Literary Essay On The Skin I’m In

   Sharon G. Flake. ” The Skin I’m In ”. The main character of Skin I’m In is Maleeka. Maleeka has been bullied because of her dark skin, homemade clothes, good grades, and nappy hair. She gets bullied at McClinton middle school. Maleeka starts to learn that she needs to love herself and don’t let nobody gets under her dark beautiful skin. The theme to this book is that to not let nobody bully you.

   From the beginning Maleeka gets bullied because of her dark skin and clothes. John-john made a song about her and it really hurt her feelings. Then char brings Maleeka clothes cause she doesn’t want to be seen with a girl with homemade clothes. ”But even those hundred  dollar pant suits she brought in for me can’t make up for the hurt I feel when she slaps me with her mean words. Maleeka ignore what char and john-john says about her but it’s still hurts her feelings.

   From the beginning to the middle Maleeka is trying to change a lit bit. The bully’s starts talking about her nappy hair. So Maleeka had wanted something different. She cuts her hair so people can stop talking about her at least. When Maleeka goes to school the precise day and her feelings was really hurt. She had wished she never cut her hair.

   From the middle to the end Maleeka starts to stick up for herself. Maleeka and Caleb starts to talk again. Maleeka and Char stop being friends. `

The Skin I’m In

The setting in The Skin Im In is in school around the beginning of the school year. Maleeka is surrounded by kids that bully her. She likes to hang in the bathroom to smoke and laugh with her friends.

Maleeka has been bullied about her good grades, nappy hair, her clothes, and her skin color. She only have 4 friends that she hang out with.But the reason she has those friends are because of the girl that us to bully her (the bully is her friend now).

Dress Code

The students at Blackhawk Middle School was so disappointed that they had a dress code. So they had to pick and choose what they wanted to wear to school every day. Every teacher and office worker will always look at students to see if the students had violated the dress code. On Tuesday September 12, 2017 Richia Ford had worn some ripped pants to school and Mrs. Perry had sent her to the office to change. But Richia said ”why does it have to be a dress code?” and ”why do I have to change”. Mrs. Perry responded with a very loud voice and said ” cause it’s the schools rules.” Then Richia had walked away angrily and upset.

 

 

This 7th grade boy at Blackhawk middle school was wearing some shorts with rips in them. When he went to class one if his teachers sent the man to the office. He had sat in the office to wait for a counselor. When the counselor came in the addressed the problem right then an there. It was about his the young man’s shorts. The counselor and the young man just made a agreement to not wear them shorts to school again.

 

 

A new teacher at Blackhawk middle school had worn a really short red dress with all black heels. She got to her class room and one of the counselor from the office asked her to meet her in the office at the end of the day. The day goes on and then the 2:15 bell rings. Then the teacher started to head to the office. As soon as she got there they went in to the bright cold office to speak  about the problem. When the counselor and the new teacher got in the room the counselor started to speak on the problem. The adults had disgusted the problem  and the new teacher had asked ”why do we have a dress code?” and the counselor had said ” its just the rulers that I disagree on”

Dress Code (draft)

The students at Blackhawk Middle School was so disappointed that they had a dress code. So they had to pick and choose what they wanted to wear to school every day. Every teacher and office worker will always look at students to see if the students had violated the dress code. On Tuesday September 12, 2017 Richia Ford had worn some ripped pants to school and Mrs. Perry had sent her to the office to change.

 

 

This 7th grade boy at Blackhawk middle school was wearing some shorts with rips in them. When he went to class one if his teachers sent the man to the office. He had sat in the office to wait for a counselor. When the counselor came in the addressed the problem right then an there. It was about his the young man’s shorts. The counselor and the young man just made a agreement to not wear them shorts to school again.

 

 

A new teacher at Blackhawk middle school had worn a really short red dress with all black heels. When she

The Family Trip

Sunday, September 3, 2017

4:56 PM

Julis’s  family and Julis had just arrived at Cedar Point waiting to be checked into there room. Her family rushed into there rooms to change into there swimsuits to head down to the beach. When her family arrived at the beach she played in the sand and waded into the cold water. After a little while she went to go play volleyball with her cousins and friends.  While the sun was setting she went to play games in the chlorinated pool. That night Julis talked with her cousins, sisters, and friends how she was excited to go ride the roller coasters.

The next morning her friends, family, and Julis went to the free breakfast downstairs.

Next, she went to the amusement park to get her ticket checked and her hand stamped so she was eligible to ride the roller coasters. Julis spent all day riding top-thrilling roller coasters, and fun water slides. After the fun day of riding roller coasters and swimming, Julis went to sleep for the night. The next morning, Julis and her family packed up there stuff and headed for a 20 minute drive to Kalahari.             After about 20 minutes, Julis and her family arrived at Kalahari.

As they waited to be checked into there room, the adults traveled to Walmart get food for the next 2 days. When Julis got to the room she got into her bathing suit and rushed down to the wave pool and water slides. For the next two days, all it was was running back and forth between the outdoor water slides and the indoor ones. Finally after those last two days, Julis was relieved to be heading back to her home.

I am a reader.

The last book that i read was The girl down stairs. I liked about that book cause it was exciting and thrilling.

The book that im reading now is called Silence. I choose this book cause it sounded exciting and intresting. I already started to read it but i think that the girl in the book is go to talk to tell me why she stop talking at 5years old.