Non-Fiction Reading Process

   In the article Immigration Obama vs Congress by Patricia Smith, she talks about immigration and about the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Then she talks about President Barack Obama and Congress having a hard time agreeing on how to make immigration better. She then adds background information on President Barack Obama's plan by telling the reader that children born in the U.S are citizens. Many illegal immigrants were afraid of deportation and it was a risk of many lives to get to the United States.The idea and theme behind this article is the president finding a way for this not to be an issue for immigrants. President Obama's plan helps immigrants who are eligible to work not to be deported after they pass background checks and pay any taxes that they owe.

     The author is trying to say that illegal immigrants fear deportion and Obama has now made it legal for them to stay.If immigrants had kids their kids would be U.S citizens and the author then supports it by saying how Obama's plan changed everything. In response to what I read I feel shocked because most Americans were born in the U.S and have to go through immigrating with their parents for a better life and get chances. I was also surprised by how many immigrants risked their lives to become a U.S citizen and as I kept reading I realized how hard and risky it was being an illegal immigrant. This makes me think about the people from different countries who'd risk their lives just to live freely and have more chances than where they originally came from. I have questions about how and what their country did to make them want to leave? Are the immigrants who's family got deported regretting being in America and not having the rest of their family there with them?

Response #4

Ria was living a charmed life before her dad's plane crash. Before the accident all Ria could think about was her parents divorce and having to move in with her mom and plan to prevent that from happening. In chapter 1 Ria was having the time if her life driving around town with her dad, boyfriend, and and a kid she barely talked to driving in ( what her dad claimed was Elvis Presley's car.) At the beginning of chapter 5 Ria learns that her dad's plane was having mechanical problems and they believed he went down over Lake Muskeg only to find out the rescue team only found bits and pieces of the plane but no luck of her dad. Ria is falling apart and has come to the conclusion that her mother no longer cares about her dad.

How The Murder Of Four Teens Started A War by Patricia Smith

                  

                          How The Murder Of Four Teens Started A War  by Patricia Smith

  This article is about three Israeli teens and a palestinian boy being kidnapped and murdered. The names of the three Israeli teens were Eyal Yifrach 19 , Naftali Fraenkel and Gilad Shaar 16. They were found dead after being kidnapped by palestinian militants. Jewish extremists kidnapped and killed Muhammad Abu Khdeir 16 while he waited to pray outside a mosque near his east jerusalem home on the 2nd of july. Muhammad Abu Khdeir was bludgeoned with a wrench and set on fire making his murder most brutal of the four.

     When I first read this article I was shocked to read about these teens who are innocent be killed by militants and their  murders causing a war because when someone gets murdered it’s unheard of to start a war by their religion.

Darkness too visible

Mia Tindel

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Darkness Too Visible By Meghan Cox Gurdon

                          

Darkness too Visible written by Meghan Cox Gurdon talks about what she thinks on young adult literature. She believes that young adult literature is innappropriate and should be banned for teens.

Meghan Cox Gurdon used cursed words and mentioned drugged and unimaginable gore and cruelty that most young adult literature is. She explained her opinion by what young adult literature includes that deal with teen issues.

          The article is definitely argumentative and I do not agree because what are teens going to do without these books and how are they going to relate to books that include struggles, hardships, drugs, depression, and smoking.Teens should be aware of these topics that real teens go through and teens could learn a lesson from these books. Meghan Cox Gurdon writes that young adult literature is dark and violent and inappropriate for teens to read. I learned that some young adult books seem to be inappropriate to young adult parents and become dark and they might take the book and talk to their child's school principal and district and talk about the book being banned and that only makes the situation worse because the kids who haven’t read the book have a stronger urge to read the book than they did before it was banded and might try to find access to the book . A part that struck a chord with me in a way was the review on books “Books With Scars” there was a quote that said ‘’We like to have the adult perspective, but we try to target the teens because that’s who’s reading it’’.The reason this sticks out to me is because teens should have a choice on what they read and what they want to learn from young adult literature book based on reality.

Reading Response #1

  In Looking for Alaska by John Green the main character, Miles goes to boarding school in Alabama. When he gets there he meets his roommate Chip Martin who is known as Colonel as well as other friends. After hanging out with the Colonel and his friends Miles earns the nickname "Pudge." Throughout the beginning Miles gets used to his boarding school routine and even starts smoking cigarettes as the Colonel teaches him. There are to major groups in the school. The first is the weekday warriors who leave for their parents mansions on the weekends and the non-weekend warriors who stay on campus. When Miles learns the ropes to school his behavior changes he now watches sports, smokes cigarette and hangs out with friends all the time.