PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Bang
Sharon G. Flake
Realistic Fiction
Dashawn Kennedy
Personal Experience
I have had someone in my family that has past. I really did love that person. Like when Mann and his family lost Jason. "The day Jason died I was with Journey-horse".
Inference
The author's purpose is to make the reader want to read more and more. The author made a questionable events at the end of every chapter thAt makes you want to read more and find out what will happen next.
In your own words
This novel/book 'Bang' is about a child that had died and everyone is trying to find ways to forget about it. He starts to skip school, get in fights, ect. Kee-Lee (Mann's friend) was found dead, and that was even harder on Mann.
Setting and Action
The setting of the story is a bad neighborhood. Most events happen during the day. It is important because the things that go on in the book can't happen in another period of the day. Like Mann going to school, can't happen during the night.
Fact and Fiction
Violence
1: globally, violence take the lives of more than 1.6 million people annually".
2: violence usually involves threats and death
3: gun violence is a threat to the public of our country.
Wikipedia.org
Compare and Contrast
Grace
-Easy on Mann
-Still cry about Jason death
More emotional about things
Father (Mann's dad)
-Harsh on Mann
-Try to get over Jason death
-More manly about thingsi
Vocabulary
Psychologist
"I saw a psychologist for six months".
Synonym :doctor
Antonym :not a doctor
Questioning
Why is that Mann is starting to not believe the cards that his Father is giving him for his birthday every year.