scrounge
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Post by scrounge on Oct 23, 2007 7:40:07 GMT -5
^^ When I was a kid I wrote a partial fanfiction about Dawn babysitting for a new family in town and they asked for her not to sit again next time they called the BSC because she told their kids that the lumber industry was evil and the dad in the family was a logger.
Yeah, I was a strange kid.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 23, 2007 7:48:30 GMT -5
^ I actually like that idea. ;D Dawn really bothered me in this book. I think it's one of my least favorite BSC books.
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blossom114
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Post by blossom114 on Oct 23, 2007 10:00:49 GMT -5
Okay just reread this one. Even though Dawn was an Environmental Nazi, I ended up feeling bad for her. She did work her ass off, and i felt she deserved some recognition at the ceremony
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alula
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Post by alula on Oct 23, 2007 13:28:21 GMT -5
Eh, I would probably feel sorrier for Dawn if I felt like she had really learned something, but since she's frequently still obnoxious and tactless in other books when she's "educating" people, I don't, really. You can be passionate without being rude and condescending to other people. In fact, it's probably more effective.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 23, 2007 16:10:03 GMT -5
^ Totally agree. Those are my exact thoughts on Dawn and the reason this book irritated me. ;D Working hard isn't an excuse for being obnoxious and forceful in trying to get your views across and I wish Dawn would have learned more of a lesson, too.
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Post by anzuhana on Dec 30, 2009 12:44:09 GMT -5
I enjoyed this book for the simple fact that Dawn was out-of-control in it with her wanting to save the environment and as a result, being obnoxious to everyone as a result. What I don't get is that because Dawn's project was about helping the environment, why did she and Stacey each give in a 30 page paper? Seriously, that couldn't have been good for the environment.
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Post by candykane on Dec 30, 2009 13:39:50 GMT -5
^Haha, good point! Also, what could they have possibly written to fill 30 pages? I've never heard of anyone having to write something that long in the eighth grade.
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Post by anzuhana on Dec 30, 2009 14:52:28 GMT -5
^ Yeah, how much information is there about environmental problems and how that could be fixed so that 30 pages would have been written by Dawn and Stacey? I've never heard of anyone having to write 30 pages in the eighth grade, either. I could sorta see them writing 30 pages in college but not eighth grade.
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 30, 2009 17:13:24 GMT -5
I don't think they had to write a 30 page paper, that's just how long it ended up being. Eighth graders are still learning how to write formal papers and sometimes stick irrelevant stuff into them because they think longer = better.
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Post by candykane on Dec 30, 2009 21:32:21 GMT -5
^I always had the opposite problem of not being able to make my papers long enough. I hated having to come up with what I felt was filler in order to make it X amount of pages.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jan 3, 2010 16:56:18 GMT -5
^ Me, too. I'd do everything I could to make mine seem longer; I'd stop using contractions, I'd use a font that was bigger than normal, but no so big that the teacher would know what I was doing, I'd add descriptive words whenever possible...I had a whole bag of tricks. They worked, too, sicne I usually got good grades on papers.
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Mar 13, 2011 11:44:54 GMT -5
this whole book is nonsense, but this passage in particular drove me up a wall:
"we just sold ten bird houses," buddy cried with glee .... "do you know how much money we've made?" stacey, the math whiz, came up beside me and answered "twenty dollars. great work, guys!"
it doesn't take a "math whiz" to multiply by two. and honestly, i'm not all that impressed with stacey's incredible multiplication skills. they could have worded it differently, but as is it seems like dawn really needed stacey's help there :] this is one of those books co-written by jahnna and malcolm though, and i'm never a huge fan.
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scrounge
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Post by scrounge on Mar 16, 2011 3:37:58 GMT -5
^^^That passage is my favorite thing! It's actually what I think of first when I think of this book.
I am not a Dawn fan at all, but I love this book so much. Maybe because people tell her how obnoxious she is.
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 16, 2011 11:15:31 GMT -5
^Too bad Dawn didn't take the hint and at least try to change her ways. I was actually surprised the Stoneybrook parents (maybe I shouldn't have been since some of them could be indifferent to their kids) wanted/let their kids (edited to change this to keep attending) attend Dawn/Stacey's "Green School" and more so that the kids wanted to go! What young kid (or anyone) would voluntary want to be patronized by someone like Dawn? Not me!
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Post by wiggir13 on Jun 7, 2011 11:01:46 GMT -5
After reading this book, I do have to wonder if Dawn actually did learn something b/c she continues to be obnoxious throughout the series....well to me anyway.
I did enjoy that they were trying to teach the kids about caring for the planet. I wish more people did care. I did feel like Mrs. Gonzalez really should have made Dawn help with the opening ceremonies. I mean yes she was obnoxious, but she is 13 and doesn't know any better. As the adult, the teacher should have tried to include her more since it was such a great idea.
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