Smile

Product Information

Smile was published as a graphic novel with eight chapters by the Graphix imprint of Scholastic Inc. in 2010. [2] Stephanie Yue did the color for the novel version of Smile. [1] Summary [ edit ] Character list [ edit ]

a b c d e f g h Wildsmith, Snow. “Interview: Raina Telgemeier.” Good Comics for Kids, School Library Journal, June 2010, goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2010/06/13/interview-raina-telgemeier/. Editors' Choice: Recent Books of Particular Interest". The New York Times. May 23, 2010 . Retrieved February 15, 2013. Sarah Ruhl’s Smile is a memoir. She’s a playwright, actress, essayist and memoirist. This is her story. I really liked her writing; it’s personal, informative and honest. She was having her second child when she found out they were twins; a boy and a girl. And because of complications she was on bed rest and they were born early and had some serious healthy problems the first few weeks of their lives; as did she. She got Bell’s palsy in her face and had other health issues . She had the type of Bells Palsey where the left side of her face was frozen and she couldn’t smile. We experience each other and judge emotions and feeling through one’s face. With a frozen smile it makes “one seem cold, joyless and non-caring.” She found it hard to communicate to others as a mother and working with actors on emotions as they work a scene. She found that without a smile people saw her as cold and distant. This is a book about dealing with difficult health issues, living with her face when the frozen doesn’t thaw, being a mom of young kids, a wife, a daughter and having an active career. And I’m so glad I read it.

Impact on teaching and learning

The SMILE approach to learning has created a climate of trust where learners are confident to take risks without the fear of failure and are valued for their efforts. Pupils appreciate that valuable learning often results from making mistakes. Smile” is a young adult graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier. The story takes place in the sixth grade and follows a girl named Raina, who has an overbite that requires braces. When she falls while running after her friends, she breaks two teeth on her upper jaw. Her mother takes her to Dr. Golden for emergency surgery to fix them so they won’t fall out of her mouth completely. Notable Children's Books". Association for Library Service to Children, American Library Association. 18 January 2012 . Retrieved 2013-02-17. When playwright Sarah Ruhl gave birth to twins after a difficult pregnancy, something happened and she developed Bells Palsy, a condition that forever changes her self-perception and the way she feels comfortable confronting the world. This memoir discusses that journey. What sets it apart from similar stories is her curiosity and engagement with the wider world. She has a successful career in the arts and must work diligently to keep producing art while taking care of babies and her own health. And so she asks what does a smile mean, anyway? Why must a woman be expected to smile in every circumstance? Will her babies be alienated from a mother who can't beam down at them with a loving face? And beyond sociology, Ruhl must also navigate a complicated medical system that doesn't know how to go about treating her. Both sorrow and a nod to the absurdist situation this condition has brought to her are here in the story. And it might be a sort of path for others in similar circumstances to follow. This memoir is excellent and recommended. The impact of Smile can be seen in the way that it has been incorporated into other works. [22] In 2014, Mark Tatulli wrote Smile into his daily comic strip Heart of the City, as heroine Heart Lamarr discovers the graphic novel on a trip to the library with her mother. [22] Awards [ edit ]

Each SMILE medium-term planning book moves with the cohort of learners, exemplifying their learning journey through the school. The investment of time in medium-term planning enables staff to focus on skills development in short-term planning time. This is evident in the classroom, where lessons focus on skills development and teachers are seen as facilitators of learning. Impact on teaching and learning These goals have been developed alongside the introduction of SMILE books, based on our SMILE five-a-day culture: I've never had to face the condition you did as you learned to live with Bell's Palsy, and work your way through your life with an odd ?disability? feature, condition. . . .but I'm grateful to have read through this book and had my eyes opened to life with this . . .condition. And you know you are not “supposed to” want to look at her face with Bell’s Palsy, but sure, you are also human, you want to see Sarah’s face, of course, and she knows this, so this review below shows some of her smiles, but as with any memoir about a medical condition, Ruhl also shares with us the sometimes painful, sometimes amusing process of her attempts to smile again (physical therapy has done the most good for her of all solutions):

In all honesty it was a hard book to read at times. Hard to Face your face and the ways Bell’s palsy or a facial injury has impacted your life. The pain that comes when people turn away from you because we see people as their face. And with bells palsey and facial injuries there is lots of that. Often people don’t know they do so. There is a shaming there.

Thanks to Simon and Schuster and Netgalley for an early copy of this work. It’s easily one of my favorite books of the year! Beautifully-written memoir that really captures what it's like to have a chronic medical condition (in which ones "wins" are slowly measured out in the course of years instead of weeks or days.) I really appreciated the use of photography to outline examples in the book. Smile is funny, sweet, endearing, deeply researched at every turn, about having twins and parenting three babies under the age of five, about postpartum depression, about celiac’s disease, about family, about her husband, children, the death of her father at the young age of 52, about how to sustain the writing life in all of this. I think that list makes the book seem unremarkable, but what makes the book shine is the quality of the writing, the humor (some people, including doctors, say--and do--the most ridiculous things!), and the warmth amid keen insights about living life with any kind of challenge.

What is a “SMILE book”?

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