Noticing Sentences

Rebecca Caudill 2021 Book Age Never let it be said that the young are powerless or incapable. Never let it be said that youth is a liability. p57 Legacy We are fighting for our three lines in history just so that it will not be said that our youth went like sheep to the slaughter. p58 If they would not fight for millions of living Jews, perhaps they would fight for the memory of a single dead poet. p82 Prejudice "He is the enemy, Chaya! The war will end one day and the Germans will go back to their own land. But here we must live alongside thousands of people like that man. If we can't stop his hatred, this will happen again and again and again!" p104 "No, the Fuhrer of Germany has declared war on you and me, on all of us!" p137 "No, Chaya. As much as the Nazis want to take our lives, they want to take our faith, too." p139 "The hatred. I remember my father saying that he'd finally come to believe the world had moved past ...

Lincoln 2021 Book Gender I thought women were gorgeous no matter what they wore, and I didn't think they owed ayone an explanation for their sartorial choice. p49 gender and religion-- p49 Description There was something in Jacobi's eyes that was sympathetic in a way I'd never experienced before. It wasn't pity . It was recognition. He actually seemed to acknowledge me, my pain, and my anger, in a way no one else ever had. p108 Love it "Just try to be happy," Jacobi finally said to me. "Your happiness is the one thing these assholes can't stand." p108 "I don't want space," he said. "I've never wanted less space." p191 _______________________ "Aren't they your friends?" I said. If they were my friends," he said, "they'd be happy for me." p236 _______________________ The more I get to know people, the more I realized we were all just a bunch of frightened idiots wal...

Then came another, more disturbing realization: The German POWs were being given more respect than the Black soldiers who had just fought for Europe's freedom. p79 The few Black soldiers who had been promoted to lieutenants out of necessity during the war were not allowed in the officers' facilities or clubs, despite having the same responsibilities as the white officers. We Blacks had risked our lives-- thousands had lost their lives-- to stop Nazism from spreading, to stop the Nazis' hatred and agenda of eliminating those people they segregated out, deemed as lesser, as unworthy. And yet in many respects we were being treated in the same way. p81 News item 6 December '45 Yesterday 140 Negro Soldiers were taken off of homebound ships in Le Havre by the Navy because there were no provisions for segregation. p84 Further, many of the Black vets from the war brought back the memories of how differently they had been treated by Europeans. They came back home not wan...

Young Readers Edition Love it "My mom always says, 'Our ancestors fought too hard for us to give up now.'" p37 If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.- Malcolm X p121 "If he doesn't say anything positive to you when you win, then he doesn't get to say anything to you when you have a bad day. Period." p190 Bullying/ Prejudice "Those girls don't know what they're talking about, and their parents should be ashamed of themselves for letting them think that way," she said. p38 p112-114 p128-129 I desperately wanted my students to know that I wasn't their enemy, that we had a shared history in common, that they had descended from greatness and didn't have to ignore their education, but every attempt I'd made to get them to listen had failed. p145

Struggle What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment." p65 Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. p354 Prejudice  "How you've both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district." p74 Government/ Control "But I don't want them to! They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!" p117 We stand for the anthem. I have to raise my head out of the required respect..." p134 "No, when the time comes, I'm sure I'll kill just like everybody else. I can't go down without a fight. Only I keep...

This is an ADULT book written by an author who also writes YA. The quotes definitely reflect the adultness of this book. It's also a sequel, so although I have attempted to avoid spoilers for this book, I cannot guarantee there are no spoilers for Nevernight. Humor "You don't find any irony in earning your place in a cult of assassins by saving half a dozen lives?" p67 The old man hooked his thumbs into his waistcoat. "Problem with being a librarian is there's some lessons you just can't learn from books. And the problem with being an assassin is there's some mysteries you just can't solve by stabbing fuck out of them." p67-68 "... And I'll be damned," she said, pointing her practice sword at Mia's face," if the last my blades sing is because you and Furian can't agree on the color of shit. Fuck him. Stab him. Stab him while you fuck him, I don't give a damn. But get it sorted out before you get us all...

Gender and Expectations It was part of that disorienting feeling she'd had for yeas, that feeling that everyone except her had been issued a handbook. Samantha knew it was important to be pretty and cute, but she had no idea how to be those things, or even why she was supposed to want to be. p23 But now being a girl was like being stuffed into a heavy, constricting costume. She could barely breathe in it. The rules of the universe were fixed: You look a certain way and so you have to act a certain way and people are going to treat you a certain way. There was no way to alter it. p24-25 "You're the only one who knows what you feel," Sasha said. "If that's the word for what you feel, then stick with that." p26 p33-35 has a great glossary for gender/ sexuality terms "For how vehemently I felt like I wasn't a girl, I have to say, being a boy isn't super great either," he admitted. "Both sides have such bullshit baggage atta...

Power of Kindness She was a legend not only in the school and the community, but in my house, because Bernadette had her the same year as Mr. Mustache bullied her, and Ms. G saved her by being nice, because Ms. G is always nice. p32 Bad dad jokes "Your generation ruined the planet," Bernadette said to Dad as she landed on St. James Place. "I didn't personally ruin the planet," Dad said. "I don't know who told you I did, but whoever it is, is lying." p32 Irony Now there were so many houses I couldn't count them all. During Phase One , they erected a huge sign with a map of numbered building lots and the name of the development, THE ORCHARDS. Of course they had to tear down the actual orchards to build the houses. p48 100 years ago-- p51 prejudice Dreams Discussing what he wants to be when he grows up Something where I could help nature and be cool and nerdy at the same time. Something Ms. G would approve of. Something wher...

"The Journalist" p30 for journalism class "Accessory" p47 word use/ word choice and juxtaposition "Don't Flatter Yourself" p71-72 males dealing with the male gaze I realized that the students in Wyoming didn't need to hear my speech as much as they needed to see me, an out, proud lesbian, right before their very eyes. I knew what my presence communicated to them: if my life was possible, their lives and the lives of their friends were possible, too. p89 Looking at Matthew Shephard's picture reminds me why I do the work I do: so that what happened to him will never happen again. I gaze at the face of the young man I never had the chance to meet, and whisper a traditional Jewish prayer for peace that includes the words: and you shall lay down and no man shall terrify you . To quote John Lennon: Imagine. p91

"The same Negroes and their descendants are upon it who tilled it as slaved," Van de Graaff wrote to a friend. The Gee's Benders continued to "work like slaves for the white people," said Loretta Pettway. p7 [regarding share-cropping] In 1932, one of the white merchants died without leaving records of who owed what. In the fall, his widow sent henchmen to Gee's Ben to collect from the entire community. The men swept in and took everything of value... p15 She said, "I going to take his work clothes, shape them into a quilt to remember him, and cover up under it for love." p25, 27 "It was... like you walk into a room and ain't no light on, and you turn on a light in the darkness-- that's what Dr. King meant to us. He turned on a light for us." p29

Illinois connection! Love it! Humor If those guys couldn't tell the difference between a friend and a girlfriend-- well, that made them too dense to be worth worrying about. p33 Description Kenny only had two volume levels: whine and yell. p37 (also, use of a colon) She was the kind of teacher who made you wish you could have her every year for the rest of your life. p77 Race Discussions p77-79 mom and Mrs. Roberts p84-86 meeting Mr. Dixon Most of the time, my mom was a very nice person. I hated thinking of her as someone who might be prejudiced against black people. p80 Mr. Dixon and food-- 163-166 I wondered if thinking about this race stuff too much made you see it in places where it didn't exist. But then I wondered the opposite: Maybe it existed all the time, and you only saw it if you were really thinking about it? p181 Maybe everything in life had its messy bits. Things other people didn't see. Or didn't know they didn't know. Or didn...

Storytelling is the Krazy Glue that holds us all together. Stories can soar and sing and surprise. And sometimes, when we share out town stories, they do all three at once. Introduction Too often, adults try to suggest that differences in appearance don't matter by pretending they simply don't exist. But you and I know the world looks different. Why? Because we are different. We don't have to define ourselves solely by our differences, but we don't have to ignore them either. Introduction The kid with a squishy nose and strange legs isn't that surprising when you're three years old and you hear stories about talking bears sitting at a table eating porridge. It's only as kids get older that they start to know what's normal and what's not. p87 Frank would stand for hours in the hot Saturday sun, leaning over so he could get a good look at my stance, sometimes standing in front of me, sometimes behind, sometimes beside. He'd watch intently a...

Interesting Facts and Quotes Even unmarried women between the ages of seventeen and forty were called to serve [in Japan]. p17 Sachiko by Caren Stelson "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage... we have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable." [message to the people of Japan from the emperor] p44 Sachiko by Caren Stelson The new constitution guaranteed freedom of expression, but in practice, the heavy hand of censorship banned articles, reports, passages in school textbooks, movies, or any text that questioned General Headquarters authority or informed the public about the atomic bomb. p59 Sachiko by Caren Stelson Any criticism of, or information about, or photos of the use and impact of the atomic bomb were deleted or blackened out. Even the Japanese characters for genshi bakudan, "atomic bomb," could not be printed. p63 Sachi...

Revolution "Whatever we accomplished would die with you. Don't take this the wrong way, but the world we want to build has to outlive us." p9 War Storm by Victoria Aveyard _________________________ "And what does your government consider a long debate?" ... "Oh, years." Davidson sighs, matching her forced humor. "Democracy is a funny thing. Not that any of you know that yet." p25 War Storm by Victoria Aveyard _______________________________ "And while your cause is just, accordances must be made. You are a group with no nation, no citizens to answer to. Your methods are beyond the usual bounds of war. We have our own to think of." p197 War Storm by Victoria Aveyard On the opposite side of the low room, Cameron taps her knuckles against her greasy window. "You know, maybe this rebellion would be further along if they didn't rely on teenagers so much." She tosses a smirk at Kilorn. "Especially ones w...

A quick plug-- I love this series so much. If you have not read the Illuminae Files , you should.  As before, I do not edit out cursing so that you can choose to do that yourself. This book series censors itself, very tongue in cheek. I do not know how to add boxes in the way that they do, so I simply put some asterisks.  I will attempt to avoid spoilers, but be warned. Sacrifice Can you imagine that? Sacrificing yourself like that? When you look down the barrel at your ending, will you be able to smile at it the way this guy does? I can't imagine what's going through his head. The needs of the many, maybe? Thinking he'll see his family soon? I dunno. p107 Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Yearbook, anyone? I read this and laughed, not only because it's a joke, but because I figure my journalism kids would understand it.... the fake Latin used is the like... "standard"? fake Latin. NikM: lorem ipsum maximus butticus Pauchok: ... wait t...