Dear Mrs. Zrihen
I just finished reading a fictional book called “SCHOOLED” BY GORDAN KORMAN. It all started when Cap had long, ungroomd hair, he wore hemp clothes, and practiced Ti chi out the lawn which was some kind of karate. He had never watched television, he had never tasted pizza, and never even heard of a wedgie because he has been home schooled. When he was reading a book while his grandmother “Rain” was picking out plums for a math problem, from his plum tree. When he realized that “Rain” has fell off of the tree, “Cap”, ( That’s a shorter name for Capricorn), is forced to go to school and learn from there. When he is called to the principles office he meets a friend named “Zack Powers”. When Zack shows cap his locker 239 he asks these questions like, “why isn’t there stuff in it?”, and “why do we even need a locker?”. This is the rising action. While Cap was asking these rhetorical questions Zack changed his mind of being his friend because Cap doesn’t know anything, so they get into this big fight of arguing about how dumb he is. At lunch the principle announced, “Attention middle school students, Capricorn has been elected as student body president”. When he hears the announcement he asks “who was that?”, “that was the speaker” Zack said. “how did you get to be elected to be student body president on the first week?”. “I don’t know”. “I don’t even know anybody’s names!” The cause is that he has been home schooled and the effect is that he was not familiar with school and did not know what he was good at. That night when he was in school he was trying to figure out a way to erase his name from being president, when he was doing that, he got caught by the principle. The next day when Mr. Rodrigo, the principles assistant was sick, the middle school kids decided to come to see him in the hospital. When they drove him there (because he is very sick) the kids get in trouble for driving a school bus under age appropriate. When the cops come, they find out that cap was driving the bus, so he gets ARRESTED!!!!! . This was the climax in the story. When he comes home, he found out that his teacher Mrs. Donnelly, is at his house because she is next door. She was making cupcakes for the family. When Cap asked “what was going on?” his sister Abby yells “none of you’re business!!” , and runs upstairs. When he went to the hospital to check up on Rain he finds out that the recovery was a success, when cap became happy, Rain told him that he has to stay in school for 3 more days (because she did not really finish the recovery yet she just wanted to make Cap happy). At school during first period Mrs. Donnelly finds cap tie-dying in the hallway, she asks him “why he is doing that? “This is the only thing that I learned at home when I was homeschooled and I learned a little bit of 1st grade math”. Mrs. Donnelly actually lets him do it because it was recess anyways. When he tells the whole eighth grade to participate in tie-dying everyone was happy. When they were finished everybody yelled “To Cap the greatest president ever!!”. When Cap had his very first football game he actually ran fast, the coach and his friends finally found something that he knows. This is the resolution.
The book is stated because at the end the class finds something good for Cap. The places are in school and at home. The five text features are bolded and highlighted words, headings, titles and sub titles, table of contents, and index. The impact of it is that it made me understand the story better. The whole book is about Cap going to school and gets into a fight then the whole class try’s to find something good for Cap and they find a good one. The Authors purpose is to inform, because it is telling you about a home schooled person and what he did in school to get good education. The Authors purpose is to entertain and perspective thinks that you should be coming to school prepared with your mind set in school. The author is objective. Cap accomplishes something by figuring out what he is good at. The Authors point of view is happy because he is glad that cap found something good. . The significance of the book is at the end when the class finds something good for cap. The irony was that he had no idea what he was good at and the significance of that was that he had to figure it out. The tone and mood was worrying at the beginning and feeling of accomplishment at the end. Also the mood of the book was happy. The characters were the teacher, Zach, Rain, and the class. The Protagonist was cap, teacher, and Rain, and the Antagonist was Zach, and the foil was Zach. The setting was at school and home, the weather was sunny, and the time was afternoon. The plot structure was first at home, then at school, then a fight, after was looking something good big fight about dumb cap, it was external, and character VS character because cap had for cap, then was found something good for cap. The conflict was a fight with Zach. The theme was working hard. The moral was deciding if cap wanted the class to find something good for him. I rate the book 4.5 out of 5 it was entertaining and kept me in suspense.
Your student Jeremy Kazieva
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