Friday, September 26, 2008

Elliot's Expose

Blog response instructions:
• Answer the questions in complete sentences and use proper English (restrain from using MSN chat style of writing).
• Use evidence from the novel to support your answer and include page numbers.
• When commenting to your peers, be respectful in your language and about their responses. It is okay to disagree, but do it in a polite manner.

When Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots and sends it out over the KidNet, he includes the following quote in his letter.

"I think people ought to realize that stuff like this goes on every day…The rest of you are all part of it-because you let it go on and maybe you think it's funny, or you think it only happens to geeky outsiders and kids who are smaller or fatter or skinnier or don't have so many friends or so much money as you. So tell me-what happens when you don't have so many friends one day, or you don't have so much money, or something bad happens to you?" (91-92)


Blog Question:
What is the message is he trying to get across to his classmates? (6pts)

Blog Answer: Well Elliot is trying to explain that they let this all go on and they could stop it if they wanted. Also he is explaining that he is ruining other peoples lives by letting this go on. He tells them on pages 91 through 93 about what the jock rots did to him and how he fought back and how they dropped him off a bridge onto his head. Also how they ran away after that.

2 comments:

ClaudiaM said...

i like how you included the page numbers i agree with your answer! good job!

:P lol

Siddhant T. said...

You did an awesome job with your evidence by including good descriptive writing but there one thing i want to say that he should try to stop the bully's bully him and fight back. If he starts fighting back to the bully in front of public then they would have some confidence to stop the bully's bully them.
Well whatever you wrote had evidence but i think could add this topic to your paragraph because your paragraph will lead to this some time.