Frindle

In Andrew Clements’ 1998 children’s book, Frindle, Nick Allen, a troublemaking fifth-grader, spent a great deal of effort changing the word pen to the word frindle, exasperating his teacher and gaining national notoriety for his invented word, which, in the story, stuck and was introduced into the English dictionary. In Clements’ book, he questions who it is that decides that words mean what words mean. His teacher, Mrs. Granger, responds, “You do, Nicholas. You and I and everyone in this class

“Frindle” by Andrew Clements illustrated by Brian Selznick Nick Allen is a child full of ideas who decides to replace the word “pen” with the word “frindle” after his teacher has told him that words are formed by the people making them, therefore he must try it out for himself and gets six of his friends to commit to using the word “frindle” instead of pen. Nick and his friends made a big show about using the new word every time they needed to say pen, however Mrs. Granger, the fifth grade, language

it was announced the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award. Frindle is written in Nicholas Allen’s point of view, the kid who turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird. This books main characters are Nick Allen, the main character, an inventive fifth grader at Lincoln Elementary School and Mrs. Granger, Nick’s nemesis, and the fifth-grade language arts teacher. Frindle takes place in a relatively modern town. Much of the

After reading “Frindle”and “Diary of a Wimpy kid” 정치외교학과 2700099 신민수 two books’s similarities and differences these books’s similarity, most of all, is principal character who attends elementary school. And then, these noveles’s flows is stories happening at the school. But “Frindle” organizes a set of stories from elementary students to an adult. In other words. This book contents typical novel’s charateristic with a well organized

Theme: The theme of the book Frindle written by Andrew Clements is about the effect of making up a new word and how it can affect everyone. 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

After reading “Frindle”and “Diary of a Wimpy kid” 정치외교학과 2700099 신민수 two book’s similarities and differences these books’ similarity, most of all, is a principal character who attends elementary school. And then, these novels’ flows is stories happening at the school. While “Frindle” organizes a set of stories from elementary students to an adult, In other words, This book contents typical characteristics with a well organized passage

For my interest interview I interviewed a boy who is nine years old and in the fourth grade. I interviewed him at my old baby sitters house where he now goes. It was hard to get allot out of him because he was a little shy. I first asked him what his hobbies and interest where he said dancing and basketball. He told me he plays for a league in Kansas City and dances at a dance studio called Dynamic Dance. I asked him what he liked to do in his free time and his answer was to make people laugh, and

the first week or so, and see what it feels like to be viewed as an individual. After some investigation, he realizes that the school only has records for one of them. This slim story has all the elements readers have come to expect from Clements (Frindle): a school setting, likable secondary characters, supportive adults and a challenge

There are many heroes I like and admire. They include people in history and people of today. They all have similar characteristics to mine. They also have many things they did to inspire me. They also struggled through some similar challenges I went through or they went through similar success as me. My favorite hero is Andrew Clements. Here is some information on his life. Andrew Clements is a good quality author. He earned his Masters of Arts in Teaching at the National Louis University. The grades

Production Plan: The student will first need to read the book, Grandfather Tang’s Story. He will need to question the importance of tanagrams to the plot of the story. In addition, he will need to understand how the tanagrams can change the flow of the story and question himself as to how he can change the storyline by a tanagram creation of his own. Data/Research Needed: Beau will be responsible for creating his own set of seven tanagram pieces needed for the assignment or choose from the math