Just Girls

So by now I am sure that after 8 blog posts about the book Just Girls, everyone knows that it is about two groups of girls, during the best years of your life…MIDDLE SCHOOL! Basically, there are the “Social Queens” and the “Tough Cookies” and the whole reason for the book is to study their literacy practices. Unfortunately, the entire time I was reading the book I was forced to recollect all of the embarrassing moments in my own life. I also was pondering over the idea of the study being redone today. Middle schoolers today have so much more “literacy” at their fingertips. Almost all of them now have cell phones, Facebook, twitter, snapchat, instagram, and whatever else you can think of. This opens doors to cyber bullying and also to showing young girls what gets the most “likes”. Instead of note passing they just text each other, and instead of looking at magazines they check out instagram. How drastic would the differences be if this book was rewritten? I think we should find out.