https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp She has no last name. She has no real home. But she has a dream... en-us 2016-10-17 17:23:31 UTC 2023-07-03 03:21:39 UTC hello@padlet.com elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/131240936 Player of many sports
BASKETBALL
THROWING
VOLLEYBALL, author of many poems, recorder of many original songs, and a taste for the weird is what makes me...me!  ]]> 2016-10-17 17:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/131240936 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/132782524 Janie...Leshaya...whatever she's called...she's a survivor. Rescued from the brink of death, this child of a heroin addict has seen it all: revolving foster homes, physical abuse, an unwanted pregnancy. Now her childhood is coming to an end, and she is determined to make a life for herself by doing  the only thing that makes her feel whole...singing. 
Can this girl, born to a life of hardship,find the strength and courage to break away from her past and become the legend she is meant to be?]]> 2016-10-24 17:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/132782524 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/132786251                                      My first memory, i be drowning
                                    close my eyes, that heavy water
                                   big balls of water, hitting me hole
                                           tossing me upside down
                                                     no breath left
                   open my mouth...
                                                                                and swallow
         choke
                                                                       I think I may be
                                       dead.



]]> 2016-10-24 17:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/132786251 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/132794690 2016-10-24 17:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/132794690 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/134127577 2016-10-31 01:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/134127577 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/134127804 2016-10-31 02:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/134127804 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/134127947 The picture on the left shows the most impact and contains the sentence that sets the story in motion. Leshaya names herself, and it holds significance as as shown in earlier chapters, she doesn't have a parent figure. She named herself, she is her 'parent' figure. As for the word, the one that Leshaya can take with her wherever, or whoever she is living with, singing is an unflappable constant. ]]> 2016-10-31 02:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/134127947 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/135495883 This here life that Harmon's got is a good one. My Harmon got a real pretty momma, and his pop be real soft mannered. He got a brother that once spilled his dinner, and that slap never did came. I wonder if this here fancy house done made my Harmon forget about the ladies...but I know he don't forget about me. Harmon all grown up, real handsome like, and his momma said she gonna help me. I don't got any idea what she meaning, but I hope my Harmon and i don't have to get split again. ]]> 2016-11-04 19:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/135495883 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/137255263 2016-11-14 02:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/137255263 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/137255299 This is the song that started it all. Leshaya listened to this song along with other similar tapes that helped shape Leshaya into the music lover and performer that she currently is in the book. ]]> 2016-11-14 02:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/137255299 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/138994199 Okay, So a microphone seems like an obvious choice, but hear me out.  She wants to be a big name, sparkling lights and all. She comes from this old rickety place that smells like sour milk constantly and a mom who sold her for drugs. A vintage microphone is vintage because it....doesn't have modern practical use. Leshaya is stuck in this vintage idea to stardom that is gonna end up breaking anyways. ]]> 2016-11-21 04:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/138994199 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/141653584 2016-12-05 05:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/141653584 elawson5 https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/141653695 "That's the day I gone up to Muscle Shoals to record my first song" (Nolan 185). 

This marks the beginning of what Leshaya considers to be her legacy ]]> 2016-12-05 05:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/elawson5/nov8tjt1xmyp/wish/141653695