Readers Response 4. Questioning

Policy Before Politics.

Skinny Question:

What does Obama plan to do with the health issue?

Fat Question:

Why would it be better for public health insurance?


Obama's plan from the health issue will be to expand the number of options for young adults to get coverage. He will expand eligibility for the Medicaid and SCHIP programs and ensure that these programs continue to serve their critical safety net function.

"RAFT: This Land Is Your Land"

Question:
How does the information in the box "A Day in the Life (of me!)" help the reader understand the article?

The information in the box helps the reader understand better because it gives you a better image in your head of how they lived. For example, in the text it says "Our way of life is also our job." So in the information box of there daily routine gives us details of how there life is like there job.

Readers Response 3.

Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson



"They want me to speak” -Melinda (pg 113)

This book is about a girl named Melinda Sordino. shes a student with good grades and great friends, but has made some mistakes. At the end of a summer party she called the cops, but when the cops got there she didn't tell them anything. When the new school year began, her friends didn't speak to her, and people in school that she didn't know hate her because she messed up the party when she called the cops, and wrecked everybody’s party. Her grades start dropping. Her relationship with her parents got weaker and weaker quickly. Her parents know something is wrong but cannot get her to open up. Her only hope is her art teacher; he realizes something is very wrong and through the classwork, and the art work that helps her express her emotions. Melinda had a secret, you only get to find out about it until towards the end, but its easy to take a guess. This secret has caused her to fall apart, and isolate herself.. She deals with her seceret by mainly by not talking to anyone. She struggles with the truth.

Readers Response 2.

The Night The Bell Rang
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

This story takes place in 1918 Vermont, a bully named Aden makes a boy named Mason's life miserable. Then one night, when Mason was in need of help, the bully helped Mason out. Mason was speechless because he never thought Aden would ever do such kindness. Mason does not thank Aden, neither does he tell anybody what happened.
A few days later, Aden goes to fight in the war that's going on in Europe. When it is announced that the war has ended, the people of this small Vermont town rejoice by taking turns ringing the church bell. When Mason notices Aden’s mother standing alone mourning, he realized that Aden had been killed during the war. Most people acted like Aden's death didn't matter because he was a bad kid. Mason gos up to his mother and assures her that her son Aden had once done a good thing for him.

Readers Response 1.

A Child Called It.
David Pelazar

I read the book A Child Called It about two years ago. This life story about a boy named David was very sad, he was beaten by his mother every day. His mother isolated him from the family and starved him. She nearly killed him with all her abuse, but David stayed strong.

This story helps me in life because not everyone has a good mother, or gets treated right. It makes me realize how grateful i am for how my mother is with me. I think David is brave to talk about his life with such detail. I disagree with his mother of course for blaming him David in everything that happened between her husband and her. She referred to David as an "it". This book shows an example of how the human spirit can provide strength in the toughest situations.