1. Kids who are different are sometimes bullied. In Wonder Julian is a bully. Site examples from the book for all parts of your answer.
2. What makes a good friend? Site examples from the book for all parts of your answer.
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Respond to one of the questions by clicking the Comment link. Make sure you include your FIRST name. 1. Kids who are different are sometimes bullied. In Wonder Julian is a bully. Site examples from the book for all parts of your answer. 2. What makes a good friend? Site examples from the book for all parts of your answer.
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Sharon
9/2/2014 11:35:40 pm
The characteristics of a good friend are to be kind.
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Susan
9/16/2014 11:30:51 pm
I agree Wonder was a wonderful book. I could really relate it to my classroom.
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cvbnm
12/11/2014 06:36:07 am
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Gabe
9/2/2014 11:56:38 pm
August knows Julian is a bully because Julian kept on asking all these really mean questions. Julian bullies August (and others) because he thinks he is better than them. Julian bullies others to team up against August so August won’t feel welcome and leave school. Julian’s mom lets Julian bully others because she was very mean. Julian’s bullying does not affect anyone anymore. It doesn’t affect August ether.
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Nathan
9/16/2014 11:39:38 pm
I agree, because when I read the began reading about Julian he was making mean comments.
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ben
9/16/2014 11:46:03 pm
I agree that julian was a buliy,cause of the traits that Julian showed.
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David
9/3/2014 12:00:16 am
The characteristics of a good friend are nice, caring, respectful, and funny. In the story Summer and Jack were always nice to Auggie. Except at one part it seemed like Jack was faking the friendship. They were both funny, nice, caring, and respectful to Auggie. August is a normal kid just deformed as a child, that’s why Summer and Jack treat him normally. Auggie possesses all of the character traits that they do also. With Auggie feeling okay in his own skin it makes it easier for his friends to hangout with him because he is not always whining and crying. I definitely recommend this book to everyone. I hope you like my response, thank you for listening.
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Niheer
9/16/2014 11:40:59 pm
I disagree because I don't think Jack was always nice. When he said to Julian that he would want kill himself if he was August,I don't think that he was being nice. I definatly agree about Summer always being always nice and agree on everything else, and I really like your responce.
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Gabe
9/16/2014 11:45:09 pm
I disagree Niheer because he said he would kill himself if he was Julian.
Landon
9/16/2014 11:41:46 pm
David i agree with you your characteristics are very specific. Summer and Jack will were god friends in the story.
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Riley
9/16/2014 11:43:23 pm
I agree because Jack and Summer were nice to Auggie.It made him fell like a normal kid.That probaly felt good.
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Brad
9/16/2014 11:43:54 pm
I think that Summer and jack wanted to be his friends not fake it like Julian did.
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Brooklyn
9/16/2014 11:44:03 pm
I agree with your statement because Auggie did fell alone and Jake and summer were there to help Auggie get through everything that he's going through.His dog dies, his sister is in a mood, I would feel alot of pressure if I were August.
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Charlotte
9/16/2014 11:44:54 pm
I think you're right about a good firend. Jack was a little mean but in the end he really helped Auggie. Summer was always nice even though her firends were not. It was nice that Jack and Summer did not play that game called the "Plauge"
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Brooklyn
9/3/2014 12:02:02 am
August knows that Julian is a bully because he didn’t care about Auggie’s feelings. He said ‘’Hey what’s wrong with your face?’’ I bet he would feel bad if someone asked him the same question.
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Gabe
9/16/2014 11:37:06 pm
I agree because in Wonder, Julian is thinking that he is the centar of attention. Nobody will stand up to him to defend Auggie. Jack Will (Jack), Summer, and Charlotte.
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Charlotte
9/16/2014 11:40:15 pm
I agree because...... August does know Julian is a bully because Julian doen't care about Auggies feelings. Julian just wants the grown ups to think hes nice.
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Kiley
9/3/2014 12:04:17 am
The characteristics of a good friend are when they stand up for you. Like when Jack Will stood up for August when the teenagers were chasing him. Another characteristic for a good friend is when they help you. Jack Will showed all these character traits. August possess being nice to Jack Will and Summer because they don’t make fun of his face nor do they laugh at him. He shows his friends he’s an ordinary kid by letting them go to his house and by talking to them. For an example when Summer and August talk at the summer table. August’s family and friends relate to him because everyone is different. August is special to them. August is their wonder.
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Kate
9/16/2014 11:46:42 pm
I agree with you that Summer and Jack had the caracteristics of a good freind. I also thhink that Amos was a good freind, but only at the end. At the end of your resonse, you used an incomplete sentence. What hapened when Summer and August talked at the summer table? Other than that, your response was very good.
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Ben
9/3/2014 12:04:46 am
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Delaney
9/3/2014 12:05:42 am
In the book Wonder a boy named Julian bullies the main character August. August knows he is a bully because Julian said “What’s wrong with your face?” He also bullies him by leaving notes in his locker. Julian created teams in hopes to hurt August even more. By the end of the book, Julian has lost the war. I think Julian would have not bullied August if it weren’t for his mother who photo shopped August out of the yearbook.
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Erin
9/3/2014 12:05:45 am
This is what makes a good friend. The character traits of a good friend is kindness, friendship, and respect. Jack showed all of these. Auggie showed these qualities such as kindness and respect. Auggie explains his surgery to his friends. He is happy his family can relate to him.
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Niheer
9/16/2014 11:46:20 pm
I agree with you about Jack being a good friend, but at one point in the book when Jack said he would want to kill himself if he was Auggie he was not a good friend.
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Jhanvi
9/17/2014 08:45:03 am
I agree that the character traits for a good friend is kindness,friendship, and respect, but I don't agree Jack showed these character traits.
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Aditi
9/3/2014 12:06:40 am
Julian’s been a bully all year long to August when they met .He said” What is wrong with your face?” He also teases them and makes people think the same thing. He made teams because Jack punched him. August was on Jacks side. Julian thought he would gain power and respect from others. So people on his side stopped taking to August and Jack. Julian’s mom is the vice president for the school leader board and that she wrote about Jack punching her son. At the end of the book people separated from teams and thought that Julian was a freak and people were much nicer to August.
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Jhanvi
9/16/2014 11:41:05 pm
I agree with you.Julian's actions shows Auggie (and me) he is a bully.
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Jenny
9/16/2014 11:44:31 pm
I agree.Julian thought he would be respected since many people were teaming up with him.
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Riley
9/16/2014 11:46:59 pm
I agree about Julain being a bully.He probaly desered a punch in the face
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Jenny
9/3/2014 12:07:39 am
In the beginning of the story, Auggie knows Julian is a bully because Julian asked Auggie if he was in a fire. Julian bully Auggie and others by writing mean notes and getting others to team up with him to bully Auggie and his friends. By bullying others to team up against Auggie, Julian is hoping to gain control over others to show he is strong but it actually shows he is weak. In the part of Julian being a bully, his mom plays her part by texting Mr.Tushman and saying bad things about August. In the end of the story, Auggie and the others stood up against Julian by ignoring, telling him to stop and everyone else stopped teaming up with Julian. This is my reading response for Wonder.
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Kate
9/3/2014 12:07:42 am
I think a good friend wouldn’t care about the looks of other people but about their feelings. Some good friends in Wonder where Sumer, Jack, and Amos. On page 51, Sumer sat down next to August at lunch and didn’t act surprised or scared when she saw his face. Jack hung out with Auggie when he had no one to hang out with. One page 267, Amos protected Auggie from the seventh grade bullies at the nature retreat.
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Kiley
9/16/2014 11:40:33 pm
Kate, I really agree with you.expect for 1 part.Summer was a little suprised when she saw auggie. But i agree when Amos helped auggie.I also really like how you put on the top, a good friend wouldnt make fun of his face
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Riley
9/3/2014 12:08:08 am
In the beginning Aggie knows Julian is a bully because Julian is asking a lot of mean things. He asked about Aggie’s face but Aggie doesn’t answer. In the beginning Julian keeps asking questions to bully Aggie. After that Julian starts leaving notes to Aggie. Julian’s mom help make him a bully. She cut out Aggie’s face out of the yearbook. Julian teams up against Aggie to be popular. He tries to get Aggie’s best friend to turn against Aggie. In the end Aggie and his classmates learned to ignore Julian. They had teams against each other. In the end Jack’s team [Aggies friends] got more people on his side.
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david
9/16/2014 11:38:59 pm
I agree with Riley because I felt the same way about Jullian throughout the whole book. Jullian was the most mean bully throughout the book.
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Niheer
9/3/2014 11:30:12 pm
One characteristic of a good friend is being kind. Summer shows this trait on page 51. She sits with August when he’s all alone at lunch. Another characteristic of a good friend is standing up for them. On page 267 Amos demonstrates this trait. When someone picks on August Amos rams him even though the kid that picked on August was much bigger than Amos. Another example of a good friend is being loyal. Summer demonstrates this trait because she was a great friend from the beginning. On page 131, it says that they hung out a lot. As you can see, Summer possesses a lot of these traits. Another trait that she possesses is being helpful. On page 144 she helps Jack Will become friends with August again. August also possesses a lot of these traits. One of them is forgiveness. On page 167, he forgave Jack for what he said. He also has the trait of kindness because on page 182 Jack Will said that he (Jack) sucked at science. August denied that even though Jack got a 54 on his last test. August has a different face so he does things to help his friends see him as normal. On page 306, he thinks of himself as normal. By thinking like that others thought like that too. On the other hand, he’s comfortable in his own skin. On page 209, he joked about how he looked with Maya. This is what I read about being a good friend in Wonder.
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Rylee
9/16/2014 11:39:21 pm
I agree because Summer could have stayed with her friends and talk about Augest. Insted she went over to Augest to be his friend. I also think that Amos stood up for Augest evan though it was risky. In all I think Niheer had a great response.
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Ben
9/16/2014 11:41:48 pm
I agree because summer,jack and,amos showed kindness on all of those pages.actuly i also think you are right with him bieng comfortoble in his own skin.Also even how he makes himself normal to other people.
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Gabe
9/16/2014 11:43:23 pm
I agree because Auggie can be normal if he belives that he is normal. The way everybody shows loyalty, friendship, kindness, and ect. They all act diffrently in the end when August wins the reward and his mother says he is a "wonder". It was very touching.
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Erin
9/16/2014 11:44:33 pm
Being kind is nice, but it's importent to allso have a good heart.I still agree with you.
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Brooklyn
9/16/2014 11:46:14 pm
I think you make a good npoint, because Auggie did feel alone and summer felt sorry.
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Rylee
9/3/2014 11:31:14 pm
Character traits of a good friend are love, truthfulness, niceness and friendliness. They are mostly about taking care of one another. The people who showed this the most were Summer and Jack . This is because when Summer sat down at Aggies table she wasn’t doing it to get a better look at him, she was doing it to be nice. Also Mr. Tushman didn’t tell her to be his friend. Jack had all of these qualities because he was always there for Aggie. Aggie had all of these qualities because he was always there for a friend. In the book Aggies trying to make others see him normally. At the end of the book everyone wanted to be with him .In all Aggies a good friend.
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Darby
9/3/2014 11:37:34 pm
Auggie knows Julian is a bully when he first meets him when he asked “what’s wrong with your face? Were you in a fire or something?” Charlotte and Jack were nice to him during the tour, but Julian was really rude. One way Julian bullies Auggie is by putting mean notes in his locker such as: ”freak!” or “get out of our school, orc!” I think when Julian bullies Auggie he hopes to gain popularity. I don’t think bullying is cool, though. Julian’s mom plays a part in Julian’s bullying when she Photo Shops Auggie out of the class picture. I like Auggie and his friends’ response to Julian’s bullying because they just ignored it and everybody is friends again. And that’s the kind of story I like.
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Delaney
9/16/2014 11:43:54 pm
I agree with you. Jullian's mom definately played a huge role in Jullian being a bully.I also like the way you described the notes that Julian left.
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Charlotte
9/3/2014 11:37:39 pm
I think August knows Julian is a bully when they meet because Julian says “Dude what’s up with your face?!” That was really mean even though August didn’t think so. Also in the first week of school Julian said something in a code. He said “Who’s your favorite Star Wars is it Dark Sidious?” Dark Sidious gets his face burned off. August knows Julian was being though. Julian also made up a lie about Jack. It was “Jack punched me because he has emotional problems and that he would have gotten expelled but my parents begged the school not to expel him. And none of that would have happened if Mr. Tushman hadn’t forced Jack to be friends with August.” That is how Julian hurt others. The reason Julian teams up against August is he wants to be popular. Or it’s because he likes Summer and wants to get her away from August. Julians mom is a bully that’s why Julian is a bully. She photoshopped August out of the class picture. Henry and Miles help August at the end of the book. When those 7th graders were mean they stepped up. At the end everyone turned on Augusts side. At the ceremony everyone was patting him on the back. They didn’t really think he was different
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Jenny
9/3/2014 11:40:49 pm
In the beginning of the story, Auggie knows Julian is a bully because Julian asked if he was in a fire. Julian bully Auggie and others by writing mean notes and getting others to team with him and bully Auggie and his friends. By bulling others to team up against Auggie, Julian is hoping to gain control over others to show he is strong but it actually shows he is weak. In the part of Julian being a bully, his mom plays her part by texting Mr. Tushman and saying bad things about August. In the end of the story, Auggie and the others stood up against Julian by ignoring, telling him to stop, and everyone else stopped hanging out with him. This is my reading response for Wonder.
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Adam
9/3/2014 11:47:55 pm
August knows that Julian is a bully because he was rude to august. Jack even said he was a jerk. On page 29, Julian said “what’s the deal with your face where you in a fire or something?” I notice when I was reading about Julian, he was gossiping about Auggie. He was mean every chance he got after Jack punched him. For example, after Jack punches Julian on page 154, Julian says “we could have been partners, you didn’t have to be friends with that freak! “ Julian teams up with others because he wants to make Auggie or Jack look bad so he would look popular. When Charlotte made the list, there were 16 people. So Julian got all these people to bully Jack and Auggie (p. 117). Julian’s mom backed him up so he would not get in trouble because he said some bad things about Auggie. She said, “I think hitting a child would be valid grounds for expulsion in other schools, I agree such measurers aren’t wanted here.” (p. 161-162). The classmates and Auggie overcame Julian’s bullying because at the beginning of school everybody went along with Julian’s bullying because they thought Auggie was weird. Then at the end of the year, they stood up to Julian because they realized that Auggie was normal. Mr. Tushman called Auggie in and told him “Julian will not be returning.” (p. 286) So that took care of the rest of Julian’s bullying.
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Bradley
9/16/2014 11:40:15 pm
I agree that Julian was mean to Auggie and jack. I agree with Adam that Julian was being mean and he wanted to be popular.
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Nathan
9/3/2014 11:49:34 pm
The characteristics of a good friend are kind, friendly, sharing and standing up for you. For example when Auggie said “Look,” I said stepping in front of Jack and holding my hands up in the air like a traffic cop. I think Amos has these character traits. For example “Leave them alone dude,” said Amos. Auggie shares the characteristics of kind, friendly, and sharing. Another example is when August sat next to me and let me copy his notes. Auggie helps his friends see him as normal for example “I want to,” I said [He wanted to go to school]. It helps Auggie relate because he isn’t hiding his true identity for example I’m the one who gave him [Auggie] the Astronaut helmet he wouldn’t take off for 2 years [to hide].
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Landon
9/3/2014 11:50:07 pm
A good friend is kind. You also have to be caring. You should always stand up for your friends. Lastly you should be generous. Summer showed most of these qualities. Auggie shows respect and kindness for his friends. Auggie helps his friends see him as a normal kid. He has to pretend like nothing is wrong with him.
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David
9/16/2014 11:43:48 pm
I agree with Landon because the characteristics of a good friend is to be kind,and Summer was kind to him throughout the whole book. She also did make him feel like a normal kid.
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Rylee
9/16/2014 11:44:56 pm
I agree also because Summer stood up and cared for Augest. but Jack also showed theese qualities by allways being there for Augest.
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Jhanvi
9/3/2014 11:53:30 pm
In Wonder a boy named Julian is a bully. Auggie (the main character) knows he is a bully when Julian asks him on page 29 “What’s wrong with your face? Were you in a fire or something?” That is so rude! But Julian doesn’t only bully Auggie he also bullies others such as Jack .He writes mean notes like “Nobody likes you anymore !”He also plays mean tricks on him.
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Erin
9/16/2014 11:37:53 pm
I agree because Julian is a bully.He is mean and probibly would still be a bully still if Jack did not punch him.
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Aditi
9/16/2014 11:42:09 pm
I really agree because Julian was always mean in the book.He always was very unpleasnt to August.That wasn't very nice of him ,so I agree.
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Darby
9/16/2014 11:45:52 pm
I totally agree with you, Jhanvi!
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Selvina
9/3/2014 11:54:07 pm
After reading the book Wonder ,I think it is a fascinating book ,but I did have some questions along the way .On page 74 , I had this question , why did Via cry ? Then on page 109, I found the answer, she cried because 4 ago their grana died on same day.
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Bradley
9/7/2014 10:02:48 am
After reading Wonder, I felt bad for August and happy for him. When August went to his first school (Beecher Prep) he didn't want to go. He begged his mom not to take him, but he went. At first he no one talked to him, and they went out of their way not to touch him.( I mean who does that, it's just rude). At school he met this boy Jack Will and a bully named Julian. Jack Will and Auggie were in almost the same classes. They sat next to each other. Then on Halloween Jack was talking about Auggie and saying mean things about him on page 76 and 77. When Auggie came home he threw up and didn't feel good because of school that day. The next day Auggie came back. The next week they had a Egypt project and Auggie and Jack where partners, then Julian said "Ms. Rubin can I be partners with Jack" then Jack said "no it's ok!" and rushed out of the room. Auggie and Jack did the project. And they dressed up for the show off of the projects. Auggie meet Summer at the lunch table and they ate and talked and made a paper on who could sit at the table. Then Auggie had a good year, people started to fist bump him and say "hi" to him. The next day was a trip to camp with the school. Auggie went and they had cabins and campfires. Then they had a movie at the corn fields and they watched the movie, The Sound of Music. Then the movie started and later Jack needed to pee, and they didn't want to wait in line so they went into the forest and peed. They heard fireworks and saw smoke, but they were not fireworks, they were firecrackers and the smoke was from cigarettes. The kids that where picking on him and Jack, called Auggie a alien. Auggie and Jack started to run then Henry, Amos, Miles, and Jack started fighting them off and running with Auggie. Eddie (the bully) stole Auggie's hearing aids and kept them. The next day was graduation, Mr.Tushman was calling the names out and at the end when he called Auggie's name he said something so nice all the people cried when he said that.
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