Here are your directions, please follow them carefully and completely.
- Schedule a session with your RB team. EVERYONE MUST HAVE HIS/HER BOOK @ THIS SESSION.
- Share your books and make connections between the books, fiction or non-fiction, and your RB topic.
- Like your movie watching and review, talk about how the book approached your teen risk behavior. In your discussion, be sure to address the following questions:
- What was each person's book about? And how did you like your books?
- How did the books connect with your group's topic?
- How did the books connect with each other?
- What is your assessment of the way the books dealt with your topic? Realistic? Based on accurate information? Ethical in their treatment of the issue?
- Any other insights your group has arrived at?
- What was each person's book about? And how did you like your books?
- Post your responses to all the questions above as comments here and be very sure to include everyone's name in your post.
DUE DATE: Thursday, 11/10
5 comments:
Branson's book:
young teens plan to create a business, but when they get older, they have to make sacrifices and they get depressed
Brayton's book:
A drug addict gets sent to a treatment center where he is picked on and then he starts to remember his past which makes him depressed.
Lex's book:
Melinda goes through an awkward stage in life after she gets raped by this guy from a party and everyone sees her as a 'slut' or 'whore', so she gets depressed and sticks to just being by herself.
Leah's book:
Three teens are brought together by their misfortunes in a teen rehabilitaiton center. They all suffer from depression, and they all have attempted suicide.
Our group seems to like all of our books. It connected because it all relates to our topic depression. It connects to our topic because it was about teens dealing with depression. All of our books are realistic because we realized that every situation could happen to us or someone we know. From what we can gather, from personal experiences, it is an ethical and accurate portrayal of the experience of depression. We felt very emotional because literally it could happen to one of us.
Mel's Book: (PRETTY LITTLE LIARS) After the death of one of their best friends (Allison), Hanna wanted to become just like her.. walk like her, talk like her, dress like her, everything.. and so she became bulimic; she would eat a lot and just vomit it all out after. And once she got the perfect body image and the body she was looking for, she would either watch what she eats or not eat at all which led her to becoming the most popular girl in school.
Sierra's Book: (THE BEST LITTLE GIRL IN THE WORLD) To become better in ballet, Casey Powell gets caught up in dieting . Before long she becomes a starving anorexic.
Angelica's Book: (PERFECT) Thirteen-year-old Isabelle Lee is still trying to deal with the loss of her dad, but not exactly in the best way possible. Every night while her mother cries herself to sleep, Isabelle makes herself throw up. Until one day her little sister April catches her in the act. Isabelle isn't able to make April keep her mouth shut so her mom finds out and forces her to seek help by joining a support group. On the first day, Isabelle meets her surprisingly fun group leader, Trish. Trish does everything she possibly can to help her overcome the terrible eating disorder. Isabelle is definitely surprised when Ashley Barnum, the prettiest, most popular girl in school walks in. The girls quickly bond and Ashley teaches Isabelle about other things to help her lose more weight. She becomes influenced through Ashley, although over comes problem with bulimia after realizing the affects of what you can you to her physically and mentally.
Tati's Book: (OPHELIA SPEAKS) It has entries, letters, poems, etc. from girls who would send their stories to the author of the book. They would talk about their story of going through an eating disorder or self image problems.
We liked all our books. It's something that we as teenagers can all relate to. It connects to our topic's because they all have to deal with Eating Disorders. All of our books have a connection with each other because they relate to young teens about our age and there's a high possibility that we may suffer from an eating disorder one day and it could be the same situations like how these teenagers faced or went through. Yes, these books are quite accurate, realistic and ethical. We felt sympathetic for those teens and we tried to step into their shoes, so we could really feel the emotion in the book.
-Sierra, Mel, Angelica, Tati
Dallas's Book: The Bluest Eye - A book about a young girl who constantly has to deal with people, even her parents, putting her down.
Chad and Z's Book: Catcher In The Rye - A young teen begins to fail in school, gets expelled, and leaves it during the middle of the night to live life as a rebellious youth.
Our circle is enjoying the literature, all individually, on our own pace, sharing ideas about the books, and seeing that, in each book, there is an issue for teens, such as rebellion, peer pressure, or bullying. Each book had a teen who was troubled, or a child who faced people's thoughts and hurtful comments headstrong. During the reading, we decided that the way the books describe the events is pretty realistic, from pressure exerted on kids by adults, to how the expelled chooses to ignore the world. Our books connect as we have a main character who is pestered on by society and friends, to the point of losing hope and giving up. Overall, we liked our books, and each had a converging idea and message.
Mikayla's Book: A troubled girl named Tola Riley. She gets this new art teacher named Mr. Mymer. She feels that Mr. Mymer is the only one that gets her and understands her so she starts to hang around with them. So then rumors start going around in school and online that she and Mr. Mymer is having an affair. She is constantly bullied online and in school. Mr. Mymer even lost his job because of the rumors. Then no one is willing to listen to her side of the story.
I like my book. This book connects with my groups topic of cyber bullying since the main character Tola Riley is bullied in real life and online and she doesn't know who to go to and not willing to talk to anyone since they think she is lying. I feel my book is realistic because cyber bullying can happen to anyone and not feeling like you can't trust anything and you don't know what to do, I think how she dealt with it is good since she knows it is not true so she ignores the comments about it. I felt bad for Tola since the rumors aren't true and every one thinks she is a liar. I would hate to be in her shoes.
Hi everyone,
Here are my comments and assessment scores for your reading circles:
Depression Team: sounds as if you all made good choices of books. Nice job of finding connections. What I'd like to see, though, is the titles of the books, as well as the authors' names.
Assessment score: 3+
Eating Disorders Team: Nice job! You presented a pretty thorough description of your books and a good discussion of the connections between books and their treatment of eating disorders.
Assessment score: 4
Bullying Team: Nice job of sharing your books and looking for connections among them.
Assessment score: 3+
Mikayla: Pretty good summary of your book and discussion of the book's portrayal of cyberbullying.
Assessment score: 4-
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