She travels back to Grove City, OH. during the holidays and a couple times a year. Her childhood was…
Her family and childhood helped shape her into the person that she is today. Growing up Anne had one sibling who was her older brother Adam. Along with parents Deb and Jim Schleper. Anne grew up in St. Cloud, MN. She also grew up as a very active child playing hockey, soccer, and softball.…
Summary: The Novel, “Someone Like You”, by Sarah Dessen shows an experience of a sixteen year old. In the novel the main character, Halley, comes to a turn in her life that she never expected. This turn consisted of her best friend Scarlett getting pregnant with a person that no longer lived, Micheal Sherwood. Halley will have to learn how to be strong for best friend.…
Plot- Day 1 In Full-ride, after her father gets sent to prison for “embezzlement ”, Becca and her mother move from Georgia to Deskins, Ohio. They create new identities. Now Becca, a freshman, needs to make new friends but keep her secret hidden. But it's really hard for her. Back in Georgia, becca was rich, popular, and had many friends.…
The purpose of assessments The National Early Childhood Assessment Resource Group summarized the purposes for appropriate uses of assessment in the early childhood years as follows: Purpose 1: Assessing to promote children’s learning and development; Purpose 2: Identifying children for health and social services; Purpose 3: Monitoring trends and evaluating programs and services Purpose 4: Assessing academic achievement to hold individual students, teachers, and schools accountable” Source: (Shepard, Kagan, Lynn, & Wurtz, 1998). (pg.3) Principles and Recommendations for Early Childhood Assessments All early childhood assessments involve a process of gathering information about children to better understand and support learning and development.…
Missed Opportunities and Acceptance (A comparison of “Checkouts” and “The Girl Who Can”) In the short stories “Checkouts” and “The Girl Who Can,” there are several intriguing details that are similar and different between the two. One distinct difference is the points of view. In “Checkouts,” Cynthia Rylant uses third-person omniscient point of view, while Ama Ata Aidoo uses first-person point of view in “The Girl Who Can.”…
The free verse novel, What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones, tells about the romantic and family issues that fifteen-year-old, Sophie, goes through. Sophie, like any other teenage girl wants love and romance. She thinks that she has found the one when she meets Dylan. After a while, Sophie sees that he isn’t perfect and realizes that isn’t how the world goes. This relationship brings up many issues and lower Sophie down.…
1.) Some of Anne Moody’s most important early childhood experiences were her uncle (who wasn’t much older than her) watching her and her baby sister, Adline. Her uncle, George Lee, would abuse the two children, mainly Essie Mae. George Lee would abuse the children because he wanted to play out in the woods rather than watch babies all day long. He burned down the house accidentally after telling the two young children “I’m goin’ to burn you two cryin’ fools up.…
If I were to put Homer’s The Odyssey into a feature film the theme of the film would be a young high school freshmen trying desperately to get over the heartbreak of her last relationship. She had a boyfriend of two years and found that he was cheating on her at a party on their two year anniversary. She thankfully has her two best friends to help her through the obstacles that are just the after effects of her heart break and that will finally get her back on her feet. The reasons to why you should make The Odyssey into this type of feature film is that it is based on modern day problems of a teenage girl so it is more exciting, but still in the perspective of Homer's The Odyssey.…
Deception is not always carried out by a cruel villain sulking in the the alleyways. Sometimes, it is just a small girl, afraid and alone. Other times, it is a deception of necessity, destined to save someone or right a wrong. Clearly, deception is not always bad, a distinction less determined by what the deception is then why it occurred in the first place. Thirteen year old Briony discovers this when she mistakenly claims that Robbie Turner is the rapist of her young cousin, despite not seeing the attacker clearly or having any evidence besides his (wrongly assumed) attribute of being a “sex maniac.”…
Traveling to New Worlds and Becoming a New You Kellie Elmore, a famous author, once stated, “Sometimes the only way to find yourself, is to get completely lost.” Cara Weaver’s quest throughout the novel Rising Calm, by Haley Fisher, is exactly what she needs to find herself and realize who she is meant to be. To succeed in her prophecy, Cara must be daunting and wise. She has to overcome obstacles and protect the ones she loves the most all while trying to save a world no one knows exists.…
Annie Dillard’s mother inspired her to be who she is as a writer. Her mother’s love for language shines through in the way Dillard pieces together words and structures her works. The ideas instilled in her to never settle or conform to norms in life and is evident in many of her works and particularly in An American Childhood. Although her mother may have felt trapped as a housewife, she inspired her daughter to be free to express herself through language. Dillard’s mother was fascinated by the sound of words and how they worked together.…
What rumor were the students at NS High spreading in Allie’s daydream? That Allie likes the boy she was working with as a partner for a school project. What technologies were they using to spread the rumor?…
“Honesty is the best policy” this is one of my mom favorite quote, also something she applied to her personal life and her character. She was very proud, strong, and tough woman. She was also extremely hard working and devoted to her children. My mother wasn’t afraid to speak her mind and stand up for what she believes in. Which brings up the famous story in our household of how my mother stood up to this big bully at her school.…
Susan Judy is a Canadian writer of young adult literature. The novel “Alice I Think” is novel that resemblance a self-discovery. This novel is narrated by Alice’s modern-day journal entries to tell the story of Alice as she struggles with being independent-minded. Alice was raised by parents who are hippies and all about expressing their feelings. When Alice reads the book The Hobbit, she decides that she is a hobbit.…