Just One Day Chapter Summary

Just One Day starts off with the main character, Allyson, waiting outside of a theatre with her tour group and her best friend, Melanie. Her friend thinks that they should ditch the play and see something different, so she pretends to be faint and manages to get them out of the play. They see a Shakespeare in the Park play, where Allyson sees a mysterious guy in the play. The chapter ends with Allyson heading back to the hotel room. Right away at the beginning of the book, I could tell that Melanie is more of the boss in the friendship. I knew that because I have a friend that does the same thing.

It seems like Allyson is really interested by this guy from the play. It seems weird to me that she is completely mesmerized by this
Her counselor brings her down to see why Allyson is struggling, and suggests that she changes her classes around so that she is actually interested in her curriculum. Her counselor tells her that she doesn’t always have to please her parents. Allyson ends up taking a class on Shakespeare because she was thinking about Willem. I think that the changes Allyson makes in this chapter should turn her life around for the better. She decides to stop solely trying to please her parents and to take classes that she will actually be interested in. Taking the Shakespeare class might not be the smartest move since she met Willem at a Shakespearean play, but I think that she’ll be okay.

Allyson starts her new classes, and she goes to attend her class Shakespeare Out Loud. It’s very different than all of the other classes that she has gone to, and it interests her. She also meets her a guy named Dee, who ends up becoming best friends with Allyson. They become reading partners in the class. I like how Allyson’s class is very different from a typical classroom setting. The teacher believes that Shakespeare is not meant to be just read in a classroom, but to actually be acted out. If I were Allyson, I would be interested in those kinds of