Tears of a Tiger By: Sharon Draper Isbn-10 #: 0689806981 Themes: Death‚ Depression‚ Decisions Reading level: Young Adults Teaching Connections: I see this as a good book to use with young African Americans because the main characters in the book are African American kids in high school. The novel is also a very good teaching aide because it includes many different types of writing styles like poems‚ letters and short essays. I feel the strongest point to using the book in the classroom is the
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In the novel Fire From The Rock by Sharon Draper‚ the protagonist Sylvia is consistently faced with the controversy of the decision of going to either Dunbar and Mann High School or Central High School. Dunbar and Mann seems like the more viable option because of the time period Sylvia is living in‚ 1939‚ which obviously had tremendous amounts of discrimination for black citizens. The alternative‚ however‚ for the all-black school is Central High School‚ a white school that is beginning to engage
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| Module 1 Rubric: Environmental Factors and Health Promotion Pamphlet: Accident Prevention and Safety Promotion for Parents and Caregivers of Infants v4.4 | Points Possible 6 | Criteria | Achievement Level | | Unsatisfactory 0%-71% | Less Than Satisfactory 72%-75% | Satisfactory 76%-83% | Good 84%-94% | Excellent 95% - 100% | Explanation of Potential Effect | 0.64 points Explanation of how the selected environmental factor can potentially affect the health or safety of
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Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper Anthony Avila ENG 3 Honors Period 3 The novel Tears of a Tiger is about a high school student named Andy Jackson going through a life of pain and guilt. The story begins with a newspaper article on an accident that killed a basketball player named Robbie Washington. They were all coming from a party and they have been drinking. Andy was driving the car and his three friends‚ Robbie‚ B.J‚ and Tyrone were the passengers. When the accident happened the Andy
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The Snow Star By Sharon Laferty From out of the blue and gold of a Christmas Eve sunset‚ comes Chrystalene. She was a snowflake‚ born in the clouds‚ as all snowflakes are. She began her journey‚ falling and spinning‚ with all the other little snowflakes on her way to the earth below. Chrystalene‚ however‚ was far too curious a being to simply drift along and wait to see where she would land. She began to look around her‚ peering at her fellow flakes‚ and noticing quickly‚ that she was not like them
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Over this week I read a novel by the award winning author Sharon M Draper. Draper has been nominated for Coretta Scott King Award for Authors and John Steptoe New Talent Award. Needless to say she is a very accomplished author. I read the New York Times bestseller Out of my Mind. First of all‚ Out of my Mind is about an eleven year old girl named Melody. Melody was born with cerebral palsy and was declared retarded and mentally handicapped at a young age. During the exposition of the book the future
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An Analysis of Standford et al.’s Study 1|P a ge An Analysis of Sanford‚ Townsend-Rocchicciolli‚ Horigan‚ & Hall’s Study A Process of Decision Making by Caregivers of Family Members With Heart Failure A research critique submitted by Thelma Augustin‚ Melody Alexander‚ Ashley Breaux‚ Nissa Fisher‚ Kamaria Harris‚ Thao Huynh‚ Jeris Jensen‚ Leslie King‚ and Susan Livengood‚ Master of Science in Nursing Research College of Nursing 2012 An Analysis of Standford et al.’s Study 2|P a ge
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Who am I without him? In the story of‚ “Who am I without him?” by Sharon Flake‚ deals with character in my perspective. I chose to deal with character because there was a lot of character in this story. The main character‚ which remained nameless‚ was the narrator of the story. We got her point of view: That’s why I chose her. The story had a lot of conflict going in and out the story. Her and Raheem are supposed to be a couple that last forever and ever‚ but in the story it seems like Raheem
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Everyone has a choice what they do with it is up to them. Sharon G. Flake wrote the book You Don’t Even Know Me which is a very intense and emotional book. This book speaks of topics one would not hear regularly. Many parents and the reader wonder why would they let a teenager read this book. She wrote this for young adults because she probably experienced this or saw many of her friends go through these kinds of problems. According to research by State Farm‚ every twenty-eight seconds a youth drops
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1. Should Sharon tell Jill’s name to the security officer? Why -Yes she should‚ the police officer already knows that sharon was shopping with Jill so if Sharon tells the officer she doesn’t know the name of Jill he would automatically know she is lying‚ which would just cause more unwanted trouble. Also‚ Sharon should know what Jill did is wrong‚ and she shouldn’t get the blame for what Jill did‚ Jill needs to face the consequences so she knows next time not to do it. 2. Would it make any difference
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