Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul 2, a girl named Lindsey cries out to her friend to

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1 Ciera Postlethwaite Baker Book report March 13, 2008 The Cry for Help What do you do when a friend is thinking about committing suicide? In the book Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul 2, a girl named Lindsey cries out to her friend to help. Lindsey and Jill were the best of friends since the seventh grade. They would always talk about anything and everything at their favorite restaurant. Things like soda pop would always spark up in every conversation. But one day suicide came up. They talked about what they would do if one of their friends died and what they would want their funerals to look like. About three weeks later, Lindsey called Jill, and Lindsey always being a fun and exciting person, Jill knew this call was different and Lindsey needed help! As they started talking, Lindsey told Jill that she was feeling worthless and confused and just wanted her life to stop being so hard. Lindsey was holding a bottle of pills and was ready to take them but Jill talked to her for three hours and told her that she was needed, not only by her but everyone around her. Jill could hear the toilet flushing, which meant that Lindsey flushes the pills down and was ready to start over again with a fresh start. The road was long and hard for the both of them but now they have started the eleventh grade together and have awesome grades. If a friend is talking about suicide, the best thing to do is be there for them no matter what and tell them it will be ok.

2 Ciera Postlethwaite Period 6 Final Draft

3 Different people have different ways of learning. For me my top three intelligences are, bodily/kinesthetic, visual/spatial, and interpersonal. Bodily/ kinesthetic intelligence includes having coordination, physical power, and fitness. As an all-star competitive cheerleader, I can tumble, dance and also fly. For these types of movements I have to be physically fit and eat healthy. Dancing and flying involves a lot of flexibility and time coordination. Everything must be on time. Tumbling involves a lot of pushups so that I may fly higher in the air and tumble faster. I love to draw and design things such as new ideas for my mom to do with our house and making very nice posters for any subject and that s why I also have visual/spatial intelligence. I always have to draw down something before I do anything so if I change my mind, its on paper. Lastly, I am a very social person so I love to talk and work in groups. Also, I help people with and situation they may have. This intelligence is called interpersonal. Being able to take many responsibilities in school and in cheer, I can keep everything almost balanced. All in all, there are many different types of intelligences but out of eight, I am bodily/kinesthetic, visual/spatial, and interpersonal.

4 Dear Participant: The following is a survey created for my American Literature class period 1 & 2. Please answer the following questions as best as possible; your cooperation is greatly appreciated. Age: Gender: Race: 1. Do you think money is the most important thing in life? 2. Do you think that you manage money well? 3. On scale of 1-10, how much does money play a part in picking a job? 4. Do you feel teens are more obsessed with money? Why? Why not? 5. How much money do you have in your pocket right now? 6. Do you think money can buy happiness? 7. On a scale of 1-10, rate about how much money do you spend every week? 8. Do you feel money makes you who you are? Why? Why not? 9. Do you think your life would be easier if you make the amount of money that you do now? 10. Is your goal to make more money or are you satisfied with what you have?

5 Selene Mendez Ms Baker Book Report October 2, 2007 It Happened To Nancy Have you ever thought about what it would be like to have AIDS? Most people never dream of this happening to them, It s something that doesn t even cross their mind. As in this case, in the novel, It Happened To Nancy, By Beatriz Sparks. Every girl just mainly concentrates on boys, make up, gossip, and little problems now and again. Yet most teen girls can not imagine having to fight the deadly disease of AIDS, and this is exactly the battle that Nancy will face. Have you ever fallen in love? Did you ever get butterfly s fluttering in your stomach? Or let out a sigh when you heard that special someone s name? Or even have a little shiver shoot down your spine when you cached a glimpse of them in the hall? These feelings are not new to Nancy, because she thinks she s found love in a guy named Collin. Who she thinks is Mr. Perfect. Yet had she

6 known that Mr. Perfect would actually make her regret ever meeting him! After, Collin enriched Nancy like fertilizer to a plant with all his lies; he without shame date raped her, not only, taking away her innocence but infecting her with never ending pain. AIDS!!!!!! That was only the beginning. Now Nancy has to deal with the fact of what her future will behold. Including different types of physical pains, and on top of that the emotional package that will come with. I believe I want to believe that Collin would never do that to me! said, Nancy. She now refuses to realize the awful truth. When she finally turns from a black whole, to a no way out, trapped between a knife and a wall situation, she refuses to face the world. Even after accepting the fact that she has aids can she accept life? I want to die, please god, and just take me now. In her point of view she has no reason to keep on living. She has no strength to get up any more, she feels as if she can not keep up, because she has to take three steps meanwhile all the other kids only have to take one. Her lack of energy keeps her from going out and having fun.

7 Plus, the humiliation of having to wear diapers thanks to that disease slowly but surely killing her inside. Why me? she asks! Over all, this book is not only a page turner, but an emotional roller coaster. It helps you realize how aids destroy you. AIDS does not care your color, race, age, sex, etc. It will attack any victim any place any time if at risk. Which is everybody? This book just goes to show you that being careful can be the difference between life and death!!!!!!1

8 Victor Villanueva Ms. Baker Book Report October 4, 2007 Buried Onions What would you do if you heard a rumor that one of your closest friends killed your cousin? In Buried Onions by Gary Soto, Eddie, the main character, hears a rumor that his friend Angel is his cousin s murderer. Eddie lives in a town named Fresno it s a small town that s infested with low lifes and cholos like Angel. Eddie makes a living by finding small easy jobs like re-painting the address on the curbs on sidewalks or doing some gardening and other household duties for some of his neighbors. He lives in a small apartment by himself, his Aunt only calls to beg him to avenge his cousin who is killed in a stabbing all for just telling some dude he has nice shoes. Later on in the story Eddie hears a rumor that his friend Angel is the one who killed his cousin Jesus. Eddie has a lot of bad luck in this story he faces many problems he has a dead cousin, he dropped out of college, he constantly gets calls from his aunt telling him to kill the one responsible for Jesus death, he lost the trust of the one person he actually enjoyed working for, and he gets blamed for Jose, his old friend, getting stabbed for helping him get Mr. Stiles truck back. He does not do much in the beginning of the story but work because things are still going O.K. for him, he makes a few bucks off of his painting job, but he eventually stops painting numbers on curbs and finds a new better, but not too good of a job, helping a fellow neighbor with his gardening. The man s name was Mr. Stiles a typical Caucasian man, he has a nice house, a wife and some kids. Eddie is helping him burry a new tree and earns the trust of Mr. Stiles, so later on Mr. Stiles lets Eddie borrow his truck so that he can go to the junkyard to throw away some trash and old junk. Eddie goes to the junkyard does what is asked and loads a mini-fridge on the truck to take it to his apartment, after dropping the fridge off at his apartment the truck disappeared from the spot he parked it in, it is stolen from him. Eddie eventually faces Angel after hearing the rumor from an old friend from school, they end up getting physical and a little cholito named Samuel, who earlier on in the story has a verbal fight with Eddie, steps in and is quickly pushed out of the fight. After a trip to the hospital with his friend Jose who is going to get his stiches taken off from the stabbing incident, Eddie found himself facing Angel yet again but the fight ended quickly. Eddie registered earlier on in the story to the Navy and the only reason he signed up for it was to get away from Fresno with out saying good bye to any of those problems.