Lincoln Elementary School Book Talk

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Opening:
"At Lincoln Elementary school, there were three types of kids, the really bad kids, the really good kids, and the really smart kids. Nick Allen wasn't any of them, because he was a kind of his own, and everyone knew it. Was Nick a troublemaker?" We'll leave that for you to decide. "One thing's for sure: Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them. Lincoln Elementary needed a good jolt once in a while, and Nick was just the guy to deliver it.”

Summary:
In the third grade, Nick turned his classroom into a tropical island with the help of his classmates. Each student made a palm tree and placed it on their desk, wore flowers in their hair, sunglasses, and sun hats and spread white sand on the floor. Later, …show more content…

Granger. Students swore that she had x-ray vision. If you were chewing gum within a 50-foot radius of her, you knew you were caught, which led to lots of repercussions. Some students stood taller than her, yet she was still a giant compared to them. It was her eyes that did it, if she turned them on full power she could turn you into a speck of dust. Nick had a sick feeling about having Mrs. Granger a week before school started when she sent home a letter to his parents telling them that they had to buy him a dictionary so that the students can acquire an expanded vocabulary. His mother thought it was very nice to have a teacher that cared, but Nick knew Mrs. Grangers battle cry: “Look it up! That’s why we have the dictionary!” The time had come. For thirty-seven minutes, straight she packed the class full of work, things like pre-tests, review of cursive writing, expected formatting for their work and so on. Nick felt the need to do something, waste time. A few minutes before the bell rang Nick posed a question that he just knew would hold out the rest of class so she couldn’t finish. He was wrong. Instead she wrapped him up, assigned him extra homework and assigned the whole class an assignment, including Nick. Nick knew that everything he had heard about Mrs. Granger was true- don’t mess around with the Lone Granger. This of course was his first of many attempts to ruffle her feathers! Read on to see what havoc Nick

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