To kill a Mockingbird is a book about the injustice it was happened in the South of the United in 1930-1935. Some major themes in this book are:
- Inequality of race.
- Sticking to what you believe.
- Having a pride.
- What most people like is not always the good decision.
- Never give up even though people are against you.
- Having a self-control in front of a difficult situation.
- Having a self-esteem.
The author reveal those themes by showing the obstacle each people have to affront. For example, Scout doesn't have a self-control when her cousin, Francie, called her "nigger love". Atticus, Scout's father, is a person very decent because he doesn't show any fear in front of the difficult trial which wanting for him in summer. However, he has a lower self-esteem because he is so sure to loose the trial.
The lesson the characters learn is what most people like is not always the good decision because in Maycomb, people accused Tom Robinson unfair without hearing what he has to say. All that because he is a black man. For example, Scout asks her father how he was defending a man who most people don't like him and find him guilty.
I think that Harper Lee wants us to learn how abstruse condition black people and everyone who defends black people have so much to overcome.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Test Prep Action Plan
My goals for the test prep are to learn deeply about vocabularies and figurative language (idioms and puns). For now, I am reading a lot and I hope that it will improve my vocabulary when I will stay the test. Also, I study the vocabulary books and write some word in the index card.
The types of questions are on the 8th Grade ELA are inference question, nonfiction article, main idea, conclude, graphic organized and short and long essay. To improve the questions/passages, I should read more and do a lot of practice at home. Get more help at advisory and after school.
The types of questions are on the 8th Grade ELA are inference question, nonfiction article, main idea, conclude, graphic organized and short and long essay. To improve the questions/passages, I should read more and do a lot of practice at home. Get more help at advisory and after school.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
To My Parent: What I've Learned so far in ELA
Dear Grandpa,
Salut, Grandpa! How are you doing? This year, I learn so much that I am sure you will be proud of me like I am proud of myself. You will not imagine how many pages in English I could read by myself without any help. Of course, I use dictionary as you advance me. I am not good in vocabulary yet, but I am doing my best for learning so fast I could. You know how I feel about ELA.
However, this year, ELA is so fun because we are using computer in class. Did you read my essay I send to you about Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. I love that essay. For me it is the prove that I do understand politic now. I have a good interest about politic this year because we did study a lot about the Election Presidential 2008. One of the best election in United States.
Now we are studied, To Kill a Mockingbird. The cool thing is that we have a web side called ning.com, where we pretend to be a character in the book and write journal about what we read each day to school. I am Atticus, the father of the main character. He is a lawyer and he is defending a black man in 1930's. I am very happy to be him because he is the one who make a big different in the book. I strongly recommend this book to you so we could do a book club about it. The web side is very super, you should read what the students post. It is very surprising and funny how the students include me understand a 10th grade book. Our teachers are proud of us.
Take care of yourself and Grandma too. I miss you so much. Don't eat to much meat. You know how it is bad for your health. lollllllll
love and kissssssssssssssssssss
sincerely,
Your Love.
Salut, Grandpa! How are you doing? This year, I learn so much that I am sure you will be proud of me like I am proud of myself. You will not imagine how many pages in English I could read by myself without any help. Of course, I use dictionary as you advance me. I am not good in vocabulary yet, but I am doing my best for learning so fast I could. You know how I feel about ELA.
However, this year, ELA is so fun because we are using computer in class. Did you read my essay I send to you about Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. I love that essay. For me it is the prove that I do understand politic now. I have a good interest about politic this year because we did study a lot about the Election Presidential 2008. One of the best election in United States.
Now we are studied, To Kill a Mockingbird. The cool thing is that we have a web side called ning.com, where we pretend to be a character in the book and write journal about what we read each day to school. I am Atticus, the father of the main character. He is a lawyer and he is defending a black man in 1930's. I am very happy to be him because he is the one who make a big different in the book. I strongly recommend this book to you so we could do a book club about it. The web side is very super, you should read what the students post. It is very surprising and funny how the students include me understand a 10th grade book. Our teachers are proud of us.
Take care of yourself and Grandma too. I miss you so much. Don't eat to much meat. You know how it is bad for your health. lollllllll
love and kissssssssssssssssssss
sincerely,
Your Love.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Child Labor or Povery?
Originally post on the "339 Hardline.com"
Child Labor or Poverty?
Child Labor or Poverty? We don't ever ask that question. Education is a luxury that many families can't afford. In Zambia, for example, in Southern Africa, 80% of the population live in abysmal despair and abject poverty. Most parents cannot afford to educate their children, and consequently, they put them to work to have one fewer mouth to feed. The International Labor Organisation (ILO) puts the number of children working in the world at 350 million. Some are exploited by unscrupulous bosses, while others help their parents in the fields. Even though child labor is illegal, it is common in Zambia.
According to a German NGO (nongovernmental organization) that defends children, "Many children are working in the fields. All the major farms are fenced and guarded and behind those fences there live families with children working in the fields. The entrance is more like an to a prison than a farm-the prison of poverty. The children working there will never get out. Getting no education, they'll be condemned to a life of non-qualified work." Those farms are sort of work camps, but the families aren't separated. They can spend the little tiny time they have together, however, all the children work in the fields and don't go to school. They won't get in there.
In a depot of cotton, among the workers are lots of teenagers. Instead of being in class, they're carrying on their back 50 pound sacks. Schools complain about truancy (students who don't go to school) but parents need the money. Farmers even come to pick the kids up. They're happy to be fed, and don't realize that missing school means a change of one day having a qualified job. 8 out of 10 Zambians live or survive because of the land (ILO).
In a farm, a group of chidren of 5 to 10 years old are heading for a spot where clay bricks are drying in the sun. Their job is to transport the bricks, which are being used to build a storehouse. On a weekday which kids should be in school, they are providing cheap labor. For pay they are given a little food.
On TV5.org, a French website, a teacher names Emmanuel Kapichila said, "It's obvious. Whenever a pupil is absent, I know that he or she is working somewhere. Even if they tell me some story when they came back, I know that he or she was working on a farm." However he knows why they're working rather than coming to school. Three quarters of his students don't get enough to eat. One quarter are more or less getting enough to eat, but the other three quarters really don't get enough. Poverty forces the parents to put their children to work. Kilida, a 13 years old girl, said, "I work so I can buy soap." She has to work days for a bar of soap. Two days laboring in a field for soap. The kids work 6 or 7 days a week, and, in the harvest time 10 to 14 hours a day.
All children have his dream job - taxi driver, teacher, doctor, pilot... - serious dream and they are also intelligent. However, without education, they will remain poor.
Child Labor or Poverty?
Child Labor or Poverty? We don't ever ask that question. Education is a luxury that many families can't afford. In Zambia, for example, in Southern Africa, 80% of the population live in abysmal despair and abject poverty. Most parents cannot afford to educate their children, and consequently, they put them to work to have one fewer mouth to feed. The International Labor Organisation (ILO) puts the number of children working in the world at 350 million. Some are exploited by unscrupulous bosses, while others help their parents in the fields. Even though child labor is illegal, it is common in Zambia.
According to a German NGO (nongovernmental organization) that defends children, "Many children are working in the fields. All the major farms are fenced and guarded and behind those fences there live families with children working in the fields. The entrance is more like an to a prison than a farm-the prison of poverty. The children working there will never get out. Getting no education, they'll be condemned to a life of non-qualified work." Those farms are sort of work camps, but the families aren't separated. They can spend the little tiny time they have together, however, all the children work in the fields and don't go to school. They won't get in there.
In a depot of cotton, among the workers are lots of teenagers. Instead of being in class, they're carrying on their back 50 pound sacks. Schools complain about truancy (students who don't go to school) but parents need the money. Farmers even come to pick the kids up. They're happy to be fed, and don't realize that missing school means a change of one day having a qualified job. 8 out of 10 Zambians live or survive because of the land (ILO).
In a farm, a group of chidren of 5 to 10 years old are heading for a spot where clay bricks are drying in the sun. Their job is to transport the bricks, which are being used to build a storehouse. On a weekday which kids should be in school, they are providing cheap labor. For pay they are given a little food.
On TV5.org, a French website, a teacher names Emmanuel Kapichila said, "It's obvious. Whenever a pupil is absent, I know that he or she is working somewhere. Even if they tell me some story when they came back, I know that he or she was working on a farm." However he knows why they're working rather than coming to school. Three quarters of his students don't get enough to eat. One quarter are more or less getting enough to eat, but the other three quarters really don't get enough. Poverty forces the parents to put their children to work. Kilida, a 13 years old girl, said, "I work so I can buy soap." She has to work days for a bar of soap. Two days laboring in a field for soap. The kids work 6 or 7 days a week, and, in the harvest time 10 to 14 hours a day.
All children have his dream job - taxi driver, teacher, doctor, pilot... - serious dream and they are also intelligent. However, without education, they will remain poor.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Reader Reponse Journal #8
Someone To Love Me
by Anne Schraff
Cindy is a freshman at Bluford High School. She has a low self-esteem because Raffie, her mother's boyfriend, and other people like to say that she is ugly. The relation between her and her mother is more and more worst because her mother passes all her night her new boyfriend. Cindy feels really lonely. I think that loneliness would make her do something very grief she would regret all her life because she starts to hanging out with Bobby Wallace, a ex-boyfriend of a friend of hers, Jamee. They are not together anymore because he used to beat Jamee so badly that she had to go to Cindy's place to clear herself up before going home.
I think that Cindy is acting very naive by going out with Bobby because he says sweet words or words she wants to hear. I could never go out with a boy I know he use to beat my best friend. However, I could not blame her because she needs company and she thinks that Bobby could be that friend. And also never in her life a boy has never look at her like Bobby does. This mistake would remember her that sometimes boys don't mean what they say.
by Anne Schraff
Cindy is a freshman at Bluford High School. She has a low self-esteem because Raffie, her mother's boyfriend, and other people like to say that she is ugly. The relation between her and her mother is more and more worst because her mother passes all her night her new boyfriend. Cindy feels really lonely. I think that loneliness would make her do something very grief she would regret all her life because she starts to hanging out with Bobby Wallace, a ex-boyfriend of a friend of hers, Jamee. They are not together anymore because he used to beat Jamee so badly that she had to go to Cindy's place to clear herself up before going home.
I think that Cindy is acting very naive by going out with Bobby because he says sweet words or words she wants to hear. I could never go out with a boy I know he use to beat my best friend. However, I could not blame her because she needs company and she thinks that Bobby could be that friend. And also never in her life a boy has never look at her like Bobby does. This mistake would remember her that sometimes boys don't mean what they say.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Reader Response Journal #7
To Kill A Mockingbird
By Harper Lee
This book is very dramatic by the way the author saying things. I really don't know what would happen in that book for certain because everything is not confusing, but it is difficult to predict what would happen next. Scout is a very intelligent little girl and I think that she would be very helpful to her father in some point. Maybe by the fact that Atticus, her father, would defend a black man.
I think that the tittle of this book is also relating by that the accusation of that black man. To kill a Mockingbird for me mean to kill those who are not good for nothing, however, make people talking. However we are not so far in this book for us to understand the tittle.
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