Frederick Paduani - Martello Shelter by Harlan Coben 1 Pronouncement - A formal or authoritative announcement or declaration. “This won’t sound like an earth-shattering pronouncement, but boys get funny around really hot girls. Rachel could tell the lamest jokes and boys fall about the place in laughter.” The president pronounced the war with iraq. 2. Dilapidated - (of a building or object) in a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect. “I had heard the rumors, of course. The Bat Lady supposedly lived alone in the dilapidated house on the corner of Hobart Gap Road and Pine” The old apartment building on my street was left Dilapidated from the lack of repairs. 3. Parochial - Of or relating to a church parish. “So for …show more content…
Relate an incident from the book to something you have experienced At one point in the book Mickey and his friends play a paintball game in school and every weekend I go with all my friends and play paintball. We all have a lot of fun and use different paint balls for our favorite colors so we know who shot each other. In the book Mickey says that “We then played some dumb paintball game where two people got hurt”. You must wear your gear at all times during a paintball game. Or else something like this might happen. Another type of game that I like to play is airsoft in this game you use guns that instead of shooting paint shoot BBs. I like airsoft more than paintball because the airsoft guns look really cool and real. As Well as in this game if you don't wear the right padding then being hit will really hurt. 3. Choose what you think is the most significant line in the book. Copy that line and explain why it so important to the …show more content…
The building had been created for life, for constant motion, for students rushing back and forth, some confident, most scared, all trying to figure out their place in the world. Take that away and you might as well have a body drained of all its blood.” I think this is the most significant line in the book because it shows how lifeless a school can get at night and really sets a tone for the rest of the book during this scene. It shows how empty some people feel when they leave school and must go back home when school is the only place they feel safe. School was made for everyone to happy inside of it, empty or not sometimes the people inside feel empty. Because in some schools many kids are being bullied. Everyday another kid just wanting to have a nice day of learning can not. All because of a group of people who think they are better than everyone else. My favorite character is Mickey because after everything that happens to him throughout the book he still pushes on. His girlfriend missing. His dad dead. As Well as his mom being in rehab. He still pushes on and gets things
1. Show how at least two individual episodes, sections or events in your studied text held your interest as a reader.
With the equipment described above there are innumerable games that can be played. Today there are even paintball teams and leagues that play professionally. Paintball has even been known to be ...
Living in Kansas is unique because there are many historical things that happened here that we don’t really notice.
Three friends, Bob Gurnsey, Bob Jones and Charles Gaines came up with the idea of hunting and surviving as human prey. Bob Gurnsey founded the new sport called National Survival Game. Competitive Manufactures started to make different guns and paintballing became a new fun sport all around the country. The first paintball game was officially held on June 2, 1981.
...e last line of the poem would make us think even though they are going into a newer school habitat and age, they still are growing up and they will find out things that they never knew and are able to learn more even though that there are dangers on the way. Also the line could mean that they are now leaving Mrs Tilschers Class and now their lives may become dangerous without her.
Pages 106-End: Quote three lines from the book and explain the significance of each one.
Paintball! A fast-paced, adrenaline pumping, game...paintball is a world renowned sport and is growing popularity faster than several other top sports. Paintball is non-contact, making it very safe when played right. According to the Sports Data Inc. surveys, paintball has the lowest injury rate of ANY sport, at only .31 injuries per 1000 participants. Paintball is viewed several different ways by people that have not experienced it for themselves.
Many students don’t like school because they think it’s boring. Why do they think it is boring? Simple causes lead to many effects. However just by thinking school is boring could lead to many future problems.
School is used to teach kids many different subjects, however many children are losing their interest in it and going are going to school simply to get by and still participate in the sport that means the most to them. Many schools like the high
People often associate school with safety. Some would even say that it is one of the safest places for a child to be. Parents have to believe that, because that is where they take their beloved children to enhance their education. People also equate negative things with school. Whether the school is public or private, it cannot escape the deranged parents that repeatedly come to the school, the distracting arguments that are caused by a teacher and student, or the bullies that torment the weaker students.
It is a place where they can feel protected and upheld. Sometimes the bad school performance makes the children feel that they do not belong to that world. It makes her feel that it is not able to keep up with the other colleagues. We all know how children without even knowing it can be cruel with schoolmates. Thus, a bad school performance already is reason for starting bullying against those who do not have good grades. The other children give them pejorative nicknames and isolate them from the rest of the students. This makes the school is torture for this type of student. They end up not putting up the pressure and drop out of school. Another critical point to highlight is the transition to the elementary school to middle school when the school changes the system of having only one teacher to have several teachers and rotations classrooms and colleagues. Sometimes the children do not adapt to this change and drop out of school. The type of school that the child and adolescent attending and the type of teacher they also have are crucial factors for student follows or not in school. As previously mentioned the school environment should be welcoming to the student. If the school is extremely rigid and not provide freedom for the student can feel the will to expose your ideas or even discuss (with discipline and respect) someone’s ideas in class, this school will not be a place where the student liked to spend half his day. Another important point is to have well prepared teacher. The school must have trained and motivated teachers to work. They need to be people that encourage students to develop critical thinking and to make even the most boring of subjects an attractive theme to develop in the classroom. In addition, teachers need to have the sensitivity to realize when a student is going through a period of difficulties and help you overcome
Going to school involves responsibilities, and students fail to meet them by not bringing their own supplies and lacking focus. Instead, they take makeup, earphones, and phone chargers; things that should obviously be left at home. Their devoted attention is emphasized on whatever is trending in social media or school gossip. School is an institution to receive instruction,
Children by nature are human sponges. They absorb information on many different levels, intellectually, emotionally, physically, etc. Their lives are mapped out by experiences, what they learn, and where they learn it. School is the first opportunity for children to learn, to experience, and to see where their lives are headed. All children have the right to an education. One that focuses on their individual needs and an education that will make them learn and feel good about themselves.
...ke school something that the students can look back on and think that it was a meaningful time where they learned a lot about life instead of a time where they thought they would have a break down because they got a low score on a test. School should be a time to make mistakes in a safe environment that they can learn from, not a place that they are petrified to make a mistake for fear of retribution on their grade cards. Its time to change the school system to save future students from becoming stress crazed and to let them know that there is more to this world than a grade card and in the long run it is a very small fraction of life.