Sentences with phrase «school boy wrote»

It seemed as though a middle school boy wrote the script.

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Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

I taught middle school art and I was written up in my permanent record because a nasty little boy took a postage size stamp picture containing a nude by a famous artist (2 dots represented the breasts so it was not graphic by any means) and added nasty things to it.

In high school I wrote terrible poetry about boys.

For Rick Perry, «life revolved around school, church and — for most boys — the Boy Scouts,» he wrote in his 2008 book, «On My Honor.»

We are treated to lengthyquotations from primary sources including eyewitness descriptions of the family home, unfinished stories Chesterton wrote as a very young child, a diary Chesterton kept as a boy and school report cards, right through to accounts of his wedding day and letters he wrote to his wife.

When I came across this «Steps To Becoming A Douchebag» guide via Jezebel written in 2010 by a Connecticut high school boy, I was incredibly disturbed by the way he spoke of girls and how they should be treated and attracted.

Yes, and whoever wrote the boy's response for him seemed to overlook the fact that citing Laura Bush would raise some interesting issues, because in this same Iowa speech, Christie told folks «I think that this intervention into our school system is just another example of how the Obamas believe that they've got a better answer for everything than you do,» according to the CBS article you cite.

The NFHS writes playing rules for 16 sports for boys and girls at the high school level.

The boy, Benjamin, was asked by his elementary school teacher to write a poem using sentences that began with «I am.»

Intramural is a sports comedy written by Jackson in his sophomore year of college about a boy named Caleb (played by Jake Lacey) who is a fifth year college senior in denial about life after school.

... on realizing he liked telling stories after writing a play to cope with a tragedy in which a boy on his high - school basketball team was shot and killed.

And yet, despite the casual swipes at characterization in a sprawling cast (the black girl who belts out gospel like Bessie Smith, the Asian boy desperately in search of cool), School of Rock isn't a terrible film, just one that could have been written and directed by anyone.

Zack Snyder writes and directs (and metaphorically masturbates) Sucker Punch, an almost wholly visual assault on the senses that seems to have been cobbled together from a think tank of middle - school - aged boys.

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Lady Bird, which Gerwig wrote and with which she makes her directorial debut, centers on high school senior Christine McPherson, self - nicknamed Lady Bird, as she navigates Catholic school boys, college applications and mother - daughter drama in circa 2003 Sacramento.

AT SCHOOL: Ask youth to participate in a series of quiet reflective writing exercises about what is it like (or, for boys, what they think it must be like) to be a girl.

Coleman joined the team and would later write that the «boys who counted in the school were the first - string varsity football players.»

Writing in the Independent School Parent magazine, Cairns predicted the gradual demise of single sex schools, referencing the fact that there are now a third fewer all girls schools and half as many boys» schools compared to 20 years ago.

* Change curricula: Schools should adopt more male - friendly language arts programs to encourage boys to read and write.

At the time, Coleman was writing to introduce a pioneering book on the subject, Girls and Boys in School: Together or Separate?

I wrote a short piece about a Middle Eastern boy joining a British School and decided to make it into a Year 6 SATS sample paper.

According to UIS data, 15 million girls of primary school age will never get the chance to learn to read or write in primary school compared to about 10 million boys.

Whether or not girls in single - sex schools are more likely to pursue science degrees or political careers, whether or not boys in single - sex schools are more likely to write poetry or pay attention in class, single - sex schools can allow educators to address the particular interests, strengths, learning styles, and developmental stages of a single sex while allowing boys and girls to concentrate on something other than the opposite sex — at least for a few brief hours each day.

Written at about a fourth - grade level, the book tells the story of a boy who decides to solve the mystery of photosynthesis for a school science project.

First, «the most important predictor of boys» achievement is the extent to which the school culture expects and rewards academic effort,» they write.

The American high school, once an austere brick building serving a few hundred children, mostly white boys, who studied reading, writing, and arithmetic, has grown into a sprawling mall complex for thousands of boys and girls, of various ethnic groups, offering something — from algebra to band and basketball — for everyone.

- High School English Teacher In The Sixth Sense, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, a troubled and isolated 9 - year - old boy is able to see and talk to dead people.

Other private faith schools written to by the DfE were Islamic schools Tayyibah Girls» School in Stamford Hill, Olive Tree School in Lewisham, Al - Furqan Community College for Boys in Birmingham, and Date Valley School in Surrey, Jewish schools Beis Soroh Schneirer and Beth Jacob Grammar School, both in Hendon, and Luton Pentecostal Church Christian Academy.

This reminded me of the research I wrote about in April 2014 that said boys disproportionately benefitted from early college high school programs.

I'm writing as the mother of two highly gifted boys and as a gifted certified teacher working in a middle school gifted program.

«One in four boys now starts secondary school without being able to read or write at the expected level.»

In The Atlantic, Amanda Ripley wrote the much - discussed feature article, «Why Are Middle Eastern Girls Crushing Boys in School?

Peg Tyre is a journalist and author who wrote the New York Times bestselling book The Trouble With Boys and the critically acclaimed book The Good School.

«For more than 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America, along with schools, youth sports and other youth organizations, have ultimately deferred to the information on an individual's birth certificate to determine eligibility for our single - gender programs,» the organization writes.

Ford wrote for LA School Report two years ago this week about her search for good schools for her sons: «Like so many young African - American boys, they were quickly labeled with alleged «learning disabilities» when they starting committing normal, minor infractions in class.

Ridgeway Elementary School Columbia, Missouri Ben Tilley, Principal The Ridgeway Boys Writing Project, developed in partnership with the University of Missouri Art Education Department, employed art and visual thinking strategies to help close the gap between boys» and the girls» basic literacy assessment scoBoys Writing Project, developed in partnership with the University of Missouri Art Education Department, employed art and visual thinking strategies to help close the gap between boys» and the girls» basic literacy assessment scoboys» and the girls» basic literacy assessment scores.

Tilley crafted his arts - literacy solution after thoroughly examining his school's data, looking specifically at boys» reading and writing achievement scores.

«Three out of four black boys in California schools don't meet reading and writing standards, according to data obtained by CALmatters from the state Department of Education.

We wished to raise the standards in writing, especially amongst boys; raise the attainment of white British children and ensure that all children throughout the school received high quality PE.

The Boys School featured on Colorado Public Radio — Reading, Writing, and Wriggling: New All - Boys School In Denver Would Blend Academics And Athletics

Hopkinson's lively writing turns this historical event into a dramatic tale, beginning with a young boy's first experience with injustice when he is nearly expelled from a Virginia school for hanging a portrait of Abraham Lincoln in the classroom...

It's a tall order in this day and age to write a book about a young boy in magic school without being held to the Harry Potter standard, but that's exactly what Black and Clare attempt in their first collaboration (and Clare's first middle - grade offering).

My own school was called Abbey Road Juniors; a squat little building on the council estate, with a bumpy playground built on a slant and two entrance gates with boys and girls written above them in sooty stone.

He was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey and then read English and Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury, followed by a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia.

When I read The Persian Boy and The King Must Die as a school girl, I was immediately hooked on the idea of writing about the ancient world myself.

When I was in elementary school, playing games on the Nintendo Entertainment System and dreaming about getting a Game Boy Color for Christmas, two video game characters in particular helped me visualize a space for girls like me in the medium I would grow to love and write about.

Mike Fox writes about a classic question faced by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a case brought by two female employees of a New Mexico Boys» School:

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In a recent article for the #JustJustice project, Darren Parker, a Ngunawal man and Phd candidate at Melbourne Law School, wrote about experiencing racism and violence within his family as a young boy.