Four classic books are Virginia Hamilton's The Planet of Junior Brown (1971) in which group of homeless boys survive against the odds, Slakes Limbo (1974) by Felice Holman in which Aremis Slake tries to escape his problems by going underground in the New York subway, Scorpions (1988) by Walter Dean Myers in which Jamal must decide whether to join his brother's gang, and Asphalt Angels by Ineke
Holtwijk (1999) in which Alex joins a group of street children in Rio de Janeiro. These are examples of:
a. urban survival stories that many young adults enjoy.
b. mountain-climbing survival stories where the protagonist must make remarkable accomplishments.
c. stories originally thought to be general survival classics that have been consistently been subjected to censorship efforts.
d. terrorists, assassins, kidnappers, and threats of revenge.
a
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a. direct b. composite c. rule d. advanced
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a. overall satisfaction with one's gender category. b. the belief that one must avoid the other gender's behaviors. c. the extent to which a child feels "I am a girl" or "I am a boy." d. the way in which teachers segregate children on the basis of gender.
The final stage of Tomlinson's method involves keeping a notebook entry for each theme, character, or concept and writing a brief summary of key details.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
All of the following skills are associated with adaptive behavior EXCEPT ________
A) conceptual B) social C) practical adaptive skills D) emotional intelligence skills