more Tears

Thanks, Nicole, for the note about orange juice! I tried to post on your livejournal blog but both the anonymous and the OpenID options were grayed out and I don't have a livejournal account. Let's hope we can work out a solution!

My brain is fried, or more appropriately, just not working very well after all this allergy/bronchial whatever-this-is-that's-plaguing-me. Translated, that sentence means I have almost nothing to say...except that I wish everyone would hurry up and finish Tears of a Tiger so we can discuss the whole thing. OK, that was me being impatient. I keep wanting to talk about the ending of the book, but I can't do that until we all get there!

I'm really curious to see what happens when the three students who volunteered to email Sharon Draper (Ebony, Ja'Neese, and Nicole) get a response from the author. Here's her website, in case y'all haven't googled it yet: SharonDraper.Com.

blog assignment #1

I want to write about Tears of a Tiger. I just read this book for the first time this past summer on the recommendation of a teacher from Missouri. I've never taught this book. Right now, I'm sort of dreading reading the book again, because it's so sad. But it's real, too. I don't want to spoil anything for folks who haven't read, so I'll just say that this time around, I'll be looking for places in the text where things might have gone differently. Why does Sharon Draper choose this incident? Why does she start with a car crash? Also, she doesn't focus on alcohol, but it's there.

I went to the public library catalog to see if there were copies available, and one of the books I found under Draper's name was about burning out as a teacher. I'm going to try and get it today. I wonder what kind of teacher Draper was and how she started writing and why.

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