Reading Matters: Tapestry Step Five

TEACHER - STUDENT CONFERENCE

Submit one-half of the assignment for feedback and assessment.

This means that you will sit down with your teacher and go through the pages you have created thus far in the process.

You will receive oral feedback during this week of conferences.

Be ready with STEPS TWO-FOUR complete.

You will miss out on this important conference and the assessment if your work is not complete.

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."