Drama

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This Callie girl is bold, like the time she auditioned for fun in front of everybody to calm down Jesse's nerves. I love her. Establishing Character Moment: Callie's first scene in her theatre club shows that she is extremely enthusiastic about theater and is generally a positive girl. Never, did anything of the sort cross my mind. Tell me, oh people who gave this 1 star because two boys kissed and one wore a dress to save the show because the lead girl was having hysterics and the understudy was nowhere to be found, tell me, if this story was about a boy and a GIRL would you say it shouldn't be on library shelves where kids could see a picture of them kissing? Would it need a warning label then? Should it be banned because there would be, horror of horrors, heterosexual activity in it? Raina was a shy, rather cynical and sarcastic Jerk with a Heart of Gold (prior to maturing a bit and meeting better people) due to her negative body images and bullying friends. Callie is a much more lighthearted and idealistic Nice Girl thanks to her supportive circle of friends. Most importantly the book is incredibly optimistic and positive about dealing with anxiety something that, in my opinion, is possibly the most important thing to be telling young kids dealing with it. It encourages its readers to turn to the people who care about them for help and not to feel ashamed of what they're going through.

Drama has been banned on multiple occasions in Texas. The state ACLU releases an annual banned books report, usually in conjunction with Banned Books Week. In the 2016-17 school year, Drama was the only banned book in the Texas ACLU’s findings. It was removed from the Franklin Independent School District. It was also banned from Chapel Hill Elementary in Mount Pleasant in 2014-15, as well as Kirbyville Middle School in 2015-16. Berland states that Jesse's case is more complex as he learns to come to terms with his sexual identity. His process of coming out is slow and closely related to his fear of being judged. Performing in the play is a major catalyst to the development of his identity as he comes to terms with his sexuality. [8] Despite the initially worrisome situation Jesse finds himself in after ditching Callie in the school play, his coming out story is "challenging but affirming" where he finds an accepting and supportive community. [8] Robin: The definition of ban, from Merriam-Webster, is “to prohibit especially by legal means,” or “to prohibit the use, performance, or distribution of.” In this case the banning isn’t legal, but it is the second—an effort to stop the distribution of a title. It also shows the different personalities of different characters which aren't that likeable, the mean and the desperate ones who would go on hurting other people to gain things for themselves. But this story stands out in showing acceptance to people who are introverts and so called 'nerds', the 'misfits', or the ones with different sexual orientation.

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The book also depicts a tense friendship between Raina and another girl in her class. Both girls feel that the other is unfairly unkind to them, but are able to open up and realize that they aren't so different after all. But mostly what I hear is, “I see me. I see my sister. I see my brother. I see my friends, and it’s given me the confidence to be myself, or to stand up to people that are bullying me, or just to know that like braces are not forever.” They might be painful right now, but when kids read my story they go, “Well, she definitely had it worse than I did.” So I don’t know. I’ve heard from the loveliest kids. So I’ve done cognitive behavioral therapy. I’ve done something called EMDR. I’ve done talk therapy. I’ve done several different styles of therapy, where I have learned all of these techniques. And so in this story, the characters have to give these reports in their fifth-grade classroom, and that’s something we really did. We really did something called an LDI, which stands for Lecture Demonstration Instruction. JFINNEKE (2013-01-30). "Great Graphic Novels Top Ten 2013". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) . Retrieved 2018-12-05.

It warms my heart to see my 9-year-old daughter have certain books that she loves and carries around with her always. I used to do that with certain books—-“Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” by Judy Blume and “The Mouse and the Motorcycle” by Beverly Cleary were probably my top two. I did go to the library a lot as a kid, and we had a branch that was pretty close to my family’s house, and also like the mall. So sometimes we would go shopping for something, and then we’d go to the library afterwards. And I remember my favorite thing there being their encyclopedias, because we didn’t have a set of encyclopedias at my house. But being able to go in and sit down in one of the like, really soft, you know, well-touched wooden tables and chairs that they had there, and just be able to take a book off the shelf and look up anything, and fact find about anything.

Spear Counterpart: Of the Single Woman Seeks Good Man trope: Has a crush on West, who is a very nice, chill person.

And now I am teaching a course on the teaching of writing, in the middle of a unit on writing visual essays, inviting them to write on any topic they want and more than a third of the class is writing about mental health issues, anxiety, depression. I am seeing a kind of epidemic of anxiety/stress/depression and so on in classrooms everywhere, which means life everywhere, way worse than when I began teaching decades ago. a b c d e f g h i j Abate, Michelle Ann (2016-12-01). " "Springtime in the South is Like a Song in My Heart": Raina Telgemeier's Drama, the Romanticization of the Plantation South, and the Romance Plot". Children's Literature in Education. 48 (4): 355–377. doi: 10.1007/s10583-016-9299-x. ISSN 0045-6713. S2CID 152138371. Brainy Brunette: Technically dirty blonde; regardless, Callie is quite intelligent, as evidenced by her creativity as a member of the tech crew. I think we all, as librarians and critics, believe that people should be exposed to as many ideas as possible, but would you support the inclusion of a book critical of homosexuality in a school or public library collection?

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has also helped defuse a number of potential challenges to the book and provides resources in support of it: