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Literature circles were first implemented in 1982 by Karen Smith, an elementary school teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. Handed a box of odd-and-end novels by a fellow teacher, Karen took them and promptly forgot about them. Later that year, some of her fifth grade students expressed an interest in reading them, organized themselves loosely into ...
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It was featured on the New York Times 1988 Notable Books of the Year list. [9] The novel has become a commonly assigned reading in high school literature classes since its publication.
Textbook. A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions. Schoolbooks are textbooks and other books used in schools.
English language young adult fiction and children's literature in general have historically shown a lack of books with a main character who is a person of color, LGBT, or disabled. In the UK 90% of the best-selling YA titles from 2006 to 2016 featured white, able-bodied, cis-gendered, and heterosexual main characters. [113]
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May 1, 1985. Enid and her boyfriend George are involved in a plane accident; Enid's injury - paralysis from the waist down - halts George from breaking up with her. Meanwhile, Jessica and Lila take a cooking course, mainly to drool over the scrumptious French chef. Ghostwritten by Amy Boesky.
The first class graduated in June 1842. Through much of the school's history, there were two graduating classes per year, in January and June. But in some years, including all years after 1965, there was only one graduating class, in June. The following list details the correspondence between class number and graduation date.