Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The heavy weight champinon of the school-yard.

Sister Maria made everyone in the classroom read. She would keep looking at her list and not call on Liesel. Everyone had read and she still didn't call on Liesel. Liesel wanted to read in front of the class and show everyone that she could do it, but Sister Maria didn't want her to. Finally she let her read, but Liesel didn't know how to read. So she just stared remembering what her papa had read to her from THE GRAVE DIGGERS HANDBOOK. After she said everything she remembers everybody started being meant to her. A boy named Ludwig Schmeikl who went up to her and made a smart remark.
   "Hey, Liesel...I'm having trouble with this word! Could you read it for me?"(Zusak p.78)
Liesel was so angry she took out all her anger out on Ludwig because he kept teasing her, and she also beat up Tommy Muller for smiling while she was beating Ludwig up. Everyone was scared.
   "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.....she's going to kill him!"(Zusak p.79)

 




This reminds me of when I started 3rd grade I had just came from Mexico and I didn't know how to speak English. The teacher kept calling on me and I didn't want him to because I didn't know how to answer anything. All the kids would make fun of me to. And one day I got really angry and frustrated that I blew up on everybody. I started saying curse words in English that I had heard people say. I didn't know exactly what they meant but I still said them. My teacher heard me and sent me to the principal’s office and I got in trouble and sent home. I wasn't really my fault because kids kept teasing me. So that's why I really don't think what Liesel did was that wrong, because someone always has a certain limit to where they just break down.

WORK CITED
Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. NY: Alferd A. Knopf,2005. Print.

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2 comments:

  1. Emily HeastonSeptember 15, 2010 at 7:58 PM

    6/10
    Great job including a Works Cited section on this post! Just make sure that you are using proper capitalization, spelling and spacing!!

    Once again you have done a very nice job reflecting on your own life experience. I definitely agree that we all have our limits! School can be hard because there are always other students who try to push us to our breaking point, but I know that Gateway to College is helping all of us (including the teachers) to learn perseverance and patience. :)

    In-text citation: refer to pg. 7 of the MLA handout. Make sure you include the author's last name in the sentence or in the parenthesis with the page number.

    Fragment: "This reminds me."

    Capitalization: be sure you capitalize all proper nouns and the first word of every sentence.

    Apostrophe usage: be sure to use an apostrophe when you are showing possession or using a contraction. Ex: "shes/she's"

    Be sure to do a quick spell-check before posting! "now/know" "to/too"

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  2. Emily HeastonOctober 6, 2010 at 5:30 PM

    8/10:
    Nice job fixing your Works Cited. Just make sure that your page numbers/in-text citations are in the proper format: (Markus, Zusak p.79) SHOULD BE (Zusak 79).

    I still see a few capitalization & spelling errors that we can go over together in the lab tomorrow.

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