... other things. Since then I consider myself a pretty slow reader. I cannot read without speaking the words. I have had some really good teachers in my school career. I have read many books and novels for class, or at least started to read them. In seventh grade we read A Christmas Carol and I felt this really helped me comprehend old English. My teacher was Mr. Daibriel. He ... then leave. It came to a point that I saw no point in reading because I would not learn the information anyway. I felt I comprehend material much better when I listen to a lecture and take notes. That is how I got...

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• Grade Level: High School

... back to the present. Much of the realistic atmosphere of the story was achieved by carefully studied technical details. (bookrags.com, book notes) The basic principles of the machine contained materials regarding time as the fourth dimension, years later Albert Einstein published his theory of the ... such an interest and a knowledge for the sciences, especially biology. A quote from The War of the Worlds shows his scientific knowledge and understanding of the topics he speaks about; "The secular cooling that must some day take over the Earth."" (Seven Science Fiction Novels, pg 325) Th...

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• Grade Level: High School

... "Never-Never Land" for the rest of our lives. We have to face the challenges and confusion that life throws our way. Luckily, we have authors that write novels about the very issues we will be confronted with during our adolescent years. John Gough notes in School Librarian that ... , "Judy Blume is concerned to describe characters surviving, finding themselves, growing in understanding, coming to terms with life." (School Librarian) She is best known for her novels about middle-class children, which discuss problems ... of young people from their point of view and in their own language....

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... die" (Wisdom). Once someone has read a book it is here to stay. The American Library Association sponsors Banned Book Week to make people aware of books that have been banned for containing violence, witchcraft, obscenities, sex, and many other reasons from schools and libraries (Banned Books Week). Worried and upset - Judy Blume, a children's author, is extremely bothered by book banning especially ... worry me. It is the books that will never be written, the books that will never be read all due to the fear of censorship" (University Star). One of her novels, Forever, was banned becau...

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• Grade Level: High School

... are asking a New York judge to order Google to pay them $750 for every book the search giant scanned without authorization as part of its controversial Google Books programme" (Flood, 2012). Authors need to make a living, and I am sure they are not going to expose their novels and stories for free. It is similar with scholars and their documents. They have worked ... hard and are not going to share their findings and results for free or charity. Even libraries now have to pay for access to scholarly documents and notes. In addition, even if there were some sort of way to ... create thi...

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... time out of your busy lives to listen to my proposal. I believe it is important to provide personal copies of assigned novels for students to keep. There are many arguments in favor of book ownership. It is essential to own a book in order to get the full learning experience. According to Dr. Mortimer ... had read a book five years ago and went back to it then you could remember exactly what you had been thinking when you first read the book through your margin notes. Reading a book is like a "conversation between you and the writer". Active reading allows you to pick up this conversat...

• Word Count: 371
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• Grade Level: High School

Books are pleasant, adventurous, and thought provoking escapes for children and the authors of them, despite what many people think, are not out to corrupt children. Some people take a different view on this issue and believe that many books, from classic novels like the "Catcher in the Rye" to the recent ... white, segregated town, where a white lawyer defends a black man in court, despite the town's opposition. It used to be a required reading assignment for freshmen at Muskogee High School, but now has been transferred out of the classroom and to the back of the library shelf. Students may...

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