ipl-logo

Jack Strong Takes A Stand

321 Words2 Pages

I read the book "Jack Strong Takes a Stand". The author is Tommy Greenwald and this book is about a boy that is over-scheduled and then he went on strike and didn't get of the couch. He wanted to quit some of the activities that he did not like. Then he gets famous and is invited to a big TV show. Jack Strong is over-scheduled, CPR knowing, baseball playing, couch loving kid. He also does karate, Chinese, cello, soccer, and swimming. One challenge he took was going to a cello recital, during that he dropped his bow right in the middle of a song! A quote from the story is " It slid right out of my hand and clattered across the wood floor.". So he get's the bow and resumes the song. Some similarities we have are that we are both in sixth

Show More
Related

  • Compare And Contrast The Sniper And The Scarlet Ibis

    158 Words  | 1 Pages

    The little brother is born with a disability where he has trouble learning things. The big brother is ashamed because his brother can't walk when he is 5. The big brother spends months teaching him to walk. But then the kid dies and the big brother is sad though he was ashamed.

    Read More

  • Central Theme Of All American Boys By Danielley

    624 Words  | 3 Pages

    Hargun Kaur Shari Tracy Adv. English 1 23 February 2023 HEROES ARE JUST BYSTANDERS THAT SPOKE UP Discrimination and other acts of injustice are, sadly, common amongst humans and communities. It is important to learn about the effects of these acts, not only on the person it happens to but also their community. One book that communicates that well is All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. This book had many messages that could help people and society as a whole.

    Read More

  • Fastbreak Character Analysis

    720 Words  | 3 Pages

    In “Fastbreak” by Mike Lupica, Jayson faces many struggles in poverty. Jayson has no money and he is all alone until he gets caught stealing. Now Jayson lives on the rich side of town with new people. Through the stories hardships when Jayson moved to the rich side of town, to him living with new people, and he has a new team and a new school to get used too.

    Read More

  • True Son Movie Vs Book

    379 Words  | 2 Pages

    True Son and Half Arrow took a canoe and took it across the river. True son told little cranes brother that he got killed by the whites.

    Read More

  • New Jack Guarding Sing Sing Sing Summary

    1167 Words  | 5 Pages

    1.) After reading New Jack: Guarding Sing Sing I found most interesting that half the time Conover is in danger and scared for his life. But he must learn how to deal with the inmates and survive the spine-chilling conditions. With the United States prison population reaching a record high of over two million inmates, the system was in a crisis. It was more likely for an African American in California to go to prison rather than attending a state university.

    Read More

  • The Skating Party Literary Devices

    1523 Words  | 7 Pages

    Before anything else happens Jeff yells “Kenton” calling Ken back into the real world. Ken passes it off as a claustrophobia for many years and he doesn't realize what truly happened until he goes back with Ib. When Ken finally realizes, he thinks “The final puzzle piece of memory slides into place. That song, the two-note song. The sweet high voice calling me in the tunnel.

    Read More

  • Thomas Gallaudet Biography

    1259 Words  | 6 Pages

    Thomas now twenty six decided it was time for him to go back to college to get his ministers licences . Because he decided to become a minister he started to go back home on the weekends to visit with family .But on this day he had gone outside to watch his brothers play and noticed this girl standing all alone from the crowd of children , Just blankly staring at them and asked his brothers about that girl they had explained to him that she was deaf and no one really talked to her this made Thomas intrigued with the girl so he was drowned to her like she was a puzzle that he need to see or complete . The boys told Thomas that the girl 's name was Alice Cogswell , so with much determination Thomas went over to the little girl . He then removed his hat in front of the little girl , He then started to write “ hat” in the dirt .

    Read More

  • Anthem By Ayn Rand: Literary Analysis

    451 Words  | 2 Pages

    Though throughout his whole life he has been treated differently because he is in fact different. He is taller, stronger, smarter, etc. Even though they have always held him back he still wished to fit in. Now he has just found out that the society in which he always wished to fit into, is not what he has always thought it to be. That the society in which he was raised is wrong.

    Read More

  • Jack Lord Of The Flies Argumentative Essay

    882 Words  | 4 Pages

    Every child comes into this world as a selfish, manipulative, cruel and stubborn being. It is the parents and society that teaches children how to function in a civilized world, and societal laws that keeps them under control. William Golding wrote this novel in the early years of the cold war and the atomic age. In William Golding's classic novel Lord of the Flies, Golding uses Jack, a young savage who looks to lead a group of stranded kids on an island with no food, no rules, and no adults. The effect freedom has on Jack has turned him into a savage because he does not have to listen to anyone since there are no adults on the island.

    Read More

  • Persuasive Speech: Why Public Schools Are More Important Than High School

    1286 Words  | 6 Pages

    He is at a dead end job working on roofs, he sees himself going nowhere because he is a high school dropout and is looking towards drugs and alcohol for an escape. But everything seems to change when he gets the news that he is going to be a father soon. Becoming a father gave him the mindset that he was going to have to be more responsible now. As his son got older he decided to change his life for him and his son so he began to read books to him. He practiced over and over and three years later he decided that he wanted to go back to get his GED.

    Read More

  • Scott Russell Sanders The Inheritance Of Tools Summary

    797 Words  | 4 Pages

    The anecdotal story is also used to provide the reader with what the author feels about his father. After explaining that his hammer’s handle is made out of hickory, the speaker

    Read More

  • Character Analysis Of Mattie In Fever 1793

    567 Words  | 3 Pages

    Robbers had invaded their house and grandfather said it was not like that the other day when he came. That night the robbers came again and Mattie wasn’t sure what to do so she ran for it but was grab before she could escape. The robbers tied her up and her grandfather came walking down the stairs with a musket and fired off a round. After he had shot a robber jumped on top of him and Mattie grabbed a sword and slashed the sword through the robbers back and ran out of the house and Mattie chased him. When Mattie came back her grandfather was about to die.

    Read More

  • High School Confidential David Denby Analysis

    1100 Words  | 5 Pages

    The most hated plot in America is the underdog’s demise- the empathetic pain of scrutiny, and the failure we all miss to escape. The scrawny, glasses-wearing outsider is often the underdog, the hero we all cheer for. The one who makes all the refinements in a society that is stagnant to change. And his most successful storytelling, or retelling, is that in the setting of high school. He walks awkwardly down the hall with his shoulders slightly hunched inward and mouth slightly ajar.

    Read More

  • Comparison Of Drumbeats And The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh

    466 Words  | 2 Pages

    The two stories, Drumbeats and Bullets and The Drummer Boy of Shiloh have many comparisons and contrasts. One story is mostly fact based, while the other is more of a story. Both stories have facts about the life in war as a drummer boy. Johnny Clem (from Drumbeats and Bullets) and Joby (from The Drummer boy of Shiloh) can relate in many different ways.they also have factors that make them very different.

    Read More

  • Loss In A Short Story

    660 Words  | 3 Pages

    Loss, although it can make for a sad story, often causes readers to immerse in the story, because the characters seem more life-like. This happens in all three short stories due to the authors’ skillful inclusion of loss as one of the main themes. Gwilan’s Harp contains many instances of loss. First of all, and most important to the story, Gwilan’s harp is destroyed when the cart that she is riding in crashes.

    Read More

More about Jack Strong Takes A Stand

Open Document