Just Girls…

Reading this book about Jr. High School definitely brings back a ton of memories. I think the traditional school system sort of brainwashed children that literacy is strictly black and white so this book help included the things that were not considered literacy during middle school years. It tells us that passing notes count as literacy, reading magazines, even writing on bathroom walls count as literacy. Even if this book was suppose to be about literacy, it was really sad to see the comparison between poorer and richer girls. This relates back to the issue about access; not everyone is fortunate enough to receive access to up to date materials. In the case, the poorer girls a.k.a. “Tough Cookies” did not get a chance to experience literacy with year books because they could not afford it. It was really sad realizing all these things that I did not realize when I was still in middle school. I think this part about year books was the part that hit our group the most because we went on to talk about our experiences in middle school. We all agreed that this part was really sad because the Tough Cookies couldn’t afford year books and when it came time to yearbook signing, they were excluded. We really enjoyed making our movie trailer for our book because it was a lot of fun. It’s so amazing to see that now we’ve all grown up, we all see how terrible middle school was.