Belle Plaine Middle School: A Short Story

Her eyes were blinded by the sight of the lightning. Margot stepped slowly out of the closet. She looked at all of her so called “friends” thinking of why they did this to her. She thought, “What did I do to them to deserve this?” She had never shoved their faces in the dirt, or stolen their lunches, she had never spoken a word to anyone. Maybe that was the problem? She cared for the other children even though, they were not as intelligent or self-assured as she was. She didn’t degrade them for this, in fact, she wanted to be like them. Margot hated every part of being different. She wanted to forget the sun that she used to see and be like the children.

In the book, Luma had a lot of trouble getting a field for the team to practice on. Every time Luma would get close something would go wrong that was out of her control. It frustrated me because I think she was doing a good thing but people were absorbed in their problems, so they didn't think to do the extra work or to go the extra mile.

As Angelica confidently strolled into Rosario High, Eliza and Peggy, her sisters followed close behind. Angelica had been at the school before, because she'd been taking a bus over to the high school for her advanced math class all throughout eighth grade. Eliza, however, had never been inside the building before and felt incredibly small walking in. Peggy wasn't even supposed to be there. She should've been in eighth grade, but she skipped it and went straight to high school. She was very smart, but no one ever noticed. She was always just Angelica and Eliza's sister. They made their way down wing 1B in search of their lockers. Peggy stopped at her locker, number ninety six, while Angelica and Eliza looked for their own. Angelica finished her search at locker number seventy stuff. Eliza found hers a bit farther down, locker 46. While she began to unpack her books, she saw four boys making their way down the hallway. One was the famous jock, Lafayette. No one knew his real name except teachers, because he insisted that it was to long to use. His friend, another jock who was very smart, however, Hercules Mulligan followed him down the hall. John Laurens, who was decent at sports, but more of a science guy was with them, too. Following them was the mystery man, Alexander Hamilton. He was in their grade, but barely anyone knew anything about him. Eliza figured he was just another jock.

The overall idea is displayed in the story when the children from Venus lock her in a closet because she told them the sun was coming out. A quote to support that is, “”But this is the day, the scientists predict, they say, they know, the sun…” … “let’s put her in a closet before the teacher comes!” “No,” said Margot. They… caught her up and bore her… where they slammed and locked the door. They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing herself against it. … Then, smiling, they turned and went out and back down the tunnel, just as the

Located in the suburban and almost rural parts of Harrisburg sits Central Dauphin High School, one of the largest public schools in the area, and my former high school. The school is composed of around 1,708 students with my graduating class reaching about 420 kids. The student to teacher ratio is fifteen to one which is equal to the Pennsylvania average. Not surprisingly, our school has a 23% minority enrollment ratio which is 8% less than the Pennsylvania average. Also, only 16% of the students at Central Dauphin qualify for free lunch. When you compare these numbers with our sister school, Central Dauphin East High School, there are some surprising results. Central Dauphin East has a 65% minority enrollment rate with

To begin, Margot is different from other “normal” people because she is antisocial. When all the other children are playing with each other, as the text states, “She would play no games with them in the underground city. If they tagged her and ran, she stood blinking after them and did not follow.” (Bradbury, 1954) This shows that Margot is too busy thinking about the sun to bother playing with the other children. She is the only child on Venus who has lived on Earth and seen the sun before moving to Venus. The others have lived on Venus all their lives, so Venus is the only world they’ve ever known. Margot is not used to rainy weather every day, so all she can

I’ve been at Barrington Middle School for three years. It is the place where I transitioned from a child bright-eyed and ready for the world, to the older, if not wiser young adult, that I am today. I’ve been here through the good times and the bad as I went from year to year. I am leaving this institution of knowledge more prepared because of AVID. I am leaving ready for my life ahead.

I can still remember that day... Heart was beating real fast, palms were sweating, stumbling across my words and I honestly felt like the world was coming to an end. Starting over at a new school halfway through the year has got to be every kid’s nightmare. I went from a private to a public school which was the hardest switch of my life.

The students looked down avoiding her gaze. The teacher looked at the closet where Margot had been. She thought, “Shame on my students! Poor, poor, girl…” Margot ran like she had never done before. She wiped away her tears, only to be replaced by more tears.

I am completing my second weekly-required meeting and hate this one more than the first. At least the first one was with just my fellow English teachers discussing our summers. This meeting includes the English AND History teachers. Apparently, Bonnie-Leigh High thinks the two subjects are closely related and feels they should have their meetings together to discuss freshmen. I still don’t understand why we are discussing the new freshmen class twice a week for two weeks. I could be putting this made time into Aiden. That is if Aiden had any free time. With September quickly approaching, Aiden has done nothing but write and write. Any conversations we have are small and we haven’t actually seen each other in a week, which is abnormal for us.

Soon, she was at school and it was the day the sun would come out. But the other kids did not want her to see the sun. In the end they locked her in a closet and did not let her out until the sun left and went away. This story shows that the other kids struggled with understanding Margot.

We pull up to the May Wood County High School, my mom quickly drives off as I get out of the car. I turn to the building, not even two seconds after looking at it, a lady in black comes up to me and grabs my arm. "You need to get in the school before the bell rings young man!" Her voice was eerie in a sense. She dragged me into the building, standing there were tons of other students talking to their friends and socializing. The lady walks back outside to "greet" the other late students. I stand in the middle of the sea of students, not knowing what to do. Everyone was eyeing me and I could definitely hear them talking about me, all of a sudden the bell rang and the flock of kids moved down the hall to their first period. I had to take a quick

Margot’s classmates end up feeling awful about locking her in a closet while the sun came out for a short amount of time. Even though they knew Margot was desperate for the feeling of sun rays on her face and the bright glimmer of fire in the sky to cause her eyes to squint, they decided to hide her from that opportunity and ultimately regret this decision. An example from the text is, “ They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor. They looked at each other and then looked away.”

One Thursday morning when I was in the school with my friend two boys were picking on me and my friend it happen on the bus and the hallway. That made me and my friend upset me and my friend goes to Arnall Middle School. it happen 1 week ago. What happened was two boys were picking on us so we told them to stop. But they keep going so we told the teacher. So he was talking to them out of the classroom door. So they can have a conversation about bullying.

But it was a close call for Margot, because 3 weeks after her return to Earth a solar flare hit Venus and caused all electricity to go down, and without electricity nothing can power the sunlamps which is the only way to grow crops on Venus. The people on Venus starved to death, and because a trip to Venus takes longer than 2 weeks help could not reach Venus in time. Even though Margot did not like the children on Venus that does not mean she didn't feel sad for them, but the people she felt sad about the most were her parents because they stayed on Venus after delivering margot to her grandparents.