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TKAM

on June 2nd, 2011 by Sam P

The children learn right from wrong through many events in the novel, but Mr. Dolphus Raymond teaches them specifically about how people don’t have to give in to the racism that’s all around them.  In the county of Maycomb the people are very racist, they treat African American people with great disrespect, but Mr. Raymond [...]

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Uninvited Q and A

on May 27th, 2011 by Sam P

Uninvited Describe the plot of the book. What is the major conflict in your book? The major conflict in the book is person v person and person v self. What causes the conflict to occur? What are some of the obstacles that lead to the conflict? The thing that causes the conflict to occur is [...]

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TKAM Movie Review

on May 18th, 2011 by Sam P

The character from the book that was best portrayed in the movie, I think, was Scout because, in the book, she talks with a huge vocabulary, she is afraid of Boo Radley and just the Radley house in general, and she cares about her family. Her character is best portrayed in the movie because in [...]

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The Loneliness of Boo

on May 13th, 2011 by Sam P

For my visual analysis I chose loneliness as the theme to portray and I chose to portray it in a drawing. In my visual I wanted to show that the loneliest character in the book, in my opinion, is Boo Radley. I chose him because he is stuck in his house all the time and [...]

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The Trial

on May 12th, 2011 by Sam P

In CE9 we are reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Each week we are assigned to read a section and at the end of the week we discuss that section in our literature circle. In the circle we are assigned a role to play and questions to answer. This week I was assigned [...]

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Jem is like my brother

on May 3rd, 2011 by Sam P

In CE9 we are reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. We, as students, are responsible to read a certain section of the book and discuss that section in a literature circle that consists of three others. In the literature circle we are assigned a role and in the role questions to talk about. [...]

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Figurative Language

on May 2nd, 2011 by Sam P

“It was like a Saturday. People from the south end of the county passed our house in a leisurely but steady stream.” (158) This shows Simile because they are comparing the day of the trial for Tom Robinson to a Saturday, because so many people from the south are coming up to the city, using [...]

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Innocence

on April 26th, 2011 by Sam P

In CE9 we are reading To Kill A Mockingbird and discussing it with three other people. For this week we had to read chapters 1-7 and discuss them, during the discussing I had the role of Discussion Director and had to answer four questions. For my first question I had to say what I thought [...]

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Christmas, mad dogs, and ladylike?

on April 26th, 2011 by Sam P

In CE9 we are reading To Kill a Mockingbird. We are assigned certain sections to read and certain roles to play in our literature circle. For this section we had to read chapters eight through eleven and I was assigned the summarizer. As the summarizer I had three questions to answer. The first question asked [...]

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Food Culture: The School Lunch Crisis

on April 4th, 2011 by Sam P

For this project I worked with Hanna L. We chose to study the pros and cons and nutritional value of eating lunch at school.   Many people may think that eating school food is no problem. And that they teach us to eat healthy, so why would they feed us unhealthy food? Well it’s simply [...]

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