{"id":998,"date":"2010-06-08T20:18:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T00:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=998"},"modified":"2011-05-04T22:26:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T02:26:05","slug":"it-begins-in-fourth-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/08\/it-begins-in-fourth-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"It Begins in Fourth Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book that I read aloud to my students every year is the gorgeously-told, cleverly-spun, deeply-thought-provoking <em>Tuck Everlasting<\/em> by Natalie Babbitt. And then I show the movie and we have a compare &amp; contrast discussion.<\/p>\n<p>One big difference between the book and the movie is that, in the former, the main character Winnie Foster is eleven. She has a little bit of a crush on Jesse Tuck and there&#8217;s the <em>possibility<\/em> of a future romance.<\/p>\n<p>For the movie, they punched up the romance angle, of course, and to do that, they had to make Winnie fifteen. Last week, when my students saw the hand-holding and <em>ACK!<\/em> the kiss, they all groaned and giggled and covered their eyes. In one scene, the young couple went swimming in a river. As Winnie unlaced her dress, I could feel the eyebrows in the room raise. She pulled it off to reveal a slip that might as well have been another dress&#8212;that&#8217;s how big and thick and fluffy it was.<\/p>\n<p>And from somewhere amidst the group of boys on the carpet arose a disappointed, &#8220;Awww.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure it was <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=989\">Cody<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book that I read aloud to my students every year is the gorgeously-told, cleverly-spun, deeply-thought-provoking Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. And then I show the movie and we have a compare &amp; contrast discussion. One big difference between the book and the movie is that, in the former, the main character Winnie Foster is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/08\/it-begins-in-fourth-grade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It Begins in Fourth Grade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}