Our May Stargirl meeting was both happy and sad because we had to say goodbye to our senior Stargirl Leaders and wish them an exciting adventure as they go off to college. One activity we planned focused on Stargirl traits and creating a dramatic skit that portrayed Stargirls characteristics.
Below are the traits we selected and supporting quotes from the book.
STARGIRL
TRAITS
Friendliness
Creative
Self Confidence (Doesn’t care what others think)
Empathy
Kindness
Authentic
Individuality
Compassionate
Connected to the Universe
Sensitive
STARGIRL QUOTES
Stargirl Quotes
“The earth is speaking to us, but we can't
hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to
erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The
universe will speak. The stars will whisper.” (Connected to the Universe)
“Star people are rare.” (Individuality)
“Nothing’s more fun than being carried
away.” (Creative)
“Home is everything you can walk to.” (Sensitive)
“She
laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. “ (Creative)
“She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.” (Authentic, Kindness, Empathy)
“In her answers in class, she often spoke of
sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was...” (Creative)
“We
wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem
to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy."
Her ways knocked us off balance. ” (Self Confident, Empathy)
“Why
fit in when you're born to stand out?” (Individuality, Self Confidence)\
“It’s really hard to do nothing totally. Even
just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are
chattering. There’s a whole commotion going on inside us.”
“I’m
erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like
water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m
not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing
is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I
am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most
of all, being rain.”
(Connected to the Universe)
(Connected to the Universe)
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