“Twilight of the Books” By Caleb Crain & “Reading for Pleasure is in Painful Decline” By Stephen L. Carter. In this essay, I will be Supporting my Claim on the best and the more intelligently Written Passage on Readers of America. Both Texts support the claim of the decrease in readers in America along with Reasoning’s as to why this may be the start to something hazardous to our society.
What if the world’s most notorious serial killer...was your dad? Jazz’s dad has cursed Jazz with the fate to be a killer like his father but his friends and the sheriff help Jazz with his predicament. Jazz helps the Sheriff solve some mysterious murders in Lobo’s Nod, the killer is copying Jazz’s dad and recommitting his murders himself. Teens should be able to I hunt Killers because this book teaches them the importance of friendship, loyalty to family and doing what a person believes is right.
An article in the Teen Tribune tells how a 3-year-old black bear was captured at an elementary school in Bakersfield. The bear was first seen wandering around on school property and it not only interrupted the last day of school but, also a graduation ceremony that was being held at a middle school close by. The bear spotting caught everyone by surprise and soon all students that were outside were sent back to their classrooms as the bear started to come closer. And even though the bear kept its distance and nobody was in harm’s way, the authorities were called. It didn’t take long for the officers to get there, and when they did they cornered the bear, captured it and released it into the wild.
“What book are you reading this week?” I asked my new friend, Emma. “Oh, I’m just reading Harry Potter,” she replied, not lifting her head up to look at me. With the start of middle school, I had few friends on top of transferring to a new school. So when I spotted Emma on the first day of school, reading a book amongst a vast sea of white polo shirts and navy blue shorts and skirts, I knew she was going to be one of my new friends.
This book is relevant today becuase it has important messages about bravery and putting things into action and exploring. I think these messages are important in current events today in many ways. One ways is that we always need to be brave in everything we do. Also we need to explore and see new thigs I the world to get a better understanding of different places in the world. That is how i think the messages in the book are relavent today.
“Devin raised his right arm and focused directly over his wrist. It took less than a millisecond to calculate the trajectory---he didn’t have a built-in computer, but 220 IQ served him well”(Patterson 3). In the beginning of the book, this person has a sniper grafted into his arm and is supposed to take out its targets. While this is happening the one bird kid falls down to save the other bird kid from getting hit, but Devin misses the main target and hits the flying dog. What ends up happening is devin kills himself because he was a suicide sniper(kills his target then kills himself to not be in trouble).
Bret Steka, the author of “Why everyone should read Harry Potter?”, explains that reading Harry Potter novels instill empathy in younger readers. For example, Streka states “… reading short stories about friendship between in and out group characters is enough to improve attitudes towards stigmatized groups in children…”. This statement explains that children reading about friendship and kindness between stigmatized groups, improves their attitudes towards others, establishing empathy in them. The author goes on to say “…Potter is continually in contact with stigmatized groups.” Thus, when reading Harry Potter novels as a child, the reader is able to create a connection to Harry Potter, reading on about his interactions with out-groups, such
The Read Across America Initiative is an annual awareness program dedicated to getting children to start reading more. The National Education Association is in charge of this Initiative. On this day, kids pick their favorite book and choose to read it or it be read to them. The program is held on Dr. Seuss’s birthday, March 2nd, as a special recognition to the children 's author who inspired children to read because of his unique books. This program is conducted by teachers and volunteers at many schools and libraries across the country.
After obtaining my associate degree I began my own step team and mentoring the young ladies at Arbor Hill Elementary in Albany NY. I then decided to continue my education with obtaining my bachelors degree in Business Administration. Being that I have become a mother of two, I knew that the chances for me to go into the classroom were slim to none. I made the decision to return back to school online to Everest University. By the time I started I relocated back to South Carolina to helped out my dad that was sick at the time.
When someone who commits a crime is determined to be mentally inadequate to be held accountable for the crimes they have committed, there are things that we do to charge them, but in a lesser way because of their mental capacity. Which begs the question, why are we allowing children to be sentenced to life, when their brains aren’t fully developed? When a child commits a crime we look over that, and stop seeing them as children. We shouldn’t sentence children to a life in prison when their brains are not only underdeveloped, but also missing a good portion of gray matter.
Chapter 1 Teen Activists All teen activists such as Alex Lin Malala and Iqbal work to help make a world a better place. That might take months or even years. We know that's a long time! Teen Activists also face challenges like,they cannot spread the word to others, they have many people stand in there way,and the reason activists do these things even though it puts there life at risk is because they want to help in ways they can. According to (Youth Activists Project), “nearly half of the world population is underage 18.
The Chapel has been a place for prayer and where I find peace. I am looking forward to the second half of the semester. I am striving to be the best student I can be and making the best out of these four years so that I can be the best candidate in the application pool when applying for jobs. Success and failure are part of the learning experience, but at the end of the day, they have been learning
That is why I suggest that our community should have a “Reads Program”. This program will be supervised by our teachers from various schools and evaluated through interrelated school activities such as sports. Having a book club helps each reader to listen to others point of view. Allows others to meet new people. Makes reading fun and enjoyable and set examples for our younger ones.
The past few weeks here at the University of Maine at Farmington have been excellent. I had the opportunity to come a week early to try out for the girls soccer team. I didn 't make the team but in retrospect, I think that was the best thing to happen to me. I moved into Dakin on the 24th of August. My roommate there was a sophomore that was here for the field hockey team.
Reading is an important subject at every school. It's been know that one way to get students to read more is to put more young adult literature books in the curriculum. Students who like to read tend to focus more on the young adult lit books rather than the other types. By incorporating young adult lit books into the curriculum it encourages independent reading and helps students build the skills they need to succeed.
