A Summary OfFrindle By Andrew Clements

Chapter 3 "Critical Thinking and Argument" of Andrea A. Lunsford's book Easy Writer, covers how to critically understand and make an educated argument. Lunsford first explains how to critically read and analyze the meaning or purpose of a text. Lunsford gives the reader a method to do this which includes previewing the text, taking notes, writing a summary of the text and the making an analysis of the work. Next Lunsford explains how to identify different types of appeals in a texts argument. These appeals include emotional, ethical and logical appeals. Emotional appeals center around personal values and human emotions. Ethical appeals deal with personal morals and the goodwill of humans. Logical appeals are based solely on facts and research.

In Joseph Harris’s chapter “Revising” which was originally published in his book, Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts in 2006, Harris emphasizes the importance of the revising process, how to revise and improve effectively, and informs us about the fact that revising is overlooked and rushed by writers today. He shares tips on how to effectively revise and demonstrates using excerpts within his chapters.

This article is pretty neat for the simple fact that I never thought of a pencil in this aspect before. The pencil has had a profound effect in our society and civilization as a whole. The main points that the author is trying to make is that only boys and girls who can read and write uses the pencil, the pencil is taken for granted, and that the pencil can teach anyone a lesson if he or she wants to learn.

Victor Rios starts of the book by giving a brief background of his own life and what he experienced as a child in the ghettos of Oakland, California and the events that caused him to turn from his old way of life. During the span of Victor Rios’ juvenile years he decide to join and become a gang member Rios states “I joined the gang seeking protection that I thought police and other authority figures in the community had failed to provide”(Rios ix) Rios’ quote is the most commonly known reason why youth in urban areas seek out membership in gangs which is a lack of protection and involvement from police and authoritative figures in bettering these communities. Along with his membership he partook in deviant acts and so on. Rios talks about this boy he knew that went by the name “smiley” that would hang around the gang a lot. Before “Smiley” was initiated to the gang Rios notes how Smiley would tell him stories of how teachers would treat him punitively meaning that they were aiming to punish him based on his prior actions and his color. Rios mentioned “Smiley” as being a naïve boy, he suffered physical abuse from his parents along with that his parents often kicked him out as a punishment for questioning them and informing them about the negative ways his teachers went about treating him. Soon after “Smiley” was initiated into the gang, Rios states that they became best friends and had a sense of looking

Preface to the new edition: After Henry Hazlitt wrote the first edition of Econ in One Lesson in 1946, a revised edition came out with a new chapter that Hazlitt found important. This added chapter was about rent control. Hazlitt felt that these lessons were important because they would be applicable for the years to come, until the reprint in 1979.

Plot summary: Nick Allen is a troublemaker. He likes to live up to things at school and always had plenty of great ideas. It looks like Nick’s days of shenanigans are over, thanks to his no-nonsense teacher, Ms. Granger. That is when Nick starts to learn how words are created. This inspires his greatest plan yet: invent a new word. From now on a pen is no longer a pen, it is a Frindle. Suddenly, Nick’s new word frindle starts spreading around his school now his new word frindle got taken away from him.

In The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is about a shocking statistic. That more African American men are in correctional facilities or on probation than were enslaved in the mid 1800s before the Civil war started. She offers her perspective on the mass incarceration of African American men in the US. Taking shots at all she holds responsible for the issues. She explores the social and systematic influence of racial stereotypes and policies that support incarceration of minorities. She explains that minorities are discriminated against legally for their whole  lives. By being denied employment, housing, education, and public benefits. Unable to overcome said obstacles most will

On page 83 Philip say “ she really hates me. Philip thinks that the only reason he got suspended was since she has it out for him. On page 73 ” Something between you and Miss Narwin Philip only hummed since Miss Narwin giving him an awful grade. On page 60” Philip leaven this room instantly”Philip has really annoyed her to a point of breaking she was yelling at him over how he was talking back to her. 212 Philip says “I don't know the words” When Philip says I don’t know the words you know that he was only doing it for the reason of the teacher.

Human trafficking,the illegal practice of trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation, is a crime that affects the most vulnerable citizens of society. After drugs, it the largest criminal activity globally! The victims must be the primary concern for all law enforcement units. Human trafficking in the world can be diminished and possibly erased through teachings, government intervention, and awareness.

In Outliers, Gladwell attempts to answer, What makes some people successful while others cannot seem to realize their full potential? In U.S. society, people are considered successful when they have traits and characteristics: self-sacrifice, intelligence, talent. However, He says that the conditions and circumstances surrounding our lives are the significant influential factors that determine our success, not our inner ability or talent. These talents and abilities allow these people to be separate from society.

Generally there are two types of people in the world, the virtuous or the opposite, malicious. Malicious people tend to be evil and awful. Someone evil is harmful and marked with anger or irritability. Evil people are more prone to avoid friendships due to their selfishness. Evil or awful people tend to be self-centered and liars. They may cause harm physically as well as mentally. A virtuous or great person is someone who tends to be high moraled and replyable. This kind of person tends to have a lot of friends or be popular. John Knowles’s book, A Separate Piece, expresses these types of people. A Separate Piece is a flashback of an older boy returning to his school, Devon. The older boy’s name was Gene Forrester. He discussed his most memorable and awful moments. The author revealed Gene’s personality by how he treated his friends. Gene was academically inclined. He worked really hard to maintain his good grades. Finny, Gene’s friend and roommate, is the total opposite. Unlike Gene, Finny was an athlete and didn’t have to work hard for his skills. It came to him naturally. Finny was a good person, on the other hand, Gene was an evil person.

- At school the kids had to sit up straight and used to use ink to write. Also if a kid did

For weeks 1-3, George was given 18 third-grade spelling words. His average score for weeks 1 to 3 was a 70%. At this time, George’s teacher altered his the instructional design and lowered the number of spelling words per week.

The things we do as children are often irresponsible and reckless. Yet we do them for fun, and because others are watching, judging, and expecting us to fulfill our 'friendly,' peer-pressure driven responsibilities. There are times, however, when these things lead to something bad, something unexpected. During such times, it is difficult to get over what once was, and to go on with life, especially if the said occurrence is a tragedy, which often times, it may be. Such an event happened in the story "Samuel" by Grace Paley, where a boy died because of his and his friends' reckless behavior, but also because of the actions of the individuals surrounding these boys. This paper will thus analyze the story, in order to determine who was responsible, in this case, for the tragedy that occurs in the story.

Jill Nelson Per:2 10/5/17 Poetry Analysis To an Empty Page by Robert Pack is an echo poem that accentuates darkness through the subconscious mind of the author. The second voice, or the echo voice in the poem dictates what the first voice will say next, displaying internal conflicts in oneself that is prevalent through the whole poem. The echo in the poem only responds to the first voice with powerful one-word commands which determines the next question the first voice is going to ask next.