https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf en-us 2016-04-11 12:40:24 UTC 2016-04-13 13:38:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/weigh.jpg natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105046735 2016-04-11 12:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105046735 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105049981 A Child Called It]]> 2016-04-11 13:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105049981 amanda_b_frederick https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105052423 David Pelzer  ]]> 2016-04-11 13:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105052423 madalyn_l_flynn https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105052470 Man vs Man

David´s mother is abusing him, and having to steal food from stores and other classmates. He was physically, mentally, and verbally abused by his mother. He spent many years going through this tragedy. ]]> 2016-04-11 13:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105052470 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105053254 2016-04-11 13:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105053254 amanda_b_frederick https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105055325 Dave Pelzer's "A Child Called It" is both revealing and heart stopping and shows how  child's treatment could go unnoticed during this time in society. ]]> 2016-04-11 13:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105055325 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105058427 2016-04-11 13:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105058427 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105059157 2016-04-11 13:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105059157 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105059627 2016-04-11 13:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105059627 madalyn_l_flynn https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105060910 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnSntzvGteI ]]> 2016-04-11 13:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105060910 madalyn_l_flynn https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105061441 ¨In order to survive, I could never give in to her. That day I vowed myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me¨ (Pelzer 43). 

" Your are a nobody! You are an it! You are nonexistent! You are a bastard child! I hate you and I wish you were dead! Dead! Do you hear me dead!" (Pelzer 140).]]> 2016-04-11 13:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105061441 amanda_b_frederick https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105297476 This event in the book was pretty frightening considering that his Mother actually stabbed him. When I read this I was shocked. He said that his Mother threatened to kill him before but she never actually did it. He wasn't ever scared by her threats until this one time where he noticed something different about her. David noticed his Mother swaying back and forth with the knife in her hand. She suddenly came at him and he was terrified.]]> 2016-04-12 12:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105297476 madalyn_l_flynn https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105300174  The second most important part of the book was when David talked the good times he had with his mother. This gives us a positive outlook on David's life before his mother had changed. This also makes the reader guess why the mother had changed all of a sudden.]]> 2016-04-12 12:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105300174 amanda_b_frederick https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105300530 In this event, David was sort of giving up. He mentions that he only prayed to God before but his prayers only came true about two times. But those two times didn't really matter to him. He just wanted to give up everything he fought for. David didn't want to live anymore in his dreadful household. David had enough.]]> 2016-04-12 12:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105300530 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105300889 In this part of the book, David was dropped off at school by  his mother. She tells him before he gets out of the car to give an excuse about why he has a bruise. All of the staff at the school already know why David gets abused though. The school nurse invites David to the office. She inspects him and writes down what had happened to him. The principal calls the police. David is terrified because he thinks he is in trouble. The police officer talks to David and takes him to the police station. The officer calls his mother and tells her that David is not going home. He drives David into the distance. ]]> 2016-04-12 13:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105300889 madalyn_l_flynn https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105302172 This part of the book gave us a better look on how David survived. The only way of getting food was to steal it either from other kids lunch boxes or from stores. He always had a plan of a way to get food. He would go days, weeks without food. The only food he ever got from his mother was scraps and crumbs. He had an idea to eat food out of the trash can, until his mother put chemicals so he didn't eat the scraps and food while taking out the trash.]]> 2016-04-12 13:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105302172 amanda_b_frederick https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105302219 This event was very significant because David explains how different his Mother started to act towards him. His Mother only punished David and none of his other brothers. But we never really knew why she only did it to him. However, there could be many theories why his Mother did what she did. ]]> 2016-04-12 13:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105302219 amanda_b_frederick https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105305733 Motifs: Life is what you make it. 
Death
Survival
Hunger
Fear
Determination
Bravery
Intelligence
"It"

Theme: Don't let the past ruin your future. ]]> 2016-04-12 13:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105305733 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105307705 David's mother acts completely different when his father is around compared when he is not. David is punished more often when his father is not around. His father would leave for work and when he would get home, his mother would act like an angel. However, when his father was away, his mother becomes drunk and cruel. She punishes David for no reason other than to feel good about herself. ]]> 2016-04-12 13:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105307705 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105312707 David's father decides that he has had enough. He says to David that he can not take the abuse anymore. David feels that his father is leaving because of him. His father is showing little remorse and David knows that his father does not care about leaving. After the rest of the family leave without his father, David's mother turns towards David and says that nobody is there to save him. David believes he is going to die.]]> 2016-04-12 13:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105312707 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105536595 There are many reasons to read "A Child Called It." This book can be inspiring to the reader because even though David's life was tragic, he was determined to keep going. He didn't let his fear of his Mother get the best of him. It also gave us an overall perspective of an abused child. ]]> 2016-04-13 12:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105536595 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105540654 2016-04-13 13:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105540654 natalie_j_harris https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105540776 This is a yin-yang sign to symbolize "A Child Called It." This symbolizes this book because it describes that bad always needs good and that good always needs some bad. This contributes to the story because David always found the good in his bad situations. ]]> 2016-04-13 13:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105540776 madalyn_l_flynn https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105549219 This video is about Larry KIng interviewing David Pelzer about his terrible childhood growing up with a abusive mother. ]]> 2016-04-13 13:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_j_harris/efuar3c4uovf/wish/105549219