Thursday, October 23, 2014

Valerie Marks: Crossing The Line.


What’s going on with the new Jenna!? After Jenna makes the shocking choice to cheat on her near perfect boyfriend Matty Mckibben with Collin (the new guy from her Creative Writing class) causing Jenna to lose her closest friends. A choice that will catapult her and everyone around her onto a new path that no one expected to see. Jenna takes a whole new style as her rebellion prompts her to change her look. Jenna with mascara on. A real big change. A lot less hoodies in the style department for Hamilton.
In her Creative Writing class their teacher Mr. Hart wants the whole class to submit an essay about Heroes and Villains so it can be published in a magazine. Val wants to talk to Mr. Hart by making a signal at the door. She wants to borrow his students to use for her video to submit for a video competition. She talks about the video and describes it as having drama, intrigue, suicide, drugs, depression, friendship, love, alcoholism, and freeze frames.
Jenna and Collin talk about how she doesn’t want to participate in the After School Special. She lies to Valerie saying that she has to help her mom after she sprained her back. Val guesses that it happened during sex. She tries to call her, but Jenna tells her not to because she would be embarrassed. She gets excused from the after school special.
Val tries to figure out what the plot of the special should be, Sadie comes up with a girl who tried to kill herself and fails (Jenna’s rumor in Season one). In the end she dies. Val says it is perfect. It’s called “What Are We Gonna Do About Jenny”
Collin and Jenna are in the parking lot. Tamara, Jake, Ming are all watching. Tamara is worried about her because she could be headed to “Amanda Bynes Ville”. They say they need guidance counselor. They talk to Val about Jenna. She doesn’t know that it’s about Jenna when they’re asking about advice.
On the set for “What are we gonna do about Jenny” A.S.S.
(Sadie playing the character Jenny) Jenny is blogging and Val cuts it because it seems extremely boring. Tamara, Jake, and Ming are shocked as they realize it’s about Jenna. Kyle is the jock Danny and Jake are the bad guys doing drugs with Calvin. Jenny gets mad at her mom and tries to commit suicide by pulling a scarf wrapped around her neck which Val cuts from the special.
Lacey is mad because Jenna lied to Val, and got sent a bunch of balloons including one shaped like a jellyfish. She drives her to school and makes her explain what a backwards jellyfish is during the drive. Jenna arrives. Val tells Lacey that it's a closed set. Sadie tells Jenna what the movies about after Sadie gets cut by her. She gets upset. Jenna is cast as concerned friend #4. Jenny is describing Jenna's life in a mean way and says she wants to kill herself. Jenna changes the scene by saying she's not worried about Jenny. She tells Jenny to go on and live her life which is none of their business(hinting to her ex-friends). Tamara said she made bad choices and Calvin is bad news. Jenny says that they don't even know Calvin and that they get high and have sex instead of having a decent conversation. Jenna and Tamara argue. Jenna leaves and goes outside to the hallways to light up her cigarette. Matty and Devon come back after soccer, and he tries to warn her about Val coming, but she insults him, making him leave. Valerie catches Jenna lighting her cigarette and suspends her.
Val comes to Jenna’s house. She tells her to go away, she apologizes for taking so long to get up to speed she says she can help because she is her friend and her girl. Jenna rudely tells her that Val is just her guidance counselor and has been a sucky one too and slams the door in her face. Jenna then begins to blog about how she let Val cross the line all the time. She gets revenge with Mr. Harts assignment. She writes about one very familiar villain. She opens a new document titled Valerie Marks: Crossing The Line.
Jenna submitted her essay to Mr. Hart, a mean essay for the school literary magazine on Val portraying her as an evil villain. Hart says he can’t publish it because it’s too harsh. Again, this coming from a mean teacher. Hart tells her to think about it again and give her final approval the next time he asks her.
When Jenna gets home, she arrives to Lacey, Val, Sadie and Ally on the couch for her intervention, a brilliant idea by Val, which of course backfired because Jenna believes this is the stupidest idea ever by a bunch of hypocrites. Jenna gets so pissed off she tells Mr. Hart to proceed to print her essay.
After Jenna realizes Collin isn’t a good guy and gets into an argument with him about all the choices she’s made and he responds on how they were all on her. She replies “And being an asshole was all on you”. Jenna tries to stop her story from being published, but it’s too late.
The principal is reading Jenna’s essay in the school's literary magazine and calls Val into his office. Jenna wants to talk to Val but the principal says she is on an “indefinite suspension” after realizing how inappropriate and crazy she has been with the students. He is seen clearing her office implying that her indefinite suspension meant she was fired.
This episode teaches you to revise your work, amend missteps and change the outcome for your writing. Mr. Hart tried to tell Jenna to revise her work, gave her the opportunity to change the outcome of what would happen when her story was published. She acted in the heat of the moment causing her loose her friend as well as making Valerie lose her job, when all Val wanted to do was help her girl J. Jenna's misstep was writing harshly about Val while being upset with her without thinking of the consequences, she badly judged her step when writing her essay. Donald Murray talks about how important it is to look over your work to make sure everything is well written, well structured with enough information and making every bit of sense.

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