Briar Short Story

When Jeannette begins school in Welch, an African American girl Dinitia Hewitt and her friends harassed and beat up Jeannette for being scrawny and filthy. She is constantly made fun of because it is apparent that she lives in poverty. The other children do not accept other that aren’t like them and Jeannette is no exception. Her worn clothes and grimy hair are like a neon sign shouting about her life in poverty which makes Jeannette an easy target to bullies. Jeannette tries very hard to stand up for herself, however, the bullying only stops once other realize that living in poverty and being different was not Jeannette’s

In the story an example of Melinda Sordino, the main character goes through an unfortunate crisis. She is going into her freshmen year of high school and because of one thing that happened she lost what every girl needs in high school,

The environment a child is raised in creates a major influence on the child’s future. For instance, the author Wes Moore was sent to military school because of his declining academics in his former public school and because of a situation that occurred when Wes punched his sister Shani. As a consequence Wes’s mother sends Wes to Valley Forge Military school in hopes this will correct Wes’s behavior and model him as a better student. In the beginning, Wes felt infuriated and betrayed by his mother for sending him to this institution. Wes tries multiple times to escape but never is success. It is until Wes sees the F Company and becomes impressed by the amount of respect they receive. This is when Wes begins to understand that he is in a different

Brianna had started to have trouble in school and he started showing effects of this in class by not caring, and being rude. Theresa and Brianna later find out that Brianna had to repeat second grade. Theresa was heartbroken by this and had no idea what to do. Theresa starts getting together with some of her friends and talks about her problem. Little did she know her friends were also having the same problems with their children. That’s when she realized how much talking to other people can help solve the problem with their advice and experience. She then created a support group where parents can share their problems and get help from the other parents. After a while more and more people were showing up until she would get 20 to 30 people a class. Theresa then started believing in herself knowing with the help of these people she was capable of helping her daughter. Brianna is now doing great academically and socially now because of this support. Lastly, Mia talks about Baakir’s story which is about his business and the community he

Briony is the main character in the Atonoment. She is an eighteen-year-old girl that is training to become a nurse in London during the World War II. The story is written at an first person perspective and you see the story through Brionys eyes. You get to follow her through some horror experiences of being a nurse during the war.

Ronita had returned to school, 2 years after Katrina, when she went into labor. The local schools, overwhelmed by thousands of children displaced from New Orleans did not welcome more students, especially with babies, and her help with her youngest brother was needed at home. She liked high school and had hoped to graduate, baby and all, but worried her mother and grandmother could not manage without her.

Although everything may seem like it fits perfectly, sometimes people just tell you what you want to hear. Ariana’s last two years have been filled with Kaitlynn sob stories about how she was wrongfully committed. After Briana Leigh’s confession her story all fell into place. This lead to Ariana taking a drunk Briana Leigh to a lake and drowning her. Ariana couldn’t believe that she ever thought Kaitlynn had lied to her. Just like always, Ariana formed a plan. This time, her plan was to get Kaitlynn out of Brenda T. so that they could finally move on with their lives like they always daydreamed about. When Kaitlynn finally does get out, they meet at the lake, where Briana Leigh Covington was killed. In this part of the book, Kaitlynn’s walls

Once upon a time in a far, far, away town, lived an ordinary girl named Rhonda k. Rhonda k was a great student. She was both athletic, and popular. She had everything going for her except one thing. That one thing was that she had an enemy named Wonita Weisenberger that always wanted to bring her down or be better than her. Rhonda k and her best friend Dorinda never let this happen. Rhonda k was dating the star football player, named F. The other bad thing was that her nemesis Wonita Weisenberger liked F. She would always try to get in between the two. Rhonda k was very upset one day when she went to find her boyfriend and found him talking to Wonita on the bench. Ugh-are they really talking to each other she thought(15). When Rhonda

P.E. Fun. Breana has a great deal of fun at Miller. Her favorite, however, is P.E. She loves the fact that she can play basketball, volleyball, and soccer during her free time. Of course, that’s not all. Her friends have P.E with her too, so she also admires that she can hang out with her friends.

She thought her parents would agree that she should go because they always supported her higher education. She hoped that she would get new friends, get to go to football games, and maybe even join the cheer leading squad. Little did she know, this decision would change her life forever. It took two weeks, but Carlotta eventually was able to enter the school. Upon arrival at the school a Guardsman had to protect her from the mob. The bullies shouted insults at her daily concerning her being black which made her feel demeaned, but no matter how terrible she felt she would not let them see her cry. To make it easier she made a game out of their insults. All of this made her angry, angry that she had to be protected and that she had to endure this torture in a hallowed place of learning. She had wished they would stop trying to force her out of Central. Contrary to her wishes, she was still being bullied such as spitting which she found disgusting and infuriating. At times she sat down in glue or spit to find several of her classmates doubled over in laughter. This was humiliating for Carlotta, she learned to look at her seat and swipe it before sitting. Some days Carlotta was so mentally exhausted that she couldn't guard her heart. On these days her bully's insults smashed her heart. Instead of not responding to her abusers she chose to face them and retaliate in the same way she was

Opal Buloni and her dad move too little ol' Naomi, Florida from little ol' Watley, Florida. She misses her friends, her home, and her mother who left her when she was a little girl. One day she decided to go to a store called Winn-Dixie, when she walks in, she sees a dog that just ran full speed and jump on top of the manger that works there, he starts screaming for help, people start looking at the dog on top of the manger. The manger yells who dog is this it’s quiet for a minute then “Opal says he is mine his name is Winn Dixie...” the manager said “get this dog of me”… Later that week she goes to the library and meets an old women name Miss Franny, then she starts talking to Opal about when she first got the library and they start talking

Rebecca left home at around 6:45 a.m., on Monday morning. No one in her family noticed her leaving home without her school supplies because other things around the house garnered their attention. As the sibling of six sisters and three brothers, Rebecca’s family was often preoccupied. Rebecca should have been headed to Lawton Chiles Middle Academy but instead went to an abandoned industrial location where she climbed

My mother, Marianne Briner, was born Marianne Krafsig on September 9th, 1960 in Warsaw, Poland. She was the youngest of four children, and shortly after her birth, her family packed up and moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1979, she married the love of her life, Lee Briner, at only 19 years of age. She was a stay at home mom of four children, and even though she often had her hands full with the kids, she was always willing to lend a helping hand to our community.

Jerome Seymour Bruner is an American psychologist who made signification contributions to educational, cognitive and developmental psychology. This paper will focus on who Bruner is, his main theories explained, plus a comparison between Bruner and Piaget and the effectiveness of Bruners theories in the classroom.

My day begins again with a drone of the same ringtone of the alarm. Getting up to open the window forgetting about the same old raven bird that stares at me with its whole black eyes sending you into a black spiral. The sense of nostalgia hits, rain leaves its own scent like the scent of an ex-lover’s. After all eternity doesn’t wait for the past to catch up, you just keep on going with your life as I have. Making my way to the kitchen I avoid all the papers on the floor scattered like a tornado threw up and shredded its life. My hands twitches to grab the phone eager to check for the ghost messages and calls. Putting down my arm as soons as it raises “don’t do it”. I turn in circles to find someone but in its leave was nothing. “ I know” I whispered to no one. The hallway was filled with darkness except for one room whose light was slowly dimming. Darting past the shadowed hands reaching for me I went into the room. Searching for that dark grey raincoat that was hung up on a hanger in the half empty closet.