Frindle Summary & Plot Diagram | Have students create a plot summary of Frindle by Andrew Clements!
Storyboard Tekst
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.