Thinking about "The Rockpile," what is something your parents forbade you from doing when you were growing up? Explain what it was and why they might have set that rule.

 Prompt: Thinking about "The Rockpile," what is something your parents forbade you from doing when you were growing up? Explain what it was and why they might have set that rule.

Prompt Repsonse:

They forbade me and my siblings from ever going far from home when playing outside, its what every parent says but I still found it unfair at the time that any of my old neighborhood friends could stray far from home but my mom would be very strict of me to stay close. I bet there was something else too that we were told to do but I do not remember what it was. They might have set that rule because the neighborhood wasn't the safest place for kids to be running off alone, they also grew up in a place where it could've been dangerous, in Mexico. 

Summary:

Today we looked over a PowerPoint with Mr. Rease about the biography of the author and had some questions to answer on a separate sheet of paper. We managed to learned a website on how to look for registered sex offenders near us, we used it to help answer the questions about how dangerous your neighborhood could be or why a adults will tell you a certain place isn't safe to be near. We were also put into new groups with people we either had or not talked to before, as a class we each took turns reading each paragraph on the text "The Rockpile." 

Reflection:

I learned that I need to work harder to not doze off during class, as much I tried hard to stay awake. I also learned how to look for any register sex offenders near me and it can be something I will use in the future, while also learning that I will need to get used to being moved around into new groups.