I Choose Questions and answers Esmeralda Madrid Jennifer Ruelas 3~12~13 Period2

1. What was your first reaction when reading the title of the story? (4 sentences) I thought it was very sad because all these people go through this every day. Also that these people feel sad because they fell like they dont belong and dont have any friends, and they are being teased. Bullying has to stop. Bullying hast to stop because I feel that kids would feel more comfortable to go to school. 2. After reading the story, what does the author really mean when she writes that she died in the sixth grade? Did she really die? Explain your answer using examples from the story. (4 sentences) She saying that she felt dead. That no one cared about her not even if she died or if anything happens to her. Also that no one even cared about her or even notice her. She felt that she did not belong.

3. How does the author describe herself before she died? Go back to the story and find adjectives that describe her personality. I vaguely remember the person I was before it happened. Out-going, compassionate, smart, and sometimes overbearing. 4. In the second paragraph the author says she flat-lined. What does she mean? Look up the word in an online dictionary and write the definition. To register on an electronic monitor as having no brain
waves or heartbeat.

5. How did The Crew influence others in school? Give specific examples that you found throughout the story. The Crew had broken up with me. It was elementary school death. I cried. They said see? We were right and sauntered off to bask in their coolness elsewhere. 6. The author mentions that the girls at the sleep over were 11 going on 17 then she states that she was content to be a kid for a while longer. How is it possible to be 11 going on 17? Describe some of the things the girls wanted to do that wasnt age appropriate. Not long after that night, I received a recess-note signed by The Crew. They no longer wished any contact with me for the following reasons: I was a crybaby. I was uninteresting to them, and I did not appreciate cool things

7. What were 3 specific negative effects the bullying had on the author? (4 sentences) I quickly became persona non-grata to the entire sixth grade. No one would talk to me, except to hurl an insult about my budget outfit, or lame hair so they could laugh while I cried. I couldnt believe the scope of my banishment could permeate so far, so fast. 8. When did things finally turn around for her? What exactly happened? How did she feel? Im now 28 and married. I often wonder who I might have been had I sailed through those years without incident.