Download or read book A Not So Typical Eighth Graders story written by Tylia L. Flores and published by Tylia Flores. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Not So Typical Eighth Graders Story follows 13-year-old Austin Keller, a writer with Cerebral Palsy, who uses a wheelchair to get from place to place due to the obstacles he faces due to his condition. In addition to having Cerebral Palsy, his parents divorced because of his father's PTSD and alcoholism, which led to him being labeled an outcast at Plantation Middle School. A MacBook Pro gives him a sense of belonging for his 13th birthday and he is encouraged to join the school creative writing club, changing his life forever In this inspiring story, Austin Keller, an eighth-grader with cerebral palsy, shares his story that differs greatly from that of most eighth-graders. Austin uses a wheelchair to get around since he has cerebral palsy. Writing became his passion due to his disability Austin has been able to use writing as an outlet for his feelings and as a way to express himself. Through writing he has been able to share his experiences with others, something he wouldn't have been able to do without his disability. Writing has given Austin the opportunity to connect with and inspire people all over the world. He has been able to develop his own unique voice and style, and share his story with people who may not have been in a position to understand it in any other way. Through writing, he was able to express himself and gain self-confidence despite living with a disability. He used writing to express his thoughts and feelings about his experiences and to inspire others. In order to cope with living in a world where he is not understood, he entered the Youth Writers Competition. By entering the competition, he was able to share his story with others and have it validated, which helped boost his self-esteem. Participating in the competition also allowed him to connect with other people who have similar experiences and to find support and community.
Download or read book A Not So Typical Sixth Graders Story written by Tylia L. Flores and published by Tylia Flores. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before he found his passion for writing, he was just an 11-year-old boy with buck teeth, trying to find his way born with Cerebral Palsy. Austin Keller loves science, and someday he hopes to discover the cure for Cerebral Palsy, but as he enters middle school and deals with the everyday struggles of being a preteen with Cerebral Palsy, he soon finds himself in a pickle as he discovers he has a new passion that has always been there. He discovers he loves to write, and he finds his passion in writing stories and poetry. He starts to write every day and soon discovers that writing helps him to cope with his disability and the struggles he faces. Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize winner, wrote: “Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”
Download or read book My Eighth Grade Almost Romance written by K. Tibbetts and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While comparing class schedules on the firstday of school with her friend Will, Elle isdistracted by Nate, a new boy at school. But as atypical eighth grader, she lacks the confidence totalk to the object of her crush. To top it off, thememories of being teased as a Kindergartener, andthe secret she's been keeping since then, make hereven more nervous as she starts the new schoolyear. Nate's parents' recent divorce turns his lifeupside down. He's got a new home, a new school,and a new friend. Plus, he's trying to keep up withhis school work while helping to take care of hisyounger brother. When he meets Elle, the shy boydoesn't have the courage to tell her how he feels. Throughout the school year, the pair becomefriendly, despite a series of mishaps andmisunderstandings. But their relationship stallsuntil Will intervenes. Will one of them finally takea chance on romance before the year is over? My Eighth Grade (almost) Romance is told in alternating chapters by Elle and Nate themselves. Recommended for ages 9 to 12.
Download or read book A Not So Typical Seventh Graders Story written by Tylia L. Flores and published by Tylia Flores. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Not so typical 7th grader's story Austin Keller is now going into the seventh grade, still confused about whether he should be a writer and dealing with the fact that his parents may get divorced by the end of the year, he is at a crossroads in his life. After visiting the Ernest Hemingway museum with his grandfather Juancho, he is certain he should be a writer despite all of his challenges and obstacles with CP. According to Robert Penn Warren, “Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.”
Download or read book A Study of the Intelligence Groups of Eighth Grade Children with Reference to the Ability of Each Group to Make Improvement in American History written by Oscar William Kolberg and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Storytelling written by Janice M. Del Negro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries. Storytelling: Art and Technique serves professors, students, and practitioners alike as a textbook, reference, and professional guide. It provides practical instruction and concrete examples of how to use the power of story to build literacy and presentation skills, as well as to create community in those same educational spaces. This text illustrates the value of storytelling, covers the history of storytelling in libraries, and offers valuable guidance for bringing stories to contemporary listeners, with detailed instructions on the selection, preparation, and presentation of stories. It also provides guidance around the planning and administration of a storytelling program. Topics include digital storytelling, open mics and slams, and the neuroscience of storytelling. An extensive and helpful section of resources for the storyteller is included in an expanded Part V of this edition.
Download or read book A Not So Typical Adult written by Tylia L. Flores and published by Tylia Flores. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Tylia Flores' book, A So Not Typical Adult, the series comes to a close. Now in his mid-20s, Austin explores his career as a disability activist who raises awareness for Cerebral Palsy. As well as being a published author, he has everything he could ever want. His community admires him for navigating adulthood as a single man with Cerebral Palsy, as well as managing relationships with co-workers, friends and family, despite finding his place in the dating world. In spite of the obstacles he faces, he seems to find his way in a whole new world as a person with Cerebral Palsy. Reflecting on everything he has gone through, he realizes everything happened for a reason. He also discovers that his disability is not a limitation but a source of strength. As a result, he learns to appreciate his journey and discovers new ways to fulfill his dreams. The people around him eventually become inspired by him. As Roy T. Bennett once said: “It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.”
Download or read book History Teacher s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History Teacher s Magazine written by Albert Edward McKinley and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "War supplements," Jan-Nov. 1918; "Supplements," Dec. 1918-Nov. 1919. These were also issued as reprints.
Download or read book Students Selecting Stories written by Jay R. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Students selecting stories the effects of choice in reading assessment results from the NAEP Reader special study of the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Studies written by Albert Edward McKinley and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "War supplements," Jan-Nov. 1918; "Supplements, " Dec. 1918-Nov. 1919. These were also issued as reprints
Download or read book Retention of History in the Sixth Seventh and Eighth Grades with Special Reference to the Factors that Influence Retention written by Sarah Janet Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Code Name Verity written by Elizabeth Wein and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson) October 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.
Download or read book Good Boys Bad Hombres written by Michael V Singh and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys and young men of color in schools—but what about the politics of empowerment and inclusion? In Good Boys, Bad Hombres, Michael V. Singh focuses on this aspect of youth control in schools, asking on whose terms a positive Latino manhood gets to be envisioned. Based on two years of ethnographic research in an urban school district in California, Good Boys, Bad Hombres examines Latino Male Success, a school-based mentorship program for Latino boys. Instead of attempting to shape these boys’ lives through the threat of punishment, the program aims to provide an “invitation to a respectable and productive masculinity” framed as being rooted in traditional Latinx signifiers of manhood. Singh argues, however, that the promotion of this aspirational form of Latino masculinity is rooted in neoliberal multiculturalism, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness, and that even such empowerment programs can unintentionally reproduce attitudes that paint Latino boys as problematic and in need of control and containment. An insightful gender analysis, Good Boys, Bad Hombres sheds light on how mentorship is a reaction to the alleged crisis of Latino boys and is governed by the perceived remedies of the neoliberal state. Documenting the ways Latino men and boys resist the politics of neoliberal empowerment for new visions of justice, Singh works to deconstruct male empowerment, arguing that new narratives and practices—beyond patriarchal redemption—are necessary for a reimagining of Latino manhood in schools and beyond.
Download or read book MORE THAN EIGHT SIDES TO THE STORY written by Mary Helen Cissell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back in time with former students and teachers of Illinois only octagonal one-room schoolhouse. Read eye-witness accounts of the years 1916 to 1953 when the school closed. What was it like to have all eight grades together in one classroom with only one teacher? Find out as you read these personal narratives that will touch your heart. Filled with hundreds of historic photographs, this book will delight readers of all ages.
Download or read book Access Denied and other eighth grade error messages written by Denise Vega and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer whiz Erin Swift is ready to start eighth grade. The Year of Humiliating Events (aka, seventh grade) is behind her and she's ready to rule the school. But eight grade comes with its own set of problems for Erin to navigate, including her first boyfriend, her first break-up, and the fact that her mom has been treating her more like an eight year old than an eighth grader. Even worse, there's a new girl at Molly Brown Middle School who is determined to remake Erin in her bad-girl image, and former crush Mark "Cute Boy" Sacks has been acting strange lately. But as Erin's school year once against hurdles toward disaster, a personal tragedy forces her to realize that things, and people, aren't always as bad as they seem. Can she save what's left of eighth grade before it's too late?
