A book starting with a story, a story about a seven-year-old girl named Keri playing with her best friend Janna on a zip line in her backyard when she prepared herself to break her arm. Fast-forward eight years to events that Keri in no way could have prepared herself for, her older brother's unexpected suicide. After losing contact with Janna for many years, Janna makes a sudden reappearance with an idea, what if Keri’s brother was murdered? For this paper I will be predicting, evaluating and questioning.…
Hi, my name is ...........and I am here to tell you about a fantastic book named heat by Mike Lupica. This book is great for any student, teacher, anyone who plays baseball and more. This book is about a kid named Michael who stops a robber named ramon by throwing a baseball at the back of his head when he runs across the baseball field Michael was playing on. The cop that handcuffed Ramon is telling Michael what a good arm he has and should find a baseball team to play for. He finds a little lead team called the Clippers that his friend Manny plays for. Him and many were practicing baseball when this girl showed up when Michael looked at her she ran away. Michael has his first baseball game he only pitched one inning he struck out everyone he pitched to and they win. A few days later Michael, Michael’s brother Carlos, Michael’s dad, and Mrs. C who is a neighbor in there apartment building are talking and watching the TV but out of no where Michael’s dad has a heart attack and he dies. The next day Manny and Michael are practicing and again the girl shows up but this time she does not run away. They find out her name is Ellie Garcia they find out she is a good pitcher to. The cop that handcuffed Ramon’s friend wants to honor Michael for stopping ramon and wants to take picture with him and his parents or legal…
The tittle of the book is Fade by Lisa McMann. The main character is Janie. Janie is in her senior year and is going out with a boy named Cable. Cable is one of the main characters as well. The main problem in the story is that there is a sexual predator at Fieldridge High. Captain needs a volunteer to scope out the sexual predator. The job could be risky because nobody in Fieldridge High is talking. The problem in the book causes Janie to make decision. The decision affects many characters in the book and there are many reasonable arguments against and for the decision made.…
I am reading “Deadline” by Chris Crutcher and I am on page 200 this book is about a kid. name ben. Ben goes to the doctor for his cross country phyical and he find out he has a blood disase and only has a year to live.he goes out for football and has a really good season and makes a game winning touchdown. He goes to homcoming with the cutiest and smartest girl in his school. He has to do a project in a class and if he doesnt he would be failed but he does not care cuase it doesnt matter he is going to die. He doesnt tell anyone about his disase but when he is always tried and doesnt go to school he does. He endes up dying but makes a big impact on his town.…
Summary & Theme: The book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about an incoming freshman named Melinda Sordino. She’s riding the bus to school but she doesn’t have any friends to sit with. While she’s looking over the crowd of kids on the bus she spots her ex best friend, Rachel, but even she mouths “I hate you.” After Melinda attends her first few classes she already hates high school. When she gets to Art class she is assigned a subject that she must turn into art for the rest of the year. Melinda receives the word “Tree” and doesn’t understand how to make that creative. She asked to switch but her teacher wouldn’t let her. Later on, she meets a girl named Heather in one of her classes, although they are completely different people, they start to hang out. Heather really wants to become popular and would like Melinda to help her. She couldn’t care less about popularity but continues to nod and agree with Heather. A couple weeks later, she discovers an old janitor closet that no one uses; she decides to make this her hideaway. She decorates it to her liking and sits in it when she needs some space. Due to Heather’s plot for popularity, Melinda finds herself caught up in helping her impress “The Marthas”, a clique Heather wants to become a part of. Soon enough, Heather tells Melinda that they can’t be friends anymore because they are too different and that she is really weird and depressed. For the first time, she actually wants to be friends with Heather; for Heather is the closest she has to a friend. Melinda starts to skip school more and more and her grades slip. Her parents are angry and disappointed, so they have a meeting with the principal. They try to get her to speak up about why she is acting out but she just stays silent. Her punishment is in school suspension; Andy Evans is there with her. All the memories from an incident in summer…
Charlie witnesses a boy hit his sister a few days before he accidentally walks in on them having sex. One-day Charlies AP English teacher Bill and him get into a discussion about family issues and he tells Bill about the incident with his sister and her boyfriend, and Bill calls and tells his parents. Charlie’s dad went to the boy’s house and warns him to stay away from his daughter and he also talk to the boy’s parents about it. After that Charlie’s sister tells Charlie that she hates him. Charlie decides to attend the high school football game, something he used to do with Michael when he was still alive.…
My Ishmael is a novel written by Daniel Quinn. The book starts with Julie Gerchak, a twelve year old girl who wants a new life. It’s 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia where she believes our world has gotten to its worst because of what has happened to her . Her mom is dysfunctional and an alcoholic. Her dad isn't there with her and she has gotten used to living on her own. One day, Julie coincidentally notices an ad in the paper in search for pupils with “an earnest desire to save the world.”…
Bridget is off to soccer camp where she develops a thing for one of the coaches named Eric. She tells him that she has a mind of recklessness because of her mothers suicide. Even though coaches cant be with students Bridget still goes after Eric. The two eventually end up together for one night. When Bridget gets home all the girls try to cheer her up because…
The movie starts out and it is just less than 2.5 hours before the Annual Purge begins where all crime will be legal for 12 hours. People are briefly discussing what they plan to do on the Purge. One of the waitresses goes home to her father Rico and teenage daughter Cali. Cali is watching a video online of a man named Carmelo. Carmelo plans to rally followers against the founding fathers and their wicked acts the poverty stricken population. Rico hates the Purge and wants to hear nothing about it for the night. He leaves, and Cali asks Eva if her boss gave her a raise. She tells her daughter that it's not in the cards at the moment.…
The play, The Crucible, is about a group of girls that go dancing in the forest with a black slave named Tituba. While dancing, they are caught by the local minister, Reverend Parris. One of the girls, Parris’s daughter Betty, falls into a coma-like state. People gather in the Parris home while rumors of witchcraft fill the town. With the fear of being accused of witchcraft, the girls start accusing others of bewitching them. Abigail Williams…
After the opium war, foreign country intruded China. China lost the sovereignty over the nation. At that time, there were some secret organizations along Shandong, Hebei and Henan, which formed the Boxer Rebellion later. Boxer rebellion was an anti-imperialism uprising, in connection with foreign people and people who believed in God. It took place in Shandong at the end of Qing dynasty. It started at the north of the country and spread over the entire country. Boxers were resentful about the poor conditions of living and the anabasis of other nation. The slogan of the boxers was “support Qing government, exterminate the foreigners”,…
This book is a biography about a young girl who lives in poverty. Her name is Jeannette Walls she takes the reader through her life in the book. My mother has read the book before me and highly recommended it for this project. She explained the plot and I was very interested. I read the it and was very happy with the book.…
Melinda is a freshman in high school, with no friends. The past summer, she called the cops on a party. At least that's what everyone heard. The book is called Speak. She goes through a lot inside the book.…
Rebecca Nurse though she was not the main character she dealt a very big part within the play.…
Many events led the American Colonies to join together and fight for independence from Britain. It wasn’t economic disparity and it wasn't that the king was a belligerent leader. The British found out that they were not willing to pay England back for taking care of their own colonies in the New World. Geographical distance between England and the New World played a great deal into the problems that they were having. It took days and months just to send or even receive a message, they didn't have computers this wasn't the 21st century. The American Revolution was practically our first major war, by definition. The American Revolution evolved from beginning to end, between 1765 and 1783 in which the thirteen colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy. They defeated the rule of Great Britain and founded the United States of America.…