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Betzy Gomez
Theme:

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alexander montano
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alexander montano
Theme poverty
" discouraged me from going out for the team because it meant expense: Insurance (five dollars), a check-up (seven dollars), and one knee pad (two dollars and fifty cents)." (3)

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marijose alarcon
theme- identity, "As early as kindergarten I had to weave through fights-some I won and some I had to escape holding my nose like a doorknob." (1)

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jayden j
theme-hard working " If I worked eight hours, I might make four dollars. I’d take this, even gladly, and walk downtown to look into store windows on the mall and long for the bright madras shirts from Walter Smith or Coffee’s, but settling for two imitation ones from Penney’s."

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alexander montano
Theme: poverty," I walked quickly up the street whose houses were ill-kept and broken: ripped screen doors, dirt where grass once grew, and the paint fading into chalky dust."

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marijose alarcon
theme- poverty, "I walked quickly up the street whose houses were ill-kept and broken: ripped screen doors, dirt where grass once grew, and the paint fading into chalky dust." (18)

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Betzy Gomez
Theme: poverty "I walked quickly up the street whose houses were ill-kept and broken: ripped screen doors, dirt where grass once grew, and the paint fading into chalky dust." (18)

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jayden j
theme-reckless 'My first loss was in first grade over a red crayon. I was busy coloring flames on a neat four-sided house with a crooked chimney when a boy tried to pull the crayon away from me. I shoved him away, called him menso and proceeded to slash red flames at the house."

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jayden j
theme-emberasses “No, maybe next year I can get a job,” I answered feebly. I was embarrassed because I couldn’t explain why I’d come to their playground as a volunteer."

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alexander Montano
Theme poverty
"where we grew dreamy as incense looking at shirts, pants, belts, loafers—those wonderful things"

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Marijose Alarcon
theme- poverty, "From there we checked the telephone booths and Coke machine for change." (14)

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madison ying
theme: Identity, "An innocent mistake, no doubt, but still I had to beat up her brother Ernie for pulling the movable strings of my heart and making me look like a fool to myself. "(16)

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jayden j
theme-violence We looked at each other, wagged our heads in disgust, and called him in low voices, “sissy boy.”

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Nicole Garcia
Theme: Violence,  "An innocent mistake, no doubt, but still I had to beat up her brother Ernie for pulling the moveable strings of my heart and making me look like a fool to myself." (16)

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Gabriela Loeza
Theme: Hard working, "She worked in the fields around Fresno, picking grapes, oranges, plums, peaches, and cotton dragging a large white sack a sled"(8)

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Betzy Gomez
Theme: Poverty, "When he returned he was smiling because he had sold the Coke bottles—twelve of them—to his mother for four cents apiece, and jingled his pockets like a big spender." (22)

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Marijose Alarcon
Theme:violence, "An innocent mistake, no doubt, but still I had to beat up her brother Ernie. "(16)

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Hilal A. Omeych
Theme: Environment, "We all came back, either as victors or losers, and, if the latter, practiced even more fiercely to prove ourselves the next time. We wanted to hear the coach call us “animals,” and smile with pride."(12)

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jayden j
theme-violence "i hung upside down on the bars, blood riding through my head, and wished i were dead"(7)

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Theme: Poverty, " My family had taken little interest in my athletics and, in fact, had discouraged me from going out for the team because it meant expense: Insurance (five dollars), a check-up (seven dollars), and one knee pad (two dollars and fifty cents)." (3)

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Kailey Lopez
Theme: Poverty, " I walked quickly up the street whose houses were ill-kept and broken: ripped screen doors, dirt where grass once grew, and the paint fading into chalky dust." (18)

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Hilal A. Omeych
Theme: Race/ Racism,"I felt as if a spear had been thrown at my feet. I wanted to collar the kid for asking such a naked question, but I smiled, wagged my head, and told him that I was."(10)

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Kailey Lopez
Theme: Environment, "On our street it was a practice to collect Coke bottles that could be traded in at liquor stores at a nickel apiece."(11)

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Hilal A. Omeych
Theme: Poverty,"where we grew dreamy as incense looking at shirts, pants, belts, loafers—those wonderful things that were as far from us as Europe."(12)

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Damaris Lepe
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Salvador Hinojosa
Theme:Identity, ¨I chewed grass and spat the wad of green while she and her girlfriends looked on. Still, her eyes went vacant with love, despite the fact that I didn’t care.¨(1)

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Betzy Gomez
theme: Identity, ''The next year, as an eighth grader, my love took a different turn." (52)

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Alexander Montano
Theme: Identity:  ''The next year, as an eighth grader, my love took a different turn." (52)

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Kailey Lopez
Theme: violence, "An innocent mistake, no doubt, but still I had to beat up her brother Ernie for pulling the moveable strings of my heart and making me look like a fool to myself. Punchpunchpunch" (16)

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madison ying
theme:

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Hilal A. Omeych
Theme: Identity, "An innocent mistake, no doubt, but still I had to beat up her brother Ernie for pulling the movable strings of my heart and making me look like a fool to myself. "(16)

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Ms. Poole
Theme: Identity, "I suppose my desire for girls was keenest as I approached adolescence" (70).

Story 12- Saturday with Jackie
Theme: Environment...