Schoolyard Bully Convicted Summary

             Schoolyard Bully Convicted

“If I try to get help, things will get worse, they are always looking for a new person to beat up and they are the toughest girls.” That is what Dawn-Marie wrote on her good-bye note before she hung herself on Nov.10.2000. This story is about a 14-year old girl, Dawn-Marie, who ended her life because of bullying. 3 girls at school, threatened to beat her up, and worst, kill her. They were not named, but the main bully supposably cried when she learned what her bullying had caused, but was caught smirking from it and smiling when she met up with her friends to smoke. The odd thing was that the main bully and Dawn-Marie used to be great friends, have sleepovers and spend Halloween together, then the bully heard second-hand that Dawn-Marie saying things behind her back about her. Dawn-Marie had had too much and was done putting up with all the things that were happening to her so she thought that there was no other way for it to stop. She didnt think about who would find her, or what her family would feel, she thought about herself first. The bully who is now 16, said she “Very Much” regrets what she caused. She is no longer bullying since Geoffrey Gaul, a provincial Crown counsellor who talks for Prosecutors from other provinces, said that he hasn’t noticed any cases in B.C., except for a charge of assault after a schoolyard fight about two years ago on Vancouver Island.

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Progress Report Refelection

1) What Do You Think Of Your Progress Report? What Are You Happy With? What Arent You So Happy With ?

I think that my progress report was good for the first term, it could have been better but its not really bad either. Im happy with my grades in the main classes like Math, and L.A. The reasons I got good grades in those are mostly because im used to those classes and having them as my top important classes. The grades I got arent that bad for the first term and considering that were learning new things recently. Some of the things that im not so happy with is the grades in my other classes, like Phys Ed and Science. I like Phys Ed because we get to move around, but in general it wouldnt be one of my absolute favourite classes so I dont really do my best as I do in my other classes, so I kind of expected it. Same with science, ive always been bad at science because I dont like the class, ive tried to do better in it but I always ended up where I started.

2)What Can You Do During Term 2 In Order To Improve Your Progress Report ?

For term 2 im gonna try to work harder on every class wether I like it or not because I relaize that even if I dont like the class I still have to do a good job in it. Im also going to try to do more work instead of getting distracted by other people and things.

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Holocaust-Expository Writing

Assignment; Imagine Erica, Peter or Daniel's mother are still alive. Pick one of the three characters and ask yourself, "What questions would you like to ask the character?"  Explain why your questions are important to you. Tell the character what you've learned and how you feel after hearing their story. If you can relate her experiences to any conditions facing your generation, explain those connections. Describe for the character what you will do to teach future generations the lessons you've learned from studying the Holocaust.

I have learned many things from the holocaust. The things that happened in Daniel’s story are all things that could have really happened during the holocaust. One of the things that I have learned is that so many things can happen to a group of people just because of their race. I would ask Daniel’s mother how she made it alive thru out all those months, probably years, in the camp without much food, water, medicine or any help at all. I would ask her this because at the end of the holocaust there were not a lot of people that made it alive.. How did she feel having no freedom at all, being called a number instead of her name? It would be interesting to know what it’s like not to have freedom, not to be called by your own name, being treated like you’re not even a person. The German’s took away all their freedom, possessions and even after all that they drove them away from their family. How did she feel when she was free and realized that most of her family was dead? I haven’t lost many of my family at the same time so I would like to know what it feels like to lose a daughter, cousins, brothers and sisters. Especially knowing that they died for being a Jew and the German’s are the ones to blame. I also wonder if she would kill the Germans if she could, for revenge, or if she wouldn’t do the same thing to them, like her husband did, if she would thing that revenge just makes her as bad as them. After hearing her story and her family’s, and after realizing that the holocaust was a real event in life and that over 2 million people were killed I wish people would have done something about it sooner, that what Adolf Hitler didn’t make life as better as he wanted it to be. It just made him a hated person by many and in the end he just failed, I feel bad for everyone who went through the holocaust, everyone who has relatives that were in it, and everyone who suffered because of the race they belong to.

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