Thursday, October 17, 2013

Reading Reasponse

        My main idea in this article that I want you know is that parents and people these days are being stupid when it comes to the kind of books their child is reading. Reason why I say "stupid when it comes to the kind of books their child is reading" is because I read these articles about book banning in my school of Middle School 51 William Alexander by favorite ELA teacher Mrs. Warren gave us some passages to read about banned books and I read one about captain underpants and I just wanted to explode, yes explode with rage and I just felt angry when I read it because in my head I was like why would they ban the most juvenile book in the world.
       While I was reading there were some craft moves in the article that I have read named glen Ellyn D14 "perks of being a wallflower" from school shelves created in may 13, 2013, the author was Quan Troug, Chicago tribune reporter the quote then states other passage  "they're young adult and we can't keep in a bubble. If they want to keep their kids in a bubble that that's fine, but they shouldn't be telling me what to do" said a parent named Ann Blyth. My response to this is that she is right I think that 11 and up should be able to read books that are appropriate for them. The craft move that was in this article was that the first page had a lot of paragraph and facts why it was banned but then when to the second page there was hardly any facts short paragraphs hardly any quotes that I can use in this summary.
         I agree with the article Glen Ellyn D14 "perks of being a wallflower"  from school shelves the person who I agree with is Ann Blyth because it is not her choice to tell the kids what books to read and what books not to read because it is their choice for what books is age appropriate for them. so in conclusion I think that the parents of these kids are over reacting and being too overprotecting to their children because they are force feeding them by saying you can't read this book because they use a curse word like fuck and other words. You just read a summary of articles that I have read and I hope I get a 90 or above.

Monday, October 7, 2013

DRAFT  
Matthew Roberts      ELA       Mrs. Warren   803 perks of being a  wallflower
 
Infinite
 
"when the music then ended I then said that "I feel infinite" Sam and Patrick then looked at me like that was like it was the greatest thing they ever heard."
 
the time when I felt infinite was when I listing to this band called smashing pumpkins and the song was ava adore the lyrics that made me feel infinite was when the main singer named Billy said that ''we must never feel alone" and that part hit me in the heart because sometimes I feel alone I just listed I felt better because I then felt like I was not the only one going through this tough time.
 
there were one  more time when I felt like when I heard this song by the same band called today by smashing pumpkins and the part that made me felt infinite was when Billy said "today is the greatest day I ever known can't wait for tomorrow" the reason why I like this part is because he had suicidal thoughts and he wrote all of his feelings into his songs, and sometimes when I get frustrated I would just play music and be calm
 
 there was this one time when I felt infinite when yesterday on September 30th when the teacher Mrs. Warren read the book "one" and it was about this blue dot and how he was being bullied by this other dot named red and while the other colors try to stand up for red he just became bigger and bigger by everyone's low self-est steam, but then there was this other letter named 1 but 1 was not afraid of red and all of the other dots became a  number and were not afraid of red and red became weaker. there was a moment when I was a 1 because one of my friends was being bullied  and when I became that one I felt infinite, like I can't be pushed around anymore.


Published
 
 
Matthew Roberts    803 Mrs. Warren     perks of being a wallflower
 
 
Infinite
 
“When the music ended I then said that “I feel infinite” Sam and Patrick then looked at me like that was the greatest thing they ever heard”
 
There were times when I felt infinite. The time when I felt that way was when my older brother let me listened to this song called Ava adore and the part that really hit my beating heart was when the singer named Billy said we must never feel alone” and in that moment I felt like the whole world just stopped and in that moment I felt like nothing bad could happen to me. The reason why I say this is because it makes me feel like I have someone right beside me who will never make me feel alone.
 
the other moment where I felt infinite was when I listening to this song by the same singer named Billy was a song called today by smashing pumpkins and the line that made me feel infinite was when he said "today is the greatest day I ever known can't wait for tomorrow" the reason why I say this is the best line in whole song because the day that I was having wasn't the best day ever but when I listened to this song it made my day and my day just apparently gotten better because of that song.
 
the last time when I felt infinite was when I was reading this book called where the sidewalk ends over the summer and that book made me realize how good this book was because when I was little all I did was look for the shortest poem or just look at the picture and laugh at it but then when I read the book it made me think of my childhood and in that moment I felt like I was 5 years old and then I felt infinite because then it made realize that this book ha some of my childhood memories.