Slam-Walter Dean Myers

Significance:
This book matters because people in real life have anger problems and in this book Slam has very bad anger problems. He is a very bad example because he doesn't do his homework and doesn't really care. If he doesn't get his way he gets really mad,also he doesn't have good grades and he really likes to play basketball and so if you are failing then you can’t play sports for your school team.

Perspective:
The book was written in 1996 and copy written in the same year. How you can explain this to a 3rd grader is that the main character gets really mad easily and doesn’t have the best grades and he likes playing basketball. I liked this book because it was very interesting and it is a kid that likes to play basketball and I like to play basketball.

Evidence:
The argument the author is trying to get out is that you better have good attitude and good grades to play in sports and very good sportsmanship. Also he is saying that if your good at a sport then you better have good grades because then you wouldn't be able to play in team sports.

Connection:
This book relates to life because people have bad grades and then they can't play sports or they are in the middle of there sports season and then they get bad grades so they can't play anymore until they get there grades up so that could ruin there team and make them lose because they might be very good but bad at a subject and fail. Also people have very bad anger problems and then people wouldn't like them.

Supposition:
If there was another situation I think it could be a bad situation or a good situation because he could do something good or he could have a another anger problem then he would get into another fight and do very bad in school, also if he does good then that means he could play basketball.

The Hidden child of Holocaust-Stacy Cretzmeyer

Significance:
This book matters because people in the holocaust back then got treated really badly and the Jews never got what they wanted them to get they never had freedom during the Holocaust. think the author is trying to say is that people can't just do what ever they want back then they had to do what they were told or else you could die or get punished really bad and might die cause of it. I chose this book because i read the other book about the Holocaust and i really liked that book so i wanted to read this and it was very good and also my friend recommended this book so i read it. This work matters because people might get offended because maybe one of their reletives might of been in the Holocaust and died and they might get offended so it matters alot to people.
Perspective:
This book was written in 1995 and you can explain this to a 3rd grader you could say that people couldn't have their rights so they tortured them and made them do work for them and their was a war and they were doing work for the bad guys. I really liked this book because there was a lot of action and i really like those books.
Evidence:
I think the argument that the author is trying to say is people get hurt when start talking about their reletives and how they were in the Holocaust and that back then you didn't get your rights and if you argued then you will get punished and maybe die.
Connection:
I think this book is like The Alchemist because in the Alchemist the author always calls the main character never says his name and in this book the author never said the peoples name and I sort of don't like that they never say the characters name.
Supposition:
There could be a bad situiation or a good situiation i would like the good situiation because then the war would not happen and not a lot of people would die and that would be very good and none of that would happen and nobody would get hurt and people won't have had to suffer from the deaths of their relatives.

The Outsiders-S.E Hinton

Significance: This book matters because it is about gangs and so if you are in a gang you should automatically get out because in this book kids take it to far in a fight and somebody gets hurt so this matters because you should never be in a gang. This event is important because people can die because people get crazy in fights and then someone will get hurt really badly and that wouldn't be good. The real world situations is that people think that they are tough but they aren't really and they fight then the kid gets really hurt and in real life there is gangs and a lot of people will get really hurt. It relates to peoples lives because if you ever see a gang fight always just watch go get someone and then they will break up the fight. this inspired me because I wanted to read a interesting book about a gang and how someone takes it to far.

Perspective: It was published and written in 1967. A lot of my friends said this book was really good and so they recommended this book and so i got it during the summer to read and it was really sad and good it had a really good ending but also very sad. So my friends are very right about this book. the negative repercussions are that ponyboy has his best friend and something happens to him and it is really bad.

Evidence: The argument the author's argument is that people who think that they are tough can get really hurt if they try to be in a fight just like in the book the main character thinks he is tough and so he goes in a rumble and gets really hurt.

Connection: This connects to the real life because people are in real gangs that stay up late to do bad stuff and get into fights and they will get hurt one day and it be good. this applies to my life because i will never be in a gang and a will never be involoved will a gang at all. my opinion should effect people who are good people and they should stay good people and never become bad people if you do then you made a really bad decision.

Supposition: If there was a new situation then it would be good if it was a good situation but bad then it wouldn't be very good. the world would be different if there was no gangs and if poeple would just be their selfs and not try to be cool and just be cool in there own little way. Life would be so peacefull if there wasn't gangs and then police wouldn't have to go out at night and patrol the strrets because then there wouldn't have to be any troubles.

I Have Lived A Thousand Years- Livia Bitton Jackson

Significance
The author is trying to say that back in the days the life that people lived wasn't so good and especially during the Holocaust. People in the Holocaust get treated very badly especially the Jews they get tortured. I chose this book because I wanted to learn about the Holocaust and how people survived in the Holocaust because of the tortured little kids and their moms and dads getting killed by them. This work matters because they suffered in the Holocaust and got very sick because of this. the Holocaust was very bad there was a lot of shouting and shooting at people and the Germans played a lot of traps for them to die. I think this is important because a lot of people died and we have to remember this because people fought for their lives and almost died and not a lot of people survived that Holocaust. It relates to our lives because it was a real story and people have to remember stuff about the Holocaust. People would read this book because just like me I wanted to learn how people survived in the Holocaust.
Perspective
This book was written in 1999 and that was the first paperback book but in 1997 it was the copyright. You could explain this to a 3rd grader by saying there was a war between the Germans and the Jews and the Jews got sent to a camp and they had to work all day long because they weren't in the war and the Germans had to take carge of them but they weren't really nice to them and so the Jews who were bad got killed by the Germans. I think that the problem was that the Jews weren't getting very good people to take care of them.
Evidence
the argument the author is trying to make is that in the Holocaust Jews can't really do stuff in the Holocaust and if they do stuff wrong they get a punishment and sometimes they might get killed so they have to do exactly what the German's say to do.
Connection
The context/history is that it started LONG time ago and so that is very historic and nice to know about. This event changed life because now we don't hate the Jews and people get a long and people aren't slaves for the Germans. This work applies to my life because one of my friends is a Jew and if the Holocaust was still going me and my friend wouldn't be best friends and so this has changed my life a lot. This effects other peoples life because they always have to have a Jewish person in there life so this can effect there lives too.
Supposition
If i put another situation it would be pretty bad situation, people would get very bad people will get into wars and it would be crazy.