Ms. T's Class-Book Review Blog: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks-E. Lockhart

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks-E. Lockhart

Frankie Landau-Banks has undergone some changes as she enters her sophomore year at Alabaster Prep. When she catches, and keeps, the eye of the cutest senior on campus, Matthew Livingston, Frankie refuses to just sit back and be satisfied. She learns that her boyfriend and his friends are the current members of a boys only secret society, “The Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds.” Frankie follows the society and spies on them during their secret meetings. Frankie just can’t sit back and let the loyal order follow through on lame pranks. She is Someone, not just a girl, and she can be just as good as the boys. Through her smarts, Frankie becomes a member of the Loyal Order, without the boys knowing it, and creates chaos around campus, and in her own life. Frankie is a wonderful character. She is a strong girl who survives even as she falls out of the popular spot at her school. Frankie’s voice and her word play are fun. Frankie and Matthew’s relationship is mature, and Lockhart writes about it in a way that is appropriate for Jr. High students.

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Illinois Learning Standards Middle/Junior High School

Using available technology, students produce compositions and multimedia works for specified audiences.
Students summarize and make generalizations from content and relate them to the purpose of the material.
Students respond to literary material from personal, creative and critical points of view.
Students read age-appropriate material with fluency and accuracy.
Students produce documents that convey a clear understanding and interpretation of ideas and information and display focus, organization, elaboration and coherence.
Students interpret and analyze entire narrative text using story elements, point of view and theme.
Students edit and revise for word choice, organization, consistent point of view and transitions among paragraphs using contemporary technology and formats suitable for submission and/or publication.
Students continuously check and clarify for understanding (e.g., in addition to previous skills, draw comparisons to other readings).

NETS Learning Standards

NETS Standard 1.b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
NETS Standard 2.a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
NETS Standard 2.b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
NETS Standard 5.a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
NETS Standard 5.b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
NETS Standard 6. d. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.
NETS Standard 6.a. understand and use technology systems.

Illinois Learning Standards Late Elementary

Students produce and format compositions for specified audiences using available technology.
Students edit documents for clarity, subjectivity, pronoun-antecedent agreement, adverb and adjective agreement and verb tense; proofread for spelling, capitalization and punctuation; and ensure that documents are formatted in final form for submission and/or publication.
Students establish central idea, organization, elaboration and unity in relation to purpose and audience.
Students generate and organize ideas using a variety of planning strategies (e.g., mapping, outlining, drafting).
Students write paragraphs that include a variety of sentence types; appropriate use of the eight parts of speech; and accurate spelling, capitalization and punctuation.
Students respond to literary material by making inferences, drawing conclusions and comparing it to their own experience, prior knowledge and other texts.
Students identify definitive features of literary forms (e.g., realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, narrative, nonfiction, biography, plays, electronic literary forms).
Students identify literary elements and literary techniques (e.g., characterization, use of narration, use of dialogue) in a variety of literary works.
Students explain how authors and illustrators use text and art to express their ideas (e.g., points of view, design hues, metaphor).
Students summarize and make generalizations from content and relate to purpose of material.
Students make and support inferences and form interpretations about main themes and topics.
Students continuously check and clarify for understanding (e.g., in addition to previous skills, clarify terminology, seek additional information).
Students establish purposes for reading; survey materials; ask questions; make predictions; connect, clarify and extend ideas.