Rotation #3 Stargirl

This week it is rotation #3, this week I am the ilustrator.

This is Star-girl, her first day, at lunch, she took her ukulele and started playing for everybody. She made big first impression.

Rotation #3

Rotation #3

Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

Summarizer

Leo's school was an ordinary school, until Stargirl came. Srargirl, a blonde haired freckled girl changed the whole school. Unlike other girls in this school, she didn't care what people thought of her. She would sing "Happy Birthday" to people on her Ukulele in the cafeteria, she would jump around on the football field while there was a game, and she even carried around her rat. At first, other kids thought she was crazy but soon enough, she started to rub off on them. The pet store at the mall ran out of rats because kids bought them all. People started singing in the cafeteria, and actually came to football games to see Stargirl and her crazy ideas. But this fame didn't last. The kids started to see the weird side of Stargirl. She appeared at a girls grandfathers funeral, even though Stargirl had no idea who that guy was. She made fun of the pledge of allegiance which made kids offended. People are starting to hate her, all except one person. And that person is Leo.

Key points:

1. Stargirl is special
2. Would do weird things
3. Leo and Stargirl have feelings for eachother.

Stargirl

Stargirl

               This week we have finished the book "Stargirl" written by Jerry Spinelli. 

We have read all 186/186 pages in the book. My job was to be a discussion director. I really enjoyed  this job and loved leading the discussion. We talked a lot, and mostly had similar opinions. My group mates liked all of my questions and answered them with no problems. Here are my questions;

Question # 1: How did you understand when Archie said to Leo: "She is us more than we are us."? and did that lead you to thinking?

Question # 2:  How do you feel about Stargirl and why do you think she left?

Question # 3:  Is it worth to change your personality because of others, just like Stargirl did? Would you ever do that?

Question # 4: Do you think Stargirl was doing the right thing, making sure she did good deeds, helped everyone and would you do that if you were on her place? What is so different about her?

Question # 5: How did you like the ending of the book and did you expect it to finish out differently? Also, if you had a chance to change the ending, how would you change it? 

I also recorded the answers of my group mates Marija, Anna and Katarina. (It is copy pasted from my Word Document, where I originally recorded what they said.)

1^st Question.

1.       Marija: She understands them more than they understand themselves.

2.       Anna: She is what everyone should be like.

3.       Katarina: She is the ideal person that everyone should look up to.

2^nd Question.

1.       Marija: I think she left because she wasn't accepted for who she was, and because she had to change herself in order to stay.

2.       Anna: Nobody appreciated her and had no respect for anything good she did.

3.       Katarina: She left because she wasn't accepted and didn't want Leo to feel uncomfortable

3^rd Question.

1.       Marija: Maybe, because if you really loved someone, you would do anything for them.

2.       Anna: Maybe, because it depends on if you would change for the better or the worse. Depends on the situation.

3.       Katarina: I would change depending on if it is for the good cause.

4^th question.

1.       Marija: I would do the same thing as she did. She is different because she is always good to everyone no matter how they react to her and doesn't want to harm anyone.

2.       Anna: She is different because she is selfless. I find that as a good quality. I wouldn't feel that it is necessary to go around and take care of strangers and people that don’t know me.

3.       Katarina: I find it like a good personality, and would do the same, but would have some limits. She is too kind and cares about people too much.

5^th question.

1.       Marija: I didn't expect Stargirl to leave, and I thought Leo would try to find her. No, I didn't like the ending. I would change the ending were Leo would go and try to find her.

2.       Anna: I kind of knew Stargirl wouldn't stay and kind of expected the ending like that. The book was okay, not too interesting.  I would change the ending by having Leo met her after fifteen years.

3.       Katarina: No, I expected that at the end she would be accepted by the group and stayed. That is also how I would change the book. No, I didn't like the ending because I expected the ending to be a happy end. 

Next week, I will be a Vocabulary En-richer for the book that we are starting to read, called Bloomability. 

We have decided to read up to chapter 15, which is about 97 pages.

Star Girl 

Katarina Markovic    

Job: Connector

Pages read: 186/186                                                                                                                     5/7/2014

           My job this week was to be the connector. When you get the job of being the connector, it means that you have to find one thing in the book that you can relate to. 

           While reading the book i was able to make only one connection. That connection was to Stargirl and the fact that she doesn't care about what people think of her. While reading the book in one chapter Leo talked to her about how most of the people in their school dislike her and ignore her, and that she needs to change some things about herself. Since Leo and Stargirl were a couple, the fact that people ignored stargirl effected him too and he wasn't happy about that. He had never knew how much he needed the attention of others, as well as that everybody needs to loves him . Since he had cared so much about what people thought about him he was surprised to find out that what people think about Stargirl doesn't affect her at all. Once Leo had explained to Stargirl why people think of her and why she didn't care. Those things don't affect her, and thats where i could connect to her because those things don't affect me either. I know that i have people that love me and that care about me and will always be there for me so, therefor i don't need to please every person. One thing that i would never do is change for somebody. 

          I have connected to this book with a good trait that I and Stargirl have, and that is that we don't care about what people think of us. I really don't care because some people dislike me or think something bad about me, i know that i have friends which will love me and care about me for who I am and I dont have to change to please them. 

Star Girl

Blog post by: Marija
Book: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
We finished the book read 186/186
My Job this week was....to summarize what we read
The key points were...
1. Stargirl becomes normal:
 Leo (her boyfriend) told her that people don't like her because she is different. "She is the friendliest person in the whole school but she doesn't have friends." Leo didn't specifically tel her to change but she did. The next day she came to school and she wasn't Stargirl anymore she was Susan Caraway. She changed she didn't have a rat , no ukulele, no flower backpack and no more happy birthday songs. Leo was very happy that she changed.

2,3,4 She competed in a speech competition:
Days later she had a competition that she knew she would win. She wrote a really great speech the day before and rehearsed it in front of Leo. When she got in the bus she told Leo to hold the trophy when they got back to the school because she thought that the whole school will be waiting for her. Well she was wrong but she did win. When she got back there was nobody waiting for her. The next day she came back to school as Stargirl.

5. There is a prom incident and Stargirl leaves Mica High:
Stargirl came to Prom really pretty. She made everyone dance. Everyone was having a really good time except for her because Leo was not there. It was because her and Leo had grown apart. After prom nobody saw her again. She left with no warning. Leo was very sad but soon he learned to appreciate that he had a girl like her.

  

My job: Connector

My connection for these few chapters are at the point when she wrote on her door she is kidnapped, it happened to me too but a little less similar. I had a dream that I was kidnapped and I left notes in front of the door which wrote ‘kidnapped’. I wrote it in serbian and for some reason I didn’t even get to the part when they found me so I woke up before that part. I related to this because the whole story (up to the part I read) is very complicated and this is maybe one of the only things I can relate to.

By: Tara Jevrosimovic

Rotation 2: Bloomability

Rotation 2:

Bloomabilty

My job: Discussion Director

Questions:

Why does Dinnie love to fish so much?

Answer:

She doesn't like to actually catch the fish, she just likes the feeling of waiting. She doesn't even put the bait on her hook.

This question really shows how it doesn't matter of the outcome that a action brings, it is about the feeling that you feel while doing that action. It makes her feel peaceful and she doesn't even care if she catches a fish or not.

Question 2:

Why does she no want Lila to go back to America?

Answer:

She doesn't like Lila. Lila is mean to Dinnie but Dinnie just likes Lila being there. Dinnie has no particular reason for liking her.

Sometimes people don't like other people, but they can't live without them. There is a role that everyone plays and Lila has one in Dinnie's heart, even if Dinnie doesn't know that.

Question 3:

What do people call Lila?

Answer: The pistol is her nickname because just like a loaded gun, you never know when she will go off. She might get mad or start yelling out of nowhere. 

Somebody's name really affects what people think of other people and puts a social status.