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My Goal: My goal is to complete all of my research for my project by Friday.

Part I

• Specific:
• Addresses the amount of research and when to complete it by
• Measurable
• It is measured by having enough facts and quotations to write my ten page paper off of
• Action-Oriented
• Must complete all facts via noodle tools in the specified time period
• Realistic
• It's realistic in the sense that it follows the class guidelines as well
• Tangible
• I'll know when I'm finished once I'm comfortable with the facts I've written and gathered

Part II

• Being that the end of the week is tomorrow, I'm getting close to finishing. I would say I'm about 80% finished, and should be 100% by the end of class on Friday. I will need to continue my research and complete 3 or so more note cards.

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Discussion Notes

• go deeper into the meaning and effect
• stay away from simply describing
• analyze what the author is doing, trying to say, teach, and show
• reasons for telling certain stories
• what are they saying similarly and differently about the holocaust
• why are they portraying it in this way?
• the line between ignorance and innocence
• what does the author want the reader to get out of this?
• informally write about what's important about the two books in my opinion
• loss of humanity

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In both The Girl Who Fell From The Sky and The Perks of Being A Wallflower, the topic of coming of age is clearly shown. Both the main characters in these texts go through difficult situations and journies in their young adult life. A lesson that both The Girl Who Fell From The Sky and The Perks of Being A Wallflower teach you is that these situations are what develops you as a person and shapes you into the best possible person you can be.

Although I haven't experienced the same situations as Rachel and Charlie, or at the same extreme circumstances, I believe everyone has gone through difficult paths or "forks in the road" so far in their life. I believe these issues are an important and common occurrence in peoples lives, that teach them lessons about who has a good or bad presence in their life.