For the KAS Equity Summative, I have decided to write a story about someone with a disability in order to promote awareness and understanding for people with disabilities. The story features a middle schooler struggling with others who do not understand him or worse, bully him.

My TIEA for the book “Rules”

In the novel “Rules”, Cynthia Lord depicts the story of Catherine becoming friends with Jason, who has disabilities as she learns to understand and stand up for people like him. When Catherine got into an argument with her mother in the car after Jason’s party, her mother asks if Catherine is embarrassed about being friends with Jason. “”…the rest of the world isn’t like the clinic. Other places, people stare. Or they hurry away, and I know what they’re thinking. ‘Oh, isn’t that too bad,’ or ‘What’s wrong with that kid?’ or ‘Whew, I’m glad that’s not me.’ I get so sick of it.”” (179) When Lord used that line of dialogue, it indicates how she understands people with disabilities better now, and how others don’t. This is important since this is the moment in which Catherine truly realizes how the world sees people with disabilities. Rarely in the book do other characters really understand and treat them as equals. When Catherine told her mom how people like Jason and David are really seen as her mom may already know this, but most do not, which is why more people like Catherine has to be able to stand up for them and to let others realize how to treat others equity but with equality.

This is my discussion video of the book “Rules” with my group members, Brian, Aadi and Vincent: