Frindle Summary and Plot Diagram Storyboard
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Frindle By Andrew Clements
Lesson Plans by Heidi Deck
After an attempt to waste time and provoke his new language arts teacher, Nick Allen gets assigned a report on the history of the dictionary. This research sparks an idea to invent a new word: “frindle”. What was once an innocent idea spreads like wildfire until the word no longer belongs to Nick, and there’s no way for him to stop it.
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Frindle Summary & Plot Diagram | Have students create a plot summary of Frindle by Andrew Clements!
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- Beginning
- Mrs. Granger, you have so many dictionaries in the room, where did all those words come from?
- Beginning
- Frindle? What's a frindle?
- You'll find out!
- Nick Allen stalls for time on his first day in Mrs. Granger’s class and is assigned an oral report on the history of the dictionary.
- Middle
- Anyone who is heard using the word "frindle" instead of the word "pen" will stay after school and write this sentence one hundred times: I am writing this punishment with a pen. - Mrs. Granger
- After completing his research, Nick has an idea: why not make up a word?
- Middle
- The word "frindle" begins to spread throughout the school.
- I forgot my frindle!
- The frindle story becomes a national sensation.
- So tell me, Nick, why did you make up this new word, "frindle"?
- End
- Nicholas, you didn't do anything wrong this year. Your idea was a good idea, and I have been very proud of the way you behaved - most of the time.
- End
- Dear Nicholas, If you are reading this letter, it means that the word "frindle" has been added to the dictionary. Congratulations.
- Nick changes, but Mrs. Granger encourages him to keep dreaming up ideas.
- Ten years later, frindle is in the dictionary and Nick receives a letter from Mrs. Granger.
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