Introduction Hook: Don’t just dream, do. Is a word that means don’t just think about it, do it. Bridge: This reminds me of the stories because they do want to do something but they just think about it. This is the common theme of the story's bad boy and I was a skinny tomboy. Thesis: In the texts Bad boy by Walter Dean Myers and I was a skinny tomboy kid by Alma Luz Villanueva both authors develop the theme of through \ and childhood challenges In the first text, Bad Boy, the message is that the boy felt scared because In the second text, I was a skinny tomboy. The message is that Be who you are. Body Paragraph 1: Conflict (Refer to your chart!) The authors develop the common theme of childhood challenges through conflict in both texts. In the story “Bad Boy”, the main character’s conflict is They want to act the opposite. This conflict connects to the theme of childhood challenges because they had some challenges when they were kids. In the poem “I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid”, the main character’s conflict is connected to the theme because the main character wants to do things that are not for ‘girls’ This conflict also connects to the theme of childhood challenges because She had to face many childhood challenges. The conflicts in both texts are opposing …show more content…
In the story “Bad Boy”, the main character Walter feels scared for people to find out that he likes books because people in hims town say that books are not for boys. The way he feels connects to the theme childhood challenges because he had a challenge when he was a kid. In the poem “I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid”, the main character thinks that being a girl is useless thats why she wants to be more like a boy and not like her mom. The way she feels about childhood challenges connects to the theme because she had to face challenges Both Walter and tomboy feel different from other