Books I've Read
This story is about a girl named Esperanza who tried to get through life with her family who live in a neighborhood that everyone was "scared " to ride by. Loved writing and expressed her feelings in stories. I felt myself forgetting the world around me and just reading falling in love with everyone in the book. I laughed out loud and even cried. This story really changed my thinking.
Story about a boy named Craig who's thoughts are captured in a way no one thinks. Wanting to end his life he knew he was depressed. Ending up in hospital to help his condition meeting two people who may have saved his life. This story made me smile and I could relate in ways I thought would never cross my mind.
Gabriela was nothing like her brothers and sisters her mother would say. She was different and saw things different. She was the only person in her family attending school, learning so much but it didn't last long war was coming and people were dying. This book showed so much courage and braveness it left me sobbing.
Chinese Cinderella is a story about a girl named Yen who lives with a family who blame her for killing their mother who is her mother too. She tries her best to make them look at her since she was the burden. Trying her best to not be home and be good in school things were not perfect for her but her struggles only made her stronger.
We had the pleasure of being able to read the play called "Antigone". It is written by Sophocles. This play is about a princess who breaks the laws given by her uncle, who became king. The king forbid anyone to touch his body and to let him rot where he died because he attacked the kingdom because he thought it was rightfully his. She now has to choose between doing what she thinks is right or follow the laws she broke before.