...The book that I chose for this assignment is Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. This book received the Caldecott award in 1964 (“Where the Wide Things Are,” 2017b). Caldecott Award books are known and recognized by their “distinguished American picture books for children” (“Welcome to The,” 2017). Where the Wild Things Are by Sendak was published in 1963 and was then released as a movie in 2009 (“Where the Wild Things Are,” 2017a). This specific book has a reading grade level of 4.4 along with the Fountas and Pinnell level at a J. The Lexile level is AD 740 (“Follett Destiny,”2017). Where the While Things Are by Sendak is a book about a little boy named Max who liked to play “pretend”. The story takes place mainly in his own...
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...and chart what the children said about the different pictures on our paper chart to place In the hallway for the parents to read. Sight Words: The, that, We Book 2: From head to toe I love reading from head to toe in circle time with any age group. The book gets any age group up and moving. As the different animals bend and move the children can get up and move their body parts like the animals. For younger children they are able to learn different body parts that are not as common and for older children it helps them get up and move and get their wiggles out. In older classrooms I ask the children to be an animal and have the class imitate what their animal can do. In center time we could make animal pictures and journal what unique thing our animals can do. In block center we could build a home for our animals and in dramatic play we could work in zoo and help take care of the animals or be a veterinarian and doctor the animals. Sight Words: From, to, I, Can, Do, It Book 3: The Very Hungry Caterpillar While reading the Very Hungry Caterpillar I would ask the children...
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...The following report provides a brief description of the first five (5) wild things encountered during the exploration of the island currently identified as WTWTA. The five wild things have been labeled as • Long-Nosed Sea Monitor (Foundem inwaterus) • Horned Lion (Leo decapitatum) • Razor-Toothed Sheep (Ovinus noshaggum) • Bearded Behemoth (Needus clippingem) • Ginger-tressed Hairy Duck (Canardus hirsutus) The current labels are used for cataloguing purposes in order to make note-taking easier. Long-Nosed Sea Monitor (Foundem inwaterus) This ocean-dwelling creature seems to keep at least a third of its body above the waterline. Two horns protrude from a head that is covered in blonde hair. The mouth, lined with nine incisors along the upper jaw, resembles that of an alligator, giving this wild thing the appearance of having a long nose. There are six spines along the back of the neck and three claws on each of the visible front feet. The top of a wing-like structure covers the top of the front feet. Attempts to observe the rest of the body have so far been unsuccessful. Horned Lion (Leo decapitatum) This quadruped seems to lead the wild things and is almost double the size of the smallest wild thing: the razor-toothed sheep. A total of sixteen claws are evenly spread across this creature’s four feet. The body and head resemble that of its namesake, the lion. The difference, however, lies in the three horns that adorn the head. Two are located...
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...subject of Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild, was not ignorant or unprepared, but he was going out into the wilderness to find the true meaning of life and to see what it was like to live out in the wild on his own. Chris was a great role model for kids all across the country; because he was trying to live out his dream and do what he thought was right in the wild and would not listen to what anyone told him to do. Chris McCandless was a loving and caring person who cherished for all creation and wanted to get away from the society and live free to find the meaning of life. I feel that Chris McCandless was a person in the world who didn’t like society and wanted to get away from people to become free in the wild. Chris never liked being in society with people and wanted to get away from them as much as he could. When the book opens, we see Chris hitchhiking into the wilderness trying to get away from society when he gets a lift from Jim Gallien. Chris was going to hitchhike to Denali National Park and get away from society and be free. Jim Gallien picked him up and drove him there. When he dropped him off, Chris did not bring much and his only food was a ten pound bag of rice because he wanted to experience the wild and be a part of it. In college at the Emory University, he never had a good social life with people and Krakauer states when people tried to talk to him at parties, “It was hard to get him to open up.” His studies were the only thing he was interested in talking about...
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...Into the wild essay Who is Chris McCandless? If you read the book into the wild, then you would probably think he is a young, go getter who went on an Alaskan adventure that went horribly wrong. According to some of the locals in Alaska, there were some obvious key mistakes that he had made that any normal person could have made that would have saved McCandless's life. Could it be that McCandless was just your average idiot? If you were a local is Alaska then your answer would probably have been a strong yes. The book starts off with McCandless dying, which is never a good thing to have in your soul searching adventure. The book then goes back to tell the story about how he make it up to Alaska. A Lot of the things just go against common sense and may even show signs of mental illness. He starts off by leaving his family with nothing, not even a note saying goodbye. He then goes on a long journey to get to Alaska so that he can finally be at peace in the wild. On this journey he meets a band of hippies that take him in and help him get part of the way up to Alaska, on the rough they stopped at a place called slab city where he meets a girl who falls in love with him and wants him to stay...
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...by Lauren Oliver, published in January 2011 by HarperCollins (HarperTeen), about a young girl, Lena Haloway, who falls in love in a society where love is seen as a disease. Plot The story is set in Portland, Maine, in an alternate present. Civilization is concentrated in those cities which escaped the severe bombings of decades past. Travel between cities is highly restricted. Electric fences separate the city from the Wilds—unregulated territory which was presumably mostly destroyed by bombs. The totalitarian government teaches that love is a disease, named amor deliria nervosa, commonly referred to as "the deliria". A surgical cure for the deliria has been developed and is mandatory for citizens 18 years old and over. Lena has looked forward to the procedure for years, convinced as she is by the government that love is a horrible disease that must be destroyed from mankind's system. However, mere months before her scheduled procedure, Lena falls in love with an Invalid (a person over 18 who has not taken the Cure and lives in the Wilds) named Alex. He was born in the Wilds outside the city, and has pretended to be cured in order to live undetected in the city and be in the resistance. He offers Lena the means of escape from the procedure that will destroy her ability to love. The two of them would leave the city and live in the Wilds, joining the rebels who oppose the procedure and the government. Although Lena struggles with the thought of leaving her life behind, she ultimately...
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...not feel she fits in with the rest of the family at the funeral preparations; therefore, she calls her cousin David. Together they drive fast through the city, ignoring the red traffic lights until they reach a bar where they drink. Afterwards they run to a hillside to watch the sunset. On the slope, she sits and think; David will never be able to understand the admiration she has had for her grandmother. They sit on the cliff and watch as the sun sets while smoking marihuana-cigarettes. Then they move, to get something to eat. As the narrator and David goes to a takeaway stall to get some food, they encounter some Indian women who talks to them. They say that they have brought the devils wind with them. David is frightened of it while the narrator is not affected. When they are at her grandmother’s house again, they say goodbye. (199 words) Characterize the narrator. The narrator is a very reflective person. She thinks of small details that make her reflect about existential questions and come up with big considerations about life. “He would never think of them as accomplishments; he would never be expected to perform any of them, or even to try. It’s expectation that’s so crushing sometimes, I think” (p. 10, l. 95-97) She thinks about all the things her grandmother had accomplished. She managed to take care of five children, while taking various jobs. She says it is something that David will never be able to understand because there is not that kind of expectations...
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...when I got on the people tricked me they were counting down but they got to two and they launched me so fast my head went back. When I got off I wanted to go again Six Flags and Wild Island is my favorite place to go, but what I like the most is that you can go to all this rides and never get bored and expensive but it is worth spending money if you are going with your family members. There also discounts and special days where they reduce...
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...101 ranvhOutline Thesis: The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was great in part to performers like Will Rogers and Bill Pickett. I.Introduction A. Opening remarks B. Thesis statement II.Will Rogers A. Childhood B. Joins ranch C. Life after ranch and death III. Bill Pickett A. Childhood B. Joins ranch C. Steer wrestling D. Life after ranch and death IV. 101 Ranch Wild West Show A. Will Rogers' contributions B. Bill Pickett's contribution V. Conclusion The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was a great, if not the greatest wild west show of all time. Its diversity and showmanship gathered thousands of people from around the world to watch and be amazed at the spectacular show that was put on. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show combined the thrills of the Wild West with the acts and performances found in a circus; from trick riding and roping to elephants and their trainers (1927 Show Roster, 2013). The 101 Ranch Wild West Show traveled the world and many people got to bask in its glory during its hay day. The show was a masterpiece put together by visionaries and it brought many people jobs and even stardom. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was great in part to performers like Will Rogers and Bill Pickett. Will Rogers was born on the 4th of November in 1879 (Biography, 2013), in the area that is now Oologah, Oklahoma. He was part Indian descending from the Cherokee tribe (Rodeo Star, 2013). Will Rogers...
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...third and final reason why humans should care about the Everglades is because of all the wetlands that are in there. Wetlands are for caring and for nurturing, almost like a hospital or a daycare. Most people refer to as the "Waste Lands". The first reason why the Everglade is a very important place to be is because of its resources that it has to offer. To us humans the Everglades is a thankful place to thank. The everglades supplies with many things such as water, food, and beautiful wildlife and...
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...father and son trying to cross a wild river. It is a great trip for a father to spend some quality time with his son out in the wild nature and to bond with each other. It is very typical for an American family, to have such values about a “father and son relationship”. The father in this story takes his son to a place where he went with his own father, when he was young. This brings me to the theme of the story, which could be “disappointment” or “failure”. It is mentioned that the father has done a lot of “fuckups” and he does not want this experience with his son to become one of those fuckups. At the beginning of the short story we are introduced to the father, and the difficult period of his life that he is in. The father reminds himself of his own childhood, when he was seventeen years old and went with his father on a trip into the wild. He gets very disappointed when he returns with his son and realizes that the barn and all the other things in the forest are barely recognizable. He might have had a bad relationship with his own father and does not want the same relationship with his own son. He also remembers some of the bad things about his own father, especially the way he spoke to him as a child, when the father yelled “Don’t fucking fall” (p.2, l. 63). The father could also be divorced from the mother of his son, where he is looking at “..the azaleas he’d planted..” (P. 1, l. 14) and thinking that he maybe has another chance to make things right again, and to get back...
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...Mark Trevino Silvia Herrera English 1301.S99 9 November 2015 The Triumphs of Orcas Kept in Captivity Through the decades of the recent past, orca whales have been taken from their original homes in the wild and forced to live and perform in various amusement facilities spanning the United States. The business revolving around these killer whales has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry; this is an industry which possesses many flaws in the way these animals live and thrive together with each other. Orca whales kept in captivity in various amusement parks should be released back into their natural habitat due to the improper conditions in the parks, increased death rates in captivity, and the higher risk of attacks on humans inside...
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...When it comes to choosing where to go and have some good times, Texas Roadhouse and Buffalo Wild Wings are always on top of my priority list. The food is well prepared with the finest ingredients that leave you asking for more. Sipping the ice cold beverages as you watch their wide screens keeps you relaxed and happy each moment. That may explain why many sports fans preferred Texas Roadhouse and Buffalo Wild Wings branches. The Texas Roadhouse is simply the best home away from home. There are spread branches just a stun's –throw away whenever I want something epic. Bring a good experience to spice things up; they normally give directions from wherever you are, so long as you give them your Zip Code. As much as menus vary from location to location, you cannot miss what to eat. The attentive and professional service they give to their guests is one of the reasons why many of them cannot get enough of their high quality food and...
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...in order to find peace of mind and independence that comes from true solitude. You do not have to put your life at risk and go out to the godforsaken wild. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society”. I find that Emerson is trying to portray the message that one must ultimately focus on the thoughts inside their head, independence of thought. In my opinion, Emerson's chamber does not have to be leaving town or society for the wild of that matter, it can be finding an inner peace with oneself. The chamber is symbolic of one's thought of discovering peace of mind in our head, again referring to the thought of independent thoughts. One cannot go through life with the thought that they should abandon society. Solitude, as Emerson depicts it, is something to aspire, but one shouldn’t isolate oneself from other people. One does not have to leave society in...
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...many animals that are endangered and some are kept in zoos or sanctuaries and other rome where they are supposed to be naturally. In my opinion, I believe that endangered species should be kept in the wild. I believe this because: they live longer in the wild, there is a very large price, and it is their natural habitat. My opinion, as you have already read, is that endangered species should be kept in the wild other than in a sanctuary or zoo. I have multiple reasons for believing this but I would like to start off with the fact that endangered species lifespans are longer in the wild than they are in a sanctuary. For example, the Giant Panda lives up to 38 years in the wild, but only around 30 in a zoo or sanctuary. Also, the Amur Leopard, at a population of around 257...
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