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The Adventures of Genius Boy and Grammar Girl
The Adventures of Genius Boy and Grammar Girl Author:Tim Mathews The Adventures of Genius Boy and Grammar Girl is a textbook that presents difficult, dry, but very necessary subject matter-grammar and punctuation-in a way designed to capture the interest of today's youth. Interweaving off-beat comedy, drama, and adventure, the pages have been lavishly illustrated by renowned animation director Yvette Kapl... more »an (King of the Hill, Arthur, Doug, Happily Never After, etc.).
The project incorporates ideas contributed by talented students in order to provide a "by kids, for kids" approach that would resonate with their peers. Judging from classroom road tests, the book has achieved great success with both middle school and remedial high school students. Each chapter of the textbook consists a story section and a grammar section. The story section presents colorful, humorous, and crazy situations involving Grammar Girl and Genius Boy fighting evildoers called "Anti-Grammarians" who would seek to destroy proper grammar.
Each chapter is followed by a grammar section which begins with the heading "Grammar Girl Says." For the story section, the teacher assigns each student a character and has the class read the dialogue aloud in a dramatic context. For the grammar section, the character Grammar Girl leads the students through lessons and exercises, giving the impression that a classmate, rather than a teacher, is at the helm.« less