Not exact matches
My sixth and
seventh graders sat intrigued as I
told them that although poetry slams gained fame in Chicago in the 1980s, they really originated in ancient Greek times.
No one likes to
tell a
seventh -
grader that she's reading at a third - grade level, but without that knowledge, she won't be engaged to try harder with the right instructional support.
«We need your help,» she later
told the school's sixth - and
seventh -
graders.
Most of the novel is
told from the point of view of Bridge Barsamian, a
seventh -
grader who asks herself every day why she's alive.
«My teacher
told me to pick out a book,» the
seventh grader standing at my library reference desk complains.