people in the imagined projections of their characters.
Title: Wonder Name: Jack Fitzpatrick Author: R.J. Palacio Due Date: Number of pages: 315 Per. 7-8a Genre: realistic fiction Summary: This book is about August (auggie) who is a boy that’s face is badly deformed. He is sent to school for the first time in his life, but he is scared of what the other kids will think of his face. Throughout this story, he is bullied but somehow still makes friends despite his face. Other characters in the book are: Olivia (via), Miranda, Jack Will, Julian, Summer, Charlotte, Henry, Miles, Justin, Jamie, and Mr. Browne.
I picked these 2 because I thought they were good ones and could relate to a lot of people. Its important for books to have good themes and messages so
Unit 4222-301 Outcome 1 Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting Communication can be used to bring out changes in attitudes, motivate people and establish and maintain relationships. Communication is vital for seeking and providing information. We communicate to express our emotions like courage or fear, joy or sorrow, satisfaction or disappointment with appropriate gestures and words. It is crucial to have good communication for developing positive relationships with other people. It is a process by which two or more people exchange ideas, facts, feelings or impressions in ways that each gains a common understanding of the message.
A wild boy is born, doesn't like his dad's work, and learns some magic from his witchy aunt. The boy uses that magic to defend his town when raiders attack. 2 Because of his success with the raiders, the boy is taken in as an apprentice by the mage Ogion, who gives the boy his true name, Ged. Ogion tries to teach Ged about magic and the balance of powers. But Ged wants more power (partly to impress a girl…you know how it is), so he almost summons a shadow monster.
Make a Positive Contribution – confidence/control/choice/involvement. It is important the individual you are assessing has been given the opportunity to choose the setting for the assessment and also that they can have an advocate of their own to accompany them. When completing the assessment it is important to give the individual the full information on what you are to be going through and that it is their assessment on how support will be offered. The individual must be given the time and be able to understand the process of the assessment and the Support Plan that comes from this. If they have any difficulties eg.
The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis A groundbreaking teenage rebel story written by a brilliant writer S.E Hinton "The Outsiders" is about a gang of brothers and friends called the "Greasers" who learn the importance friendship. Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest member of the greasers, narrates the novel. Ponyboy theorises on the motivations and personalities of his friends and describes events in a slang, youthful voice. Ponyboy’s interests and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his brothers Darry and Sodapop.
Wednesday, Dec 3, 09 Should the novel, Coraline be taught again? The novel Coraline is written by Neil Gaiman. It is an inventive, scary, thrilling, and affirmative novel published in 2003. The novel Coraline is recently taught by a group of high school students in Toronto. The first reason that the novel should not be taught again is that it is mostly taking place in the fake world with magical elements and creatures made by the evil.
However, Atticus encouraged reading and prompted his daughter to read every night with him. In the 1930’s only someone truly intelligent would have promoted reading to their kids at such a young age, and that’s another reason why Atticus is a genius. Finally, Atticus is also incredibly smart because while most of his peers are shooting at targets or playing football, Atticus would rather read. Although he was already a successful lawyer, he still worked hard to improve his knowledge through reading. In a town where reading was shunned, Atticus always promoted it.
Luis Gonzalez Mr. Segura English 1301.056 16 October 2013 Violence, a kid’s new toy Gerard Jones wrote an interesting essay titled “Violent Media Is Good for Kids” which is a contradiction to today’s view on violence. Jones is a veteran writer of comics, cartoons, and screenplays. He wrote numerous of well-known comic books, including Batman, Spider-man, Ultraforce, Justice League, and Pokémon. During his childhood his parents did not allow him to interact with pop-culture and violence. He soon was exposed to violent comic books which helped him break through the barrier of passivity and loneliness.