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Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
By 12, 41% of kids surveyed said they read less than one book a week and 53% of 12- to 17-year-olds don’t like reading at all. ... Use tech to your advantage — don’t write it off as the enemy.
Chapter One: Close Reading; Prose discusses the question of whether writing can be taught. She answers the question by suggesting that although writing workshops can be helpful, the best way to learn to write is to read. Closely reading books, Prose studied word choice and sentence construction.
[5] Beryl Bainbridge, Richard Adams, Ronald Harwood, and John Bayley also spoke positively of the work, while philosopher Roger Scruton described it as a "brilliant summary of story-telling". [ 6 ] Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above.
You Don't Know Me is a coming-of-age novel by David Klass which tells the tale of a young boy who is abused and faces pressure in his school. It was first published in 2001. It was first published in 2001.
"Don't Ask Jack" - Inspired by a demonic jack-in-the-box sculpture by Lisa Snellings "The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories" - A brief reflection on a certain pool containing a trio of goldfish "Eaten (Scenes from a Moving picture)" [a] [b] "The White Road" - A narrative poem retelling some old English folktales
The novel is divided into 63 chapters, seemingly arbitrarily. A new chapter rarely offers any sort of "break" with a previous one; in most cases a thought which was being discussed at the conclusion of the previous chapter continues uninterrupted in the next; chapter breaks are thus used no differently from paragraph breaks.
The novel is divided into four books, each starting earlier and ending later than the previous book. Catullus' poems and the closing section by Suetonius are the only documents in the book that are not imagined; however, many of the events are historical, such as Cleopatra's visit to Rome.