After few hours reading, “The Sanctuary of School” was written by Lynda Barry, grew up in an interracial neighborhood in Seattle, Washington State. Then, I think this article was interesting to read. I love the way how she told us her past experience by using her own voice to lead us step by step get into her story, then she also shares us about her feeling and how it impacted to her future life. Plus, at the end, she argues that the government should not be cutting the school programs and art related activities. Those programs definitely do help the students and the parents as well.
My book is Middle School, How I survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake hill. The Author is James Patterson. James Patterson has previously been awarded the best Children's Book of the Year Award in 2010. He is also the author of many other bestselling book series. The story takes place in summer camp in the woods called camp Wannamora.
In the book Diary Of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, Greg is playing video games when his mother comes in to say that they have to go to church. Greg wanted to refuse, but had no option but to go. In the car, Greg accidentally sits in a spot of his little brothers chocolate stain. While getting out of the car, his brother Rodrick tells him that he has a chocolate stain. Greg asks if he could stay in the car while waiting for them but his mother refused and told him it was rather losing the game or coming inside.
Many people underestimate the struggle and change of maturing and growing up. It can feel different and be almost like an out-of-body experience. S.E. Hinton does an exceptional job at capturing what growing up and developing is like in The Outsiders. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year-old that is part of the Greaser gang, is undergoing a time of development in the story, and one can really see the difficulty that Ponyboy has to endure during that process. Although Ponyboy has to go through this process, he changes significantly, and becomes different in the way he acts and lives.
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The article “Teens Who Fought Against Hitler” By: Lauren Tarshis is a story about a boy Ben Kamm and his family and the challenges they faced during the holocaust. This story is about a family that is jewish and the family faced the rising politician Hitler and he offered jewish people as a scapegoat. Also Hitler was the embodiment of Germany, and the birth of anti semitism. This is where germany takes one of the darkest turns for the worst the holocaust. Challenges were Hitler’s influence went across Europe because of this the people that were not jewish were turned on by their neighbors.
What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind? By Alison Gopnik is an informative article about how puberty affects the teenage mind. Throughout this entire essay Gopnik creates coherence from correlating ideas and using multiple transition words. The unity of the essay helps it flow smoothly and gives the reader a clear idea of what they’re reading about. She especially shows this coherence in one of the first paragraphs on page six.
I read the realistic fiction book Diary of a Wimpy kid Old School by Jeff Kinney. It has 230 pages in it. According a review on goodreads.com “it was a fun book.” I recommend this book to anybody who likes this type i also think this is for any age groups. The protagonist in the book is a boy named Greg.
Sydney always felt as though she was living in her brother’s shadow, but when her brother starts spiralling out of control and ends up in jail for a drunk driving accident after paralyzing a young boy, she falls deeper into the shadow, and struggles to find any closure regarding the accident. Sydney gets sick of the constant sympathy and/or scrutiny of all the people at her prep school and decides that transferring to the public high school in her community would be best, to hopefully help her forget about the accident her brother has caused. She starts off the new year at the school, and realizes that forgetting about the accident is going to be a lot harder than she thought. David Ibarra, the boy her brother paralyzed, is constantly in the
Joshua Halberstam, an ethics professor at a New York University, wrote a book titled Acing College, in the book he gives readers a view on how to be successful in college. The book contained an article “Class in the Classroom”. Halberstam, uses this article to show that actual classroom attendance does matter, their behavior can impact their grades. He starts off by telling a story of a student that had poor attendance in a class of his appeared in his office asking for an extension on his midterm. From there Halberstam goes into detail on four different sections; does attendance really count, what’s the best place to sit in the classroom, does class participation really matter, and the do's and don'ts of classroom behavior.
In the book Middle School: Dog’s Best Friend, I have sympathy for Jamie Grimm, the story’s main character/protagonist, for the major disability he has. Jamie is crippled from a car accident from when he was younger. While in the rehabilitation center, Jamie grew a vast sense of humor and many of the other residents at the rehabilitation center enjoyed. Jamie is hilarious and unpredictable. One time he is seen joking about the government, then next thing he is joking about his disabilities.
Junior High Crushes “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. ”-EE Cummings (Brainyquote.com). Junior High is the starting place of actual crushes. In elementary you would “like” someone because they were funny and cute.
The average kid has someone they look up too. They want to be older so they can do whatever they want. Then when they are all grown up they want to be a kid again. They realise how they have wasted their life focusing on the future. When something bad happens they wish to be the age they are not and when someone is young they wish to be older and/or younger.
Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire was a story that was very different than I imagined it to be. I thought it was just going to be Cinderella but tell it from a different point of view. However, Maguire totally twisted the plot line and ruined the characters through his telling of the story. One of the most difficult parts of the story to read was the first part, The Obscure Child was about 60 pages long, but can be summarized in about a page. There were a few important plot events and a surface level amount of character development but for the most part it was just pages upon pages of unnecessary, ridiculous details that end up having little to none significance to the story.
