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Record W4253573454 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2006.0864

The Braid (review)

2006· article· en· W4253573454 on OpenAlex
Deborah Stevenson

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Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicScottish History and National Identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBraidMathematicsMaterials scienceComposite material

Abstract

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Reviewed by: The Braid Deborah Stevenson Frost, Helen The Braid. Foster/Farrar, 200695p ISBN 0-374-30962-0$16.00 R Gr. 6-10 When the mid-nineteenth-century Highland Clearances force a Scottish family out of their island home, oldest sister Sarah slips away to join her grandmother on a smaller nearby island rather than cross the Atlantic, while the rest of the family departs for Canada, hoping to find family and a living in Cape Breton. The terrible crossing takes the lives of Sarah's father and two of the younger children, leaving only Mother, fourteen-year-old Jeannie, and the baby William to face the privations when they arrive to discover Cape Breton struck by scarcity. Back in Scotland, Sarah falls in love with Murdo Campbell, but he's forcibly shipped off to Canada before they can marry, leaving her pregnant and unsure of her future. The braid of the title refers to the interwoven hair of Sarah and Jeannie, a piece of which each sister holds and treasures. That braid is explored further in the poetic structure of this verse novel, which creates its own innovative verse form: Sarah and Jeannie alternate narration, in unrhymed lines syllabically based on the speaker's age; each poem subtly relates to the verses around it through shared opening and closing words, while praise poems between the girls' accounts also interweave. Though complicated to describe, the forms are unobtrusive in the reading, quietly underpinning the narrative poems; Frost is a master at making language fit unforced into meter, so the narrative poems read easily, with a prosy spontaneity but a pulsing rhythm underneath (the more abstract brief praise poems will likely be skipped by readers looking for story rather than lyricism). Between its broken-token variant and melodramatic elements, the story tilts toward the sentimental, but that's helpful in creating a compelling story that will see poetry-shy readers through; they'll also be intrigued by the parallel lives of the two sisters and the results of their different life paths. Notes explain the poetic form and a bit about island life, language, and history. Copyright © 2006 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.281
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.189 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it