Reading Response- May 27, 2008

In the book A Child Called "It" David is trying to survive playing his mothers "games". He gets hit a lot and isn't doing anything wrong. He barely gets anything to eat and as to steal from people at school. He has scares and bruises everywhere on his body. He also wants no one to do with his mom. When the school found out he was very scared not knowing they weren't going to tell his mom. David has two brothers and his dad doesn't live with them because he is divorced.
Before David's mom started hurting him he used to have a very fun and happy life. He would go on many trips and spend a lot of time with his family.
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Dear David P.,
How did you learn these "games" that your mom played? Did you just watch her and see how she hurt you and you learned how to play along and not get hurt? How come your mom started to change? You seemed to have a very good happy life before she went all crazy and started treating you very poorly. Are there any moments in your life that you wish you could go back to those happy moments?
I know how you don;t want anybody to know about your mom hurtung you but why is that? I would think that if you were getting extremley hurt and getting scares that you would tell someone so that they could get it to stop. If she ever found out would she get even more furious and beat you even more?

-Bailey

I started to read A Child called "It". It is a great book so far. Come back to see my reading response.

I got a ticket this week and didn't have to do a reading response.

Green Angel May 22, 2008

About the Characters:


Green: Green is a 16 year old girl. She is very quiet and shy. She does no talk to anyone at school or even her own family. She doesn't think that she is special. She believes that she is just a regular girl with no special talent. The one talent that she did have was that she is a fantastic Gardener and that is why her name is Green. One day Green's family left her to go tot the city where she had always wanted to go because you didn't have to be perfect there. Green had to stay home and pick the weeds. The only thing that stayed with her was her sisters dog Onion. The reason that her family went to the city was to sell vegetables.


Aurora: Aurora is Green's younger sister. According to Green she is very special land is basically perfect. She is also very beautiful, graceful, and a very fast runner. She can also climb trees extremely quickly. Aurora is a little bit of a rule breaker. She never listens to anything her mom says, she never sits still and pays attention, she stole apples from neighbors, and she would run through mud in a new dress. She is a very fearless girl.



The future is something no one can foretell.

I really enjoyed this sentence in the book. To me this means that you don't know what is coming in the future or later on in life. You can't plan on what is going to happen.