nonfiction reading response

    The article " Surviving High School " by Tom Junod from the Atlanta magazine is about the different effects of bullying. The article focuses on two boys named Eric Stone and Curt Hersey. It portrays how bullying effected these two boys in different ways.

    Both Eric and Curt got bullied in middle school because they were overweight and didn't play in any sports. When they went to high school they were determined to get rid of their "geek" and "no-account" reputation in middle school, they wanted to redefine themselves. So by the time they went to high school they lost weight and grew tall and grew their hair long.However, they would also they enrolled in drugs like pot,acid,coke and would drink liquor. However, this caused meant that one would survive high school and the other wouldn't.

  Curt joined the Walton's drama club in school and starred in plays. He competed in the Academic Bowl and produced his own videos. He also had a pretty girlfriend and he drove a red camaro Z28. He didn't drink, use drugs or condone in casual sex. He eventually graduated from Walton high school and enrolled in Berry College. However, Eric was not like that. He smoked pot at age 13 he flunked grade 10 and dropped out of high school. Eric's parents kicked him out of their home so he had to live in the woods or break into churches and sleep on the pews. However, when  he went to a party he encountered an old girlfriend that told him that "he was dying" so the next morning he talked to his mother, they had breakfast and asked for help.he went to a hospital and now works at Mc Donalds. They both had similar beginnings but different endings.

My ELA trip reflection

   For the ELA trip we went to the Museum of the City of New York. This museum was interesting because it didn't focus on one topic. For example, the first thing we did in the museum was look at the pictures. These pictures were interesting because it involved a technique called stitching. Stitching is when a photographer takes a variety of pictures at different sets of time and when the person is done he or she will get all the pictures and turn it into one picture.

 Lastly, on the trip the museum had a room about social activism. The room had different types of social activism like segregation and gay rights. This was my favorite part of the trip because I loved how many people united together to fight for their rights.  



 

13 Reasons Why Reading Response

Denisse Flores                                                                                                                            810

       The book "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher is based on social issues the world is facing right now. There has been some issues regarding if this book should be banned or not. One of the reasons this book may be banned is because of what happens in the book. For example suicide, bullying, depression and sexual content is the theme throughout the book. 

    In the book Hannah Baker the main character makes tapes of reasons why she committed suicide. For example, a boy made up rumor about her which lead to people thinking she was a slut, later other boys started to take advantage of her. She lost her friends and people bullied her by emotionally destroying and hurting her because they believed the rumors about her and she became depressed because of this. Also, when she was in a party she got drunk and at that same night she got raped by a boy.After deciding that she was done with being alive she made tapes of 13 reasons why she committed suicide and in the list are also the people that did her wrong. These are some of the reasons why people might want to ban this book.

  However, I disagree that this book should be banned. I think that this book teaches people not to bully people and it shows how far people can take their actions. For example, some people in the list didn't think that calling Hannah a slut would hurt her, but next thing you know your one of the reasons why she committed suicide. It teaches that everything you do to a person can hurt them.

  In conclusion, I think that this book shouldn't be banned. I know that some people think that the concept of this book is too harsh but in the end people will learn not to do the mistakes that the characters in the book made.