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    of Diana’s twenty fifth graders with whom I had the opportunity of doing a 16 - week study. She performed very well academically and was one of the brightest students in the class. Under the guidance of Diana, she and other students read The Phantom Tollbooth ( Juster, 1961) novel and produced a TV talk show performance from a chapter of the novel. With her lack of interest and belief in reading, I was surprised to see how good Heaven was when closely reading the chapter with her partner, Maya, and

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    1. Ms. Johnson request reflected the Understanding level. Explain ideas or concepts. Ms. Johnson wanted to see if the student had a clear understanding of “The Phantom Tollbooth”. Examples: classify, describe, discuss, explain, and identify. 2. Ms. Johnson kept Nicole in from recess to allow Nicole to finish her work/reading. She moved Nicole’s desk around the classroom to try to discourage Nicole from getting off task. 3. Students should know if they don’t do his or her work there would be a price

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    In the book, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Milo, the main character, embarked on a journey with two others to rescue the two princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Milo changed a great deal throughout the book. In the beginning of the book, Milo was very ungrateful and was very unhappy. At the end of the book, Milo is a completely different person. Milo has learned to appreciate everything and is much happier. Milo changed at many points in the book, and I will be listing three of them. One place

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    Lesson That Help Me

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    The Lesson That Helped Me More Than Anything A character in Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth was taught a something that they didn’t was valuable at the time, but later in life found that it was something that helped him. As we grow up we question a lot of the things that we are taught, like how is it going to help us in the future. For me it was treating others the way you want to be treated. To me I thought that we should treat others the way they treat us. My family tried to show me that

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    Phantom Tollbooth Response Movie: The universal theme is to appreciate all the time you have. Milo would waste his time making decisions in the movie. Milo was always bored so he did not pay attention to how much he missed out while he was wasting time being bored. Whenever Milo would talk about killing time Tock would teach him how to appreciate all the time you have because you never get that moment or time back. In the movie where it said no time for prison he realizes that there are

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    sometimes, but always.” Have you ever been in a magical world with demons and large humbugs and watch dogs? Probably not. But for Milo, everything is a bore. He wants to be somewhere else when he’s there and there when he’s somewhere else. In the Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Milo encounters countless adventures in a wierd world, and along the way he changes quite a bit. To begin with, Milo changes right on page 17, When he notices the beautiful road and scenery around him, and he actually thinks

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    kingdoms letters and numbers. Come and join me to this exciting journey where will meet new and old perplexing characters from Milo’s bedroom to a castle in the air. In the “Phantom Tollbooth”, which is a play and a movie, there are many similarities and differences that can be explored. The play and the movie of “Phantom Tollbooth” are similar in many ways. First of all, in both play and the movie the settings or wherever Milo goes, are the same. They both

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    book The Phantom Tollbooth Milo changed what he does and the way he feels multiple times. “There once was a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself-not just sometimes, but always” pg. 9 At the beginning of the story he never knew what to do and what he wanted to do so he was spiritless and wished he was somewhere else. But as he moved on in the story he changed and was no longer bored and enjoyed everything he did. The first time he changed was when he used the Tollbooth and had driven

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    Milo Tock Analysis

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    Milo, Tock, the Humbug. These are all people from the phantom tollbooth by Norton Juster. And Milo the main character just doesn't know what to do with himself. For this essay I will explain three events or places that milo changed his attitude. Changed his attitude from frowning to smiling to not knowing what to do with his life to finding a mysterious package in his house and finding a tollbooth and going in lead him to a odd land where the question was what is more important words or numbers

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    The Phantom Toollbooth

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    This book report is about “The Phantom Tollbooth.” I think personally that this book was amazing, even though if you asked me before I read this book I would have said I won't like it because I like animal books better. Though I didn't want to admit but my parents say I am a lot like Milo, because I am bored when I don't have my game or phone or tv so I guess I kinda relate with him. Even though my case is not as serious as Milo's but I do think this book has helped me like it did Milo. As I

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