My Name is Mina

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Designing different bird feed recipes, then testing them out on your local bird population to find the most popular. Perhaps you could market your class special recipe to the rest of the school as part of a young enterprise activity?

Work on this orally first, using role-play to try out different points of view. Then challenge pupils to either write in role as Michael or Mina in support of one point of view, or to produce a balanced discussion as a newspaper article. 4 | Crossing the curriculum Investigating bird life David Almond wins Hans Christian Andersen medal". Alison Flood. The Guardian 23 March 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2012. Reconstruct the human digestion system in the classroom. Use a plastic sandwich box to represent the mouth, add some breakfast cereal, milk and toast, then mash it up with teeth (a potato masher) and add saliva (water in a labelled plastic bottle). Attach a funnel to a long balloon with the end snipped off (oesophagus) and pour your runny mixture down into the stomach (a freezer bag). a b Holmwood, Leigh (2 September 2008). "Tim Roth to don wings as Skellig". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 September 2008.

This is a story that hinges on the choices the characters make. Should Michael tell people about Skellig? Will Michael help Skellig? Can Mina be trusted? And many more opportunities for discussing the pros and cons involved.

It is from the tree, too, that Mina sees the arrival in the street of a new family, a mother, father and young son, the mother with a new baby due imminently; and those familiar with Skellig will immediately see that this family provides the link to the earlier book. In David Almond’s award-winning book Skellig, we, along with the main character Michael, slowly uncover an extraordinary secret that will change his life forever. Skellig has survived on a diet of mini beasts and rainwater. When Michael asks him what he would like, he replies ‘27 and 53’, which Michael identifies as coming from a Chinese takeaway menu. He was educated at the University of East Anglia and Newcastle Polytechnic. [5] After graduating, Almond worked as a teacher for five years; he then moved to an artists' commune in Norfolk and concentrated on his writing. [5] He returned to Newcastle and worked as a part-time special-needs teacher while editing the literary journal Panurge. [5] Career [ edit ] Chenise: Do you carry anything with you to write down any ideas you might think of while you are travelling? How do you come up with the names of your characters?My Name is Mina isn't like other books I enjoy, that have strong story lines, but I was absolutely hypnotised by it so that I almost felt I had become Mina. I'm sure anyone who loves to let their dreams take them to unknown places would love it too. My Name is Mina". Reading Time. Children's Book Council of Australia. 55 (2): 30. May 2011 . Retrieved 16 December 2016. [ dead link] Support children to experiment with these techniques in their own writing, using a different setting. It would be helpful to provide pictures of a deserted attic, or perhaps you have the perfect eerie storeroom in school to explore? Developing poetry Generally, introducing yourself is much more than saying your name. However, the basic step to introduce yourself to strangers or the general public is by stating your name. Almond was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951 and raised in neighbouring Felling. [5] His father was an office manager in an engineering factory and his mother a shorthand typist. He was raised Catholic at St Joseph's Catholic Academy and had four sisters and one brother. [6] As a child, he dreamed of becoming a writer and "wrote stories and stitched them into little books." [6] He describes his childhood as one with "much joy" but also "much sadness," losing his younger sister and father at a young age. [6]

Guardian children's fiction prize: the shortlist". Julia Eccleshare. The Guardian 30 September 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2012.The American Library Association inaugurated its annual Printz Award for young-adult books with 1999 U.S. publications. Through 2012 no one has won two. With Skellig one of three inaugural runners-up and Kit's Wilderness the winner of the second Award (dated 2001), Almond is one of two writers with one Printz Medal and one "Honor Book". [19] [20] Mina's surname contains the kanji for "reed" ( 芦 , ashi ?) and "door" ( 戸 , do ?), and her first name contains "three" ( 三 , mi ?) and "apple tree" ( 奈 , na ?). The family struggles with deciding on a name for the baby. After considering calling her Persephone, they settle on Joy. As it suited her and her appearance.

Extend this to written work by exploring the issue of home schooling versus attending school. What are the advantages? How would your pupils feel about this if they were Mina? A joyous celebration of what it means to be young and alive and enquiring… beautifully written and imaginatively presented.’ TES Denki Kaminari • Eijiro Kirishima • Fumikage Tokoyami • Hanta Sero • Izuku Midoriya • Katsuki Bakugo • Koji Koda • Kyoka Jiro • Mashirao Ojiro • Mezo Shoji • Mina Ashido • Minoru Mineta • Momo Yaoyorozu • Ochaco Uraraka • Rikido Sato • Shoto Todoroki • Tenya Ida • Toru Hagakure • Tsuyu Asui • Yuga Aoyama Some readers might discover My Name is Mina before Skellig, the story of a lonely boy called Michael and the ancient creature he finds squatting in his family's garage. Skellig himself, who might be a tramp or an angel, does not appear in Mina's story but we see the garage, the empty house it belongs to and the family who come to live there through her eyes as she keeps watch from her tree in the garden next door. Carnegie Winner 1998. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 28 February 2018.

Visiting a local park and using tally charts to survey the different birds, then develop data handling activities to produce graphs and find averages Schools: Information". David Almond. Archived from the original on 12 September 2010. Confirmed 27 November 2060. I have been an aesthetic therapist for the past 17 years. In that time I’ve had many roles, from laser therapist, to head therapist and trainer at a leading medical London spa, to the first UK national trainer for Biologique Recherche.