Seventh grade

In the story, “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto, the protagonist, Victor, faces a problem and doesn’t know what to do. The story is taken in a middle school. The conflict is that Victor, the protagonist, is trying to impress a girl named Teresa, but he doesn’t know how to. He was in homeroom and saw that Teresa was there too. After all his classes and lunch, he goes to French class, which Teresa is there as well. At the same time, he wanted to impress Teresa. As a result of this, he pretended to…

natural thing. Sometimes some boys aren’t too good with talking to them. Sometimes we don’t really start to realize girls tell seventh grade. Well in these two stories Seventh Grade and Girls these two boys are falling for a girl but they are not good at talking and flirting with them. In the story Seventh Grade there is a boy named Victor and he is just starting seventh grade and he is all nervous, but then he sees a girl named Teresa and he likes her. He told himself this is his year that she…

“Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto is about a boy named Victor Rodriguez, and his first day of school in seventh grade. It is realistic-fiction short story. The people/children that might like this short story are people that don’t like to change, people in seventh grade, or people who have just started a new school year and feel uncomfortable. This particular short story is a really good piece for the genre because of the way it expresses the feeling of a seventh grader. It is told in a third person…

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” -Arnold Bennett. In the story “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto, Gary Soto shows how change occurs with interaction. Victor changed with interactions from Michael and Mr. Bueller. First off, Victor was a boy who really admires this girl Teresa and was destined to have Teresa as his girl. He had so many ideas to try to impress her even though there were consequences. He faked knowing French and even tried…

In the two stories Seventh Grade and Charles the authors affect the plot with the setting. In the Seventh Grade By Gary Soto, The character Victor is in a school trying to gain confidence to ask out a girl. Will in Charles by Shirley Jackson they are also in a school and the main character Laurie changes into “Charles” at school also known as the bad kid in kindergarten he kicks the teacher and bangs chalk on peoples heads. The setting of the school was important to the plot because if Teresa…

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” -Unknown “Seventh Grade”, a short story by Gary Soto, shows experiences can lead to change in personality traits. For example, the main character Victor is not very confident around his crush, Teresa, on the first day of school. Throughout the short story Victor learns not to be subjective towards people and act like himself. Body 1 In the short story “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto the thought is change in personality happened in the story…

Gary Soto manages to cleverly capture the many emotions, reactions and challenges that middle school students may face on the first day of school in his short story, “Seventh Grade”. The story follows Victor, the main character, from his arrival at school until the afternoon, as he sees old friends and attempts to attract the attention of a girl he likes named Teresa. Victor has signed up for French as his elective in hopes of having a class with her. One of the many strategies he uses to…

On the last day of seventh grade, 4 of my friends and I decided to go out around town. We stopped at a diner and ordered a nice lunch. I then ordered a cheesecake to go, to bring home to my mother. We all agreed while we would split the cost of lunch, I would pay for my cheesecake separately. The time came where we had to pay and leave. We got the bill and immediately put the money needed in the middle, dividing it equally among the 5 people. However, we still needed to tip. We had decided to…

At the end of my seventh grade year, I moved to Washington state with my mom. As I moved away, I left behind my dad, my siblings, my friends, and much more family. I was super excited to go and have a fresh start, but I was also super scared. I had never been to a new school with people I didn’t know. I didn’t know my way around, and didn’t have anyone to show me. I was at lunch on my first day of school and a girl showed me to my next class because we were going to the same one. Little did I…

what happens when the mask is broken or revealed? What happens then? Masks, in general, are more harmful than beneficial. Masks hurt more than they heal because they prevent the truth from being known. An example of this is found in the story Seventh Grade by Gary Soto. In this story, Victor, the main character, lied about knowing French to impress a girl that he liked. He tried to keep to make it seem like he did know french, but the truth is, he…