Bell: Second Bell
Date: 9/16/13
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Total Pages Read:220
Fire from The Rock
The book Fire From The Rock by Sharon M. Draper is a historical fiction
that is a must have to read it keep you engaged to keep reading the book in the story
there’s a girl name Sylvia Patterson that’s looks forward to high school the new
changes to her life, Sylvia was one of the first African American that integration
that got pick to go to Central High School whether whites like it or not , Sylvia
knew that going to this school would have big changes to her in her family life. the
smoldering racial town ignites into a huge mess.
Sylvia Faye was a African American girl that live in Little
Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Sylvia Patterson is fifteen-years old. She attended
a local school called Horace Mann High School /Sylvia was a good girl did
nothing bad to nobody she was a wonderful in caring student, one day in
class Ms.Ethel Washington , told the class that the integration would take place
this year in there city in there school is making a list of good kids with great
wonderful graders that students will want to go to Central High School , Central
High School was a school full of white kids that did not want blacks to go to school
with the next up coming school year. would be separated from lifelong friends
including a new boyfriend, excluded from social activities at school, and worse,
subjected to threats and, possibly, violence. Sylvia is torn between wanted to bring
about change and wanting to remain safe and happy in the life she has always
Sylvia has a older brother name Gray, Gray have been acting up lately since
he have not been pick to go to Central, Gray thinks he should have got pick instead
of his little sister Sylvia. Sylvia in Reggie have been going out for sometime, ever
since Sylvia has been going out with Reggie, Reggie have been