Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Mary Sutter project Section D- The Heroic Cycle
Rebecca
Donahue
Heroine’s
Journey
Mrs. Gillis
December 15th,
2015
Section D – The Heroic Cycle
The Journey
I
think I am at the beginning of my journey.
The season has just started. There
is so much time for me to catch up, but only if I keep working as hard as I was
before I got hurt. I think two journeys
are overlapping for me right now. The first
is the end of my injury journey which is finally coming to an end because I am
getting better and stronger every day and the second one which is my trip back
up to the top where I was before I got hurt.
I think if I never got hurt I would not have been working so hard
because watching my friends play something that I love and doing for a long time
it starts to make me antsy. Also knowing
that my coach does not think you are ready to finally come back is very frustrating. I have been preparing for this moment for a
long time and waiting for it to come as patiently as I can. My main goal is to first get back to the way I
was. The strong second goal is to prove
my coach wrong, finally showing him that he can depend on me when I am needed
for an important game instead of him looking to someone else. It is my time to rise above and just do what I
do best. Play basketball.
Mary Sutter project Section C- Collage Response
Rebecca
Donahue
Heroine’s
Journey
Mrs. Gillis
December 15th,
2015
Section C
Collage Explanation
I made a
collage for this part of the project. In
the top left corner and the top middle I have two picture of a midwife because
May was a midwife before she became a doctor.
Directly below that picture in the left hand corner I have a picture of
a family tree because Mary comes from a long line of midwives. On the
bottom middle I have a picture of soldiers in war because Mary had to choose
between life and death for some soldiers.
On the right hand bottom corner there is a picture of a woman tending to
some wounded soldiers because Mary would try to calm and console the soldiers
during and after their surgeries to calm their nerves. In the top right corner I have a picture of a
civil war charwoman because that was what Mary was before she became a surgeon. On the right hand side in the middle is a
picture of an amputation kit. I put this
because once Mary was experienced enough to do amputations by herself and she
was performing them so often that she could amputate a limb in five minutes. In the middle of all the other pictures I have
a picture of a link chain under a magnifying glass. I used this photo because after Mary’s father’s
death she was strong and seemed invincible but after Jenny’s death she became
vulnerable and started letting people in to help her. Connecting all the pictures is a splurge of
blood because of all the people the she has personally lost and for all the
soldiers that she could not save.
Mary Sutter project Section A - Life lesson
Rebecca Donahue
Heroine’s Journey
Mrs. Gillis
December 15, 2015
Section A- Life lesson
The Main Goal
Mary
Sutter was a remarkable person, doing things that many people could not
do. She made life or death choices for
soldiers. Mary was a midwife who wanted
to become a doctor, which was not something that women would dare to do, but
Mary went against the odds and proved to all those who had doubted her
abilities that she could. Mary defying the
odds has inspired me to continue to work hard and reach for something that was
taken from me. My spot on the girls
Varsity Basketball team.
I
am not someone who is well polished yet.
I am a little rough around the edges still, and I think Mary was at
first as well. Not meant in a bad way,
honestly I kind of like it, it makes people like us something special. Not being polished is like getting a diamond
right from the source before it has gone to the factories to be changed into
something beautiful, its raw, unchanged by its surrounding so far. My meaning by this is that in the beginning
of the novel Mary was determined to become a doctor. She had a little experience with it, being a
midwife, which sparked her interest to learn more about the human body. After being rejected by the college Mary
still had the perseverance to become a doctor even though her own mother did
not truly support her. Not always having
someone to fall back on made Mary as strong as she was because there was no safety
net for her, she was all in. That is why
I aspire to have as much perseverance and drive as Mary does because with that
much drive and determination she could accomplish anything and I want to get
back to my full strength. I will not do
that if I do not keep my eye on the prize as Mary did. My perseverance started
when I was first coming back from my foot injury. When I initially got hurt I thought that I would
not be able to play basketball in my senior year, which was heart
breaking. The boot the doctors gave me
felt like a golden ticket for a reserved seat next to my coaches for the season. But then the doctors said that I could try
physical therapy. This to me was the
tiny light at the end of the long dark tunnel that I have been searching so
long for. At first I thought I was getting
nowhere, not being able to do anything and getting mad at myself because I could
not do simple tasks that I could normally do like walk my stairs to get to my
room. I had to crawl up them. But as I kept going to physical therapy my
foot muscles and tendons were getting stronger, but not as fast as I wanted
because the start of the season was quickly approaching. I had to stop thinking about the beginning of
the season and think of it as a whole. Thinking this kept my eyes on the prize,
being able to play again. I have been
and am continuing to work hard to get back to my full strength and now that my
eyes are on the prize I will not stop till I am better than before I got
injured. I did not lose my spot on the
team but I lost much of what I have accomplished. Being hurt has set me back a lot. But, now I
am not going to let anything get in the way of me getting the playing minuets
that I have earned and worked so hard for from last year and over the summer
back. Now I have to work even harder,
but I think that I am up to the challenge as Mary was.
Reading
My Name is Mary Sutter showed me that people will stand in your way of what you
truly want. There will be obstacles that I need to
overcome to get to where I want to be and hopefully there will be people to
help me when I get there, but if not I will
only become that much stronger from it.
Mary Sutter taught me to have perseverance even when you cannot see the
light at the end of the tunnel, and if u believe and have the right mind set to
get there that eventually I will get there.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
The Liberation response
The
Realization
Being the new kid is terrifying
Unfamiliar faces everywhere
Unable to turn to people
Feeling alone
But
Smiling faces don’t seem so bad
Sheepishly talking
Who am I trying to fool?
That’s not me
Outgoing
Adventurous
Loud
That’s me and I’m sticking to me!
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| some smiling faces I've met along the way |
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Poem about family
The Makeshift Family
We
have a chant
I
start us off
FAMILY
ON 3
1…2…3… FAMILY!!
I chose
some of my family
My
best friends
Are
parts of my big family
I trust
them
Bonding
over practices and weekend tournaments
Every
time I start it off I truly mean what I’m yelling
We
truly are a family
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| this is my family too |
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