Month: March 2017

Auggie deserves the William Beecher Ward medal because he truly earned it. The medal is about a person having courage to speak up and show kindness towards others, which Auggie has exceedingly showed throughout the book. Many parts in the book show how Auggie can get through whatever course passes him, like when Jack and Jamie saw Auggie, Jamie acted a certain way that would really hurt the person he was reacting to. But Auggie didn’t mind for he knew that Jamie wasn’t the one to blame, and nor was Auggie.
When Auggie was awarded the medal, I began to think that some people may have gone and asked themselves, ‘Why him? Why Auggie?’ Well, to be honest, the answer was what the book was referring to all along. It doesn’t matter what you look like or if you’re different from everyone else. It matters how you treat others and what kind of respect you treat them with. Throughout the book, the personalities and the traits the book has been talking about was being implied about Auggie. In the interim, Auggie has been trying to act like an ordinary kid like everyone else in Beecher Prep. But the thing is, no one was born to fit in because everyone was born to stand out, and it really is a waste when something so extraordinary and worth wondering about was never discovered or encouraged to speak out.

Hi, my name is Diyana and I am really really weird so I’m going to be writing an article about ‘weird things I do when I’m home alone’ and hopefully you guys get a laugh or smile.

So like, I said I’m really weird and one of the things I do is burn the house down, although, I don’t mean for it to happen but I’m literally cursed, everything I do causes problems. For example, there was a time I was hungry so I put some food *microwavable* in the microwave, and 2 seconds later it caught on a little fire! LIKE, WHO INVITED YOU AND? HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? Anyways, I stayed hungry and trust me I did not care after what happened.

Next thing is make sure all the windows are closed, blinds down so that no one can see, or hear you.

Why I’m saying that is because I get in my comfort zone and that is bad, like really bad and what I do when that situation happens is dance to really loud music, I even sing on the top of my lungs and I probably made all my neighbor’s deaf by that. But thank you so much for reading this article and see you guys next time BYEEEEEE.

– Diyana

What it has to do with Jack Perspective in the start is it that it doesn’t matter what you see on the outside is what you see on the inside basically meaning it doesn’t matter and what it has to do with Jack is that people don’t see what in Jack or Auggie, jack can talk to Auggie and have fun with him cause he doesn’t care what he see on the outside and what the quote means that people don’t see what inside they only care whats on the outside and if you feel empathy  for someone you understand how they feel and it doesn’t matter how they look so you help them right when there sad and so that’s what jack did for Auggie when he was getting bullied. So if you understand someone a lot you understand so you know how they feel. My evidence for this that jack learn a big lesson to not judge people by how they look. So this is what I think it has to do with Jack’s Perspective.

I think that Auggie and Via are wiser beyond their years because Auggie has gone through a lot of stuff (like his surgeries) that most of the other kids haven’t gone through and he knows what it feels like to be bullied a lot because of your face,(though no one bullies him anymore) and to  have no friends. Since Auggie has gone through all this stuff already he knows how to deal with it, making him wiser than other kids who don’t know how to deal with this. Therefore, he has a higher emotional IQ than other kids.

Via is wiser than a lot of kids her age because she started doing everything herself at an early age. For example, Via has learned to do everything herself without her parents’ help because she knows that her parents are busy helping Auggie and she knows how hard it must be to be Auggie (always being teased because of your face) and she has sympathy for him. Also, Via never complains when she wants to spend some time with her parents or she needs her parents help but their busy helping Auggie, because she is very understanding while most other kids would just complain.

In conclusion, I think that Auggie and Via are wiser than people their age because they are more understanding than people their age.

My goal is to accomplish by cleaning my binder, my bin, concentration and typing faster.

I want to accomplish these goals because it will help me allot at school, and so my parents can be proud of what I accomplished so I can be proud of myself.

I am going to accomplish this by whatever I get I put the paper in my binder right away. I will clean my bin by doing it every week to see if it is messy. I will make myself listen by telling myself that I have to listen or else I will get in trouble and they will ask me questions, and I want to type faster by practicing every weekend and doing text typing.

My new year’s resolution

Hi. This is my new resolution and I want to play more

I want to do more basketball and less free play (free play is playing tag, grounders, and whatever.)

Because I want the be in the NBA when I’m about I don’t know 5,6 5,7 I don’t know.

If I keep shooting then I will get better and better. If I shoot a three pointer also known short 3pt.

This is why I want to do more basketball thank you for reading.

I think Auggie deserves this medal because in the start of the book no one really like Auggie that much they thought he had the “plague”. No one would go close to Auggie or even look at his face for that matter, but then things quickly shifted Auggie  was becoming friends with Jack and as we know from the Julian chapter Jack was afraid and nervous to meet Auggie but now they are friends. Auggie didn’t make many friends until jack started talking trash about Auggie on Halloween. Auggie soon found a nice friend called summer and they even made their own table the “summer table.” Auggie was starting to feel more recognized by more people but still Auggie remains with only 2 friends. Auggie quickly started gaining friends after coming back after the nature retreat and near the end Auggie said, “Not to brag but I felt like people wanted to be close to me.”

Now we all know it doesn’t matter what you look like you can still make friends if you try hard enough and Auggie made so many new friends. And not all of those friends were just because of the nature retreat but because people started to like Auggie as a person people stopped caring how he look like. And people stopped staring at him because of his face because he made many new friends but not really trying that hard just try to be yourself don’t pretend to be someone you’re not. Auggie lifted so many spirits like his moms and dads and his friends to and he was himself not someone else. He really was not expecting to earn this medal but his did and so many people started cheering for him. They were yelling Auggie! Auggie! And he many so people proud. And my conclusion is always be yourself and try hard to gain trust and loyalty from your friends you can be amazing just try your hardest.

Auggie was trying his hardest but what he didn’t know is it was happening so fast he couldn’t see it.Thanks you for sticking around this whole time listing to me ramble on about Auggie and how to be yourself. I hope you enjoyed reading this took me a whole 10 minutes to write so thank you 🙂

Sincerely Marko Simic