Independent Reading Book Post #1

Title: The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake
pgs 1-43

Summary: This is my first post for my independent reading book. We are finished with book clubs right now but we are not finished with reading. In my class we all had a goal to try and read 25 books this year. So far no one has reached that goal but the more books we finish the closer we get to meeting the goal. So, so far my book is really good. The main character of my book is Maleeka Madison. She is a dark skinned girl that is not wealthy and almost the whole school makes fun of her for one reason or another. If it is not about her clothes, then it is about her skin. Maleeka is in Middle school and she can't stand her teacher Ms. Saunders!(pg5) Maleeka doesn't have many friends, but she is friends with this girl named Char that treats her like dirt! (pg15) I really don't like the way that Char treats Maleeka, she is always putting her down.(pg 17) Maleeka and Char are only friends because Maleeka kind of begged Char to be her friend so that the people in school would stop picking on her.(pg 23) I also met a character named Caleb. He is the boy that Maleeka thinks is really cute! The Skin I'm in is very entertaining! (Historian) This week many events happened in my book but the one that I want to discuss is Maleeka's fight.(pg 30) Maleeka had a fight with another girl because Char was kissing her Boyfriend. Char stood right there and watched the fight she didn't get Maleeka out of the fight and Maleeka didn't tell on Char. That led me to think about(Deep Thinker) this new word that everyone talks about in my school...SNITCHING. Maleeka didn't Snitch on Char and she got her but whipped. What do people really gain by not snitching on someone else? The kids in my school think that it is bad to be a snitch. As I was the Word Smith this week I found the word chronicling on page 24. This word means.....Making an account of events in the order of their happening.

Prompt: When I compare Pictures of Hollis Woods to the Skin I am in I see some similarities. The one thing that I would like to talk about on today deals with how both of the main characters think of themselves. The main character Hollis Woods didn't think that she was pretty at all. She hated that her hair was bushy, she had freckles and she had a big scar on her face from an accident that she had. Maleeka in the Skin I'm In doesn't think that she is pretty either. She hates the fact that she has really dark skin, and the kids in school tease her about her skin color and the clothes that she wears.