Doing_Time_By_Rob_Thomas

Doing Time By Rob Thomas Doing Time by Rob Thomas is an unusual piece of adolescent literature that may be too controversial to study in a classroom. It is unusual in the way that each paragraph is its own story-line about a different student’s experiences during community service hours. At first it is hard to pick up that the perspective has changed, but a few chapters in I realized that the first paragraph was a set up for the rest of them. I believe that this is a great book because of its true-to-life quality and excellent writing, but there are some topics, words, and situations that may cause it to be unfit to be taught in certain schools and grades. This book is a good example of adolescent literature because it addresses issues that are experienced by and pertinent to the age group (I am thinking high school juniors and seniors). Several of the Havighurst developmental tasks apply to the characters’ situations. While some of the characters do not succeed in the task of acquiring more mature social skills, the goal of the project is to help the students mature while assuming membership in the community by performing their 200 hours community service projects. The characters deal with developing a personal ideology situations, characters, book, because, good, thinking, think, sex, seniors, school, hours, community, chapter, writing, while, topics, time, teach, students, social, service, schools, perspectives, people, paragraph, open, offended, nadia, mature, high, great, four, first, extension, experiences, doing