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Jane Fortier Research Paper

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Her name is Jane Fortier. It is the year of 1965. Jane is an eighteen year old girl living in Hartford Vermont and going to Hartford High School. She lives in a rural town where each family has two working parents. Jane walks to school everyday. But, the walk is three miles each way. The school bus doesn’t pick kids up unless they live more than ten miles away. Jane makes the trek all the way in her high heels to her sixty person grade and her less than three hundred kid school. But, why does she do this? Jane is a smart girl. She loves her teacher, Mr. Hooper who teaches english. She also likes math. Math is her favorite subject. But, she doesn’t love math because it involves numbers or she has to work out problems. She loves math because it is easy, and her teachers all say that she needs to take harder math classes. Math is like a few other classes in her school. English, Home Economics, History, and Science all have something in common with math. They are all required. Even though there …show more content…

Lunch, also known as gossip time. Yes, Jane can do homework during lunch, but that is not what she uses it for. Unlike all of the boys, who talk about football and other sports, Jane and her friends gossip about all of the news going on. They talk about couples, new kids, and the girls they dislike. The topic is usually about the latter. The girls. They talk about how the girls are arrogant and mean. These are usually the girls that think they are popular but aren’t. These girls always talk about how pretty and smart they are. Although lunches are her favorite part of the day, her favorite days are the nights that they have school dances. The dances aren’t anything special, the girls dance together on fast songs but not slow ones. But, the girls also dance with the boys. The music is the popular music at the time and everyone have smiles on their faces, including the teachers that are told to chaperone for the

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