Leigh was very sporty and athletic with green eyes and brown golden hair and always managed to maintain an A average in her studies on top of her busy sports schedule. Julia and Leigh were both on the year book committee and the school council together. Almost every single day in and after school they were together. They always stood beside each other and stood up for one another. In the hall one day Jamie Jadestone one of the most popular girls in school came over to Julia and tried to start trouble, but to bad Julia is a smart cookie and can get herself out of bad situations she just simply said “Get out of the way” and walked on and that was in between second and third hour time and Jamie was in Julia’s next class.
This can be seen in Scene 1, where Rita is struggling to get in past the worse-for-wear door. When she eventually makes it in she says 'It's that stupid bleedin' handle on the door. You wanna get it fixed!'. This creates comedy because she is putting Frank in his place, telling him exactly what she thinks of the door and giving him orders like a teacher would do. What makes this more comedic is the fact that this is the first time she and Frank have met; these are the first words Rita says face to face with Frank.
She answered a few questions from several students and stated that everyone should know what they are doing and to start on their assignment. John still had his hand raised and was told by the teacher to put his hand down, she never bothered to answer his question. She basically ignored him, and he began to talk out loud to himself. The teacher looked up from her desk and he stopped, he then escalated his noise level by tapping his hands on his desk. Once again the teacher looked up at him, and informed him that if he continued to disrupt the class she was going to write him up.
However, she agrees to the plan without much resistance, probably because she is fascinated by the sexual relationship she now finds herself innocently involved in, unbeknownst to the adults involved. Anne is essentially an innocent girl who finds herself sexually maturing and performing acts that go against her moral compass and is in a constant state of unbalance. Anne begins the story as a regular 11-year-old at softball practice with her best friend Louise, but together they stumble upon a very adult scene: their principal and art teacher in a sexual act in the classroom. They are both young girls, trying to act older than they are; they try to demonstrate their so-called maturity by swearing: “ ‘Bullshit,’ [Louise] said, for this was our favorite swear word and we used it indiscriminately” (Parabo 437). Like all young people trying to prove their maturity, they use the most mature words they know.
"I've got a tape,a tape of me speaking Polish with Mum.I listen ,and I think I'm going to understand what we're saying, and then I don't " Carla's feels lost when she is unable to understand the songs she once sang with her Mum.She struggles to have her own identity and any kind of sense of oneness desperate to feel herself belonging.Dunmore uses First person narrarative to make us feel Carla is talking to us so we are drawn into her world and sympathetic to her. On the other hand, Carla is no mouse. She seizes her chance when she hears the Head telling the teachers about the Polish teachers wanting penfriends. And she makes very clear judgments against Valerie Kenward. "If ever anyone brought up their kids to be pleased with themselves, it's Valerie Kenward.
Soon enough her father died and kids started picking on her about her complexion. Char the most popular girl in the grade, makes a deal with Maleeka that if she does her homework for her Char will always stick up for her and allow Maleeka to borrow clothes. Maleeka wants to be so liked by people in school she agrees and starts hanging out with Char. A new teacher than arrives at the school. Miss Saunders also gets made fun of because of the big blotch she has on her face which is her birth mark.
“I’m telling Tricia either way, this would hurt her but its better if she finds out now than later.” They both see Tricia walking down the hall towards them, by then the girl was gone and it was only Paul and Joshua. Tricia runs to Joshua gives him a big hug and says, “Babe, I missed you where have you been all of lunch?” “Oh, I’ve been here talking to Paul the whole time.” Joshua said it in a convincing voice. Seconds after Joshua said that, Paul spoke up saying “Joshua you liar tell her the truth. Tell her I found you making out with another girl, go ahead and tell her the truth.” Tricia looked at Joshua with watery eyes and said, “Is that true?” As fast as she asked it Joshua replied, “Of course not, Paul is just jealous of us to and he wants us to break
When I was reading the book I was so surprised at how much Esme used multiple intelligences and different use of texts, media, visual, and other many good practices. Esme’s classroom was a canvas of stimuli and visuals. When told by a colleague that her room was distracting Esme thought to herself that the teacher in question was jealous. I have to agree with Esme, I believe the teacher was jealous of Esme’s enthusiasm, youth and spirit. The teacher may have genuinely been concerned with presenting too much information to students but through my classes at Sage, excessive stimuli is good of students with ADD because it gives them many things to focus on instead of causing behavioral problems.
She felt very uncomfortable and couldn’t do her work. Mariah was just staring at the clock waiting for 1:44 p.m. to hit for the next class. When the bell rung Mariah dashed out of the class and Daniel immediately ran after her. “Hey can I talk to you? I’m sorry about that whole confrontation earlier”.
Going into school and having to wait a half hour alone in a gym is no better. And as I was waiting in that gym the teacher noticed me and instantly knew I was new so she asked, “Hi, I’m Mrs. Parker I work in the office will you please come with me.” We walked into the hall way outside the gym and made me wait with another girl who I remembered had been in school with me since 2nd grade and then again the year before. I said Hi and then kids started pouring in from the door and she never replied. I walked up the stairs and instantly found my class because it was the first one on the second floor, just as Mrs. Parker instructed me to go to. I walked in and sat on the far left of the class room.