![]() ![]() MM: I’m in my dorm room reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, writing down notes about sentence structure. I went back and started reading picture books. I thought to myself, maybe if I do this same thing with reading, it’ll work out. You become your own version of the athlete you want to be. I started reading picture books and took my athletic approach of starting with fundamentals, and then building on that. I had a revelation that I needed to read. Through a series of fortunate events, I discovered that if I wanted to be more emotionally intelligent, more cognitive, a better decision maker, I needed to be literate. I wanted to feel empowered not just physically, but mentally. My exposure was not broad, and I wanted to change that. Once I got to the University of Georgia, I realized how limited my thinking was. Only relying on that natural skill set placed me in a box. I had that otherworldly experience, but it was really restricting. I was able to go to the NFL and played in a Super Bowl. I had this intense draw to sport and football, which worked out. It’s just the way the community was structured. I think my community promoted sports and entertainment over education. MM: Let me start by saying I was not diagnosed with any learning disabilities. ![]() What happened then? Also, were you ever diagnosed with any sort of learning disability, or was it just a lack of education in the reading arena that caused that? ZO: I read that you were reading at a middle-school level when you got to college. ![]()
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![]() When his pack grows, gentle Lakota finds himself the group’s omega (the wolf at the bottom of the pack-the opposite of the alpha). And although the bully Pinecone makes only a short appearance, the subtle anti-bullying message will still be clear to attentive listeners, especially when he shows up again on the last page to apologize for his previous behavior.Ī Friend for Lakota: The Incredible True Story of a Wolf Who Braved Bullying by Jim and Jamie Dutcher (Grades P-3) Stick and Stone makes an appealing classroom read aloud the crisp and simple images are supplemented with rhyming text, and the two work together to capture the attention of a younger audience. Although this book is mostly about the strong friendship that develops between Stick and Stone, it also provides a great example for younger readers on how to stand up to bullies. ![]() Stick swiftly comes to Stone’s rescue, and the two become fast friends. Then along comes Pinecone, who makes fun of Stone for not being able to work the swing. Stick and Stone are both alone, until they meet at the playground. ![]() Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry (Grades P-3)Īt its heart, Stick and Stone is a charming story about friendship. These titles offer opportunities for students of all ages to find support and strategies to counteract bullying. Bullying has been in the national spotlight for years, but unfortunately, incidents remain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun teashop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. Will needed Lou as much as she needed him, but will her love be enough to save his life? Lou Clark knows lots of things. ![]() ![]() ![]() The government structure and social institutions in Anthem are modeled after structures across the world at the time. These happenings influenced Rand in writing Anthem and she used the novelette to paint a hyperbolic picture of the outcome of collectivism.Īllusions to Government and Social Institutions In other parts of the globe, Socialism was taking over Germany, Fascism was ruling Italy and the intellectuals from other parts of the world were sympathizing with these government models. Rand’s family was gravely affected by these insurrections and they lost their family fortune. ![]() There were the revolutions and insurrections in Russia, Rand’s native country, which led to the system of the government changing from Monarchy to Communism. The first few decades of the 20th century saw many varieties of collectivism taking over the world. The novelette was written in 1937 with the 20th Century rife with political conflicts, revolutions, and dictatorships that operated with the ideology of collectivism, Ayn Rand was trying to predict an extreme case of retrogression of the human race if totalitarianism is allowed to prevail. Ayn Rand’s major aim in writing Anthem was to project her philosophy of individualism and to warn of the evils of totalitarianism and collectivism. ![]() ![]() A regular speaker at colleges and conferences in the U.S., he also travels the world planting seeds of literary love (Singapore, Brazil, Italy, France, Shanghai, etc.). Kwame believes that poetry can change the world, and he uses it to inspire and empower young people through his PAGE TO STAGE Writing and Publishing Program released by Scholastic. His other works include Surf's Up, a picture book Booked, a middle grade novel and He Said She Said, a YA novel. Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and New York Times Bestselling author of 21 books, including The Crossover, which received the 2015 John Newbery Medal for the Most Distinguished Contribution to American literature for Children, the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor, The NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and the Passaic Poetry Prize. ![]() ![]() ![]() It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with a reading that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you and, above all, surprise you. Stephen reveals all of his shuddering instability, suppressing self-consciousness as well as second-guessing, embarrassments, hopings, frustrations, as well as confusions regarding life. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. Heartbreaking, a delight, a lovely, comfy book The Times Perfect prose and excruciating honesty. In January 2010, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards. Spanning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen Frys arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director and presenter. ![]() In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the hugely successful The Fry Chronicles, brilliantly read by Stephen Fry himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() The system is the earliest Roman land frontier in Britain and was built c 70 AD, some 50 years before Hadrian’s Wall and 70 years before the Antonine Wall in Scotland. If the team is successful, the fort would form part of the Gask Ridge frontier system located further south in Perthshire. They believe that remains of the lost fort may lie between a Roman fort at Stracathro, near Brechin, and the northeast coast. ![]() A team of archaeologists is conducting a search for a “missing” Ancient Roman fort thought to be buried in the Scottish countryside.īBC News reports that a team of experts from the Roman Gask Project at the University of Liverpool is investigating various sites in the countryside around Angus and Aberdeenshire. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus don't miss the thrilling sequel, Evermore! Fans of Victoria Aveyard, Kendare Blake, and Stephanie Garber will devour this lush novel's breathtaking action, incredible romance, and dangerous secrets. Her decisions have the power to change her fate-and the fate of time itself. Soon she's caught in a tangle of violent secrets and finds her heart torn between two people she thought she'd never see again. But going back to Everless brings more danger-and temptation-than Jules could have ever imagined. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him forever. A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings' palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. Everless gives new and terrifying meaning to the phrase running out of time." -Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency-extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one's own lifespan. ![]() ![]() New York Times bestseller! "Sara Holland is a fierce storyteller. ![]() ![]() The artist describes the story as "one of my favorite fics from this pairing" and says about the manip, "I’m not trying to make this pass as a fanart from the story itself, because the scene in there is a little bit different - but the essence is the same. meantforeyesurgery made a manip that was inspired by a quote from the story. Thesuperhusbands made a "if superhusbands fics were movies" gif art set for the story that's both fanfic cover and story illustration at the same time. The latter is based on a scene in Tony's workshop after he and Steve had sex for the first time. ![]() The story has inspired fanart, for example an illustration by cptnstag-xo-doe and another illustration by selfmadesuperhero. However, this podfic appears never to been completed.Īnother podfic by reena_jenkins was uploaded to AO3 in December 2013, and is complete. The first part was posted by twilight_imp_626 on October 31, 2012. The first podfic was podficced as a WIP as the fic was being posted. It is currently ongoing, with 17 instalments as of 2021, consisting of both completed fics and WIPs. ![]() ![]() This story became the first in a series, Tales of the Bots, also called the Botverse. That one act likely saved his life, and not always in the most obvious ways. On that day, he ceased to be his father's creation, and became a creating force in his own right. When Tony Stark was seventeen years old, he built his first AI. ![]() |