How Does Sarah Dessen Portray Life In High Schools?

Intro: J.C Burkes novel, ‘The Story Of Tom Brennan’ starts with a fatal car accident. Daniel Brennan a young driver who’s had to much to drink, makes a bad decision, and drives while intoxicated, with three other people in the car, in an instant his friends are dead, and his cousin Fin is left with permanent spinal injuries. This book shows us how Tom Brennan’s life changes when his older brother, Daniel, kills two people and paralyses another.

In the novel Stargirl a teenager in high school is very outgoing and a little “weird” to the other students at Micah High School. She has to face a big decision to become a conformist to the high school norms or be a nonconformist and be her unique self. She meets a boy Leo who will impact her decision heavily. The other students are very rude to her because they are, in away, scared of her because she isn’t “normal”. Archie a old man that students often went to for stories understood Stargirl and helped other to except her.

People try to hard to be popular in Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. Stargirl becomes Susan to try to be popular, but it did not work. The most important lesson that we learned from Stargirl is that popularity does not matter, no matter how much you are hated.

Sarah really wants to become a doctor or something in the medical field but she's afraid she's not good enough. Sarah is interested in the human body and helping people but can't find confidence in herself to be sure if she wants to go on to college and pursue that major. Sarah is the type of person that is not afraid to ask for extra help when she needs it and asks a lot of questions. Her parents and her family believes in her but she doesn't believe in herself. She's heard all of the stories from her college friends with majoring in science and how hard it is and how much work it is. She can really see herself in the medical field and she's willing to work really hard for it, but she's scared once she gets to college she will struggle. She

The popular child star, Amanda Bynes, has recently gone through a wild child phase, as seen by committing several federal crimes, such as hitting and running, driving under the influence, and using illegal drugs. Bynes has recently been diagnosed with both Schizophrenia, and Bipolar Disorder. Finally, after several outrageous months, Bynes was, “placed under an involuntary hold,” known as the 5150 psychiatric hold, in Los Angeles, California. The UCLA Medical Center came to a conclusion and diagnosed Amanda Bynes with both, a bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Bynes’ disorder can be applicable based on several different perspectives such as the biological, and the social

Throughout the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, several topics across the novel contribute to the overall theme. From identity, conformity to bullying, the topics of Stargirl cover everything under the Mica sun. Conformity is touched after everyone in Mica Area High School is described as conformists, blending into one another. Identity is challenged by Stargirl as she breaks away from conformity. Bullying makes its debut after the kids at MAHS reject Stargirls quirky ways. Overall, the Stargirl novel puts a fresh take on the underlining theme most people aren’t true to themselves unless they are confident.

Despite the sufferance of victims, they often aren’t entirely blameless, as their poor decisions and irresponsibility is ultimately associated with their upsetting and newfound situation. Therefore victims like Fin O’Neil in The Story of Tom Brennan, who ultimately chose to travel in a car with drunken, inexperienced, and impulsive driver, it becomes questionable whether he is also culpable for his injuries. Despite Fin’s sobriety and awareness prior to the accident, this does not implicate him, however it becomes debatable whether the outcomes would be alike; with Fin’s extensive injuries and crash itself, if the decisions made on Fin’s behalf were different. Similarly in the story of ‘In My Little Town’, Leigh Charter Jnr also decides to travel with a drunk driver, regardless of the risks. Although his alertness was also compromised by alcohol, he holds some level of responsibility in his death. However, in ‘Shattered’, there are no obvious victims who made poor decisions, due to the situations isolation. Although, it is disputable whether the perpetrator; Peter Hodgkins’ friends who witnessed the accident could have altered the outcome. Though, it was voiced to Peter; “don’t throw a rock at a car, that’s stupid,” (‘Shattered’, 2011) this partly ousts some responsibility, especially due to their intoxication, which is similar to the other stories. However, responsibility is never fully removed from others, as it only takes one person, one conversation, and any one action during the lead to alter the outcome of July 21st 2007, in Kiama, New South

Katie Hendrickson 's “Student Resistance to Schooling: Disconnections With Education in Rural Appalachia” is a scholarly article within The High School Journal, a publication for those employed in a secondary educational facility. Being founded in 1918, it is one of the oldest peer-reviewed academic journals in education. The journal is managed by students and faculty in the School of Education at Chapel Hill and is published quarterly by the University of North Carolina Press – it 's both a current and scholarly resource. Hendrickson has quite a storied history in the teaching field as well, giving credence to her article. She has been published in another peer-reviewed academic journal, Education in a Democracy, as well as presented her finding on co-teaching at the Ohio Confederation of Teacher Education Organizations conferences. But the list of accolades doesn 't end there: she was awarded the Mabel Olson Bell Award for Outstanding Mentor Teachers from the Patton College of Education at Ohio University, in addition to awards for STEM (Science, Technology, Mathematics, and Engineering) teaching. Hendrickson, along with two of her colleagues, accepted the Governor’s Thomas Edison Award for Excellence in STEM Education in 2013, and in 2012, she received a Global Teacher Fellowship from the Rural School and Community Trust. This gave her the opportunity to travel and create place-based lessons for classrooms drawing from her experience,

Jackie and I were now halfway to where Mike’s car wreck took place, on Highway 46. The accident must have been pretty bad because it was reported on the news, a rare case, I thought to myself. I prayed Mike was going to be ok. The drive felt like it was taking hours to get to the scene . I could feel the tension in the car growing. The fact that one of our closest friends could be gravely injured was a slug shot from a shotgun into our chests. Jackie was still distressed as she drove; tears dripped from her eyes like droplets from a cool water bottle on a hot day.

Leigh Anne leaves her Ordinary World by Crossing the Threshold into the Special World, where she must overcome a series of challenges. Leigh Anne’s journey begins when she helps out a juvenile in need. As a wife and a mom of two Mrs.

The theme of the book is to be patient. Being patient has a lot to do with Sarah who is the only girl on the football team. It took a while for Sarah to get on the football team, but her impressive kicking skills really showed why she should be on the football team. Sarah is the type of girl who workouts everyday and wants Vanden High School to win the state championship. At first Sarah had to wait for a week to get on the team because she disguised herself as a boy, which wasn’t the smartest idea, but a way to show off her talents.

With increased concerns about school safety due to widely publicized school violence, schools, responding to demands of concerned parents and educators, have implemented heightened security measures. School surveillance remains relatively unregulated by the government, meaning that spying technology can be instated without notifying parents or students and is largely left to the discretion and oversight of administration. This has peaked concerns of students and their families who argue unregulated surveillance is unnecessary, too invasive and harmful to educational environments. Elaborating on the extent of harms surveillance can cause in school environments, Melinda Anderson argues in her Atlantic article “When School Feels Like Prison” surveillance

Lindsey Ames, a soon to be high school freshman, views her new school as an opportunity to start over. With the help of her new established friends, Teeny and Grouper, she believes that a change in her wardrobe will eliminate her image that was so haunting and discomforting in the past. Lindsey is successful for a while until her worst possible nightmare appears, her long-time adversary, Avery. The same spoiled bully that ruined her whole middle school life, now reminds Lindsey of her place. As the book continues, the main character’s coping strategies begin to be visible to the reader. Lindsey and her friends, without including the adults, struggle to manage the bullying. Despite this immutable problem, there are other things on Lindsey’s mind. She wants to join the National Honor Society, she wants to take Italian, she wants a cute boy to ask her out, but most of all she wants to change her reputation. However, this does not happen so quickly. As tensions rise, Lindsey faces the complex nature of bullying, and experiences the ups and downs of life as a high school teen.

Adnan Syed, the convicted murderer at a young age, got famous because Sarah Koenig made his case the subject of a national podcast called Serial. She believed the case was interesting because it was “confusing and there was not much evidence against him” yet he was convicted of a murder. The podcast Serial developed by This American Life, is nonfiction that is spoken by Sarah Koenig who is an investigative journalist. Sarah Koenig also mentions there was no real evidence that Adnan was the murderer. The View from LL2 has all the evidence from the podcast, “Serial: An Examination of the Prosecution’s Evidence Against Adnan Syed”, which reviews all available evidence for Adnan’s case. Also, from the article The View from LL2 explains what testimonies

The theme of Saint Anything is your actions and choices affect others. To backup my claim is in chapter 2 Peyton's drunk driving left David paralyzed. This choice of Peyton drinking led David unable to walk. Next, Sydney left her private school, Perkins Day, to join public school, Jackson high. She did this becouse Peyton's defence bills were adding up and she needed a fresh start she says "Plus, I wanted to be anonymous." Sydney's mom spent her time worrying about Peyton not Sydney. To support my idea, in chapter 5, her mom insisted that Sydney see her brother on family day but her brother did not want her there when she's talking to her mom she says "Peyton doesn't want me there." At Sydney's new school she meant the Chatham family, Mr. and