A boy named Jenson who is in middle school. Jenson is bullied for his size, but doesn’t realize it. Eventually the lightbulb goes off and it clicks in his mind that he is being bullied, and it’s by some of his friends too.
The Journey:
Primary Colors
Pictures go from color to all black. The pictures are hands and it looks like the hands are going to take them away.
A war is going on in her village. Her dad dies, and her family friend gets them to escape. They bring a lot of stuff, but things get left behind. “The further we go the more that gets left behind.”
The guard takes up half the. Page, and makes the mom and daughter look tiny compared to him.
The pictures have a lot of detail with very little color.
Primary Colors
Pictures go from color to all black. The pictures are hands and it looks like the hands are going to take them away.
A war is going on in her village. Her dad dies, and her family friend gets them to escape. They bring a lot of stuff, but things get left behind. “The further we go the more that gets left behind.”
The guard takes up half the. Page, and makes the mom and daughter look tiny compared to him.
The pictures have a lot of detail with very little color.
The pictures have bright colors.
Everyone looks happy
So many poetic elements
Music is a big part of their culture
Only boys can play drums, but the girl loved to play drums so when she would dream she would imagine her playing the drums.
Based on a true story of a Cuban girl who broke Cuban tradition to drum and started in an all girl dance band.
Everyone looks happy
So many poetic elements
Music is a big part of their culture
Only boys can play drums, but the girl loved to play drums so when she would dream she would imagine her playing the drums.
Based on a true story of a Cuban girl who broke Cuban tradition to drum and started in an all girl dance band.
Willa is a type of human called a Faeran. In her clan for is the thief. She steals from the day-folk or humans, because her leader told her that they don’t need that stuff, so she has been stealing from the humans. Willa also believes that the humans are the cause for the trees dying and being torn down. She is the best thief, because she knows what will happen if she gets caught. Her parents and sister got caught and have died, so now Willa lives with her grandmother, who may not be physically strong, but is mentally strong. Willa and her clan live in the smokey mountains, and are surrounded by nature. Nature is a big part of their clan, but Willa does not fully see it that way. She is mostly a 12 year old girl who does what she believes she has to do for her clan. One night Willa breaks into someone’s house which ends in her getting hurt. Even though she is hurt, she is actually saved by a human named Nathaniel. Nathaniel believes that the loggers who are taking his land have also stole his family. However, both Willa and Nathaniel learn that it is actually the leader of the Faeran people that has been stealing the human children. An unlikely friendship happens when Willa and Nathaniel team up to get his family back. Willa slowly gains her strength from her grandmother and learns to love the nature again like the old days of the clan. This book has to deal a lot with community. Both Willa and Nathaniel find themselves without a community and have only each other. .
A boy named Castle Cranshaw whose dad is in prison for trying to shoot Castle. Mom works hard to make a better life for her son. Kid is bullied because he is poor. But then he gets on the track team, but he doesn’t have nice running shoes compared to the other kids on the team and struggle with that. He goes and steals running shoes, and of course gets caught. Then the coach tells Castle that he grew up a similar life. Of course and makes friends and wins the race.
My teacher read Ghost at the beginning of the semester, and the teacher brings it back all the time by relating it to other books or stories we are reading.
My teacher read Ghost at the beginning of the semester, and the teacher brings it back all the time by relating it to other books or stories we are reading.
Has dates and summary of Supreme Court rulings like Brown vs. Board of Education
Has timeline of the peoples movements through the south and what they are doing. So one thing they are doing is with the Jim Crow law they still have whites only restroom and blacks only restroom, but the black people went into the whites only bathroom and sat in the whites only part of a diner, and the whites did the same thing in the blacks only section.
Has timeline of the peoples movements through the south and what they are doing. So one thing they are doing is with the Jim Crow law they still have whites only restroom and blacks only restroom, but the black people went into the whites only bathroom and sat in the whites only part of a diner, and the whites did the same thing in the blacks only section.
3 era in history that have to do with war. Nazi Germany, Hunger in Cuba from , and war in Syria.
The German boy Josef wants to go to the Cuba.
The girl from Cuba Isabella is trying to go to America.
The boy from Syria is trying to go to Germany.
Each character is trying to escape from a life in fear to a life where they will live safely, but their journey along the way includes a lot of struggle.
The German boy Josef wants to go to the Cuba.
The girl from Cuba Isabella is trying to go to America.
The boy from Syria is trying to go to Germany.
Each character is trying to escape from a life in fear to a life where they will live safely, but their journey along the way includes a lot of struggle.
Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today by Cynthia Levinson
* This book is a break up of the U.S. constitution. It starts with the preamble and how it came to be.
* White representative upset because many black people were being lynched by white men with no justification, or repercussions. Democrats in southern states denounced the bill because they wanted to handle the crimes themselves as a state. Later people tried to get more bills passed because Mexican-Americans were also being lynched. To this day there is no law against lynching in the U.S. but in 2005 the senate apologized for the lynching that happened in history..
* Leezia Dhalla came to America from Canada when she was 6 years old. After applying for a job as a journalist and trying to get a work visa, she was soon to be deported and found out her family lied about their documentation for many years. The DREAM act was her only hope to stay and work in America, but it was not passed due to people in the senate. People in the senate were afraid that the bill would give amnesty to criminals.
* People are upset with the constitution and how hard it is to change laws and bills, but when the constitution was written, they couldn't have foreseen what America looks like today.
Informational, historical
* It’s perfect for middle schoolers because in 5th grade they are more introduced to U.S. history
* When they talked about changing the Constitution I thought about the people who made it could not have even thought about the problems we have in the world today.
* White representative upset because many black people were being lynched by white men with no justification, or repercussions. Democrats in southern states denounced the bill because they wanted to handle the crimes themselves as a state. Later people tried to get more bills passed because Mexican-Americans were also being lynched. To this day there is no law against lynching in the U.S. but in 2005 the senate apologized for the lynching that happened in history..
* Leezia Dhalla came to America from Canada when she was 6 years old. After applying for a job as a journalist and trying to get a work visa, she was soon to be deported and found out her family lied about their documentation for many years. The DREAM act was her only hope to stay and work in America, but it was not passed due to people in the senate. People in the senate were afraid that the bill would give amnesty to criminals.
* People are upset with the constitution and how hard it is to change laws and bills, but when the constitution was written, they couldn't have foreseen what America looks like today.
Informational, historical
* It’s perfect for middle schoolers because in 5th grade they are more introduced to U.S. history
* When they talked about changing the Constitution I thought about the people who made it could not have even thought about the problems we have in the world today.