Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...original Toy Story had two problems. First and foremost, the animation, though incredibly detailed, still seemed--well, too shiny. Sure, the toys looked great, but the humans had plasticky visages and seemed cut and pasted from a B-grade video game. The sequel gets it right. Director John Lasseter (the hottest man in Showbiz right now) and his crew at Pixar studied countless pictures of human skin in order to perfectly recreate it--we see Al McWhiggen's pores, his nose hairs, his mild case of adult acne. In fact, Lasseter is so confident in his company's animation capabilities...
However, it is interesting to note that only 19 percent of fourth graders failed the math test. Is this because the standards are relatively easier for the fourth grade test? Or is it because they are too young to realize that they won't be held accountable for their scores...
...fourth grade, Chall argued, students normally read to learn vocabulary and content...
When I was in the ninth grade, I took a music history class especially designed for those of us who liked to listen to music but had no business playing it. Our teacher was a smart, enthusiastic 20-something with an unholy knowledge of pop music trivia and lyrics from musicals. Needless to say, we loved her. The highlight of the class was the week we watched "West Side Story" on videotape and discussed the musical's roots in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," the socially conscious message of the show and the Boston background of composer Leonard Bernstein...
Reaching back to my memories of ninth grade music history, this is what I learned about "West Side Story": it's a love story in which two teenagers, Tony and Maria, fall for each other against the backdrop of inner-city New York gang fighting. The musical's script, by Arthur Laurents, updates Shakespeare's tale of Capulets and Montagues by casting a gang of white New Yorkers against a gang of Puerto Rican immigrants...