Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Freedom Writers
This book is sort of different from others, its a collection of diaries between former students that attended the low-perfoming school, Wilson High School, in Long Beach, California. The teacher, Erin Gruwell was a first year English teacher and she was stuck with the worst of the worst student that attended Wilson. They were freshmans in Highschool that were reading at third grade levels and also didn't couldn't care less about the cirrculum that was forced upon them. These students had no respect their teacher and they the kids thought she was another teacher that they could run out the door in a month or two, however she was different. Once the students began to see that their English teacher really did want to help them, they began to open to her and actaully enjoyed coming to her classs, many even confessed that this was their favorite class and if it wasn't for that class they probably wouldn't even bother going to school.
Monday, October 20, 2014
Drama High: The Fight #2
Things are only getting worse as Jade starts school, the people two people that she was once so close to is no longer around. In fact, there is rumors going around that her former bestfriend Misty now wants to fight her. She really has no one to talk to at this point, although she does have some people that she commuincate with a little, its nothing like having that one person that you could go to for anything. But she won't let that stop her from her over-achieving way in school. She's always been an A student, something that her grandmother taught her and something she's also very proud of.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Drama High: The Fight
The main character Jayd, is a very believable teenager that is going through a rough time in her high school career. She goes to a predominately white school in a wealthy part of Los Angelos, California. After going through a bad break up with her ex boyfriend Kj, she not at all excited about starting her Junior year.
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