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Reading Assignment:  pp.1-38 Number the Stars

 

Writing Assignments, Your Choice:  

 

1. Write a review of Shooting Kabul. Start by describing the story in four or five sentences.  Then, in the second paragraph, explain why you think the book is a good one for teenagers to read. What lessons about life does it offer the audience and why are these important lessons for young readers to learn.

 

 

2.  When Fadi,  along with Masood and the other boys lumped together (put into a group without much thought if the members really fit) under the label of terrorists, decide to teach Felix and Ike a lesson, they decide that  beating the boys up is not the right way to teach them anything.  What they have decided against is what we call in the U.S. “an eye for an eye” justice. This is when someone hurts you and you pay the person back by hurting him or her in return and in a similar way.

 

Do you think the Fadi and his friends made the right decision? Or do you think they should have paid the two boys back in kind (in the same way)?  Please set the scene for your discussion of their decision, something like this: “When Fadi and his friends surround Ike and Felix in Shooting Kabul, they are ready to give the two bullies a dose of their own medicine. But they decide against it, choosing instead to (here is where you would say what the boys actually did and why this was a good or bad decision).”

 

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    I choose the second one.

    When Fadi and his friends surround Ike and Felix in Shooting Kabul, they are ready to give the two bullies a dose of their own medicine. But they decide against it because they think if they beat those two bullies up they will be as bad as Ike and Felix are. I think this is a wrong decide. Reasoning is good to general people but everybody knows they are very bad bullies, so if they didn't let them feel hurt Ike and Felix won't stop bullying those weak people. So I think they should beat those two bullies and hurt them so they can remenber this and do not bully weak people any more.

@ Mark, I can just hear you saying this. You make  very clear your reason for believing that the bullies should get a dose of their own medicine. That was the key part of the assignment, so you did very well. Not that I expected otherwise.

 

 I like too that each sentence makes a clear connection to the one that came before. That is very important in writing. It's called making writing coherent. And this piece of writing is very coherent I am happy to say.

Shooting Kabul from N.H.Senzai is a book about: Fadi, a boy who love his sister Mariam best. But she lost in a calamity. Fadi is so sad about it, and he thinks a lot of way to find her, but that did not work. At last, they finally find Mariam, it’s a happy ending isn’t it?

I think it’s a good book for teenagers. Because in this book, it’s talk about the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. And now, I think there is not many teenagers know about those things. This book helped them to know more about it. And this book can tell people about the true love between Fadi and Mariam , this will make teenagers learn a lot. This book can show to the children about the different with right and wrong, good and bad. So it helpful for children.  

Hello,Laraine 

     When Fadi and his friends surround Ike and Felix in Shooting Kabul, they are ready to give the two bullies a dose of their own medicine. But they decide against it,choosing instead to let the two bullies goaway.Only get a lesson:be in the lake.I think they did wrong.Because if they just throw Felix and Ike into the lake and didn't realy hurt the two bullies,the two bullies will only scared of them and hate them more,they don't see what they did wrong.

I think they should do "An eye for an eye"to the two bullies.Make them feel what is the student that was bullied by them feels.They will stop their bullying after feel that.

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