![]() ![]() ![]() We observe this positioned so we are looking directly over the agitated boy'sshoulder. For instance, in one illustration the boy stands in the water, hands on hips, and glares at the frog. Consequently, as readers, we always have a sense of scale and the relative positions of the characters. The setting is ingeniously established from several different points of view. Mayer also uses the environment to great advantage. ![]() This is because Mercer Mayer makes excellent use offacial expression to communicate emotion. The boy's and frog's actions are always clear. Each illustrationfeatures the boy performing a number of actions, both voluntary and sometimesinvoluntarily, in his efforts to catch a pond-dwelling frog. The pictures require active engagement by the reader. The book has no text, which is the story's chief advantage. The Boy, a Dog, and a Frog is a wordless picture book, and like the rest of the series the narrative is driven by simple and delicately drawn black andwhite illustrations. Mercer Mayer Review The Mercer Mayer series of books are highly useful language teaching tools. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() For older grades, introduce the idea of “fast fashion” where clothing is bought at low prices, worn minimally, then thrown out.Microplastics have become so prevalent they are now found all over the Earth, in animals, and even in our own bodies. Instead of breaking down, these tiny pieces are released into the air and wastewater systems, polluting our rivers and oceans. ![]() Materials such as polyester, Lycra, and nylon are essentially made from plastics and become smaller and smaller microplastics. For example, cotton underpants will fully compost but ones made from today’s synthetic materials will not biodegrade.Use the space station example to show how getting rid of our garbage is problematic (pages 40 and 41). Now that we have shifted to buying and throwing away our underpants, discuss how this impacts the planet.Chapter Four: Tushes today worldwide Environmental connections ![]() ![]() Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. Suddenly Willow’s world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life. Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. ![]() ![]() Synopsis: In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family. ![]() ![]() ![]() She goes on to elaborate that with the finale of the first season, the second season has been cued up with stories using the second book as a guide. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Monica Owusu-Breen states that she drew inspiration from the first and third books, incorporating the show with specific scenes, relationships, and villains. ![]() The Midnight, Texas Trilogy was the basis for the first season of NBC's television adaptation, Midnight, Texas. ![]() and a vampire who works the night shift at the pawn shop. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Night Shift. Charlaine Harris is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse and Midnight, Texas. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. For if all hell breaks loose-which just might happen-it will put the secretive town on the map, where no one wants it to be. Night Shift - Ebook written by Charlaine Harris. And now they must come together to stop the bloodshed in the heart of Midnight. There's a reason why witches and werewolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place. ![]() Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what makes Midnight the town it is. At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves-only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town. ![]() ![]() ![]() This excellent recall power, whether it be remembering a face or events that happen in the wild, is thought to be a huge part of how elephants survive outside of captivity. The clincher? They had last seen each other twenty-three years before their reunion at the sanctuary. They had both performed together for a few months in Carson & Barnes Circus. Turns out, the two elephants really were old friends. ![]() Founder Carol Buckley described “an emotional reunion” between “two seemingly old friends.” The two elephants began trumpeting, and Buckley said she had never witnessed something that intense unless it was aggression. After they were given a bit of time together, Shirley also became animated. When she saw an Asian elephant named Shirley, who was new to the sanctuary, she became excited and anxious. It is obviously impossible to say that elephants never forget anything- and it seems likely they do forget things- but studies have shown that elephants do have exceptionally long memories for certain types of things.įor instance, in 1999, an elephant named Jenny was living at The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee. Hannah asks: Do elephants really “never forget”? ![]() ![]() ![]() One goes for a walk when they need a break from work, but it is often on the walk when a solution presents itself. ![]() Walking has long been linked to the creative process, or problem solving. A walk is an external as well as an internal activity, resembling stream-of-consciousness thinking and writing. The physical, repetitive motion and the slower pace compels observation, contemplation and reflection. ![]() Walking has a special connection to the mind which differentiates it from other mode of travel. She warns that it is an “idiosyncratic path…with much doubling back and looking around.” It is a meander, but she stitches together varied and interesting stories and ideas from literature, history and her own personal experience, such that the reader always feels in the hands of a seasoned tour guide, never lost. And walking travels both terrains,” Solnit writes in this exploration of the physical, philosophical, political and sociological significance of walking. “Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are many examples from antiquity: the fatal arrogance of Achilles Odysseus’ disastrous taunting of Polyphemus King David’s lust for Bathsheba the unquenchable thirst for conquest of Alexander the Great and the pride of Oedipus and Agamemnon. The greatest human heroes, from the beginning of recorded history and lore, all share a common trait: a flaw in character that often proves to be their undoing, and perhaps even leads to their death. “What excellence is there in a nature which merely rejoices in its own well-being and does nothing, never has done anything and never will do anything?” It is time to clear a path through the rubble of toppled statues and discarded plaques to examine the qualities of the authentic Lee, as well as the turn of mind that would relegate him to historical ignominy. Lee’s reputation has plummeted from the lofty height it once occupied. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's like being Superman, with power suits for both lives. The other day I bought a delicious pink suit to tape a television segment on romance I'll never wear that suit to teach in, nor even to give a paper at the Shakespeare Association of America conference. When I'm not writing novels, I'm a Shakespeare professor. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar" later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.Īfter graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was only on reading Doescher’s commentary that I realised Yoda was speaking in haiku! Darn I wished I’d picked that up first time. In the movies, he has a unique speech pattern and I was hoping that this would be reflected in Empire Striketh Back. On my first listen through I was a little disappointed that Yoda didn’t sound too different from the other characters. It also isn’t too jarring, for example, when Han rails against Lando’s betrayal in Shakespearean language as it is a theme and emotion found in many of Shakespeare’s works. Doescher therefore has a strong base on which to base his adaptation. It contains a lot of strong themes which would have been as relevant in Shakespeare’s time as today: love, betrayal, youthful impetuousness, struggle against tyranny. The original Star Wars trilogy is a darn good story. It is far more like a radio play than an audiobook and the excellent cast does a wonderful job of telling the story. I would strongly recommend picking this up as an audiobook rather than ebook or hard copy – Random House Audio’s production is top notch with an excellent cast. ![]() William Shakespeare’s Star Wars – The Empire Striketh Back by Ian Doescher is the sequel to William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, a retelling of George Lucas’s space saga in the style of William Shakespeare. These are the books you've been looking for ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is here the Shrike is first described as "a creature which defied physical laws and which communicated only through death." His time there was mainly uneventful, except for various Shrike cult member disappearances. The Consul's past as planetary governor of Hyperion is then briefly explained. The Consul is to meet up with the Templar tree ship Yggdrasill along with the other pilgrims on his journey to the Outback planet. Gladstone also explains that one of the pilgrims is suspected to be an agent of the Ousters, but they don't know which one. It is explained that the Time Tombs on Hyperion appear to be opening and an Ouster fleet is approaching the system, although their intentions are unknown. ![]() The novel begins with the Consul receiving a message from Hegemony CEO Meina Gladstone that he is to return to the planet Hyperion as a member of the Shrike Pilgrimage. 7.1 The Consul's Tale: Remembering Siri.6.1 The Detective's Tale: The Long Good-Bye.5.1 The Scholar's Tale: The River Lethe's Taste is Bitter.2.1 The Priest's Tale: The Man Who Cried God. ![]() |