Sentences with phrase «story of a high school student»

Based on the classic manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note tells the story of a high school student whoacquires a notebook with a special power — writing a person's name in the notebook results in that person's death!

Based on the classic manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note tells the story of a high school student who acquires a notebook with a special power — writing a person's name in the notebook results in that person's death!

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On Saturday, survivors of last month's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, met with high school students from Chicago to discuss gun violence and its effects on their communities, coming together to «share stories, ideologies, and pizza,» according to Parkland survivor and student activist Emma González.

They've gotten a lot of play in the media because mass shootings have long been a major television news topic and because high school students getting involved in political activism is a noteworthy story.

High school sports are valuable not because of newspaper stories or scholarship offers or the number of students who watch from the pool deck, but rather for what the process of playing at a competitive level teaches those who compete.

Stories of alumni adventures are inspiring for everyone: current students launching into high school, parents looking to their own younger children's future and, of course teachers.

Created by Chicago filmmakers Mike Graziano, and Ernie Park, the new documentary «Lunch Line» tells the story of six Chicago high school students who have created a prize - winning school meal for about $ 1.

Their new documentary Lunch Line (Uji Films) follows the story of six Chicago high school students who enter a cooking contest to create a healthier school lunch and end up serving their winning meal to congressional leaders and touring the White House with executive mansion chefs.

Hauntingly, on the heels of the recent mass shooting that took the lives of 17 students and adults at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., comes «Subway Story (A Shooting) now in production at the Theater for -LSB-...]

Tells the story of Cascadia High School student, Angie as she must go rescue her little sister after a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake.

The first chapter in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona RPG series released for the PlayStation 4 features an episodic story about a group of high school students in a fictionalized version of Tokyo's Shibuya district who explore the Palace, an alternate world created by the hearts of other people.

Based on an incredible true - life story — Michelle Pfeiffer stars as former U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, a first - time high school teacher assigned to a class of tough but smart inner city students...

The inspiration of the story came from an article Michael Ardnt (who wrote the film) read in a newspaper, where Arnold Schwarzenegger was quoted speaking to a group of high school students: «If there's one thing in this world I hate, it's losers.

Mr. Holland's Opus tells the story of an aspiring composer who puts his dream on hold while he helps inspire young high school music students.

Jared Hess» NAPOLEON DYNAMITE is deadpan funny in its slow - paced yet smart story of eccentric high school student Napoleon Dynamite (played by Jon Herder).

Since their formation in 2013, the activists and journalists, former high school teachers and college students who are the protagonists of this story, have lived on the run from the extremist group, ducking in and out of safe houses throughout Raqqa, Germany, and neighboring Turkey.

A clever and painfully current story, it's set in a New Jersey high school, where a group of painfully overdramatic drama students have just spent the summer studying «The Glass Menagerie.»

The high school flick features the very young faces of Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall in the story about five students who have to spend the day together in detention.

This story follows a group of high school students who try to document a tornado that is bearing down on their town.

Director Kris Swanberg's story is about a high school teacher (Smulders) who becomes pregnant and bonds with one of her students, an African - American girl with dreams of going to college and who is just - as - surprisingly knocked - up.

Based on cult magna artist Masahiko Kikuni's kinky adult comic book Gekko no Sasayaki, it's the story of two seemingly innocent high - school students who find pleasure in pain... read more

Set in the»60s, that halcyon era of political action and cultural definition evoked in Sayles» first film, this story of an ambitious Jewish high school student's affair with a dapper Italian - American petty criminal renders assimilationist concerns through the tender prism of a love story.

A new cast will be assembled for the story which follows a high school student and her best friend as they navigate the relationships, feelings and realities of being a teenage girl.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

VOEZ is a rhythm game that follows the story of 6 high school students who form a band.

Daniel Ribeiro's coming - of - age story, based on his 2010 short film, follows a blind high school student in Brazil, who is taking his first steps towards both independence and sexuality.

That's because the story is based in McFarland, Calif., a small, predominantly Mexican - American agricultural community, where many of the high school students work as pickers in the fields before and after classes.

Anime ReLIFE, which follows the story of a 27 year - old man who turned into a high school student thanks to a scientific experiment, is getting a live - action movie version.

It tells the story of two high school students hoping to clean up their hometown who run up against the corporate mindset of a local businessman.

Writer - director Hannah Fidell's debut feature, A Teacher, tells the story of a high school teacher who enters into a sordid love affair with her underage student.

Volume 1 gives us the entire first U.K. season (the third season just started running in England), with one interconnecting, ongoing story strung across nine 45 - minute episodes, each of which takes the perspective of one of a gang of friends, students at a Bristol sixth - form college (roughly equivalent of the upper grades of an American high school and the beginnings of a postsecondary education).

Editor's Note: Though the San Fernando Education Technology Team is no longer active at San Fernando High School, some of the former participants have created their own company to tell stories through media, and continue to foster the program's goals by working with San Fernando students on Saturdays to produce the iCan Film Festival.

Filmed by EL Education, «Austin's Butterfly, a true story about a Presumpscot Elementary School first - grade student who was tasked with making a scientific drawing of a tiger swallowtail butterfly, shows the impact of feedback and revision on creating high - quality work.

«I clicked it, and it was a story about a seventh - grade student who decided to launch a high - altitude weather balloon into the top of the lower reaches of our atmosphere as an after - school project.»

For middle school and high - school students, The Colors Of Freedom: Immigrant Stories (Franklin Watts), by Janet Bode, is a wonderful introduction to the American immigrant experience.

As the principal of Black Rock Continuation High School on the edge of California's Mojave Desert, Ms. V — as she's known to her 121 at - risk students — has heard countless stories of personal or familial alcohol or drug addiction, chronic truancy, and physical and sexual abuse.

New research from Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Martin West tells a nuanced and evidence - based story about grade retention, finding that — contrary to critics» fears — repeating third grade does not reduce students» chances of completing high sSchool of Education professor Martin West tells a nuanced and evidence - based story about grade retention, finding that — contrary to critics» fears — repeating third grade does not reduce students» chances of completing high schoolschool.

Develop rhythms and routines that support the sharing of stories: Prior to working with high school students, I taught elementary and middle school students in schools where each day began with morning meeting.

Though the San Fernando Education Technology Team is no longer active at San Fernando High School, some of the former participants have created their own company to tell stories through media, and continue to foster the program's goals by working with San Fernando students on Saturdays to produce the iCan Film Festival.

Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.

«Nearly all states are building high - tech student data systems to collect, categorize and crunch the endless gigabytes of attendance logs, test scores and other information collected in public schools,» reported the New York Times in a front - page story last May, confirming the scope of the trend.

Directed by Samantha Buck, Best Kept Secret tells the story of three young men living with autism, their families, and the efforts of JFK High teacher Janet Mino to help her students transition into life beyond school.

First Generation tells the story of four high school students - an inner city athlete, a small town waitress, a Samoan warrior dancer, and the daughter of migrant field workers - who set out to break the cycle of poverty and bring hope to their families and communities by pursuing a college education.

PBS tells the story of Clintondale High School, a school in Clinton Township, Mich., where students go home to watch videotaped lectures and return the next day to work in class on what would have been homSchool, a school in Clinton Township, Mich., where students go home to watch videotaped lectures and return the next day to work in class on what would have been homschool in Clinton Township, Mich., where students go home to watch videotaped lectures and return the next day to work in class on what would have been homework.

The story of Souhegan High School in New Hampshire surely describes what high schools should strive to become: oriented around creativity and questioning, designed to ensure that students are known as individuals and will be aggressively targeted for intervention if they begin to fall behHigh School in New Hampshire surely describes what high schools should strive to become: oriented around creativity and questioning, designed to ensure that students are known as individuals and will be aggressively targeted for intervention if they begin to fall behhigh schools should strive to become: oriented around creativity and questioning, designed to ensure that students are known as individuals and will be aggressively targeted for intervention if they begin to fall behind.

A story in the Feb. 13, 2008, issue of Education Week about motivating students with cash incentives misspelled the name of a student at Western High School in Baltimore.

Again and again, in my work in high school, in college, and in graduate school, I have witnessed, encouraged, and helped students find their voices and tell their stories through the process of learning to write.

There are also three lesson plans for middle and high school students that promote active learning and explore the stories of people, technology and science that have contributed to the development of modern forensic techniques.

StoryCorps, an organization whose mission is to record and archive the stories of Americans from all backgrounds, will work with high school students across the country to preserve voices and stories of grandparents and other elders — in any language.

Whole - school, headline, quantitative data only tells part of the story for students» learning needs and can only give a high - level overview of the areas that would benefit most from additional resource or support.