The Age Book of the Year

The Middle Ages were, in a certain way, a time of darkness. Stories and history were primarily passed on through the ages by word of mouth. However, this changed when a man, a monk named Bede, took pieces of history and wrote books describing these historical events. Bede was able to learn through his monastery’s library and became the Middle Ages’ greatest scholar. Without him, our knowledge of this time period might have been limited and historical events lost. Around the time of Bede’s birth…

Theory Paper Jean Piaget, a psychologist from Switzerland is known for his work in child development. Piaget’s theory was that children from different ages have different cognitive understandings. He realized through research that children’s learning is effected by the environment they live in and the adults in their lives. Piaget’s theory justifies the idea that children are learning everyday from what is being seen but most importantly what is being said. Jean Piaget research on children’s…

survive, those horrific memories remained. In the book and poem they both show the pain and vivid harm the war did. Both the poem and the book show how war ages the soldiers. In the book it quotes “ We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long. We are old folks.” in the poem it helps see the quote better. The quote from the poem is “ We age hundred years and this descended” It helps visualize it because in the book they say things differently…

In the book The Giver age isn’t really important by the time you reach the Ceremony of Twelve. In this world age is a little bit important. The only thing they think is important is training you’ll receive for adult life. This world is very different , but the book the giver is in the future so it is very different. The first thing they do to train for adult life is starting to volunteer at their future possible assignments. They start volunteering after the age of eight in this book. Volunteer…

I am reading the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid, it is by Jeff Kinney the book is a realistic fiction genre, this book has 217 pages in it. A customer on goodreads posted a review on this book and they said, “This was so cute and funny, I laughed out loud many times even the comedy books I have read didn’t make me laugh this hard!” I think a good age for this book is maybe from a 6th grade middle schooler to an adult would be an appropriate age, this age because there is a little bit of language, and…

Castellucci, Cecil. The Plain Janes. DC Comics, 2007. Realistic Fiction, Ages 12-18. This is a graphic novel about a transfer student named Jane thinks her life is over when she is forced to move from Metro City to Suburbia because of a terrorist’s bomb. She finds herself drawn to three other girls named Jane who are unpopular in different ways. The four of them make art attacks on the city under the guise of their secret art club and later go on an adventure painting the town P.L.A.I.N.-…

when she was 14 and 17 years old. Dugard was influenced to write this because, “...[she] was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido in 1991, at age 11 [and] she spent 18 years in captivity” (biography). This meant that Dugard did not have a chance to finish school. According to Wikipedia.com, “Dugard was in the fifth grade”,when she got kidnapped (kidnapping). Jaycee Dugard has written two books A Stolen Life and Freedom: My Book Of First. The second book Freedom: My Book Of First has not yet…

choice of books to educate their students. English teachers all around are assigning grade school students novels that include profanity, racism, or sexuality. There’s no telling why they’ve started this, but it has its pros and cons. Some kids are mature for their age, but there are also kids who don’t act their age. It is acceptable to assign high schoolers novels that include controversial subjects. But on the other hand, elementary and middle schools shouldn’t be introduced to adult books…

in World War I and saved many lives, and never gave up on his love for writing and put that into his career. Tolkien's Father died when Roald was at the age of four. In 1904 Ronald's mother passed away due to sickness. Ronald and his brother were put into the custody of their church's priest. Ronald met a girl named Edith, she was nineteen years old and he was only sixteen at the time. In 1916 he married Edith and they had four children. Ronald was a professor at Leeds University and soon…

ideas of that time period. It was in 1930 that Emma was given the Dunbar School as part of her responsibility as Supervisor of Schools. Emma was not happy about the new opportunity. It took a year for her to realize that the Dunbar students were just like the white students which she had taught for many years. She fell in love with the people of the community and soon began to work for equal education. She worked tirelessly to show the white community the true character of the good people…