Natalie Topper

4th grade Ss working on keeping a steady beat in music. @DCESBCPS

"Labeling & limiting something as big as us feels somewhat impossible..." p11 "Maybe you only lie to yourself.' I guess while I was studying him, he was studying me." p43 "I want the power to invent whatever me I desire..." p80 #DressCodesforSmallTowns #LUMre531 #LUMre531langauge

The Absolutely True Diary of Part Time Indian - "My hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud. What do you do when the world has declared nuclear war on you?" Pg 31 #LUMre531language

The Absolutely True Diary... is fantastic! "I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are limited..." P.5 and "I think that the world is a series of broken dams & floods, and my cartoons are riny little lifeboats." P.6 #LUMre531language #LUMre531lastline

Letters to Charlie.... #LUMre531Perks

"The Black Witch" continues to reflect real life, histiry books are written by the winners, so what truth have we really learned? #LUMre531 #LUMre531lastline #TheBlackWitch

"The Black Witch" is about more than just magic, what seemed at first like another fantasy book, has turned into something far more "real." The protagonist struggles repeatedly with the lies she has grown up with vs the truth #LUMRE531 #LUM531character

#TheHateUGive pg 154 "...you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right." #LUMre531character #lifelesson #LUMre531

"Funerals aren't for dead people. They're for the living." Pg 122 @TheHateUGive Speaking the truth again and again #TheHateUGive #LUMre531 #facts #LUMre531firstline

"Meaning what society gives us as youth, it bites them in the ass when we wild out." Pg 17 Show kindness and compassion to your students... what you put out comes back to you #teacherlife #TheHateUGive #LUMre531 #LUMre531lastline

"The Hate U Give" is fantastic, if you are an educator, read this book! "Funny how it works with white kids though. It's dope to be black until its hard to be black" pg 11 #TheHateUGive #LUMre531 #LUMre531language

#lookingforalaska page 221 - "I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful." #LUMre531lastline # #alaskaissomewherebeautiful

"'How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? -A.Y' ... At some point we all look up & realize we are lost in a maze..." pg. 158 How will you navigate your labyrinth? #lookingforalaska #LUMRE531 #weareallinthelabyrinth

I wish I could write this well: "...if people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane." #LUMre531language

Such a way with words @johngreen"... the glittering ambiguity of a girl's smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question but never gives it." #lookingforalaska page 64 #LUMre531language #LUMre531 #LUMre531lastline

Page 40!

That last paragraph reminds me of being a teen (focusing can be difficult around beautiful women) and also how when I was 6, I sat down in the middle of a soccer game to pick flowers... and 10 min later so did half of the other kids 😂😂😂😂😂 #LUMre531 #LUMre531character

This whole paragraph is 🤩 "... I could see her eyes- fierce emeralds. She had the kind of eyes that just predosposed you to supporting her every endeavor." (Pg19) Reminds me of the Tangled scene below too lol #LUMre531language #lookingforalaska

"Looking for Alaska" Pg5 - "...And his last words were 'I go to seek a Great Perhaps.' That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps..." 🤔 I too want to seek my own Great Perhaps... #LUM531character #LUMre531language #LookingforAlaska