Topic: Write a story about yourself that details a moment at school. Events are usually told in chronological order.įocus: Start a story with a quote or action. Planning: Make a list of events you plan to use in your story. The first journaling assignment was due in the morning, and she hardly knew where to begin. She eyed a pink sheet of paper tacked up on her bulletin board. She and Mom had picked it up at the stationery store after school that day. Madison fingered the pages of the brand-new black-and-white composition notebook sitting on top of the desk in her room. Imagine us a hundred or two hundred years ago sitting around making a quilt?

Mom says it sounds like we want to do what people did a long time ago in sewing circles. All the English sections in the seventh grade are doing this, so Fiona, Aimee, Lindsay, and I are already planning times when we can write together, like afternoons at Aimee’s dad’s Cyber Cafe. Gibbons says we all need to get more comfortable-and more skilled-with our writing. That’s the only difference.Īpparently, we have some assessment tests coming up later this year, so Mr. In journaling we have to write in a composition notebook. We started journaling, which is basically keeping track of feelings and observations and all that…which is what I do every day on this computer anyway! I think it’s great that everyone else in school is going to discover just how great it can be to keep files like I do. It’s like someone just handed me the golden ticket in Willy Wonka. Just when I think I’m getting behind in my school work, I get a killer assignment that just about GUARANTEES me an A (or maybe an A+, fingers so crossed) in Mr. Rude Awakening: For once, homework isn’t going to be a piece of cake-it’s going to be the WHOLE cake. Only one thing is for sure: Fiona and Aimee will be Madison's friends till the end of everything.For keeping me real all the time Contents From a big school musical revue to an even bigger family party, there's no predicting what will happen next. Their relationship has been great so far, but Madison knows that graduation can sometimes put a different spin on things. They’ll have to learn to put aside their differences if they want to get the passing grade. Madison has to complete an end-of-year science project, and her partner is none other than her enemy, Poison Ivy. Now they’re about to graduate, but they’ve got to get through the final crazy weeks of the semester first.

It’s hard to believe that the end of the year has come so soon. SUPER EDITION #3: Friends till the End Madison and her friends have been through a lot together as seventh graders.

Now, as she gets ready for graduation, Madison’s about to download her greatest adventure yet. She’s met some cool new friends, learned a lot about dealing with her family, and even found her first real love. SERIES DESCRIPTION: Madison Finn’s seventh-grade year has been full of ups and downs.

Play It Again by Laura Dower