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Arnold Adoff (July 16, 1935, in Bronx, New York – May 7, 2021, in Yellow Springs, Ohio) was an American children's writer. In 1988, the National Council of Teachers of English gave Adoff the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. He has said, "I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words.
“Kids and teens don’t have the wisdom of parents or grandparents,” she explains. “Validate feelings first and listen so kids, and especially teens, can express and feel their emotions. It ...
25. "500 kids left school that day because I was there." 26. “We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.” 27. “I would dream that this coffin had wings, and it would fly around my bed at ...
Hudis Shilsky aka Mameh: Ruth's mother. Despite being crippled on the left side of her body, she still managed to be a loyal wife and good mother. Fishel Shilsky aka Tateh: Ruth's father. Tateh was a terrible husband who also happened to be a rabbi, who would get into bed with his daughters. He even mocked his wife in public for being a cripple.
She never cried. She didn't whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we're all very very proud of her." [11] U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school in 1960. As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers except for one refused to teach while a black child was ...
"Kids need to go through their own process of separation from parents and acclimation to college," says Stephanie Manes, LCSW, a therapist in private practice in New York City and adjunct ...
Some of the poems—'Equinox' is one of them—come from then". [4] In "For Each Of You" Lorde reinforced the idea of being proud and speaking your mind, especially for the Black community. She tells people to "be proud of who you are and who you will be", and "speak proudly to your children wherever you may find them". [4]
Patriotic quotes “It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the man whose people have been here many generations.” — Henry Cabot Lodge