Breaking Through Weekly Reading Log #1

For our first book in Humanities with Ms. Kay, we are reading 'Breaking Through' By Francisco Jimenez. In our first unit we are learning about perspective, in which we are reading through Francisco's point of view.
When Francisco was four years old he illegally immigrated to the United States from Mexico with his family. He lived in the United States for ten years, and they were never caught. But that changed one day when a Border Patrol Agent came into his class and took him away, along with the rest of the rest of his family and deported them back to Mexico.
They were able to get legal papers for Francisco and his older brother, Roberto, but it would take a little bit longer for the rest of the family to theirs. So they made the decision that Roberto and Francisco would go back to their home in California to go back to school and for Roberto to continue his job at his High school as the school janitor. But when Roberto came back for his job, he was already replaced. Roberto and Francisco had to go work in the fields for a few weeks. But a month or so later it didn’t work for the replacement and Roberto got his job back. Another month or so later the family was reunited, because now they had their legal papers.
So far the book is going really well. I am curious to see what happens next in this book. Once you think a family could go through nothing worse, I have a hunch something will go wrong. There is still at least 100 pages to go so I will just have to find out won't I?

Today's song is In The End By Linkin Park

It starts with one thing I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
keep that in mind I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time

All I know Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away

It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but didn't even know
Wasted it all just to watch you go

I kept everything inside and even though I tried,
it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory
of a time when I tried so hard

And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

One thing, I don't know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try,
keep that in mind I designed this rhyme,
to explain in due time

I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so (far)

Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me (in the end)

You kept everything inside and even though I tried,
it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory
of a time when I

Chorus

I’ve put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There's only one thing you should know

(2x) Chorus