Directions: identify ​five​ key ​milestones​ ​in your life and link those moments to pieces of literature that

impacted your development.  

Timeline of Stories 
Milestone #1  Milestone #2  Milestone #3  Milestone #4  Milestone #5 
Starting preschool away Learning to blow a bubble Moving to California from Traveling to the East Coast Starting Sophomore year
from my parents. with gum Idaho  by myself  when classes become hard 

Curious George’s  Bubble Gum, Bubble  Divergent by  The Boy in the  Fragments of the 
First Day of School  Gum, by Lisa Wheeler  Veronica Roth  Striped Pajamas by  Lost by Megan 
Margret & H.A.Rey  This book talks about  This book is about  John Boyne   Miranda  
This book talks about  animals getting stuck  teenagers who have  This book was about  This book was about 
Curious George going  in gum that is in the  to choose their life  a boy who was  a girl whose 
to school and what  road and they have  path and go through  german and came  ex-boyfriend 
he goes through on  to face cars that  a series of  across a boy who  mysteriously died one 
his first day.  could run them over.   challenges.   was in a  day and his mom 
concentration camp.  makes her clean out 
They became friends  his room and she 
and then in the end  discovers the truth 
something tragic  about who her ex 
occurs.   actually was.  

This book would help  Since at this time  During this time I  On the East Coast trip  This book 
children who are  children are  was very lonely  we went to the  reintroduced me to 
 starting their first  starting to chew  because I had just  Holocaust Memorial  my love of reading 
day of school  gum, this book will be  moved and had very  Museum and I learned  and kept my brain 
because they would  helpful to teach  little friends. I  a lot about WWII and  engaged over the 
be able to see that  them to watch where  connected with this  the holocaust and it  summer. Also, this 
George could do it  they spit out their  book because I was  opened my eyes to what  book taught me that 
then they could do it.   gum. different and so was  has occured in the past  even if you are going 
  Tris.   that I didn’t know  through rough times 
about.  
you still need to 
focus on school.