End-Of-Book Reflection Questions

The Revealers
Begin brainstorming the answers with members of your group!

1. Ms. Hogeboom told Russell that everyone was reading the Revealer and that the atmosphere of the school was changing…”It was like a small revolution” (175). Explain what she means about the school culture and their affect on it.

I think she means that, before, evryone knew that bullying was happening, but they never said anything, even if they were victims. But now, with the Revealer, people realized that they were all concerned and that they could talk about it freely on KidNet. So everything was changing, and the victims started to wake up and to realize they were all the same and the bullies kind of stopped because they knew that people knew about what they were doing.


2. Describe why The Revealers project was so successful with students and judges alike.

The project was so successful with the students because they were all part of it in some way and they knew most of it already. They recognized their school, the people in it, and their stories. It was also succcessful with the judges because they saw that Catalina, Elliot and Russell made a big impact on the school with that project, and that life was better for a lot of kids now.

3. Russell, Elliot, and Catalina's hypothesis for their science fair project was "if bullying and harassment incidents were brought to light among the whole student body in a school then there will be a reduction in these incidents as well as them being less severe in nature"(194). Did the three main characters prove their hypothesis? Discuss. What is one way you could use technology to improve the school at AISD?

I think Catalina, Elliot and Russell did prove their hypothesis because at the end of the book Richie stopped bullying Russell, Bethany kind of stopped rejecting Catalina, and the Jock Rots don't do that much bad stuff to Elliot anymore. All of these changes in their lifes began with the Revealer. Since they started it, people realized bullying did happen, and so they kind of stopped.
At AIS/D, we could do the same thing Catalina, Russell and Elliot did by sending stories to everyone, or even create a blog only for stories about bullying, and other students could comment on their stories.