Wonder

The book “Stargirl” tells a story about a homeschooled girl that meet new people and how the world the surrounds her work. But, this girl is not an ordinary girl, something deep in her character is making her different than other people.

I have chosen to read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. I have chosen this book based on my personal interest and interest in this specific genre, which is fiction, young adult literature, and children's literature. This book takes place at Mica Area High School in Arizona. Leo Borlock is your average eleventh grader, and he is the only one who accepts Stargirl for who she is. Sarah "Stargirl" Caraway is a unique tenth grader, and she is rejected by everybody in the school. She dances in the rain, plays the ukulele at lunch, and wears strange outfits. Stargirl had small bursts of popularity, but they've never lasted long. Soon after Leo accepts Stargirl, they began a relationship together. As the relationship

One theme of the book Stargirl, by Jerry Spenelli, is that you should always be true to yourself. The book is an uplifting story set in Arizona, at Mica High School, where a mysterious and free-spirited girl, Stargirl, starts her first day of school, after being homeschooled her whole life. She came to school on her first day of tenth grade wearing and off white dress, so long, it covered her shoes. Stargirl had hair the color of sand that fell to her shoulders, and she carried her ukulele and her pet rat around school with her. Stargirl definitely captured everyone's attention, but, with just one smile she captured Leo Borlock’s heart.

The Talk, a humorous essay - with a serious message - by Gary Soto, shows the reader a small snippet into the lives of two boys who find themselves to be “ugly”. The twelve-year-olds elaborate on their ugliness, from the narrator's gangling arms to his pencil dot eyes. Later, they dream about their future; the kind of girl they want to marry, and what jobs they want. The narrator expresses that even though he’s ugly, he’ll have a beautiful wife, and she’ll have plenty of dresses. Toward the end of the piece, the boys watch a girl - not for the first time, mind you - through her bedroom window.

“‘The main thing I have is this thing called man-di-bu-lo-facial dys-os-tosis-which took me forever to learn how to pronounce, by the way.’” Because he has a face that not many think of as comforting, he has lived most of his life ashamed of the way he looks. As the book progresses, however, Auggie learns that looks aren’t as important as they seem. He learns this with the help of his friends and family. Auggie’s friends have helped him have a better experience at Beecher Prep by sitting with him at lunch and talking to him.

Since reading the book, Wonder, I have been thinking a lot about how August would fit in at Oxford Middle School. If August went to our school he would have a harder time because kids are different. The main difference is that kids would have a harder time accepting a kid who looks so weird and scary. There are many other reasons August would not fit in as well at OMS.

While on the other hand Auggie, a elementary student was born with severe craniofacial syndrome and deals with looking very t5 different from the rest of the kids he goes to school with. Throughout the book the author, R.J. Palacio tells the story as if you were there with Auggie as he faces challenges mostly through school and with friends. As you can see these

Willow is a pretty unordinary girl, she has really loving adoptive parents, grows her own herbs in her garden, talks all about statistics, always counts by 7's, and doesn't care what people think of her. She's finally in middle school but even though she loves statistics she isn't very smart so the teachers are suspicious when she does extremely well on her first test. She gets called to the principals office and he determines that she is cheating so he sends her to the district counselor Dell Duke who has seen his fair share of rebels. Along with her "friends" Dell and Quang-Ha she learns the values of having faith. In Counting By 7's by Holly Sloan she and her friends discover that you should always believe in yourself and others that things will work out.

People are judged for their appearance all over the world, every day. People with brown, ragged clothes are assumed to be less intelligent, or homeless. People with long hair are assumed to be female. There are many stereotypes that limit the social actions of many people, and it is not just in real life. Rodman Philbrick shows that these stereotypes are not always true in the book “Freak The Mighty” in the form of Maxwell Cane, Kevin, Loretta, and Iggy Lee. All of those characters are misjudged by others, and in some cases, even by themselves. The message that your appearance does not determine who you are is very important, and applies to everyone everywhere.

For the middle school’s positive behavior quarter activity, the entire school went to the Lake City movie theater to watch the movie “Wonder,” which focused on a boy with facial deformities.

Not only does August have to deal with bullies because of his facial abnormalities, but he also has to adjust to a “real” school. August was always homeschooled due to his 27 surgeries. No one sees August as ordinary, well, except himself. Everyone else is blinded by Auggie’s looks and for awhile they can’t seem to look past them. But when

The novel opens up with the perspective of 13 year-old Noah Sweetwine. Noah is being terrorized by his bullies Zephyr and Fry. Fry is holding onto Noah’s arms while Zephyr is on top of him. Unfortunately for Noah, he becomes erect as a result of the closeness of Zephyr. Noah’s mom begins to talk about her interest in Noah and his twin-sister applying to CSA, a fine arts high school. Noah is ecstatic at the prospect of going, as a budding artist. However, his sister is not as pleased with the idea, although, she is as artistic as Noah is. The twin’s mom begins to visit museums so they can recreate famous painting. Their mom begins to only pay attention to Noah’s extraordinary work. This begins to create a friction between Noah and Jude.

The movie I chose to watch for this assignment is called Wonder. It is about a little boy named Augie who is in fifth grade. This is his first year going to real school after being homeschooled for many years. Augie was born with facial deformities and has had 27 surgeries since he was born. He has a tough time at school, with many kids bullying him because of the way he looks.

To not judge someone by their appearance is an important idea in the film because it teaches how it may affect the person you are judging and how damaging it could be for someone’s mental state.

His facial difference was his main struggle in life. An example of Auggie demonstrating the May precept from Mr.Browne was when he chose not to report the 7th graders who were using firecrackers, bullied Auggie physically and verbally, and took his hearing aids (even though the teachers found out anyway). In the same situation, Auggie wanted to run away from the 7th grade bullies, but he stayed, because he didn’t want to leave Jack behind. More than enough times, Auggie always put up with Julian’s bullying and mean notes, and he never told a teacher. He was never rude when he noticed people staring at him excessively, or looking away when they saw him. Auggie was always very good at being good to everyone he