Seventh Grade

Seventh Grade

By: Gary Soto

Summary: A boy named Victor had his first day of school. Like every boy in middle school, there was one girl he liked her name was Teresa. Teresa is very smart and very nice, so is Victor. Teresa has French and she wants to know how to do it, after Victor said something in French to her. Victor said that he had French too. they both went to French class and met their teacher named Mr. Bueller. He was very nice and knew a lot.   In their class they asked Victor a question and didn’t get it right. She thought he was just joking. Then they talked and he did things that she liked. Then he didn’t know what to do after his teacher found out that he was just doing this to impress a girl. He tried really hard.

Characters:

Teresa: Main Character, Likes boy that do a lot.

Victor: Main Character, Tries to impress people.

Michael: Victors friend.

Mr Bueller: Victor and Teresa’s Teacher.

Plot Elements:

Exposition: It is Victor first day of school and he like a girl named Teresa.

Rising Action: Victor lies to Teresa about him knowing French.

Climax: Victor and Teresa go to French class.

Resolution: His teacher thinks he is older because of all the things he said he did. He didn’t do any of those things all he was trying to do was to impress Teresa.

Analysis: This story was well written. It had very good information to follow. It had very good morals. One of them was don’t lie to people just to impress them. If you be yourself you will still have a shot. 

This is the first book I read of Gary Soto and I liked it. It had really good morals. I liked how it was focusing on the story and the morals but it also is like what really happens in middle school all the time. 

People try so hard to impress someone they get school and sports and anything else in the way of it. If they say no you have to live with knowing they don’t like you and you will feel very sad and depressed. That is why we should wait till we are older. Like me I need to focus on football and school more than anything in my life right now. Overall this story was very good.