What are Amy and Adam going to do about their love life? Neither Amy's traditionalist Japanese parents nor Adam's snobby, upper-class mother will ...
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Dec 16, 2011
Cerah
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I think that this book is a really good book.I also think that it shows how many people think of racism.The best part of the book was when the game had begun and everything changed.One part about the book that i was disappointed about was when Amy decided to have a raffle.I was disappointed cause i thought that the raffle was going to be bigger than it was.To me they talked about it and had all types of meetings about it and it didn't even play a huge role in the book.But overall The War Between
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Mar 30, 2011
Amber
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"The War Between The Classes" was a very good book. It is a fictional book by Gloria D. Miklowitz and is influenced by an actual sociology course taught at Occidental College in Los Angeles. The book focused on a game called the "Colour Game" which was played in a highschool sociology class to bring awareness to racism and sexism in a fictional society. The main characters are Amy and Adam. Amy is a 17 year old japanese teenager living in the Unites States and her boyfriend i
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Mar 30, 2011
Haley
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This book is about a lower middle class Japanese girl, Amy Sumoto, and her relationship to Adam, a member of the white upper class. They struggle as they move through the four most devastating weeks of their young lives: when the color game is introduced at school by the teacher Ray Otero. Adam is placed in lower class, orange, and Amy is placed in upper class, blue. So Amy plans on rebelling against the color game.
This book is supposed to, and does, connect to real life. The colo More...
This book is supposed to, and does, connect to real life. The colo More...
Aug 04, 2008
Rachel
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This book was awful.
The concept was kind of interesting--it seems to be a fictional write-up of an actual project some social studies teacher carries/ed out in high school to help students better understand the ways in which they are affected by their own and others' race, class, and sex. The idea is that a whole class is divided into four groups with corresponding colored arm bands. Depending on the group, the members get more or fewer privileges and/or penalties. The teacher rigs More...
The concept was kind of interesting--it seems to be a fictional write-up of an actual project some social studies teacher carries/ed out in high school to help students better understand the ways in which they are affected by their own and others' race, class, and sex. The idea is that a whole class is divided into four groups with corresponding colored arm bands. Depending on the group, the members get more or fewer privileges and/or penalties. The teacher rigs More...
Sep 23, 2011
Brooke
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This book, is one of the best books I have ever read. It involves every social issue possible and teaches the reader that you should treat every person the same, because they are just like you. Just because they are from a different culture or don't have as much money a you, or they have more money, or whatever the circumstance, every person is the same. I enjoyed reading this book so much
May 26, 2011
Lizzy
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dude this cover is sick!!! the one at school is like so old and aged....they must have changed it!!! anyway, another school book....eh.
Dec 08, 2008
Christina
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I enjoy teaching this book as it brings up lots of topics my students have dealt with with varying levels of success.
Jan 05, 2012
mαrιssα - brooks ♥
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I think this was the first book that was entertaining that I had to read for school. (x
Nov 09, 2010
Kara
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This book was a book that made me think about the way we as people act. It was interesting to read and then look at how others as well as myself act around people who are "higher" and "lower" in the different stereotypes of the world. It made me realize that there really is an order of how people act because of the way they view others.
Aug 07, 2010
R
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Congratulations, Amy, I am completely unattracted to your boyfriend. I am also completely unattracted to anyone else in this book.
My major problem with the book was that I think it tries to bite off a bit more than it can chew. Class issues, AND racism, AND sexism? My goodness. No wonder I felt so unsatisfied at the end.
My major problem with the book was that I think it tries to bite off a bit more than it can chew. Class issues, AND racism, AND sexism? My goodness. No wonder I felt so unsatisfied at the end.
Jan 31, 2008
Chrissy
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This book describes a game that was played in a high school. In the game, they are assigned different classes and then have to act as if they are a part of the social class. One of the better young adolescent books I have read. I think sometimes adults get more out of these books than the adolescents do.
Nov 07, 2010
Katherine
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I really dug this book as a young adult, though I must say the cover is rather hideous. The message about race and class is not subtle, but that's kind of the point, and it works in the context of the color game. . Well written and doesn't talk down to teens. I'm glad to see it's still in print.
Apr 07, 2008
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Nov 09, 2010
Katharina
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In der Schule gelesen. Gute Lektüre für den Englischunterricht. Leider völlig inkompetenter Lehrer.
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