Riley

The Power Of The Blizzard The blizzard began to blow its winds again. Powdery snow started blanketing gently on the wet slushy yards that were soaked from multiple days of fierce rain and snow. As delicate snowflakes floated through the silent air, the glass like icicles melted, leaving tiny puddles on the ground. Crash! Bailey disturbed the silence as she sprinted across her neighbor’s yard, dropping her textbooks in a pile of snow. The snow crunched under her feet as she picked up her books and

Riley Edlitz suffered through years of harassment in elementary school, which she believes catalyzed her role as a bully. Now a freshman at Scarsdale High School, Riley distinctively remembers feeling powerless and insecure. “The bullying just really got to me, I believed everything they said about me. I felt worthless.” She was mocked, tormented, and insulted on a daily basis; “I became a shell of the person I once was,” she accepts. “I had a bully who had bullied me throughout all of Middle School

first real page in the book would be the questions for chapter one the next page would be where the students recorded the questions and answers for chapter two, and so on. The new book added was named Summer of Riley. This novel follows the story of an eleven year old who has a dog named Riley that they are trying to save from being put to sleep by the law enforcement for chasing livestock. This raises a lot of interesting questions for the students including how to lawfully go about protesting a law

1. Scribe a child’s story and have the children act it out, ala Vivian Paley. Describe the process. During this observation I observed a young girl who we will call “Kayla” she was working on her daily journal. I asked the teacher if it would be okay if I asked “Kayla” to tell me a story about her journal page and then have her act it out with a few friends the teacher was actually very excited about this. So when I asked “Kayla” to tell me a story about the time she and her family went to the beach

Case Study I: Riley A first-generation college sophomore, Riley, comes to visit you as her academic advisor, and says, "I'm having trouble in two of my classes. I don't understand what the professor is talking about in one of them, but it's a required course in my major. The other is only a general education course, but I keep getting low grades on the writing assignments. I was always good in writing in high school. If I do poorly, this will lower my GPA, and I just got off academic probation last

time. ¨Please tell me we're almost there¨, whined Brianna. Brianna was impatient as ever, and the fact that they'd been in the van for almost six hours straight was definitely not helping. Brianna and her friends, Taylor, Sophia, Tamara, Julia, Riley, and Brenna had spontaneously decided to go on a road trip ¨Brianna, stop complaining already!

giving this speech to you all without the help and support of my high school teacher Miss Riley. Miss Riley was like a second mother to me. She believed in me when many other people didn’t and she gave me the courage to follow my dreams. Miss Riley told me to never give up, and she showed true interest in what I wanted to do in my life even though all she needed to do was teach me maths and science. Miss Riley stood up for me when the principal didn’t think it would be a good idea because it would

Two of the dead walked right up onto the front step, one of them carrying a small box wrapped in a tattered, blackened flag. “Mrs. Riley,” he said. “We’d like to come in.” “No,” she said. “Thanks all the same, I can hear you from here.” She stood back far enough so she could swing the shotgun up to shoot if she had to. The zombie coughed politely. “Your husband self-immolated on the

incoming fire, and Riley, like many soldiers, had little ways to express his feelings. After suppertime, Rat decided to express his emotions by beating up the baby water buffalo. It was an impactful scene because it shows what Riley was going through after seeing his best friend die before him. O’Brien describes the act, “It wasn’t to kill; it was to hurt.” (Pg. 75). Rat was inflicting the pain Vietnam has caused him onto the baby water buffalo; the pain, regret, and misery Riley must have felt was

Bob Riley is an American author who once said , “Hard times don’t create heroes it’s during the hard times when the hero within us is revealed.” Heroes don’t have to be people that went through a difficult challenge and has a struggle in life , heroism is the people that aren’t giving up and persevere and strive to overcome things and go through the struggle and challenges that come toward them during the hard times. Hero’s are people that are willing to put others first , for example a hero