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__**SL**-Why it is good to ban certain books in schools__-


 * TP-** Banned books are in place for a reason. They are banned in schools so that people don't get the wrong ideas in their minds and try things that aren't safe.


 * SL**-People do have the freedom to pick their own books, but libraries and schools should be able to choose what books they want their students to read.


 * TP-** If you were to read a book that talked about depression and how nice it was to be depressed; the student might become depressed.


 * SL**- Having books banned might not please everyone, but it's meant to help not hurt.


 * TP-** Some people can check out a book from the library and not have read it before. That way, they have no idea if the book insults their religious views, has racial comments, or extreme violence.


 * SL-** Reading books with comments like that that did not get banned from schools that did not get banned, could leave people of all sorts hurt, insulted, scared, and many more just because they didn’t have forewarning about the book.


 * __Rebuttal-__**
 * TP-**Freedom-


 * TP**-People do have the right to pick our books at their leisure, but it is also up to the libraries and schools what books they want their students to read.


 * SL-**Every book could have a passage that could be banned in someone’s’ mind-


 * SL**-It is true that every book could be banned in someone’s opinion, but some books have stronger opinions and encouragements about things such as racial issues, sexual situations, violence, political bias, and/or inappropriate for the age group.

Why Cheerleading should not be considered a sport-

** TP- **Cheerleading should not be considered a sport because they don’t have meets/games. Cheerleading is also a discriminating sport. Only a selected amount of people make the “team” and the others don’t even get a chance to participate on the “team”.

** SL **- Also, if schools participate with having assigned cheerleaders, it feels as if others watching the game in the crowd aren’t supposed to cheer because there are assigned cheerleaders. Both of our schools don’t have cheerleaders despite the fact the some girls want to cheerlead for our schools.

** TP- **My school tells us that anyone can cheer and that we are __ALL__ cheerleaders. For example, one time there was a football game and my friends and I decided that we wanted to help people get in to Viking spirit. We jumped around while making up cool things to say to help others feel our team spirit in hopes that they would feel our spirit too. Cheer after cheer, more and more people joined in. By the end of the night we had many people cheering with us. We had people from 6th grade to 11th grade all laughing and having fun. Due to there not being any cheerleaders at my school, students from all different grades not only got into the Viking spirit, but also made good friends that may last a lifetime.


 * SL- ** Stephanie, a staff, told us about a story about her friend who wanted to be a cheerleader in college. Before telling the story, she said "I think cheerleading creates a very unhealthy body image.". Her friend was 5' tall and weighed 103 pounds. The coaches and squad wanted her to be less than 100 pounds. They made her loose 4+ pounds before she could officially join the "team". They told her to loose those pounds in anyway possible; they even gave her laxatives! This is very unhealthy and not needed in many/any ways!

**TP**- In conclusion, we would like to add that although cheering is a good workout, everyone should be able to participate in the team spirit. No matter what.


 * SL- ** Cheering is in many ways, belittling to others. In school, most cheerleaders get to wear their uniforms when other students don't get to participate in wearing the uniforms. Also, they may feel left out which may lead to sadness and therefore not even going to the games to support their school team.

**TP-** Thank you for listening!

Planning Page
 * 1) Who is Matilda?
 * 2) How old is Matilda?
 * 3) Were does Matilda live?
 * 4) Who is Matilda living with


 * 1) What is Matilda's part in the story?
 * 2) What are Matilda's struggles?
 * 3) How is Matilda dealing with her struggles?


 * 1) How did Matilda change?
 * 2) What caused Matilda to change?

First Draft I am going to talk about a character from the book Fever 1793. Fever 1793 is by Laurie Anderson. This book is about a fourteen year old named Matilda. Matilda lives in Philadelphia in her little coffee shop. She lives with her widowed mother, grandpa and friend and family worker, Eliza.

Early that winter a disease called the fever started to spread. Matilda's mother began to become sick with the fever. That's when Matilda's had a big part in the story. Her part was to help with anything, by that I mean she wanted to help save her mother by doing anything possible. Matilda had a lot of hard times later in the book, one was when Matilda came home from Bush Hill and found her house a mess. Later that night she was robbed and her grandpa was killed. She dealt with it by doing what she could and then trying to move on.

Matilda changed by knowing that when hard things pop up the best thing to do is to stay strong. I think Matilda changed because she realized that hard things, such as her mother becoming ill, can make her become a bold, strong and more intelligent person.