Read an excerpt from another group's independent read.
Write a blog here with the following format:
1. Include your name,
2. The title of the novel, and the name of the person's excerpt you are responding to.
3. What is the tone of the excerpt you have read? Be precise. See tone words below.
4. Compare and contrast the excerpt with what your independent read. Focus on subject matter, methods of research, ways of persuasion, causes, effects, etc...
Positive Tone/Attitude Words
Amiable
Amused
Appreciative
Authoritative
Benevolent
Brave
Calm
Cheerful
Cheery
Compassionate
Complimentary
Confident
Negative Tone/Attitude Words
Accusing
Aggravated
Agitated
Angry
Apathetic
Arrogant
Artificial
Audacious
Belligerent
Bitter
Boring
Brash
Childish
Humor-Irony-Sarcasm Tone/Attitude Words
Amused
Bantering
Bitter
Caustic
Comical
Condescending
Contemptuous
Critical
Cynical
Disdainful
Consoling
Content
Dreamy
Ecstatic
Elated
Elevated
Encouraging
Energetic
Enthusiastic
Excited
Exuberant
Fanciful
Friendly
Happy
Hopeful
Impassioned
Jovial
Joyful
Jubilant
Lighthearted
Loving
Optimistic
Passionate
Peaceful
Playful
Pleasant
Proud
Relaxed
Reverent
Romantic
Soothing
Surprised
Sweet
Sympathetic
Vibrant
Whimsical
Choleric
Coarse
Cold
Condemnatory
Condescending
Contradictory
Critical
Desperate
Disappointed
Disgruntled
Disgusted
Disinterested
Facetious
Furious
Harsh
Haughty
Hateful
Hurtful
Indignant
Inflammatory
Insulting
Irritated
Manipulative
Obnoxious
Outraged
Passive
Quarrelsome
Shameful
Smooth
Snooty
Superficial
Surly
Testy
Threatening
Tired
Uninterested
Wrathful
Droll
Facetious
Flippant
Giddy
Humorous
Insolent
Ironic
Irreverent
Joking
Malicious
Mock-heroic
Mocking
Mock-serious
Patronizing
Pompous
Quizzical
Ribald
Ridiculing
Sad
Sarcastic
Sardonic
Satiric
Scornful
Sharp
Silly
Taunting
Teasing
Whimsical
Wry
Sorrow-Fear-Worry Tone/Attitude Words
Aggravated
Agitated
Anxious
Apologetic
Apprehensive
Concerned
Confused
Dejected
Depressed
Despairing
Disturbed
Neutral Tone/Attitude Words
Admonitory
Allusive
Apathetic
Authoritative
Baffled
Callous
Candid
Ceremonial
Clinical
Consoling
Contemplative
Conventional
Detached
Didactic
Disbelieving
Embarrassed
Fearful
Foreboding
Gloomy
Grave
Hollow
Hopeless
Horrific
Horror
Melancholy
Miserable
Morose
Mournful
Nervous
Numb
Ominous
Paranoid
Pessimistic
Pitiful
Poignant
Regretful
Remorseful
Resigned
Sad
Serious
Sober
Solemn
Somber
Staid
Upset
Dramatic
Earnest
Expectant
Factual
Fervent
Formal
Forthright
Frivolous
Haughty
Histrionic
Humble
Incredulous
Informative
Inquisitive
Instructive
Intimae
Judgmental
Learned
Loud
Lyrical
Matter-of-fact
Meditative
Nostalgic
Objective
Obsequious
Patriotic
Persuasive
Pleading
Pretentious
Provocative
Questioning
Reflective
Reminiscent
Resigned
Restrained
Seductive
Sentimental
Serious
Shocking
Sincere
Unemotional
Urgent
Vexed
Wistful
Zealous
Samantha Nguyen: Hurt by Chap Clark, Paige White
ReplyDelete"Adolesents have been cut off for far too long from the adults who have the power and experience to escort them into a greater society. Adolesents have been abandoned. They have, therefore, created their own world, a world that is designed to protect themselves from the destructive forces and wiles of the adult community" (Clark 20).
1. The tone of this passage is bitter and agitated.
2. This book, Hurt, is different compared to Queen Bees and Wannabes, which is the book I am reading. In Queen Bees and Wannabes, it talks about how parents should get along with their daughter if they run into some problems in their adolescence. On the contrary, Hurt appears to be aiming for parents with children in general, as Queen Bees and Wannabes is aiming for parents with daughters. They are the same in that they both describe how to deal with their children's issues as they grow older. Also, they both discuss how children and teenagers use technology to block out the outside world.
Jillian Shih
ReplyDelete1. Reagan Sluga, Hurt by Chap Clark
2.“These kids are no different from when I was a kid. They are just more indulged today. And they have more options-from sports to money to the Internet. Kids today are just a more spoiled breed of us when we were young” (Clark 23).
3. The author has a critical tone.
4. This is contrasting with my book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. In Odd Girl Out, the tone is more critical towards the teens analyzed while this excerpt is supporting the generic image of today's generation of teen. While the author of Odd Girl out explains why girls are this way today and uses a soft, concerned tone, this author is more demeaning.
1. Reagan Sluga
ReplyDelete2. Nick Sweeting; Boys Adrift: by Leonard Sax
"Trying to teach five-year-old boys to learn to read and write may be just as inappropriate as it would be to try and teach three-year-old girls to read and write. Timing is everything, in education as in many other fields. It's not enough to teach well. You have to teach well to kids who are ready to learn, kids who are developmentally "ripe" for learning. Asking five-year-old boys to learn to read-when they'd rather be running around or playing games-may be the worst possible introduction to school, at least for some boys" (Sax 18).
3. The tone of this excerpt is reminiscent.
4. The book Boys Adrift compares with the book, Hurt, because both authors defend the children. They believe its mostly the parents fault and that the parents should make most of the decisions. But the books contrast because the book, Hurt, is more about the parents and how they can understand their child and the author is more critical. In the book, Boys Adrift, the author is more suggestive and laid back then my book.
Ellen Saba
ReplyDelete1. Jessica Jenkins; Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman
2. “Your daughter lives in two worlds simultaneously-the real world and the virtual world. In her mind, they are interconnected. What happens in one impacts the other, and vice versa.” (22)
3. The tone of this passage is amused and bitter.
4. Queen Bees and Wannabees can compare with my book, Odd Girl Out. In Odd Girl Out, they believe that the virtual world is where teens can hide, just to get away from it all. In Queen Bees and Wannabees they say that their are two worlds and teens use the easy way out to hide, which would also be the virtual world.
1) Ben Galisky
ReplyDelete2) Im responding to the novel “Queen Bees Wannabes” by Rosalind Wiseman it is an excerpt from Christoper’s book
Before so many fifth graders had cell phones, if a girl wanted to go home she would have to call from a landline in your house. You would know what was going on and you wouldn't be surprised when an upset parent knocked on your door because their daughter called them from the bathroom crying. Now chances are that you'll be blindsided. Or there's always the possiblilty you won't know until a few days later when you find out there's been a flurry of e-mails between parents in your community about how horrible the girls were at your house”
3) the tone of this passage is bitter, agitated, and critical
4) The book “Queen Bees and Wannabees” compares with the book, “A Tribe Apart”, because “Queen Bees and Wannabees” criticizes girls, and technology and anything that can corrupt a teenager, while “A Tribe Apart” focuses on what a specific type of teen may do. “Queen Bees and Wannabees” uses just an observation of what the author had seen or heard about, while “A Tribe Apart” uses some one who knows what they are doing, and is right there watching what happens.
1. Dylan Rodrigue
ReplyDelete2. "Queen Bees and Wannabees" Jake Wietz
"Stop and Strategize: as soon as you hear this, go somewhere quiet and breathe. Remember, your child is not the worst child in the world and you aren't the worst parent. She has made a big mistake, and it's up to you to make this an opportunity for her to see your values in action. Do not think about how much more or less guilty the boy or your daughter's friend is. Your daughter was involved- that's all you need to know. Now think, where can you talk to her where you the best chance of her listening to you? If at all possible, both parents are there but no one else(74).
3. The author's tone is forgiving and encouraging.
4. Queen Bees and Wannabees contrasts Boys Adrift because they are talking about two different matters. Queen Bees talks about bullying at school between girls and boys while Boys Adrift talks about the trouble with boys and being unmotivated.
1)Sarah Simmons
ReplyDelete2)Exerpt from Emma
Hurt by Chap Clark
"These kids are no different from when I was a kid. They are just more indulged today. And they have more options-from sports to money and the Internet. Kids today are just a more spoiled breed of us when we were young" (Clark 23).
3)The tone of this exerpt seems to be apathetic, critical, disappointed, tired, matter-of-fact, and judgemental.
4)Well, in my independent read "A Tribe Apart" by Patricia Hersch, the author seems to claim that the kids are indeed the same as they were when she was a kid, and it is the parenting strategies that have changed. Her tone seems to be less harsh and more concerned about the kids and parents of today. She uses a mixture of fact and observation to persuade her readers in becoming concerned on this subject rather than listing critical opinions.
1.Nicole Henson
ReplyDelete2.Hurt:Inside the World of Todays Teenagers
Lynea B.
"Although academics argue over whether empirically verifiable statistics can help us to understand what is going on in the world is different from when most of them were in high school. Whenever I allowed those in their late thirties and older to reflect on what has changed, how kids are different, not once did someone reject that premise. What poured out of everyone was a rationale or at least an observable symptom of the changes. Again, almost always something or someone was to blame for the changes: the media, parents, the educational system, Vietnam, post-cold war society, a lack of religious conviction, a loss of family values, or a myriad of other demonizing forces. But there was never a doubt that change had indeed occurred and that today’s adolescents are clearly a different breed."
3.The authors tone is annoyed and doubtful.
4.This paragraph contrasts with the writings of Rosalind Wiseman because she writes with more of a positive attitude towards teenagers than this writer does. She is more hopeful and not as accusing.
"Try as them might, most girls can't erase the natural impulses toward anger that every human being knows. Yet the early research on aggression turned the myth of the "good," nonaggressive girl into fact: The first experiments on aggression were performed with almost no female subjects... Most psychologists looked for direct aggressions like punching, threatening, or teasing... seen through the eyes of scientists, the social lives of girls appeared still and placid as lakes" (Simmons 20).
ReplyDelete1. Katarina Stiller
2. Odd Girl Out: the Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, Jillian Shih
3. The tone is critical and irritated.
4. This book, Odd Girl Out, is different from my book Hurt. This book seems more critical of teenage girls, whereas in Hurt the author is more sympathetic of teenagers. Both seem to suggest that much of society is oblivious of issues within teens, with Odd Girl Out, the true aggressive nature of girls, and with Hurt, the fact that teenagers are abandoned and changed because of it.
1. Kellie Won
ReplyDelete2. Robin; Hurt
“On the surface, the adolescent world appears to be relatively stable and healthy. Yet beneath the calm waters presented by positive empirical data there is turmoil that is difficult, painful, lonely, and even harmful to our young. Even among those who argue that adolescents are basically fine, virtually no one would question the need young peoplem and especially adolescents, have for adults who are available, care, and come to them without a hidden or self-centered agenda, The fact is that adolescents need adults to become adults, and when adults are not present and involved in theit lives, they are force to figure out how to survive." (Clark 42)
3. The tone is accusing, patronizing, and judgemental.
4. Robin’s book directly accuses adults as the root of teenagers’ problems. However, my book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, is directed towards the parents of girls and attempts to tactfully place blame on a variety of sources including other girls, media, and their parents.
1.)Bryan Hernandez
ReplyDelete2.)Passage from Jake Weitz
"Queen Bees and Wannabes" by Rosalind Wiseman
"Stop and Strategize: as soon as you hear this, go somewhere quiet and breathe. Remember, your child is not the worst child in the world and you aren't the worst parent. She has made a big mistake, and it's up to you to make this an opportunity for her to see your values in action. Do not think about how much more or less guilty the boy or your daughter's friend is. Your daughter was involved- that's all you need to know. Now think, where can you talk to her where you the best chance of her listening to you? If at all possible, both parents are there but no one else(74).
3.)The author's tone in this passage is critical, yet it is condescending in the way that the author has some positive comments.
4.) Jake's book differs from mine in the fashion that in Boys Adrift the author criticizes about boy's being put into school early. He says that will lead to a dislike in teachers, class, and learning in general; with little room for success. However, in Queen Bee's and Wannabees the author shows a solution or a light at the end of the tunnel; a more positive route.
Jessica Jenkins
ReplyDeletePassage from Jillian
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
"Girls will begin summoning the strength to confront alternative aggressions when we chart them out in their various shapes and forms, overt and covert. We need to freeze those fleeting moments and name them so that girls are no longer besieged by doubt about what's happening, so that they no longer believe it's their fault when it does" (Simmons 37).
The tone of this passage is very compassionate and also sounds like the author might be irritated with the situation that is being described.
This book is different from Queen Bees and Wannabees because both authors have different ways of approaching issues. In the Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls the author seems to blame the problems on the parents and that it is their duty to help their daughters solve their issues. Where as in the other book, she discusses ways to talk to the teens so that they are more willing to open up and talk to their parents about things that are going on in their lives. The subject matter in both books is the same. They are discussing how to raise teenage girls correctly and there will always be differences in what people think correct should mean. Therefore, there are different styles on how to parent and discipline.
1. Paulina Saracco
ReplyDelete2. Passage from Emma
Hurt by Chap Clark
3."These kids are no different from when I was a kid. They are just more indulged today. And they have more options-from sports to money and the Internet. Kids today are just a more spoiled breed of us when we were young" (Clark 23).
4.The tone seems to be pompous, judgmental, and condescending as it talks about the spoils teenagers have today.
5. I am reading Odd Girl Out and it talks about the affects of bullying which is very different than Hurt. There was a compassionate feel for what the author of Odd Girl Out wrote because she was a victim of bullying herself. She is not judgmental, unlike the author of Hurt, of children today because she focuses more on the problems that they face and how they are ignored by society. In the excerpt above, the author thinks that kids are spoiled and are no different than what they were a few years ago. Times have changed and aggression between girls has also changed to become meaner and crueler. The author of Odd Girl Out explains that the internet can be used against people and that it cannot be taken lightly and the author of Hurt thinks the internet is a spoil.
1) Nick Sweeting
ReplyDelete2 Excerpt from Jake Weitz
"Queen Bees and Wannabes" by Rosalind Wiseman
"Stop and Strategize: as soon as you hear this, go somewhere quiet and breathe. Remember, your child is not the worst child in the world and you aren't the worst parent. She has made a big mistake, and it's up to you to make this an opportunity for her to see your values in action. Do not think about how much more or less guilty the boy or your daughter's friend is. Your daughter was involved- that's all you need to know. Now think, where can you talk to her where you the best chance of her listening to you? If at all possible, both parents are there but no one else(74).
3) The tone of this passage is very pleading and persuasive.
4) Queen Bees and Wannabees contrasts with Boys Adrift in a couple of ways. Jake's book mainly talks about the problems of teenage girls, but Boys Adrift focuses on the many problems of non encouraged boys. Also, Boys Adrift has more of a negative vibe while Queen Bees and Wannabees has some areas of positiveness and encouragement.
1)Julia Wu
ReplyDelete2)Queen Bees and Wannabes; Kellie Won
3)The excerpt has a very demanding and questioning tone.
4)The book "Queen Bees and Wannabes" and "Odd Girl Out" are similar in that they address the topic of girls joining groups for multiple reasons, one being to fit in. They are different because in "Queen Bees and Wannabes" the author likes the idea of girls forming groups but in "Odd Girl Out" the author stresses all the consequences and sacrifices girls have to make in order to join a group and to stay in that group.
Lynea Baudino
ReplyDeleteQueen Bees and Wannabees: Nicole Henson
The tone is very direct and confident like the author knows everything. She critiques every teenage girl to be the same and that is arrogant. Also they seem to be consoling the reader with information that is very limited and untrue of all teenage girls. She seems very lighthearted like everything she states is simple fact and she’s an all knowing being!
This book has a more limited view of Hurt because it focuses only on teenage girls and how they feel in high school. It seems to be written only for parents with teenage girls while Hurt can be considered by both adults with and without children. Hurt is written by a man and Queen Bees and Wannabees is written by a woman so that in itself gives a reader a whole different point of view on each subject. Clark seems writes defensively and like he’s going off his own personal observations while Wiseman, specifically in this passage, like she’s is certain and completely right on everything she writes.
1)Megan Geer
ReplyDelete2)Excerpt by Emma
Hurt by Chap Clark
3)."These kids are no different from when I was a kid. They are just more indulged today. And they have more options-from sports to money and the Internet. Kids today are just a more spoiled breed of us when we were young" (Clark 23).
4)Queen Bees and Wanna Bees and Hurt are two stories that have many things in common as well as many different aspects. In this passage the tone is judgmental and critical. The authors attitude is that technology is destroying our generation and that it has made the teen spoiled. Queen Bees and Wannabes takes a more accepting approach to the way technology has taken a big role in the lives of the younger generation.
1. Jacob Andreasson
ReplyDelete2. A Tribe Apart ( Excerpt from Jared Hong)
"The route he takes to popularity is another matter. His audacity is what strikes his teachers... He is the class clown, irrepressible, funny, outgoing, spontaneous, with a devil-may-care attitude that is the bane of his teachers at the same time it makes them smile inside. In a school environment where attitude often reeks with the threat of real violence, he is comic relief-an irritant, not a threat, to his teachers. Just last week, for example, he got detention for coming late to detention assigned for being late (again) for a class. But his goofiness feels familiar, like a throwback to simpler days. In a school where the system of discipline is overloaded with more serious offenses, a kid like Brendon gets away with behaviors that harm mostly himself by denying him the lessons fo better self control and adherence to standards."
3. The author looks down upon brendon and demoralizes him for being a laughable, class clown type person.
4. The two books discuss totally different issues with todays male adolescence. Boys Adrift inquires upon why todays teenage boys are losing motivation. A Tribe Apart discusses why boys do certain things in order to be accepted by their peers.
1. Jacob Andreasson
ReplyDelete2. A Tribe Apart ( Excerpt from Jared Hong)
"The route he takes to popularity is another matter. His audacity is what strikes his teachers... He is the class clown, irrepressible, funny, outgoing, spontaneous, with a devil-may-care attitude that is the bane of his teachers at the same time it makes them smile inside. In a school environment where attitude often reeks with the threat of real violence, he is comic relief-an irritant, not a threat, to his teachers. Just last week, for example, he got detention for coming late to detention assigned for being late (again) for a class. But his goofiness feels familiar, like a throwback to simpler days. In a school where the system of discipline is overloaded with more serious offenses, a kid like Brendon gets away with behaviors that harm mostly himself by denying him the lessons fo better self control and adherence to standards."
3. The author looks down upon brendon and demoralizes him for being a laughable, class clown type person.
4. The two books discuss totally different issues with todays male adolescence. Boys Adrift inquires upon why todays teenage boys are losing motivation. A Tribe Apart discusses why boys do certain things in order to be accepted by their peers.
P.s mrs eckert this is my real post not the other one
1) Karly Quaack
ReplyDelete2) Passage from the story Hurt, Reagan Sluga
“These kids are no different from when I was a kid. They are just more indulged today. And they have more options-from sports to money to the Internet. Kids today are just a more spoiled breed of us when we were young” (Clark 23).
3) The tone of this excerpt is critical and includes a slight attitude of aggravation.
4) The story I am reading, Queen Bees and Wannabees is similar, but also different than the book Hurt. These stories both emphasize at one point the problems that technology influences on kids today. However, the author of Hurt describes that the problem with kids interacting with the technology and opportunities we provide today are situations unable to be fixed or controlled. He writes as if the kids automatically become the “spoiled breed”. On the other hand, Queen, Bees, and Wannabees focuses more on the teenage girl and the interaction with technology and outside factors. This book stresses that by the assistance of parents and their actions, these circumstances could be resolved.
1. Sajana De Silva
ReplyDelete2. Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers(Excerpt from Robin)
"For youth-directed organizations, institutions, and systems, the shift in focus was not immediate; in fact, it evolved over several decades. But as society in general moved from being a relatively stable and cohesive adult community intent on caring for the needs of the young to a free-for-all of independent and fragmented adults seeking their own survival, individual adolescents found themselves in a deepening hole of systemic rejection. This rejection, or abandoment, of adolescents is the root of the fragmentation and calloused distancing that are the hallmarks of the adolescent culture." (Clark 33)
3. The tone is accusing and blaming parents for not looking after their children that well and only caring for themselves.
4. Queen Bees and Wannabes and Hurt are different in the way that Hurt says that its the parents fault, and Queen Bees and Wannabes say its the childs fault, but they both tell you how to deal with your kid.
1. Emma Slavitt
ReplyDelete2. "Queen Bees and Wannabees" Jake Wietz
"Stop and Strategize: as soon as you hear this, go somewhere quiet and breathe. Remember, your child is not the worst child in the world and you aren't the worst parent. She has made a big mistake, and it's up to you to make this an opportunity for her to see your values in action. Do not think about how much more or less guilty the boy or your daughter's friend is. Your daughter was involved- that's all you need to know. Now think, where can you talk to her where you will have the best chance of her listening to you? If at all possible, both parents are there but no one else(74).
3. The author of this passage has an authoritative, paranoid, pessimistic, dramatic, formal, instructive, matter-of-fact, restrained, serious, and shocking tone.
4. In my book, Hurt by Chap Clark, he discusses how teenagers are completely misunderstood by adults these days. This contrasts Queen Bees and Wannabees; it explains how parents should punish their child and forcefully express their disappointment in their choices, whereas Hurt says that there needs to be a stronger level of communication on both sides.
1) Bryan Ruiz
ReplyDelete2)Reagan Sluga, Hurt by Chap Clark
“These kids are no different from when I was a kid. They are just more indulged today. And they have more options-from sports to money to the Internet. Kids today are just a more spoiled breed of us when we were young” (Clark 23).
3)The tone of the passage seems to be accusing, and aggravated.
4) Queen Bees & Wannabes compared to Hurt both discuss similar issues yet seem to be worlds apart. In Queen Bees the tone of the authors tone is mostly understanding and nurturing, whilst Hurt seems to connote an angry feeling toward teens.
1. Jacob Sekins
ReplyDelete2. I am responding to Reagan's excerpt from Hurt.
"These kids are no different from when I was a kid. They are just more indulged today. And they have more options- from sports to money to the internet. Kids today are just a more spoiled breed of us when we were young" (Clark 23).
The tone of this passage is scorful, condescending, serious, judgemental, and matter-of-fact in regards to the habits and behaviors of American adolescents.
While this passage reflects very negative opinions about teenagers in modern society, the book I am reading, "A Tribe Apart", expresses more sympathy for isolated teenagers. This selection from "Hurt" implies that the impulsive and sometimes dangerous actions of teenagers is a voluntary response to their accesibility to harmful resources. On the other hand, Patricia Hersch, who wrote "A Tribe
Apart", argues that teenagers are moved to do things based on situations of isolation that are out of their control.
1) Paige White
ReplyDelete2) Sarah Simmons, A Tribe Apart
"All over the country the pattern is the same, the gathering up of young people, the leaving of adults to seperate worlds, not to be brought together again until evening. Briefcases, diaper bags, and backpacks, the totems of modern society, are lined up ready to grab as family members dash outside with a fleeting hope that they are adequately prepared for the day. Front doors open and shut, families disperse, rush, rush rushing to get going, to get there- wherever-on time. Nobody stands at the door and waves at anybody else-everybody is on the run" (Hersch 11).
3)The author's tone is critical and judgemental.
4) In my book Hurt the author has the same idea that teenagers have been abandoned by the rest of society. Both of the authors critize society not the individuals parents. They believe that teenagers will do the thing that will get them even just a little bit of attention no matter how troubling the act. Also, the authors try to persuade the reader that all teenagers feel the need to be wanted and noticed.
1.Alex Griego
ReplyDelete2. "Queen Bees and Wannabes" by Rosalind Wiseman, excerpt from Jake Weitz
"Stop and Strategize: as soon as you hear this, go somewhere quiet and breathe. Remember, your child is not the worst child in the world and you aren't the worst parent. She has made a big mistake, and it's up to you to make this an opportunity for her to see your values in action. Do not think about how much more or less guilty the boy or your daughter's friend is. Your daughter was involved- that's all you need to know. Now think, where can you talk to her where you the best chance of her listening to you? If at all possible, both parents are there but no one else(74).
3. The tone of this passage seems to be critical towards the teenager and has a more consoling and encouraging tone towards the parent.
4. In this book the focus is more on the discipline that parents should enforce on their children when they make poor decisions. However, in my book (Hurt by Chap Clark) the main focus is that parents misunderstand their children and that is why they tend to act out. Chap Clark makes it evident that parents have to see things not only from their own perspective but also their teenager's.
Jamie Yu
ReplyDeleteOdd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls- Julia Wu
The tone of the passage (Simmons 32-33) is informative, matter of fact, and somewhat critical. The author describes that girls need their friends in order to live, as if their reputation of being popular and having "perfect relationships" is their whole life and being. The passage is most likely informing parents with daughters or with kids in general having social problems with friends that having friends is as important as air. The tone is somewhat critical because the author clearly declares that being a "loner" is the fear of every teenage girl as they are secluded, pitied, and that something is wrong with them. The author also describes several girls desperate to keep friends and fearful of being lonely and compares friends to lifeboats in school life. The author's tone is matter of fact because it is as if she has been through all the ups and downs of teen life and knows their fears and uncertainties.
The passage is similar to my book, Queen Bees and Wannabes because it mainly concentrates on the problems and feelings of teenage girls. They both look into the very life and core of the average teenage girl, revealing that friends are very important to girls as their "reputation" and popularity depend on it. They both show how popularity is the envy of most girls and are trying to inform parents of this. The differences in the books are that Queen Bees and Wannabes deals with insights in modern technology such as aim, facebook, cellphones, etc... while Odd Girl Out mainly focuses on the emotional problems of girls that may arise aggression or depression out of them.
1. Jared Hong
ReplyDelete2. Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (Excerpt from Rockinrobi9)
"On the surface, the adolescent world appears to be relatively stable and healthy. Yet beneath the calm waters presented by positive empirical data there is turmoil that is difficult, painful, lonely, and even harmful to our young. Even among those who argue that adolescents are basically fine, virtually no one would question the need young people and especially adolescents, have for adults who are available, care, and come to them without a hidden or self-centered agenda, The fact is that adolescents need adults to become adults, and when adults are not present and involved in their lives, they are forced to figure out how to survive" (Clark 42).
3. The tone of this passage is informative and encouraging towards adolescents.
4. In both books, A Tribe Apart and Hurt, the authors study closely on the behaviors of adolescents and why they act the way they do. The difference between these two books is in A Tribe Apart, the author follows eight specific adolescents and documents their life. In Hurt, it seems that it is on a wide spectrum of kids. Both books agree on the fact that adolescents are put into a tribe apart because they are alone in the world where parents are almost always to busy to guide them. Adolescents need their parents to show them the way to becoming an adult, so the absence of this guidance is why their behavior is the way it is.
1. Kristina Veneciano
ReplyDelete2. Queen Bees and Wannabees (Jake Weitz)
"Stop and Strategize: as soon as you hear this, go somewhere quiet and breathe. Remember, your child is not the worst child in the world and you aren't the worst parent. She has made a big mistake, and it's up to you to make this an opportunity for her to see your values in action. Do not think about how much more or less guilty the boy or your daughter's friend is. Your daughter was involved- that's all you need to know. Now think, where can you talk to her where you the best chance of her listening to you? If at all possible, both parents are there but no one else." (74).
3. Tone: The tone is kind and almost pleading.
4. Just from this passage I can tell that this book is very different from my book, Odd Girl Out. In my book the author never really says the word "you" and does not attempt to reach out to parents. In this passage the author is clearly trying to persuade the mother to help her daughter, something which is never covered in Odd Girl Out.
1. Neely Oeftering
ReplyDelete2. Sarah Simmons (A Tribe Apart)
"All over the country the pattern is the same, the gathering up of young people, the leaving of adults to seperate worlds, not to be brought together again until evening. Briefcases, diaper bags, and backpacks, the totems of modern society, are lined up ready to grab as family members dash outside with a fleeting hope that they are adequately prepared for the day. Front doors open and shut, families disperse, rush, rush rushing to get going, to get there- wherever-on time. Nobody stands at the door and waves at anybody else-everybody is on the run" (Hersch 11).
3. The tone of this passage is hollow and detached. It feels as though no one really has time for anyone else so they get distant from the people they're supposed to be closest with.
4. From this passage I can tell that this book has more of a way with words that in Hurt. My book contains mostly facts and surveys thus far, and i think that A Tribe Apart is more poetic in a way.
1.Joshua Brittain
ReplyDelete2.Robin;Hurt:Inside the World of Today's Teenagers
"For youth-directed organizations, institutions, and systems, the shift in focus was not immediate; in fact, it evolved over several decades. But as society in general moved from being a relatively stable and cohesive adult community intent on caring for the needs of the young to a free-for-all of independent and fragmented adults seeking their own survival, individual adolescents found themselves in a deepening hole of systemic rejection. This rejection, or abandoment, of adolescents is the root of the fragmentation and calloused distancing that are the hallmarks of the adolescent culture." (Clark 33)
3.The tone of this excerpt is very matter-of-fact as well as cause and effect.
4.This excerpt contrasts the purpose and structure of my book, Boys Adrift. In my book, the author uses a personal account in which the rest of the book takes form with. Hurt uses a more exact and factual outtake on the gradual rise in disturbed adolescents (such as statistics).
1) Robin Hensch
ReplyDelete2) Kellie Won, Queen Bees & Wannabes
“Before I go any further, I want to make clear that I don’t think there’s anything wrong per se with cliques or groups. Girls tend to have a group of girlfriends with whom they feel close, and often these friendships are great. They can be themselves, share secrets, hang out, and act silly, and have confidence that they will be supported no matter what. Having said that, the way girls group together can sow the seeds for cruel competition for popularity and social status.
Why is that? Because girls, like all of us, are vulnerable to being controlled by the power of the group. Equally common is conflict or power struggles between individuals within the group. This is why what I speak and write about isn’t simply addressing the issues of girls being nice or friends with one another. I don’t care if girls are nice. What I’m talking about is how we maintain our ethics and moral compass when we are in a group. I don’t care if you’re in third grade, sixth grade, the principal of a school, or the president of a country. How does the group respond when an individual within it believes the group is acting unethically? What will the price of speaking out be? What will the price of silence be? Will the person be seen as disloyal and kicked out? I believe it is through understanding your relationship to the group and your right to speak out within it that girls develop their ethics and moral courage, ability to think critically, and belief that their actions can affect change.” (80-81).
3) The tone is hopeful and matter-of fact
4) This book is similar to my own because of the fact that is directed to parents of teenagers however, this book isn't accusing the parents for the teenagers problems.