Book Groups

[Mrs. Mendoza]

Please post your text rendering and read the text renderings of the other students in your book group. Be prepared to provide the other students in your group with verbal feedback that is constructive and specific.

Noor, Gillian, Seran, Andria, Tiffany

Kalena, Matthew, Kendra, Denton, Arianna

Anthony, Jason, Alexis, Emily, Brittany,

Ranae, Eddie, Almonese, Alejandra, Lawrence

Diana, Christian, Desirae, Nick, Sara, Emmie

Steven, JJ, Bryan, Alexandra, Kaylyn

Shane, Candy, Alejandro, Kyra, Ryan,

[Matthew]

Knock Knock: Daniel Beaty
Word: Failed
How does it feel to truly fail? Is it when you let someone down that you care about? Is it when life becomes too hard to live due to your own choices? Is it dying before you fulfil your true purpose? People often say that they've failed, yet, I don't think many of them know failure. Unless someone has fallen into a hole too deep to climb out of and they've quit trying to escape, then failure hasn't made itself known to them. However, since we are human, we are all prone to failure, sometime in our life.
Sentence: And I try to dream up a father.
For one to have to father themselves, I can't even imagine attempting this. How would one know how to discipline themselves, if they've little to no example to mirror? Often times, many take their parents for granted, but that's because parent are there for them every day. What is one day one or both parents were taken away? How would one survive? Even the toughest people show weakness sometime, and sooner or later, their desire for their parents would surface, the desire to know who they were.
Phrase: we are not out father's choices
Just as Daniel Beaty said, "we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not our fathers' choices". We all decide our own fate at some point in our lives, whether it be sooner or later. We not only need to learn from our own mistakes, but we have to learn from other's mistakes as well, so we can avoid falling into traps. Even though sometimes our fate seems to be sealed, we can always change our fate, so long as we never give up.




Letter to Felice: Franz Kafka
Word: chains
We are all chained to something, whether we know it or not. Some chains are bound to us for the entirety of our lives, and cannot be escaped from, but we can take away the power of the chains, thus making our existence all the more bearable. Other chains are temporary, eventually we can find a way to make these chains disappear, allowing us to focus on the more important aspects of life. We'll always be chained to something but it,s your choice as to whether you let the chains bring you down.
Phrase: screams when approached
To many, this may seem "akin to madness", but life causes us to crack sometime. For some, the crack is anger, for others depression. What happens when we "crack"? Do we find out true selves whilst in that state or do we run further away? Humans aren't angels and thus, aren't perfect, so when humans "crack" they may commit sin of an unspeakable magnitude, I don't agree with the actions done, but when someone cracks, they lose themselves for a period of time, now the question is, what takes place after they've cracked?
Sentence: For it is I alone who carry all anxieties and fears within me, as alive as snakes; I alone who scrutinize them constantly, and only I know what they are.
While it is true that only we know what we're going through, other people exist, and we have the ability to talk. Pain and suffering doesn't have to be kept inside, if we do that, it builds up, and the more time passes, the "sicker" we get. Sometimes, if the pain is kept in for too long, it starts eating away at out sanity and humanity. Those you care about are here to help you, and if you shove them away with mystery, you run the risk of losing them forever.