Reading Matters: Tapestry Final Steps

STEP SEVEN:
Editing with peers
Meet with a peer to go over the final checklist you have been given and share your blog pages. Edit and revise each final page to ensure a final superior product is posted.

SCHEDULED FOR:
MAY 15-22

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STEP EIGHT:
You are finally done!!
Refer to the English department policy concerning Independent studies and late submissions.

FINAL TAPESTRY DUE:
MAY 22, 2012

FEATURE BOOK FOR GIRLS

WIntergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson: "Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia’s mother is busy saving other people’s lives. Her father is away on business. Her stepmother is clueless. And the voice inside Lia’s head keeps telling her to remain in control, stay strong, lose more, weigh less. If she keeps on going this way – thin, thinner, thinnest – maybe she’ll disappear altogether. In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the National Book Award finalist Speak, bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson explores one girl’s chilling descent into the all-consuming vortex of anorexia."