Finish Growing Up by Katrine Liv Grundtvig

The happiest days of your life

2017-02-10 09:26:11 UTC

Genre: Letter (non-fiction)
Author: Bernard Hartley og Peter viney
Summary: six people talking about there happiest day of their Schooldays. They talking about their life, work and how it it's to go to School and have they have it whit there friends. It is many different stories and they six people go to different School and have different sense about going to School.
Aspects of growing up:
They improve Them through the letters and there School time, because they grow up and they get older because they have it get when they go in School and when they are home, so they Can be raised
Themes:
Grow up, be a adult, be safe.

what has happend to Lulu

2017-02-10 09:26:44 UTC

genre-Poem
Author - Charles Causle (1917-2003)
publish day- we don't know, but we do know that he died in 2003 NOT 2004
summary: the poem its about a kid narrator asking her/he's mother where Lulu went.
aspects: leav the childhood behind, ''theres is nothing in her bed but an old rag doll. And by it's side a shoe'' ''And only a cirkel on the dusty shelf where her mony-box used to be''

theme: running away from home.
Charles Causley

Dead Poets Society

2017-02-10 09:27:02 UTC

Genre: Drama/comedy
Author: Peter Weir
Publishing date: 9 June 1989
Summary: The movie is about a group of boys who starts at a school called Welton. They start a group called "Dead poet society" where they meet up in the forest and read poems, which they are not allowed to by the school. The group and their new teacher, Mr. keating, gives them confidence to do the things they always dreamed to be doing, which gets them into trouble. This leads to one of the boys (Niel Perry) killing himself, beacuse his father wont allow him to follow his dreams of acting. Afterwards the other teachers at the school decide to blame Mr. keating for the boy commiting suicide and fire him. Because of his good impression on the students, they decide to riot against the other teachers.

Chicken little goes too far.

2017-02-10 09:36:59 UTC

Comedy/Fable/Short story
By Margaret Atwood
Published: 2004-2006
Summary: About a little Chicken that wants the world to understand that we are destroying the environment with all of our polution and leaking of dangerouse material.
In this story some aspects of growing up might be the fact that even if we are aware of the facts about global warming we might not want or can do anything about it. Another way to see it is the more you blow up things in public the less you will benefit, since all we want is the false hope of peace and happyness.
Theme: Global problems, The way of society,

The new girl

2017-02-10 09:42:10 UTC

The new girl is a short story. It is nonfiction, but we treat is as it was fiction. The author Marc Mitchell from Florence, Alabama. It was published in Egebjerg, in Denmark in 2001.

A new girl is moving into the narrator’s neighborhood. She is treated badly of the white people, because she is black. She stays with her own friend, and the narrator always want to go talk to her, but doesn’t. She moved soon after, and the narrator regrets not talking to her.

Aspects:

Moving into a new neighborhood.

Hard getting along with new kids.

Learning from parents.

Bullying, because of differences.

Learning to have your own opinions.

The theme represented in this text is bullying, racism, loss of innocence, peer pressure, regret.

Harrow - documentary

2017-02-10 09:42:41 UTC

Summary:
A production about Harrow - a private British school.
In three short videos from 2013, we are following a number of young men, who are studying at Harrow.
Some of the kits are new there and others are senior students. They all live under strict conditions and supervision.
A few boys are homesick and misses there family. To overcome the feeling of being left alone, they are kept busy with task like reading and gymnastic exercises.

Aspects of growing up:
To be responsible to yourself. You must work to make things come true, like getting a education and later on, a job.

Themes:
Your parents won’t be around to take care of you, all the time. To be independent is verry important.

2017-02-10 09:53:31 UTC

The Shining Mountain

2017-02-10 09:57:28 UTC

Author: Alison Fell

Publishing date: 1992

Genre: A fiction Short-story

Little summary:

The shining mountain is about a Scottish girl named Pangma-La and her father who is a famous mountaineer. When Pangma-La gets older she and her father go on a hike to the shining mountain so she can make her father proud. But on the way to the shining mountain there will occur strange things to Pangma-La and her father.

Aspects of the growing up:

We are fallows the girl who is struggling to be a perfect daughter to her father. She just want to make her father proud. She is struggling to fit in.

Themes in the text:

Growing up / Fitting in.

Where in the world is Era Rose Rodosta?

klg3 — 2017-02-22 11:54:30 UTC

Genre: Non fiction, but we are analysing it as fiction
Author: Carolyn Brasher
Publishing date: 1999 in the radio, and later included in the anthology "True tales of American life", editet by Paul Auster in 2001
Summery: The story is about a girl named Era Rose, she is a very talentet drawer. The girl who tells the story is jealous of Era Rose because she is so good at drawing.