Sasha was a student at Maybeck High School, a private school. When the physical pain faded, the emotional pain did as well. He will have the chance to reduce some of his time with good behavior, but Richard will be spending at least the next five years locked up. “Given the severity of the harm to Sasha, we didn’t expect that the DA would allow the case to be diverted to restorative justice,” she said. Use three complete sentences to capture the beginning, middle the assigned section. “But if I were to radically shift my appearance in a way that more androgynous, I don’t know how comfortable that would be for me. Richard has had some trouble, though. The fire was becoming a more distant memory, even though Sasha still wore compression stockings. Richard goes through multiple hearings before he is even sentenced, and then the district attorney’s office offers him five years with no hate-crimes if he pleads guilty to assault. Richard and Sasha don’t know each other, but they both ride the 57 bus home from school every day. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. What makes it feel small is the web of connections, the way people stories tangle together. One Wednesday back in March during. My students love how organized the handouts are and enjoy tracking the themes as a class.”. Use three complete sentences to capture the beginning, middle and end. Part 1: Gender, Sex, Sexuality, Romance: Some Terms, Part 3: Under the Influence of Adolescence, Part 3: Let’s All Take Care of Each Other, Part 4: Some Gender-Neutrality Milestones. Both Sasha (a white, agender private school teenager) and Richard (an African-American public school student who had lost numerous loved ones to murder) rode the 57 bus every day. A few years ago, while visiting Karl in the kindergarten classroom where he taught. Occasionally, Debbie wished Sasha would ease up a little—resist correcting well-meaning relatives who said he instead of they, for example. I’m just done with that.”, Instant downloads of all 1411 LitChart PDFs If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. His name is all over the news, and everybody thinks he hates gay people. The have both spoken to, Slater includes a letter written by Richard to, ...Bois, a defense lawyer with forty years of experience. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. The 57 bus took them to and from high school. Our lives make footprints, tracks in the snows of time. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by — Dashka Slater O ne teenager in a skirt. Sasha identifies as genderqueer, which means that they “question” their gender. One fateful day, Sasha was asleep in a “gauzy white skirt” on the 57 bus when a rowdy friend handed Richard a lighter. The stories overlap. The word for sun was jejz, which was also the word for day. These are 15 colorful, creative cards, as described by author. Still, during that time, their friends and the community respond with such an outpouring of love and support that Sasha sometimes finds it hard to believe they have been a victim of a hate crime. His grades aren’t great, and he likes to skip class. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Not small geographically, of course. The bus’s 11-mile route joins middle-class and less desirable areas of the city. But as Sasha began exploring the topic online, they found that some people had developed language for combing the tangle into individual strands. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. It was like a gigantic menu, with columns and columns of choices. Sasha’s own gender identity doesn’t fit into either category, and they begin to create their own, more inclusive, languages. They play sports on the same team, or work in the same building. The city sprawls across seventy-eight square miles, stretching from the shallow, salty estuary at the edge of San Francisco Bay to the undulating green-and-gold hills where bobcats and coyotes roam. The 57 bus Dashka slater THE 57 BUS Author Author Dashka SLATER is an award-winning author of books for children whose articles have appeared in such publications.