Following coming next. Sunday, I slept.

The following day was a school

day.

trial when you have committed a crime you are put on trial, before a
judge and a jury (a jury in the USA, not Sweden), then you are
told if you are guilty or not guilty (and given a sentence by a
judge not the jury, if guilty)

mood the way you feel, the feeling of something. Bad mood or good
mood. After the fight, the whole school was in a bad mood.

unsettling when things around you are worrisome. It’s a little unsettling to
hear that our school has some problems.

official something which is out in the open, everyone knows of it. It has
been said that the kids in room 203 with Gruell as a teacher are
of no use.

to be written off no one believes in you, no one will do anything to help you,
they have given up on you. The kids were written off as
hopeless

scores results

juvenile hall prison for teenagers and children.

juvenile delinquent young person who has committed a crime (done a crime)

Probation officer when you are let out of jail or juvenile hall you get a person
who is checking up on you. If you do a the slightest thing
wrong, you are sent back to jail

alienation alien as in someone different, if you feel alienation you are not
let into the group of other people, like the kids in the movie
don’t feel like the school is letting them into the system

label a note you put on something, like if you put a note on a jar of
jam ‘raspberry jam’ (hallonsylt), then you have labeled it

education system the school system (education=utbildning)

racial has to do with race (which really doesn’t exist, all humans are
one race, right?)

hostility when you feel that someone looks at you with hostility they
look at you as the enemy - someone bad

unteachable can’t learn anything, teachers can’t teach these people

anything
(not a true statement, because everyone can learn something)

recognized notices, saw

similarities when you have similarities in life, you can compare your lives,
recognize what’s going on in your life with the other person’s
life You can also have similarities if you look alike.
unite bring people together so they can live together without fighting

relate to they relate to the kids in the books because they can recognize
the lives of the people in the books with their own

cage what you put animals in when they are captured, a bird in a
cage

challenge to ask you to do your very best or anytime you take on

something new it’s a challenge - testing you. Starting a new
school is a challenge for me.

pass the baton on the stick which is given from one runner to another in a relay
race (stafett, stafettpinne)

chronicling writing (about their lives)

adversities difficult situations

abuse physical or psychological abuse (misshandel fysisk eller

psykisk)

weight issues has to do with how much you weigh if you are skinny you weigh
too little, of you are fat you weigh too much, issues = problems

suicide when you kill yourself

to express to say, to show (att uttrycka)

attic the very top of a house under the roof

safe haven a place you feel safe - when a ship seeks safe haven
it comes into port away from the storms

segregation pushing people apart

assignment task - something you are given in school. A written assignment

means you have to write something and hand it into your
teacher

being judged don’t judge a book by it’s cover.. döm inte hunden efter håren
if you are being judge it might be that people don’t like your
clothes or that they are afraid of teenagers and thinking all
teenagers are bad (NOT ;), then the teenagers are being
judged

graduation when you finish a level of school (studenten, ta examen)

promise a statement, saying that you will do something for sure

undergraduate
graduate degrees higher education - when you are in college and university

to receive to get