Just be YOU

11.R.3.1 Students can explain literary devices within text, also 11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.

Grade-level reading for some is a boundary to whether or not they will allow themselves to pick out a more complex book and try to read it, let alone trying to obtain the mental capacity for picking out and fully understanding literary devices like the point of view from which the piece may be written or even the genre of the piece.

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks is an inspirational heartfelt story of a soldier who comes home for 2 weeks and during that time he falls in love, impossible right. This soldier, John Tyre comes from a background of drugs and gangs. Having a troubled adolescence he didn't really care. Finally realizing that he wanted to make something with his life he enlisted in the army. Then you have Savannah, a small shy girl with a never ending compassion for wanting to lend a helping hand. She and a group of friends are on a mission trip for Habitat for Humanity when she first meets John. Of course having someone bringing back your sopping wet satchel isn't exactly the ideal way to meet if you ask me but it worked for them. Time flies when you're painting details you didn't realize were there to begin with, before they know it he has to deploy once more and she promises to write. In one of his letters he tells her that, "No matter where your at in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.." The story ends with a tough lesson in love and that believing in yourself and staying true to who you are will get you farther in life than anything else ever will.

"Don't follow your dreams......Chase them." -Richard Dumb

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NEW BOOK!!

I can't tell you much about this new book yet because I just started it but it is so enthralling that it's nearly impossible to put down. What information that is available is this...The book is called After River by Donna Milner. In the first chapter the main character, Natalie, describes how she first sees this figure walking up the lane towards their valley nestled dairy farm home. Natalie is very hesitant toward this strange man and yet it seems as if her mother, Nettie, is expecting him. What to do, what to do?

RuRo Shaggy!

No one wants to get a phone call in the middle of night hearing your brother telling you that your mother keeps asking for you. Let alone having to go back to the place that you have spent most of your adult life trying to stay away from.

Natalie Ward's mother (Nettie) has been slowly dieing for the past 5 years and it is all now catching up to her. Nat as she is called in the book, feels that there is nothing there for her anymore.

As she boards a bus and settles into her seat for the next 13 hours she reminisces about her life before HE showed up.


"Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out but to see who cares enough to tear them down" - Anonymous