Keeping Pace by Laurie Morrison
Choose one of the following prompts to respond to:
- What did you learn about dealing with friendships by reading about Grace’s conflicts with Jonah or Avery?
- Grace explores the concepts of achievement, ambition, and success in this novel. What are the positives of ambition and competition? What are the negatives? Use examples from this novel or from your own life.
1. I learned that the anger that Jonah showed toward Grace may have not been because he didn’t like her but because it was him expressing his sad/mad feeling about his father toward Grace
Some achievements would be actually trying it , or achieving something. On the down side is that if you put so much time into it like Grace did with the top scholar award , then you miss out on things in life.
I learned that no matter what you going through you shouldn’t take you anger out on your friends because it will bring you further apart.
So I think that you shouldn’t be mean or mad to your friends just because you wanna be better than each other.
I learned that you shouldn’t get mad or be mean to your friends just because you wanna be better then each other.
Achieving and competing for something you want is great! But I learned from this book that Grace took that ambition for granted. I learned that just because you want something someone else wants, does not mean it should become a mean competition against each other. Having competion with someone one, can help push you and that person to become better, but trying to become better than someone, and taking anger out on them, does not show good sportsmen ship, and just makes people come father apart
One thing I learned about dealing with friendships is that if some one is mad at you,they will probably not be mad forever and will get over it.
i learned that the anger showed towards grace isnt because he hates her he was taking his anger out from his dad
1) I learned that even if a friendship gets hard or you fight or something happens, chances are that both people feel bad and want to be friends again. You just have to be the bigger person and be brave enough to go and apologize to them and make things right.