Noticing Sentences

  I loved this panel for thinking differently. Maybe for use with resumes? How can you turn something into more? How can you believe more of yourself?  This one is great for discussion. Is this how our students feel? I personally see a lot of movement from the "entitlement" attitudes to apathy attitudes in my students. Preach!

FYI: Before we begin, I want to note that I have left all of the curse words in. You can decide what is right for your students and your situation. Personally, when I share quotes with students, I tend to put a solid box over the curses. #relateable  School, it turns out, is super easy once you remove all the other kids, asshole teachers, and disgusting shit that goes on. p 52 Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow How life changes... I was shoving my bare hands into Dumpsters, and then I was shoving cardboardy mac and cheese in my face with a spork, and now I'm shopping . p111 Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow Attitude She makes a growling sound. "You girls today. You make me so fucking sad. The world hurts enough. Why fucking chase it down?" p116 Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow Ariel says, "What you are thinking, Charlie? Speak. I always tell my students that whatever they feel about art, it is true, because it is true to their experience, not m...

An eye-opening book about cacao harvest. Your activist and agricultural students will enjoy this book. I didn't have as many quotes that I marked while reading this one, but here they are. I felt like they were the kind of sentences that state things that might make students think. Surprising statements or different ways of thinking. They could easily be applied to many different topics in the classroom. A different way of thinking-- how do students respond? Given her height, she's probably a little younger than me, maybe thirteen or fourteen, but she's not as skinny as most of the girls I knew at home. Maybe the drought is over if people have food to spare on girls. p 10 The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan "You're like the bosses?" he gasps. That had been my first thought too. " Ayi , Seydou," she says earnestly. "I just grew up in the same country as them, but that does not make me like them." p207   The Bitter Side of S...

Allusion This house is basically a Charles Dickens orphanage, except the kids are happy and the villain here is complete outnumbered. p 29 A List of Cages by Robin Roe Matt gasps. He knows that Order of the Phoenix is the longest and most potentially dangerous of all the Harry Potter books when used as a weapon. p75 A List of Cages by Robin Roe Quotes for Teachers This whole section where Adam tells the story of being Julian's reading buddy is something I'd love to get every reading teacher to read. He said his dad had gotten them [a stack of books] for him because he was a good reader now. He went back to being cheerful-humming-Julian till the end of the year, when our buddies had to write an actual book report. p 48  A List of Cages by Robin Roe Loss/ Grief/ Memories It's strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful...

I loved the world-building in this story. I know that people can argue for days about HOW the Death-Cast actually works and how it affects the way you live the day and how it, in turn, would CHANGE the day instead of predict, but.... I love the way Silvera came up with lots of ways that this change would cause ripples into other facets of life. So when I looked back at the sentences I marked, I found that most of them were world-building in some way. Perhaps you can find some sort of application for this in your classroom. I'm planning to use if for world-building for my Creative Writing class. World development I’m trying to stay shut ‘cause I don’t wanna take my problems out on some guy doing his job, even though I have no idea why the hell anyone applies for this position in  the first place. P 17 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera “Maybe you’ll live to see another day with some Vitamin Me in your system” p 36 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Wha...