Little Red-Haired Girl

point where she shivers with fright. Rasheed believes that it was Mariam’s fault that Laila hasn’t been listening to him lately, therefore, he wants to beat Mariam. Before he is able to strike Mariam with the belt, Laila attempts to stop him: “The girl lunged at him. she grabbed his arm with both hands and tried to drag him down, but she could do no…

Before the story I…. (what you did to prepare the children for the story): I read the title of the book and author then I asked them what they think the book or story was going to be about. The one little girl in the group answered that she thinks it was about dogs. Then I turned to a random page with a scared dog on it and ask them why they think the dog is scared and they answer with they don’t know. So I said why don’t we find out. During the story I…… (how did you engage/keep their…

In the second stanza the narrator witnesses Tom’s loss of innocence: “There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head / That curled like a lamb’s back, was shaved:” (Stanza 2). The image of Tom crying because he was losing his hair is so vivid. We often take little things like that for granted. Losing his hair wasn’t about vanity; it was a choice being taken away from Tom. The word ‘independence’ is very interesting because…

He saw deserted cars that had rusted almost all of the color off of them with no life within. Old blood stained the streets along with filthy rags of cloth and unburied bodies on top of the dirt as if no one had the time. He continued to walk with little energy and he thought to himself if he couldn’t find fresh food before the dark comes, he needed to at least find…

couldn’t. Mommie Dearest, she was sometimes, because as she always said to me, “sometimes she was good, and sometimes she was bad and sometimes she was just very very very horrid.” That was the little girl with a curl right in the middle of her forehead… Me, that was me. So my life could be about early childhood neglect, abuse or whatever the 1950’s labelled angry stay at home moms and their Betty Crocker aprons powdered with cookies for the…

“Barbie Doll”—a poem by Marge Peircy—the main character is a young girl whose life is ultimately destroyed by the words of a junior-high classmate. According to an article by Parveen and Wasal Kahn, victims of verbal abuse slowly lose themselves and grow hollow before…

Anchor Text Palacio, R. J. (2012). Wonder. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Wonder, by R. J. Palacio explores the life of August (Auggie) Pullman, a boy with mandibulofacial dysostosis – a condition that leaves the face with undeveloped bones and tissue. This heartwarming story is told from multiple perspectives to convey what Auggie and everyone else feels and experience as Auggie starts going to a mainstream school for the first time. Being the new kid is hard enough, but with a face like…

In the greater metropolis encompassing five counties referred to as Los Diablos darkness prevails. Daemons inhabited the remaining structures within the eighty-seven towns dismantled by massive super-earthquakes that rocked the entire region. The quakes were responsible for the destructions of the tens of thousands of buildings up to five hundred square miles including the downtown area. All counties affected heavily losses and causalities by the unexpected huge tidal waves and monstrous…

I was at home and received a call around 2300 hrs for a crime scene call out. I knew while I listened to automated message that this callout was for the little girl I wasn’t able to find earlier in the day. I responded to our department as a member of the Crime Scene Team. After getting out assignments, we went to scene. I was at the scene for about 15 minutes before I broke down and had to go home. I did…

Ariel Castro did not stop there and in April of 2003, he spotted Amanda Berry, age 16. She was walking home from work when she encountered a vehicle in a driveway. She saw a man and his daughter in the van and thought she recognized the girl. A little while later, she noticed that the van had started to follow her down the street. That is when the man inside asked her if she needed a ride home. He was alone, but she replied with a yes anyway. Ariel Castro was the father of a classmate from…