Academy for Young Writers SBO Schedule Proposal 2012-2013 School Year SBO: School-Based Option (Article 8B) An SBO is the process whereby the Principal and the UFT Chapter Leader agree to propose to the UFT represented school staff deviations from certain requirements of the various UFT contracts‚ such as staffing‚ class size‚ rotation‚ etc. In order pass a vote‚ the proposal must be approved by fifty-five percent (55%) of the staff who vote and the SBO must specify which provisions of the contract
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Dear John; Book vs. Movie Author Nicholas Sparks added to his list of best sellers with the novel Dear John. Dear John is a love story‚ love stories make big money in movie form‚ so the novels are popular to make into a movie. Books and movies are two forms of entertainment that are closely related and we overlook the differences among them. There are many similarities between the two‚ but there are also major differences. If one has never read a novel and then watched the movie version of
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movies. We often watch more than one movie on this special night. Last year‚ we decided to watch Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief‚ and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters. My siblings and I had read and loved the books‚ written by Rick Riordan‚ so we thought‚ “How bad could it be? It would be amazing to see these incredible stories onscreen!” We were wrong. Every member of my family who had read the books agreed that this movie destroyed the intent of the original
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Why is it that when a book gets it’s own movie that there are several differences between the book and the movie? Some people argue that the book is always better than the movie. There is a reason for this. Firstly‚ in most book to movie adaptations small details are changed or are just not included. Secondly‚ the movie often takes short cuts and doesn’t touch on certain aspects that were described in the book. Lastly‚ when reading a book you are free to make your own subtext and fill in the blanks
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Gone Baby Gone – Neglect Child neglect is the failure to provide a child with basic needs. Child neglect is a form of maltreatment that is usually done to children by their parents or caregivers. “Child neglect is a term used most often to encompass parents’ or caretakers’ failure to provide basic physical health care‚ supervision‚ nutrition‚ personal hygiene‚ emotional nurturing‚ education‚ or safe housing” (Miller-Perrin‚ & Perrin‚ 2007). The issue with this definition is determining how much
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in the book the Odysseus by Homer there are many different and similar details in the book and in the movie. There were many differences because well in the movie directors like to Make the movie seem less not like the book‚ since the book has more information. Well in my Essay I will be explains how there are similarities and differences and why the director created The Movie on how it is. Well the the three similarities I found that we’re alike in which the movie and the book are
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The Alfred Hitchcock movie‚ The Birds‚ was said to be based on the DuMaurier story by the same name. Both versions included birds going wild and attacking humans. They also included some of the same things‚ for example‚ in the movie and the book‚ they boarded up the doors and windows to repel the attack‚ and someone is found dead at a farm with their eyes pecked out. However‚ the similarities are not as numerous as the differences. There are many contrasts between the story and the film‚ particularly
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Compare/Contrast: The Lorax Movie is better than book The movie of the Lorax show the picture of the environment clearly‚ the motion of people in the scene‚ but in the book it only show less picture because the book only described or write about what you see in the movie. In the movie of the Lorax the picture and video of the time the once- ler was making money‚ the time he called for celebration and the little boy who he gave the one last truffula seed are being showed in the movie but in the
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reading The Hound of the Baskervilles and watching the movie‚ I noticed many similarities and differences between the two. Writing this compare and contrast essay made me understand the story far more than I did with just reading the book. Here are some differences and some similarities I found while reading and watching The Hound of the Baskervilles. Many people probably noticed differences in the character’s behavior between the movie and book but I found many more similarities. In both‚ Sherlock
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The story The Nutcracker has many different versions of the story. There are books‚ movies‚ and ballets. The original book was made in 1816 by ETA Hoffmann‚ and was called The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. There are many different rewrites of the book. The book is during Christmas‚ and Clara got a nutcracker‚ and it was magical Christmas. In brief‚ there are many different adaptations of the story The Nutcracker. Despite the various version of the story the plot stay the same. The plot has the
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