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Judy Morgan is a reporter for the Westfield Gazette. She visits Lincoln Elementary School, and the secretary sends her to the principal, Mrs. Chatham. As principal, Mrs. Chatham tries to support...
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Written in 1996 by American author Andrew Clements, Frindle is a children’s novel about fifth-grader and class clown Nicholas (Nick) Allen. Mrs. Granger, sensible, serious, and famous in school...
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The answer to this question can be found in chapter 4. The Allen family has a homework policy called "Homework First." This means that Mr. and Mrs. Allen require their children to do any assigned...
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I do not think it is entirely correct to say that Mr. Allen is completely unhappy with the frindle story and situation. He is proud of Nick and is genuinely amazed that his son invented a new word....
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The answer to this question does depend on when in the story it is referring to. If the question is asking about the overall story arc and whether or not Nick's life of fame eventually slows down,...
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Chapter 9 is a good indicator to readers exactly how much the conflict between Mrs. Granger and Nick has been escalated. The principal, Mrs. Chatham, has set up a meeting, at Nick's house, with...
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Frindle is a children's novel written by Andrew Clements and illustrated by Brian Selznick. It is an award winning book, and at the widest genre definition, it is a work of fiction. Fiction is the...
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In Frindle by Andrew Clements, Mrs. Granger is the English teacher for the fifth grade at Lincoln Elementary School. Nick, the main character of the book, is one of her students. At one point, Mrs....
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Mrs. Chatham is the principal of Lincoln Elementary School. She visits the home of one of her students (the protagonist, Nick) who has been causing trouble in school. Nick has been encouraging all...
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The answer to this question can be found in chapter 8. At this point in the story, Nick, the protagonist, is engaged in what from his perspective is a "war" with one of his teachers, Mrs. Granger....
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I do not believe that this question is asking about the correct chapter. Chapter two focuses entirely on introducing readers to Mrs. Granger and her love for vocabulary and dictionaries. Nick is...
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Mrs. Granger's eyes are frequently mentioned throughout the story. Readers are first told about them in chapter two. Chapter two focuses entirely on Mrs. Granger and her reputation as a tough...
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The answer to this question can be found at the end of chapter 3. Nick finds Mrs. Granger's class relentless and somewhat tedious, and at the end of the lesson, just before she is about to set the...
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Mrs. Allen's reaction to the meeting between Mrs. Chatham (the principal of Lincoln Elementary), Nick, Mr. Allen, and herself is surprising because Mrs. Allen takes Nick's side. Mrs. Allen says...
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I think that it is because his teacher, Mrs. Granger, appears to be trying to stop her students from calling pens "frindles." It is revealed later in the book that she was only opposing it to make...
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Nick’s idea to call a pen a frindle comes about as a result of Mrs. Granger assigning him a report on the history of the dictionary. They discuss how words come to have meaning, in essence, the...
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The story Frindle by Andrew Clements details how fifth-grade class clown Nick Allen gets a new word added to the dictionary. When Nick finds a pen he decides to call it "frindle," a decision that...
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In chapter 8, Mrs. Granger introduces a new rule which says that any student "heard using the word frindle instead of the word pen will stay after school and write this sentence one hundred times:...
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Janet Fisk is Nick's friend and classmate. She first appears on page 4. Mrs. Avery blames her for the "peep" noises that Nick is making, suggesting that Janet has been a source of trouble in the...
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This is essentially a large scale attempt at etymology, the study of words and their origins. In the novel Frindle, the main character makes up a new word and is at one point charged with...
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Nick does his vocabulary homework and learns about dictionaries. He decides to give Mrs. Granger an interesting report on where words come from. Chapter 4 of Frindle is titled “Word Detective”...
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The falling action of Frindle is when Nick deals with the fall-out of having invented a new word. The resolution is the ending, when Allen and Mrs. Granger exchange letters and gifts showing they...
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The book "Frindle," by Andrew Clemens, tells the story of creative fifth-grader Nick Allen challenging his strict, traditional language arts teacher, Mrs. Granger. Nick and his classmates are bored...
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In the first half of Andrew Clements's book Frindle, Mrs. Granger actively rebels against the children's use of the made-up word frindle.Mrs. Granger's first response is to tell Nick his idea to...
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Frindle would be a completely different story if told from Mrs. Granger's point of view, as we would be getting the more "truthful" angle! In the book, fifth grader Nick Allen comes under fire from...
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Nick was famous in his elementary school for distracting his teachers and wasting class time: Nick was an expert in asking the delaying question--also known as the teacher-stopper, or the...
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Mrs. Granger assigned an oral report on dictionaries to Nick. Nick was notorious for being a skilled time-waster at school. He loved to distract his teachers to waste time and avoid classwork....
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When Judy Morgan from The Westfield Gazette wrote the the newspaper article about Nick Allen's idea to call pens "frindles," everyone was surprised. First, Nick's mom showed him the article and...
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Nick had invented the word “frindle” to test the theory that if everyone agreed on the meaning of the word, then it becomes a word. Mrs. Granger and the school fought the students in this...
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The problem in Andrew Clements' Frindle, also called the conflict, concerns the fact that Nick Allen, the protagonist, is an unusually creative person. As a creative person, Nick has a tendency to...
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At the end of Andrew Clements' Frindle, after reading the letter Mrs. Granger had written him ten years ago, Nick comes to understand the significance of a comment Mrs. Granger made ten years ago...
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Mrs. Granger is called by several different nicknames throughout the book. Usually these names have a negative connotation. Mrs. Granger is different from all the other teachers. She does things...
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The main characters in Frindle are Nick Allen, a fifth grader, and Mrs. Granger, his English teacher. Nick Allen is a clever, creative kid. In third grade, he got his brand new teacher in trouble...
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I would say the turning point, or climax, occurs when Nick seeks the help of Mrs. Granger. She knows that he is unhappy and not his usual self. His celebrity status has turned off his creativity...
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Nick Allen is an expert at asking teachers unnecessary questions in order to waste time. In fact, he is known at school for doing this. On the first day in Mrs. Granger's fifth grade class, Nick...
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Mrs. Granger says that words enter our language when people begin using them, and their meaning comes from the people. When Nick gives his report on the dictionary, he tries to distract Mrs....
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Nick asks Mrs. Granger where words come from, hoping she will talk too long to give them homework. She assigns him a report instead—to find out. Nick Allen does not like homework. Now that he...
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In chapter 5 of Andrew Clements' Frindle, Nick's first big idea is to question who decides the meanings of words. This idea gives him inspiration for his next big idea in chapter 6 and serves as...
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Three things happened on the day that Nick Allen got his big idea. The first thing happened while Nick and his friend, Janet, were walking home from school. They usually took the bus, but had...
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The fundamental problem in the story of "Frindle" is the construction of language and power. Nick is a fifth grader who develops new and innovative ways to destabilize teachers and their sense of...
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As with any piece of literature, each piece—whether a novel, play or short story—offers varying themes to the reader (or audience), and different people come away with different...
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Nick’s father puts the money in a trust fund, and when Nick turns twenty-one he gives most of it away but buys some things for himself. He also sets up a scholarship fund in Mrs. Granger’s...
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Nick compares his battle with Mrs. Granger to a game of chess. Nick has chosen to challenge Mrs. Granger's authority by inventing the word "frindle." When confronted by his teacher about the...
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The beginning of the story is mostly exposition; setting the scene and introducing the characters. It would most likely extend from Chapter 1 to Chapter 6. In these chapters, the reader learns...
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Mrs. Granger’s large dictionary has more than 450,000 words. Mrs. Granger loves words. Nick’s class is not as thrilled. She tries to inspire them to accept the magic of words by showing them...
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In the story Frindle, Judy receives a copy of the fifth grade class picture at Lincoln Elementary School. In the picture, the seven fifth grade teachers are standing at the ends of the rows of...
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When the novel begins, Nick is a discontented teen looking for ways to cause minor trouble in his Language Arts class. He finds a way by calling a pen “frindle,” never imagining how far this...
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On the first day of fifth grade in Mrs. Granger's class, Nick Allen decides to ask one of his famous slightly off topic (or at least unnecessary) questions. He usually asks these questions in...
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The class picture had to stay that way, with every kid in the fifth grade holding up a pen while saying "Frindle!" instead of "Cheese!", because the photographer was out of film. It would have been...
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Story structure has three parts: character (the “who”), plot (the “what”) and setting (the “where & when”.) Sometimes we need to make inferences (decide for ourselves based on clues...