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by: Mel Glenn
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780525675488
ISBN: 0525675485
Label: Dutton Juvenile
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: March 01, 1997
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 643301
Studio: Dutton Juvenile
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Product Description:
A group of high-school seniors are taken hostage by their history teacher and are forced to write poems, five each, about the experience as well as about the past four years spent attending their urban high school.
Amazon.com Review:
Did the subtitle jar you a bit? 'A Hostage Drama in Poems.' Poems?! It works remarkably well. Mel Glenn takes a difficult subject--a berserk teacher holding his students hostage--and lets the drama play out in this unusual format. The poems--five from each student, one for each year of high school, and the last composed on the day of the crisis--reveal the thoughts, dreams, and fears of contemporary teens in an urban classroom. A bit like rap in visual form, the poems cut deep, build in suspense. The honesty expressed will capture the interest of even the most reluctant readers.
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Rating:  - Student Hostages
It is the end of the school year, and the seniors just want to get their yearbooks and stop thinking about school. They have plans to start work or to go to college, and no one can really be bothered with classes. But then Mr. Wiedermeyer, a senior history teacher, locks the door of his classroom behind his students. He has a gun, although he doesn't seem sure of how he is going to use it, and he won't let his students leave.
Soon the media is involved, reporting on the story as administrators ... Read More
Rating: - Psych evals: good for recreational reading, annoying for analyzing as required reading
Read this book. You will probably want to buy it so you can go back and read it more times and it may not be available in every library, but I recommend reading it before you buy it. Once you do, you'll want it. If you can't check it out, it's worth buying sight unseen. I absolutely love this book, so much so that I wrote spontaneously thought to write a review.
Mel Glenn is a great figure in poetry. His storytelling through disconnected short poems is not unheard of but still very unique. I performed ... Read More
Rating: - The Taking of Room 114
Who would like to be hostage? At school even? A teacher named Mr. Wiedermeyer in 1996 held these kids hostage at Tower High School. Everyone was scared. Especally all the parents who had kids locked up in that room. Everyone has there own opinion on this teacher. Some say he is brilliant and others say he is the meanest teacher. Students think he may or may have not done it. Teachers and students say this about him.All the students hopes he passed everybody. The students tell everybody what their plan is after ... Read More
Rating: - The Taking of Room 114
The Taking of Room 114
Every poem holds a dream. Every poem tells a secret. Something every human holds. Something every human lives. Something you live in this story. Hear, live, and feel what each individual is going through, their personal problems, their dreams, and their secrets. Feel the love and scars each teenager receives. Live the anxiety every adolescent undergoes and which Mel Glen steers you through as you read on and on and can't stop. Live the shock you would feel if you walked into your last history ... Read More
Rating: - itz okay
i had to read this for my Fresham n honors english class, it was okay, i had to read it slowly to pick everything up, it is in poems, so it takes some analasis, and you have to understand everything about every character, the ending really dsent have much to do with the characters, well it does have to do with one of the main players but not the rest of them. Okay now that i totally threw you off, i sugjest reading this, if you can find it.
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