Harris later dies and on January 24, 1916, Robert arrives in France, heading for the trenches where the war is being fought against the Germans. En route, he accidently leads his convoy onto a dike that has a break in it. His life is threatened for the first time here when he almost drowns in mud and water. However, his comrades Poole and Levitt save him. Shortly thereafter, Robert and his fellow soldiers engage in trench warfare.
Piper slips Moose's note into the prison's dirty laundry, and a few weeks later, Natalie is accepted to a brand-new school for older autistic children, to the delight of the entire Flanagan family. Author Information Gennifer Choldenko was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1957, the youngest child in a family of four children. One of Choldenko's sisters suffered from severe autism
To Kill A Mockingbird is set in Alabama in the American town of Maycomb In the 1960s. It is focus on a six year old girl named scout with an older brother named Jem and her father Atticus. Atticus is appointed to the court to defend a black man named Tom Robinson accused of raping a young white woman. Although the town doesn’t give Tom Robinson a chance Atticus defends Tom In court. Both the texts are themed around a character who is discriminated against.
Kitty Hart-Moxon was sixteen when she arrived at a Nazi death camp . She had survived there almost 2 years... Today, she continues to carry a scar on her arm from her trying to remove the number tattooed upon her arm... Kitty was 12 when the war had broken out... Her and her family left Poland, fleeing from the tanks that roamed the streets... Her and her family had made it to a town in the east. Her 17 year old brother had to continue forward to Russia... Kitty was stripped of her innocence when she had found herself watching the German bombers with fascination... “I was walking down the street with a boy from my home town.
A group of gypsy children, escaped survivors are the protagonists in The Midnight Zoo, the poor siblings had their entire family murdered in the last month or two. As midnight approaches in a village in Europe, two boys and a baby are introduced, for weeks they have travelled the roads, searching for remaining of humanity to be produced. The zoo that they come across, one that survived the war within the ravaged place they call home, as we are introduced to the zookeepers and a speaking group of animals, the boys have their minds blown, Exchanging stories throughout the night, the events that they’ve come across and each fright, we’re brought deeper into the novel and explore it as the moon becomes more bright. The novel is about a war-torn country that was looted and destroyed throughout the war, with a bit more symbolic meanings like the setting, time-frame, survival and others that we explore. Anrdej is the eldest sibling, in the body of the child with the bravery and the soul of a man, he doesn’t consider himself as a child as he cares for his younger siblings when nobody else can.
Madison Jones’ book Nashville 1864 is about the events of the Civil War in 1864 recalled, over 36 years later, by the mature Steven Moore, who experienced the war firsthand as a twelve-year-old boy, as the son of a Confederate soldier. One day, after the war had started and his father had joined the confederates, he learns that his father’s platoon is in the vicinity of their farm. Steven goes off in search of him, accompanied by his friend, the slave Dink. They get behind enemy borders as the fighting begins and witness terrible scenes, with Dink dying during the events. Steven is brought together with his father again, but the actions have had a great impact on him.
ANZAC is an acronym for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. A Rose for the ANZAC Boys is the story of Midge Macpherson, a teen from New Zealand stuck in a finishing school for young ladies in England during World War I. Her parents are both dead and her old brother has gone off to fight in the war. Her twin brother lied about his age to get accepted into the army. Midge feels like a useless burden that's been sent off to be out of the way.
Clara Barton, a True American Hero Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts on Christmas day 1821. Clarissa, also known as Clara, had four siblings; Dorothy, Stephen, David, and Sally. When Clara was young, David acquired devastating injuries from falling off of a barn roof. She “gave up school and nursed him back to health.” Even at a young age, Clara showed how noble and kind-hearted she was by giving up her education to help bring her brother back to a healthy condition. It took two years for Clara to help her brother, David recover.
Our summer reading program exists to introduce students to themes, ideas, and skills that will be built upon during the school year. Your first graded assignment(s) in English class will be related to summer reading. For each of the selections, you will respond in two different modes: personal close reading through annotation and personal interpretation through informal writing. Each mode highlights different ways
This film tells story about a mother (Rosario) and her nine-year-old son (Carlitos) who live in two different worlds. Rosario illegally lives in the United States, in L.A. California, and Carlitos lives in Mexico with his sick grandmother. Every Sunday by payphone Rosario calls her son to catch up on things. When Carlitos grandmother passes away, he decides to run away to find his mother. Two immigrant transporters name Martha and David agree to take him across the border.