Alligator River Book Report

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Today’s journal was based on a story Alligator River. This group was a little different we had to listen to a story and rank the character from the most blamable to the least blamable. In my ranking I had Abigail because first because she choice to go the bed with Sinbad so he would take her to Gregory. Then the next was Sinbad for giving her that amative to sleep with him if he wanted him to take her to see Gregory. The next was slug for beating up Gregory with hearing both sides of the story. Ivan because he did not want to have anything to do with the situation. Last Gregory because he got beat up for doing what anyone would do if there girlfriend cheated. When we discussed switching the gender roles I would look at the situation a little

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