Schooled (Bluford Series) Blog 2

   Now that its the end of the book and Lionel finally decided to talk to his dad about his problem in school. As he said, "I messed up dad. I'm sorry. I just didn't want you to know. I'm the dumbest kid in class." This proves that Lionel wasn't doing to good in school he couldn't take it no more so he fell the need to drop out. His father was telling him that its ok you don't have to be ashamed anymore. Now that he has let out his fear of telling his dad that he wasn't doing good in school. He doesn't have to feel ashamed. sometimes thats all you need is someone to comfort you to make you feel good about yourself.

  The Genre of this book is Realistic fiction because the things that happen in the book are similar to the real world. In the book it says, " I never graduated from high school. Lionel turned so quick he hurt his rib cage. Dad said Yep its true. I got tired of people making fun of me and calling me slow." He said one day he just quit. This proves that all people make mistakes. That also proves that these things can happen in the real world. Even though I haven't gotten to high school yet I know that if something gets hard I'll keep trying until I make and effort of learning something. Because just because something gets hard doesn't mean you should just quite before actually trying.

Tolerance

 Tolerance    
     noun

1. 1. The ability or willingness 

   to allow the existence, 

   occurrence, or 

   practice of something, 

   in particular the 

   existence of opinions or 

   behavior that one does 

   not necessarily agree 

   with.

  A way I can be Tolerance to people is hear them out in other words just listen to their opinion's. To me Tolerance means that you have patients to deal with someone and also put up with them on their not so good days. I can live a more Tolerant life by surrounding myself with positive attitude. There was this one time I was with my cousin's and they were talking about a heavy set women. I was kind of getting angry because just because he wasn't out of shaped didn't give him the right to talk about someone's health doing bad. So I brushed it off but I just don't like when people talk about other people in any kind of negative way. Because you're not perfect either and here you go talking about someone else like your the king or queen of someone.

Schooled Quarter 4 Post 1

 
     In the beginning of this book they talk about how this boy named Lionel always dreamed that he might be in the NBA. But in order to make that dream come true he has to be focused in school. Lionel Doesn't really do good in school he also has trouble with this boy at this school named Rasheed. They both started arguing because Lionel didn't really know a lot about the class because he doesn't really like the reading class. So they started arguing the teacher tried to stop the argument so she said, "Thats enough." She just wanted to put Lionel on the spot so he could pay attention in class and get good grades so his dreams can come true. But he just doesn't get. Sometimes people won't get it until they actually fail.

   My connection to this story is that When I was in school trough 3rd-4th grade I would like totally day dream about something else and the teacher would call my names and ask me question sometimes I would even say I don't know and he/she would move me to where I could understand and get away from the foolishness. Sometimes its not my fault that I go off in space i just tend to think about other stuff while I'm in class because The class might start to get boring. In the book Lionel says officer Hodden his coach was happy that he'd lifted Lionel up in the middle of the court and said,  "Your smart player, Lionel. Keep playin' Keep playing like that and you might have a future sport." This means that As long as you think you could succeed you will. So what I'm trying to say. That just because I might get off focus and think about something else I could tune right back in to what the teacher was saying.

Blog 8 Summer Of Secrets

  In the middle of my book it is talking about how this girl names Brisana was going to the mall one day and she saw her ex Hakeem. But when she saw him he was with Darcy. But it all started when Darcy found out that her grandmother died, and she didn't have Hakeem to be there with her to go through this together so she mostly was disappointed, and sad because they had a big argument before Hakeem moved to Detroit with his family because of his dad's illness. In the meantime when school had started back Darcy had saw her old friends Tarah, and Cooper. They haven't saw each other in so long. In the article it says. "Omg Its been so long since we saw each other I missed you guys so much." This proves that Darcy and her friends haven't spent anytime together while during the summer. Though Hakeem had a secret of his own that Tarah, and Cooper knew but Darcy didn't. She was kind of lost cause even her own bestfriend couldn't tell her what was going on. She had to talk to Hakeem to get the information but every time she tried talking to him he was acting a little strange. He would walk away from her when they have eye contact.


   The theme of this Book is that when you have been away from someone so long you start to see how they've changed. That's not a good thing because you want to change with them but if you spend no time trying to bond with them how are going to make a change. In the book is says that, "My dads cancer has stopped He's passed his physical, and he's getting a little stronger." This proves that even if you are really good friends a move to somewhere else can change how the other person is without you even knowing how they've changed. towards the end of the book Hakeem and Darcy start to make change together by talking again. Being there for each other like the good ol' days.