Write your acceptance speech. You suspect that a classmate is very depressed. Write about what you think your life will be like when you are old. Close your eyes and imagine you are in your favorite spot. Describe where you are and what it is like there.
People create excuses for almost everything that goes wrong.
To begin the story, I am assigning each student a character in the story. I am hoping that by assigning each student an actual character from the story, it will keep them actively involved. The boys will be assigned a boy character, the girls will be assigned a girl character. Depending on the numbers in each class, some students will have to be paired up. On the last day of summer school, I have asked all of the students to dress as their character from the story.