Read "Not Much, Just Chillin ': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers" and answer the following Text Dependent Questions:1. Summarize this excerpt in three or four sentences. (RI.7.2) Middle School is a humiliating time for most people. "Nobody is immune...".
Hannah Bailey is a senior attending Warsaw Community High School in Warsaw, Indiana. While in school she lives with her grandparents while her dad works off shore. Hannah has lived in Warsaw, Indiana since birth and she firmly beliefs that the town is conservative. Music, art, and writing is her passion. She highly believes in liberal art, and hope to become a filmmaker.
Sometimes events in your life can be difficult and frustrating but once someone of something helps you, you feel so much better. I think this book is such a moving story
I liked how the author described the development of Molly and how she adapts to the new world. The author describes Molly as a younger girl turn into a woman. Molly still has a Goth personality; she will probably not outgrow this because that is her personality. Molly has outgrown being a little shy orphan girl, to a now more powerful, less shy orphan girl. Molly’s physical appearance sells to people that she is a Goth.
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.
This is such a fantastic book for both girls and boys. It is an empowering book for young girls which depicts a female character excelling in engineering. It also has a positive message for both genders that teaches the only failure is if you give up. Rosie becomes disheartened when her helicopter crashes and wants to give up, but learns that even though her invention crashed, it DID fly and so it was a success! This would be a good book to tie into history by discussing the Rosie the Riveters in WW
A small town with a big secret. Seventeen year old Kendall Fletcher has lived on a farm in the tiny town of Cryer’s Cross since she was little. A town where everyone knows everyone. Kendall has a great life.
It 's a jaw-dropping book that will leave you wanting more as the author Laurie writes in a crisp and clear way describing the young girl Melinda’s horrific story and how it unfolds. The author 's tone gives off the vibe of a young frighted girl which I find really enhances this sad, but exhilarating story. This story taught me to always speak up for myself and to never let anyone take advantage of me. I would recommend this novel because it is extremely detailed, painting vivid pictures in your mind that really help to magnify and
This book shows how a twelve year old girl named Lucy uses makeup to help her family, who is on the edge of bankruptcy. I really enjoyed reading this book because there was a lot of emotions in it and there was a lot of drama in it which is the type of book I enjoy reading. This is the type of book that when you start reading it you just can’t stop. This is because you need to know more and it pulls you into wanting to find out the ending, which is why I read it so quickly! Reading this book really inspired me to be more environmentally friendly so that our earth will be as productive as it is now in future generations.
An autobiography and graphic novel by Robin Ha titled Almost American Girl uses dialogue and anecdotes to explore the themes of identity, racism, and the passage from childhood to adulthood. The narrative follows the main character, "Robin," as she is compelled to relocate from South Korea to the United States in the 1990s, leaving behind all feelings of comfort and familiarity. Through narration and dialogue, Ha shows how Robin's character develops and matures throughout the course of the book from her early years through her adolescence. Ultimately, this allows the author to communicate Robin’s emotional immaturity as a teenager and her progression to self-acceptance. Through the diction Robin uses to describe events, dialogue and narration
Heather Mitts once said,”Tell me I can’t, then watch me work twice as hard to prove you wrong.” The generation of youth that grew up between the years 2005-2015 can greatly relate to this quote. No one expected anything from them and they broke through their negativity and decided to change the world. This generation is the Generation of Broken Expectations and have made their stance apparent in the forms of literature, music, and even film.
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
I relate to her immensely, and watching her evolve, change, and find her happiness gave me hope for my own. She had to assess herself and her friends, and realize what she needed to do to make herself comfortable and find a place in the world. She became independent of her sister, her roommate, and her mother, and found herself and her own identity. As a young girl reading this novel, I found inspiration in this. I felt as though it gave me permission to be centered on myself for a while, in order to find
This book was definitely a representation of what some teenagers may deal with and it discussed issues present in our society, but I personally found it to be clichéd, not very well rounded, with an underdeveloped plot and frustrating characters. There were multiple grammatical mistakes and sentences that did not make sense or did not run smoothly, whilst this was partly evidence of a lack of an experienced editor, it lowered my enjoyment throughout the entire novel. Even excusing the obvious mistakes, I still found the story line to be old and repetitive. Beginning with a ‘tough’ girl, troubles at home, then meeting a boy who helps her learn and grow as a person before they part ways and go to college, all whilst dealing with her father and getting him help. The final scene in which Hayley and Finn have one more night together is very clichéd, “
Fanfiction, reading, and writing in online communities to build reading and writing skills. - Reading comprehension and writing skills can be learned in many different ways. The more you read, the more language skills you develop, allowing you to explore writing in a more experienced form. Writing and reading work alongside in developing a person’s language and communication skills, which are useful for their everyday lives. - Bahoric, K., & Swaggerty, E. (2015).
