DON'T YOU KNOW THERE'S A WAR ON? (INTERMEDIATE).By Avi. HarperCollins, 2001; 200 pages; $15.89 (3-7). Home front. Brooklyn, N.Y Monday, March 22, 1943. Our wisecracking narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. , Howie Crispers, 11, breaks his shoelace and pretty soon he's late for school. He sees his school principal on a street corner and follows him, climbing down a coal chute, hauling himself up a dumbwaiter, and overhearing some terrible news. His dilly dil·ly n. pl. dil·lies Slang One that is remarkable or extraordinary, as in size or quality: had a dilly of a fight. of a teacher, the perfect Miss Rolanda Gossim, is about to get fired. Maybe it's none of his beeswax beeswax: see wax. beeswax Commercially useful wax secreted by worker honeybees to make the cell walls of the honeycomb. A bee consumes an estimated 6–10 lbs (3–4. , but who else can come to his teacher's rescue? Pages of wonderfully funny, idiomatic dialogues between Howie and best friend, Denny, cry out to be read aloud by pairs of kids. ACTIVITY: Have students keep a running list of unfamiliar slang, which they can translate into modern kid lingo. Pull in WWII WWII abbr. World War II WWII World War Two nonfiction for facts and photos. |
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