Breaking Night
Chapter 5 “Stuck”
Positive-Negative Chart
Directions: Chart Liz’s behavior in chapters 5 and 6 using the chart below. If you think the behavior is very positive, put a dot at the top of the chart. If you think
the behavior is very negative, put a dot at the bottom of the chart. Then draw a line connecting all of Liz’s behaviors. Then answer the questions on the back.
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Liz moves
in with
Brick, Ma,
and Lisa.
Liz
becomes
friends
with Sam
and Bobby.
Liz begins
to sneak
Sam in for
sleepovers.
Liz stands
up for Ma
when Brick
is beating
her.
Liz runs
away for
the night
after Brick
yelled at
her.
Liz erases a
message
from her
truancy
officer,
before
Brick can
hear it.
Liz
graduates
junior
high.
Liz and
Sam
frequently
skip ninth
grade.
Liz begins
dating
Carlos.
Liz
intercepts
truancy
notices
from her
high
school.
Liz cares
for her
mother as
her illness
gets worse.
Liz moves
out of
Brick’s
apartment.
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Did any of the results surprise you? Why or why not?
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2. When you look at your chart, what overall trend do you see? What does this trend tell you?
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3. What do the behaviors you rated as positive tell you? What do they have in common?
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4. What do the behaviors you rated as negative tell you? What do they have in common?
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5. After our discussion, pick an answer and change it. What convinced you to change it?
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