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2.98 AVERAGE
2.98 AVERAGE
school reading
it makes me angry because it’s so stupid
it makes me angry because it’s so stupid
This is a short little “documentary novel” about a brat of a kid who destroys his teacher’s career. The boy is flunking her class and cannot try out for the track team. He tries to get transferred to another class by obnoxiously humming to the national anthem during the morning announcements. When he repeatedly does this, he is suspended. His parents think that he is simply expressing his rights. The media gets a whiff of the story and eventually a Rush Limbaugh kind of DJ turns this into a national affair. People begin calling for the teacher’s head.
In this little book, almost everybody seems both guilty and innocent at the same tome. Lack of communication and bureaucracy leads to suffering of all involved.
I will be teaching this book to 8th graders for the first time next school year. I’m curious as to how it will be received.
In this little book, almost everybody seems both guilty and innocent at the same tome. Lack of communication and bureaucracy leads to suffering of all involved.
I will be teaching this book to 8th graders for the first time next school year. I’m curious as to how it will be received.
I read this back at middle school. It was an okay book. This was the first and only book that I was require to read, and I came back to it years later. Every other book that a teacher assigned me would get easily forgotten in my noggin. But I always came to this particular book.
Sometimes, for the unorthodox nature of using newsletters, memos, and journal entries as its' narrative format. Other times, it was for the sheer random thoughts on school readings and how it's a major turn off for anyone whose not allowed to chose what they want to read. Most recently, or at the time of writing this, that book kept coming into my head during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, excluding the more adult parts.
The premise is a bit odd, the inciting incident is anyway. The kid gets suspended from school for "singing" the United States National Anthem, which is asking for a huge suspension of disbelief.
But the way is gets blown out of proportion completely mirrors how society will use anything to get themselves into a higher position of power.
It's just a more bare bones precursor to social justice movements and the dark underpinnings of what can essentially become of huge clout game.
Because that's what this basically is. Nearly everyone in this book is a hypocrite. And the truth is told bits and pieces so that we can never tell what is version of the truth is the right one. Cause the real truth most likely holds the most facts. And facts are completely unbiased.
I recommend this book to anyone in this time of age. It's not gonna be adapted to film or anything, but I still think it holds major relevancy to today's world.
Sometimes, for the unorthodox nature of using newsletters, memos, and journal entries as its' narrative format. Other times, it was for the sheer random thoughts on school readings and how it's a major turn off for anyone whose not allowed to chose what they want to read. Most recently, or at the time of writing this, that book kept coming into my head during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, excluding the more adult parts.
The premise is a bit odd, the inciting incident is anyway. The kid gets suspended from school for "singing" the United States National Anthem, which is asking for a huge suspension of disbelief.
But the way is gets blown out of proportion completely mirrors how society will use anything to get themselves into a higher position of power.
It's just a more bare bones precursor to social justice movements and the dark underpinnings of what can essentially become of huge clout game.
Because that's what this basically is. Nearly everyone in this book is a hypocrite. And the truth is told bits and pieces so that we can never tell what is version of the truth is the right one. Cause the real truth most likely holds the most facts. And facts are completely unbiased.
I recommend this book to anyone in this time of age. It's not gonna be adapted to film or anything, but I still think it holds major relevancy to today's world.
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved the format and that there were so many different opinions about the situation.
At first I was a little disappointed that the main issue here - a conflict over the Star Spangled Banner - wasn't a conflict of sincere belief but an annoyed kid doing something that spiraled out of control, but as the book went on, the story really grew on me. I love that Avi committed to sticking with the way an event like this probably would end rather than tying things up in a neat, happy bow. A group of good, mature readers could have a really good discussion. The book is told in non-narrative ways - journal entries, memos, transcripts - which I've always been a sucker for.
Interesting format, like a play. Good because it's realistic and shows how little things can have big impacts.
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes