Geraldine Moore the poet

A painful discovery

Mrs.Stcott realize not everyone is rich and lucky like her.

Theme

No one's life is the same. People are rich, poor, happy, depressed, loved, and alone

Reason to be upset

Doesn't have her mom at home and things are rough

"Nothing lovey is happing in my life"

Geraldine said this... because her assignment was to write a poem and she thought that poems are supposed to be happy but her quote explained

internal conflict

Geraldine struggles to still have hope and to stay herself

Problems at home

Geraldine's mother is seriously ill and needed to move away, she is being Evicted and her mom's sister is taking care of her.

Problems during class hygiene

How she will make it through tomorrow

Her poem

She was dismissive about the assignment she felt she could not write a poem

Mrs. Scott reaction

Shoulders shake and starts to cry

What teachers forget

To bond with their students and connect with them.

Problems during class Geometry

What squares and angles have to do with solving her more serious problem