Text to Text Connection: Angry Management is strongly connected with another book written by Chris Crutcher called Whale Talk. I am not at all surprised by the fact that Angry Management and Whale Talk are strongly connected because they are written by the same author. The strongest connection that Angry Management shares with Whale Talk is that the main characters in both stories are high school boys who are trying to stand up to the same high school bully named Marshall. Both stories take place in Cutter High School. In Angry Management, Marcus James stands up to Marshall, because Marshall discriminates him, as Marcus is an African-American. In Whale Talk, T.J stands up to Marshall, because Marshall discriminates him, as T.J. is not as athletic as Marshall. In both stories, the main characters stand up against injustice.
Text to Self Connection: I can easily connect with Angry Management because I also stand up to injustice, just like Marcus. When Marcus sees someone bullied, he immediately stands up against the bully and protects the person who is getting bullied. Just like Marcus, I also stood up against a bully in Mason Middle School. When I was in 7th grade, I saw a bully pushing an innocent boy's head against a locker. I immediately went up to the bully and told him to stop what he was doing immediately, or I would tell on him. He immediately stopped bullying the innocent boy and ran away. I immediately took the innocent boy to the nurse. I was just like Marcus that day, because I stood up to injustice.
Text to World Connection: Angry Management connects to the real world in many ways. The most important way in connects to real world is that the featured high school in the book, Cutter High School, has an anti-bullying program. Throughout the story, there are many anti-bullying assemblies held in Cutter High School, because bullying is a major problem in that school. Just like in Cutter High School, there are bullying prevention programs all over schools in the U.S. I strongly believe that bullying should be eradicated nationwide so students can focus more on their studies and extra-curricular activities.
Open Discussion Question: What would you do if you saw someone getting bullied?
Text to Self Connection: I can easily connect with Angry Management because I also stand up to injustice, just like Marcus. When Marcus sees someone bullied, he immediately stands up against the bully and protects the person who is getting bullied. Just like Marcus, I also stood up against a bully in Mason Middle School. When I was in 7th grade, I saw a bully pushing an innocent boy's head against a locker. I immediately went up to the bully and told him to stop what he was doing immediately, or I would tell on him. He immediately stopped bullying the innocent boy and ran away. I immediately took the innocent boy to the nurse. I was just like Marcus that day, because I stood up to injustice.
Text to World Connection: Angry Management connects to the real world in many ways. The most important way in connects to real world is that the featured high school in the book, Cutter High School, has an anti-bullying program. Throughout the story, there are many anti-bullying assemblies held in Cutter High School, because bullying is a major problem in that school. Just like in Cutter High School, there are bullying prevention programs all over schools in the U.S. I strongly believe that bullying should be eradicated nationwide so students can focus more on their studies and extra-curricular activities.
Open Discussion Question: What would you do if you saw someone getting bullied?
First of all, nice job on the lengthy post. It looks like you put a lot of effort into it. If I saw someone being bullied, I would try to break up the bullying as soon as I can. If the one bullying has a weapon that is a hazard to me, that would be up to my discretion.
ReplyDeleteIf I saw someone being bullied I would probably help the person. I would tell the bully to back off. If the bully still didnt stop then I would probably just tell the person that is being bullied to just ignore the bully. If that still didnt work then I would get and adult
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