Reading Guide
Summarize the text - In the story, The Most Mature Thing I’ve Ever Seen by Susan Doenim, every student at Monroe High School was arranged in cliques and everybody knew their place. The quad, one of the cliques, was a large, treeless square of concrete in the center of the Monroe Campus, where nobody at Monroe walked across the middle of, the students always walked around the quad. Until one day, Lisa, a new student at Monroe High School, made it through the morning to the lunch bell and to save time, Lisa brought all of her books for the rest of the school day and began her long walk to lunch, which included walking across the quad. When Lisa was walking through the quad she sensed silence go through the crowd, Lisa had slipped …show more content…
Evidence - “The next day at Monroe High School at lunchtime a curious thing happened. As soon as the bell that ended the last morning class started ringing, the students swarmed toward their lockers. Then those who didn’t eat in the cafeteria headed with their sack lunches across the quad. From all parts of the campus, different groups of students walked freely across the quad.”
Link - This piece of evidence best supports the universal theme of The Most Mature Thing I’ve Ever Seen by Susan Doenim for multiple reasons. First of all, the evidence explains that after Lisa, a new student enrolled at Monroe High School, was walking across the quad, a large, treeless square of concrete in the center of the Monroe Campus, where nobody at Monroe walked across the middle of, the students always walked around the quad. Lisa, carrying all of her books for her classes after lunch, tripped and fell on the concrete in the quad. Out of nowhere, an anonymous boy hushed the crowd, walked into the silence, and knelt down to help Lisa stand up and pick up her books. Then, the following day at lunch, an unusual thing occurred, and from all parts of the campus, different groups of students walked without hesitation across the quad. The small act of kindness from one person sprouted immense change throughout the Monroe High
Summarize the text - In the story, The Most Mature Thing I’ve Ever Seen by Susan Doenim, every student at Monroe High School was arranged in cliques and everybody knew their place. The quad, one of the cliques, was a large, treeless square of concrete in the center of the Monroe Campus, where nobody at Monroe walked across the middle of, the students always walked around the quad. Until one day, Lisa, a new student at Monroe High School, made it through the morning to the lunch bell and to save time, Lisa brought all of her books for the rest of the school day and began her long walk to lunch, which included walking across the quad. When Lisa was walking through the quad she sensed silence go through the crowd, Lisa had slipped …show more content…
Evidence - “The next day at Monroe High School at lunchtime a curious thing happened. As soon as the bell that ended the last morning class started ringing, the students swarmed toward their lockers. Then those who didn’t eat in the cafeteria headed with their sack lunches across the quad. From all parts of the campus, different groups of students walked freely across the quad.”
Link - This piece of evidence best supports the universal theme of The Most Mature Thing I’ve Ever Seen by Susan Doenim for multiple reasons. First of all, the evidence explains that after Lisa, a new student enrolled at Monroe High School, was walking across the quad, a large, treeless square of concrete in the center of the Monroe Campus, where nobody at Monroe walked across the middle of, the students always walked around the quad. Lisa, carrying all of her books for her classes after lunch, tripped and fell on the concrete in the quad. Out of nowhere, an anonymous boy hushed the crowd, walked into the silence, and knelt down to help Lisa stand up and pick up her books. Then, the following day at lunch, an unusual thing occurred, and from all parts of the campus, different groups of students walked without hesitation across the quad. The small act of kindness from one person sprouted immense change throughout the Monroe High