Journal #6 - Chapters 15-19 - Perspective: tom Robison
People all though out Maycomb came into to town to see my trial. Probably 98% of the people were against me and believed I had raped this girl. They say it’s a fair trial and I have a chance to prove that I didn’t but I knew it wasn’t a fair trial. Me a black males word against a white females word who will the prejudice court believe. I know aticus will try as hard as he can to prove me innocent even if he knows I have know chance. At least I can look up and see all these people up top praying for me and know I had did nothing.
First to the stand Mr. Tate. He should have never been called to the stand he only knows what Mr. Ewell and Ms. Mayella Ewell had told him. Which was not the truth? Then Mr. Ewell went to the stand. There stories were different in many areas and you could tell that neither really knew what went on. Mr. Ewell didn’t really answer many questions he just agreed with what Mr. Tate stated. It was weird Atticus was asking him questions then ask a question what seemed to be irrelevant. He asked him to write his name on a piece of paper. He did so with his left hand. Mayella had many bruises up and down her right side of her body. I didn’t get it at first but I could see what Atticus was thinking. For her to have bruises on her right side a left handed person hit her with there left while she was pinned down with the right hand. And the jury will see I could not have done it because my right arm about 10 inches shorter then right and I have no use of it. Mr. Ewell did not look happy about these questions it wasn’t subsequent to what he wanted.
Finally Mayella was called up. The girl I was accused of raping. She started crying as soon as she got to the stand I don’t know why. She was really scared of Mr. Finch I think she tensed up and got really nervous when he asked her questions. She didn’t want the judge to see there fraud of accusing me. Atticus was asking her question after question as she went on her story got really twisted up you could tell it wasn’t the truth. Then after one question she stayed crying again. He asked her if it was her father who beat her…she had no response. It was obvious she was in a predicament.
When they called me to the stand I wasn’t nervous all I was going to do was speak the truth. Mr. Finch was asking me easy simple questions at firs how I knew her? What work I did for her? Then he asked me what really happened my story was very different to threes but it was the Truth. Mayella asked me to get her something I stood up on the chair and she grabbed my leg freaked me out I jumped down. Then she started hugging me I tried to get her off but not push or harm her. She then hugged me around my waist and asked me to kiss her. As I struggled her father walked in he was calling Mayella a whore and threatening to kill her. I didn’t know what else to do. I was stealth when I left. Then I herd I was accused of raping her.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
TKAM post #5
Journal #5 - Chapters 12-15 - Perspective: scout
Sometimes I just really hate aunt Alexandra she comes unexpected and unwanted to our house. I wouldn't mind it if she came for a short time but she said she staying with us for awhile. She comes in and trying to make me a girly girl or a lady which I don't like her trying to do. And trying to make jem into more of a adult. She gets along with all the people of Maycomb and talks to them like she has known them for ever she acting like our mom which bothers me because she not. She want to get rid of Calpurnia I overheard her talking to Atticus saying she could do the things that Calpurinia does. I don't want Calpurnia to leave because we got a lot closer and I think of her more as a friend then a person who works for Atticus. Aunt Alexandra needs to go back to uncle jack and stay there we were doing just fine without her and stop trying to change every thing.
Me and Jem were arguing back and forth and started to get louder. Like always Atticus comes and breaks it up and sends us both to bed. As I was walking to my bed I stepped on something or someone I was freaked out. Jem went to see if something was there. When we looked closer to see there was a figure of someone, it was Dill there under my bed. I was waiting for like some cool story on how he got there but instead it was boring all he said was he stole money from his mom and rode a train then ran in to Maycomb. He wrote a letter home and was allowed to stay with us for one week that was such a fun and good week even with aunt Alexandra there. I was talking to Dill then all the sudden Atticus got called outside by a large group of men. They were all standing around him talking I could her them but didn't understand what they were talking about I think it was about the court case with the Tom something guy not sure though., later on that night Aticus said he was to go into town. Jem woke me up and I asked him what it was he was exactly doing. He said he was going into town to look for Atticus after a little bit of back and forth he finally said I could go. On our way into town we stopped of at Dills house and wanted to see if he wanted to go he said yes. When we got into town we saw Atticus by the jail house just standing there then multiple cars pulled up and about to men in each car got out. I didn't know what was going on so I quickly ran to him I didn't know any of the men except for Mr. Cunningham I told him to tell his son I said hi. He said he would then he told all the other guys to leave. That whole night I didn't get or understand but nothing happened to Atticus like I thought so I was glad.
Sometimes I just really hate aunt Alexandra she comes unexpected and unwanted to our house. I wouldn't mind it if she came for a short time but she said she staying with us for awhile. She comes in and trying to make me a girly girl or a lady which I don't like her trying to do. And trying to make jem into more of a adult. She gets along with all the people of Maycomb and talks to them like she has known them for ever she acting like our mom which bothers me because she not. She want to get rid of Calpurnia I overheard her talking to Atticus saying she could do the things that Calpurinia does. I don't want Calpurnia to leave because we got a lot closer and I think of her more as a friend then a person who works for Atticus. Aunt Alexandra needs to go back to uncle jack and stay there we were doing just fine without her and stop trying to change every thing.
Me and Jem were arguing back and forth and started to get louder. Like always Atticus comes and breaks it up and sends us both to bed. As I was walking to my bed I stepped on something or someone I was freaked out. Jem went to see if something was there. When we looked closer to see there was a figure of someone, it was Dill there under my bed. I was waiting for like some cool story on how he got there but instead it was boring all he said was he stole money from his mom and rode a train then ran in to Maycomb. He wrote a letter home and was allowed to stay with us for one week that was such a fun and good week even with aunt Alexandra there. I was talking to Dill then all the sudden Atticus got called outside by a large group of men. They were all standing around him talking I could her them but didn't understand what they were talking about I think it was about the court case with the Tom something guy not sure though., later on that night Aticus said he was to go into town. Jem woke me up and I asked him what it was he was exactly doing. He said he was going into town to look for Atticus after a little bit of back and forth he finally said I could go. On our way into town we stopped of at Dills house and wanted to see if he wanted to go he said yes. When we got into town we saw Atticus by the jail house just standing there then multiple cars pulled up and about to men in each car got out. I didn't know what was going on so I quickly ran to him I didn't know any of the men except for Mr. Cunningham I told him to tell his son I said hi. He said he would then he told all the other guys to leave. That whole night I didn't get or understand but nothing happened to Atticus like I thought so I was glad.
TKAM post #4
Journal #4 - Chapters 10-12 - Perspective:Jem
After Christmas me and scout could not wait to try our air rifles out. We were going to start shooting at birds but Then Atticus came over and said we could shoot all the blue jays we wanted but its a sin to kill a mockingbird. Atticus never said any thing was a sin so I thought it was strange but I had decided not to shoot mockingbirds. One day me and scout were walking around the Radley house looking for any thing to shoot with our air rifles then all of the sudden something got my attention. I had no idea of the great peril that could happen. scout started to tell me something but I told her real fast to be quiet she asked why I said don't Contradict me. Once I got a better view of it I noticed that I was looking at Tim Johnson Mr Johnson dog. I went back and told Calpurnia when she heard us she went crazy and started telling everyone in the neighborhood that it was a mad dog. I tried to tell her it was just sick and looking for a place to rest before but she was cantankerous she was acting like I was inaudible . I knew what to do Atticus was in the front yard with a gun. Mr Tate was trying to give the gun to atticus he said that he was the only one who could make that shot that close o the radley place Mr Tate thought he miss and hit the radley place. Atticus refused at first for a couple seconds but then he eventually took the gun and opens one round on the supposed mad dog it was a perfect hit. I was shocked to see atticus hit it that well. I started talking to atticus later and discovered that he use to be the best and deadliest shooter in maycomb. But I can see why he didn't want us to know that. We asked question after question but he didn't respond immediately but final a answer came out Ol One Shot was his nickname. He got that nick name because it only would take him one shot to hit any target or thing. He sopped shooting because he said god didn't want his animals shot at and he didn't want to be membered the own as the best shooter he would rather be membered as something else that was good.
On my birthday I had money I wanted to spend me and scout had to walk past miss Dubose's house. She was on her front porch when we walked buy she started saying insults to us about atticus and called him a nigger-lover. We went to town and bought some things and scout a baton. On they way back when going by miss Dubose's house I lost my ember and cut all of her ugly hedges down then I broke scouts baton but I regretted that later. Atticus made me apologize to the lady even though he and I both new I didn't mean it. When I told her I tried to make it inconspicuous that didn't mean it. I had to also try and re grow her plants. Over the next month I did other things for her then one day atticus told me that she had died.
After Christmas me and scout could not wait to try our air rifles out. We were going to start shooting at birds but Then Atticus came over and said we could shoot all the blue jays we wanted but its a sin to kill a mockingbird. Atticus never said any thing was a sin so I thought it was strange but I had decided not to shoot mockingbirds. One day me and scout were walking around the Radley house looking for any thing to shoot with our air rifles then all of the sudden something got my attention. I had no idea of the great peril that could happen. scout started to tell me something but I told her real fast to be quiet she asked why I said don't Contradict me. Once I got a better view of it I noticed that I was looking at Tim Johnson Mr Johnson dog. I went back and told Calpurnia when she heard us she went crazy and started telling everyone in the neighborhood that it was a mad dog. I tried to tell her it was just sick and looking for a place to rest before but she was cantankerous she was acting like I was inaudible . I knew what to do Atticus was in the front yard with a gun. Mr Tate was trying to give the gun to atticus he said that he was the only one who could make that shot that close o the radley place Mr Tate thought he miss and hit the radley place. Atticus refused at first for a couple seconds but then he eventually took the gun and opens one round on the supposed mad dog it was a perfect hit. I was shocked to see atticus hit it that well. I started talking to atticus later and discovered that he use to be the best and deadliest shooter in maycomb. But I can see why he didn't want us to know that. We asked question after question but he didn't respond immediately but final a answer came out Ol One Shot was his nickname. He got that nick name because it only would take him one shot to hit any target or thing. He sopped shooting because he said god didn't want his animals shot at and he didn't want to be membered the own as the best shooter he would rather be membered as something else that was good.
On my birthday I had money I wanted to spend me and scout had to walk past miss Dubose's house. She was on her front porch when we walked buy she started saying insults to us about atticus and called him a nigger-lover. We went to town and bought some things and scout a baton. On they way back when going by miss Dubose's house I lost my ember and cut all of her ugly hedges down then I broke scouts baton but I regretted that later. Atticus made me apologize to the lady even though he and I both new I didn't mean it. When I told her I tried to make it inconspicuous that didn't mean it. I had to also try and re grow her plants. Over the next month I did other things for her then one day atticus told me that she had died.
TKAM post #3
Journal #3 - Chapters 4-7 - Perspective:Ms. Maudie
The seasons had changed from Autumn to winter along with just the seasons changing our weather had to. We had our first real winter in years it hasn't been this cold since the mid or late 1880's. I'm not to fond of the cold weather or the snow it tends to kill my plants. I wish it would get warmer or not snow at my house. Jem an scout finch came and took the snow from my house to there front yard I thought it would be better for my plants and they needed the snow I guess they were building a snowman or something with it. Then Jem took my sun hat it made me so mad. I was woken up to the smell of smoke in my house I thought that the fire in my fireplace would have went out by now but because of the cold. But it must have been still going so I went back to sleep. About 5 or 10 minutes later I woke back up to smoke the smell was stronger still half awake I put on my robe and my slippers walked down the hall to see a fire! I froze for a couple of seconds then ran outside the whole neighborhood must have been out there. Many people asking if I was OK I told them all yes. I stood out there watching my home go up in flames and some of the men in Maycomb went in to save some of my furniture. I felt so helpless or like if I wasn't connected to the world I felt isolated from it. Many people in my house getting my stuff and I was just standing around outside. T he fire burned up my whole second floor and people begin to get water buckets and other things to try and put the fire out and stop it from spreading to other houses especially the closer ones like the finch house. People were running around with water in pajamas and robes some in long coats even with the fire so close it was still cold out. I stood there as my house burned into flames I watched it come crashing down to the ground. I bet the finch kids were freezing as I stood next to them. I turned around and saw scout standing there with a blanket on her I had no idea were it came from and neither did scout. Atticus figured I must have been boo Radley who gave her the blanket. The next day I was thinking I was happy and sad and also worried at the same time worried because I didn't know where I would stay. A couple minutes later Stephanie Crawford came up to me and asked if I would like to stay with her I would love to I said. I was sad because my plants were gone but excited because I could now build a smaller house like I have wanted to so I could in return have a bigger garden. I then started feeling like everything would work out for the best I had somewhere to stay and I could build me a smaller house with tons of room for my azaleas and other plants.
The seasons had changed from Autumn to winter along with just the seasons changing our weather had to. We had our first real winter in years it hasn't been this cold since the mid or late 1880's. I'm not to fond of the cold weather or the snow it tends to kill my plants. I wish it would get warmer or not snow at my house. Jem an scout finch came and took the snow from my house to there front yard I thought it would be better for my plants and they needed the snow I guess they were building a snowman or something with it. Then Jem took my sun hat it made me so mad. I was woken up to the smell of smoke in my house I thought that the fire in my fireplace would have went out by now but because of the cold. But it must have been still going so I went back to sleep. About 5 or 10 minutes later I woke back up to smoke the smell was stronger still half awake I put on my robe and my slippers walked down the hall to see a fire! I froze for a couple of seconds then ran outside the whole neighborhood must have been out there. Many people asking if I was OK I told them all yes. I stood out there watching my home go up in flames and some of the men in Maycomb went in to save some of my furniture. I felt so helpless or like if I wasn't connected to the world I felt isolated from it. Many people in my house getting my stuff and I was just standing around outside. T he fire burned up my whole second floor and people begin to get water buckets and other things to try and put the fire out and stop it from spreading to other houses especially the closer ones like the finch house. People were running around with water in pajamas and robes some in long coats even with the fire so close it was still cold out. I stood there as my house burned into flames I watched it come crashing down to the ground. I bet the finch kids were freezing as I stood next to them. I turned around and saw scout standing there with a blanket on her I had no idea were it came from and neither did scout. Atticus figured I must have been boo Radley who gave her the blanket. The next day I was thinking I was happy and sad and also worried at the same time worried because I didn't know where I would stay. A couple minutes later Stephanie Crawford came up to me and asked if I would like to stay with her I would love to I said. I was sad because my plants were gone but excited because I could now build a smaller house like I have wanted to so I could in return have a bigger garden. I then started feeling like everything would work out for the best I had somewhere to stay and I could build me a smaller house with tons of room for my azaleas and other plants.
TKAM post #2
Journal #2 - Chapters 4-7 - Perspective: scout
I'm glad that summer is coming up in a couple of days so I can stop doing that stupid flash card stuff. How can you learn with them flashing cards in your face constantly. It must have been unanimous that no one liked the flash cards. Jem told me that it will get better but I think I could learn more on my own. Summer will be starting shortly so that means that dill will be coming back. When dill comes its always fun, when he showed up we didn't know what to do so we decided to play a game acting as if we were the Bradley. We were getting it down so good and started to sound like them till Atticus came and ruined all of our fun he said to stop tormenting that man. As the summer goes on jem and dill our getting closer and I feel excluded and left out. I started going to my neighbor Miss Maudie Atkinson more often she a chameleon lady who changes to what she is doing. She likes to garden and makes the best cakes. We talked and soon started talking about boo Bradley who she told me to call Arthur. As a boy she said he wasn't malignant but if he was crazy as a boy he is now she said. Jem and dill were going to stick a note in the Radley place and I went along. Right as we were leaving Atticus caught us . Dills last day came soon and they decided to see what boo looked liked I went along again. We looked though a window and saw a man with a hat we were going to move in for a closer look then BANG a gun shot went off we all scattered in a evasion me and dill took of running but jem want there I looked back and saw jem caught on the fence he had to take his pants of to get free. The adults were questing jem about his pants but we didn't get in as much trouble because they came up with a excuse of playing poker. Dill left later that day and jem went back to the Radley place to get his pants. Jems pants were mended back together but not as nice or neat as a women would have but like a man had did it. School started back up and I was now in the second grade. On our way home from the first day of school me and jem saw soap carvings in a knothole I decided to take them. As we looked closer at them we noticed that the to figures were people and had looked just liked us. we found chewing gum and a pocket watch and a spelling bee medal we wondered who wold be putting these things in the knothole but nobody besides us from school would be going by the Radley place. we thought it could be boo Radley himself. We were sad to see it after school one day the knothole had been filled up with cement by boo's brother who said the tree was dying even though it looked perfectly fine.
I'm glad that summer is coming up in a couple of days so I can stop doing that stupid flash card stuff. How can you learn with them flashing cards in your face constantly. It must have been unanimous that no one liked the flash cards. Jem told me that it will get better but I think I could learn more on my own. Summer will be starting shortly so that means that dill will be coming back. When dill comes its always fun, when he showed up we didn't know what to do so we decided to play a game acting as if we were the Bradley. We were getting it down so good and started to sound like them till Atticus came and ruined all of our fun he said to stop tormenting that man. As the summer goes on jem and dill our getting closer and I feel excluded and left out. I started going to my neighbor Miss Maudie Atkinson more often she a chameleon lady who changes to what she is doing. She likes to garden and makes the best cakes. We talked and soon started talking about boo Bradley who she told me to call Arthur. As a boy she said he wasn't malignant but if he was crazy as a boy he is now she said. Jem and dill were going to stick a note in the Radley place and I went along. Right as we were leaving Atticus caught us . Dills last day came soon and they decided to see what boo looked liked I went along again. We looked though a window and saw a man with a hat we were going to move in for a closer look then BANG a gun shot went off we all scattered in a evasion me and dill took of running but jem want there I looked back and saw jem caught on the fence he had to take his pants of to get free. The adults were questing jem about his pants but we didn't get in as much trouble because they came up with a excuse of playing poker. Dill left later that day and jem went back to the Radley place to get his pants. Jems pants were mended back together but not as nice or neat as a women would have but like a man had did it. School started back up and I was now in the second grade. On our way home from the first day of school me and jem saw soap carvings in a knothole I decided to take them. As we looked closer at them we noticed that the to figures were people and had looked just liked us. we found chewing gum and a pocket watch and a spelling bee medal we wondered who wold be putting these things in the knothole but nobody besides us from school would be going by the Radley place. we thought it could be boo Radley himself. We were sad to see it after school one day the knothole had been filled up with cement by boo's brother who said the tree was dying even though it looked perfectly fine.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
TKAM POST 1
TKAM post 1 Dill
today I finally arrived in Maycomb Alabama. Its a smaller town then my hometown just a couple hours from here a town called meridian Mississippi. This is my first time in Maycomb and I will be staying at my aunt Rachel's house. i thought that my whole summer would be boring. As I was sitting in the collard patch I saw to kids looking at me. I said hey and he responded with hey yourself. I introduced my self and tried to impress them by saying I could read. they didn't seemed that impressed. The boy asked if I was four and a half I said going on 7. He told me his little sister has been reading since she was born, her name was Scout. He commented on my height he said that I looked small for a 7 year old. He then invited me over. “Lord what a name,” he said. I new from my aunt that his name was Jeremy Atticus finch and he was making fun of my name. I told them that folks would call me dill he said people call him Jem. We started to talk to each other and I told them about Dracula, and the picture shows back in Meridian. Then he told my about this house across the street. They call it the Bradley place. It was shocking on how intimidating a house could be on the kids. They told me about the malevolent man who lived in it boo Bradley. When ever something went wrong it was probably the work of boo Radley. Scout and Jem said they have never seen him because he doesn't ever leave his house. The more stories I heard the more interested I became. I wanted Jem and scout to help me get boo to leave his house. For awhile I would stand there looking at the Radley place wondering about the mysterious man who lived inside. I had decided to knock on his door when I told it to Jem and scout they asked if I was crazy or wanted to kill myself. I bet that Jem couldn't go any further then boo Radley's gate “i have never rejected a dare” he said. He was thinking about it and 3 days had [passed. Every day I would be telling him hes to scared or I would call him a names like chicken just to try and make him do it. I told him people back where I'm from in meridian were not as scared of these kind of people but people in Maycomb were. He had finally decided he was going to do it now he went to the corner of the Radley place and touched the corner of the house he then ran as fast as he could back to me and scout. When he was running back we thought we saw something peeking out of the shutters. I had decided coming back for the rest of my summers wasn't going to be that bad as long as boo and scout were there. Next year I think I'm going to dare Jem to go inside the house.
today I finally arrived in Maycomb Alabama. Its a smaller town then my hometown just a couple hours from here a town called meridian Mississippi. This is my first time in Maycomb and I will be staying at my aunt Rachel's house. i thought that my whole summer would be boring. As I was sitting in the collard patch I saw to kids looking at me. I said hey and he responded with hey yourself. I introduced my self and tried to impress them by saying I could read. they didn't seemed that impressed. The boy asked if I was four and a half I said going on 7. He told me his little sister has been reading since she was born, her name was Scout. He commented on my height he said that I looked small for a 7 year old. He then invited me over. “Lord what a name,” he said. I new from my aunt that his name was Jeremy Atticus finch and he was making fun of my name. I told them that folks would call me dill he said people call him Jem. We started to talk to each other and I told them about Dracula, and the picture shows back in Meridian. Then he told my about this house across the street. They call it the Bradley place. It was shocking on how intimidating a house could be on the kids. They told me about the malevolent man who lived in it boo Bradley. When ever something went wrong it was probably the work of boo Radley. Scout and Jem said they have never seen him because he doesn't ever leave his house. The more stories I heard the more interested I became. I wanted Jem and scout to help me get boo to leave his house. For awhile I would stand there looking at the Radley place wondering about the mysterious man who lived inside. I had decided to knock on his door when I told it to Jem and scout they asked if I was crazy or wanted to kill myself. I bet that Jem couldn't go any further then boo Radley's gate “i have never rejected a dare” he said. He was thinking about it and 3 days had [passed. Every day I would be telling him hes to scared or I would call him a names like chicken just to try and make him do it. I told him people back where I'm from in meridian were not as scared of these kind of people but people in Maycomb were. He had finally decided he was going to do it now he went to the corner of the Radley place and touched the corner of the house he then ran as fast as he could back to me and scout. When he was running back we thought we saw something peeking out of the shutters. I had decided coming back for the rest of my summers wasn't going to be that bad as long as boo and scout were there. Next year I think I'm going to dare Jem to go inside the house.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
reflecion
Immigration project reflection
John Rozar
Literature circle books/blogs
During this project we had three main things we needed to do get the project completed. We had to read a book about immigration and post what we think on our blogs. Second we needed to comment we also last had to interview an immigrant that we found on our own or was assigned one bye Mrs. G.
In this book I was confessed a lot when re4ading it because it would be hard I think to tell when it was the past or present he would be talking about because one of the characters name vaelentino would always reflect or describe on some of the stories he had when he was still back in Africa. I was bored at times when reading it and it was really long. I wouldn’t say I was happy about it but it wasn’t totally bad. I was not happy also because my book was the biggest maybe 2 times the size of some groups and some peoples were really small and I read slowly so I had to read almost every night to keep up with my post. I don’t think my group fully understood the book in the way it was mint to be read like I think we all thought of it in our own way and took it in differently.
I liked the first lit circle way better because you could have more of a discussion about the book and on blogs sometimes you would have some computer problems and if they were done in class there would be no excuse for not doing it. I felt the blogging was good but I would have liked to maybe met with my group like once halfway though the book so I could talk to them more about things because on the comments you just read there quotes and then never reviewed on it but in the first litture circles group it seemed like we could talk about stuff better. I noticed we interpreted the book in many different ways as I could tell from reading there blog post. I learned that every one looks at something in totally different ways and it might not always be exactly how it was mint to be impetrated but it interesting to see and compare or discuss your options. Also add predictions so we could comment on the predation our group member had made.
Art and literature
Well my decision presses started out really ruff I couldn’t decide to do a new book cover or a scene that stood out to me in the book. After I thought about it fro a while I looked at the cover and thought it really needed to be re done so I did that. I new I needed to include some parts of the original cover so I took the main focus point from it and put it on mine. I think there was a connection but a small one between my painting and the book I read. For example I tried to show his journey from Africa to the United States by having a world with an arrow and line showing wear at he came from and were he went to. I think my final product came out worse then I thought but way better then I thought at the same time. Worse because painting something and drawing are totally different when painting letters it’s really hard and to paint detail or a straight line is hard. It was also hard to make a certain color I wanted that I had in my sketches. But better because I took time on painting detail and with some help from my teachers I changed the way some things came out on my painting then my final sketch like my guy I took of the original book . The changes that were made I think came out for the better of the painting. What would have really made my painting really good would be to the background colors to all be solid colors so not like you could see thought them to the canvas but like if I were to lay the paint on really thick. I learned that you shouldn't make your art piece about whets in the book because most of the people going to look at it and will know what will happen even though they didn't read the book yet. You should have made an image about what the whole book was about and not what is in it. And not have a super amount of detail because when its time to paint it, it will come out totally different then what you had imagined.
Interview process with participant
My interviewing process went really smooth I thought. I just email her my questions she answered them pretty thorough with detail so I had plenty of information. But on some my question were yes and no answers which I think was hard to avoid for certain questions but some I think should have been open ended. I felt interviewing them 3 different times was good because it gave you more of a chance to get to know and understand the full journey your participant did and took. I learned from my first and again reputed in my last interview that she came all the way from Germany alone. After her husband who came because he was in the army. From interview 2 I learned that well this is what she said “I think you build your opinion out of images you seen, on TV shows and newspapers, and the most you see is extremes, so I must say I expected more extremes, I was pleasantly surprised how normal everything was. Children going to school, parents going to work, coming home in the evening and eating dinner, but there is one thing that is different everybody had more money and were able to spend it, people eat out a lot more and going on little shopping trips just for fun” and it was interesting to me because I know they see it on TV but I never really thought of it being super great till I heard it come from some one else’s mouth that from another country. I also learned from that interview we aren’t much different from other countries but at the same time we are so different. And from the 3 interview I learned that we have a lot of food and sports in common. Like soccer is there main sport and we have soccer and some food we have alike is Hamburger = Fleischkuechle Hot dog= Seidenwuerstchen Sauerkraut = Sauerkraut Pickles=saure Gurken Potatoes= Kartoffeln. I think that actually meeting with and talking with a real immigrant to the us made it only just a little more easily to understand how immigrants are and feel. It didn’t really help me understand much a difference from what already know. But it was cool to ask them questions on what they think of immigration and what they fell on how immigration has changed. It also I guess help me appreciate the differences between America and some other countries.
John Rozar
Literature circle books/blogs
During this project we had three main things we needed to do get the project completed. We had to read a book about immigration and post what we think on our blogs. Second we needed to comment we also last had to interview an immigrant that we found on our own or was assigned one bye Mrs. G.
In this book I was confessed a lot when re4ading it because it would be hard I think to tell when it was the past or present he would be talking about because one of the characters name vaelentino would always reflect or describe on some of the stories he had when he was still back in Africa. I was bored at times when reading it and it was really long. I wouldn’t say I was happy about it but it wasn’t totally bad. I was not happy also because my book was the biggest maybe 2 times the size of some groups and some peoples were really small and I read slowly so I had to read almost every night to keep up with my post. I don’t think my group fully understood the book in the way it was mint to be read like I think we all thought of it in our own way and took it in differently.
I liked the first lit circle way better because you could have more of a discussion about the book and on blogs sometimes you would have some computer problems and if they were done in class there would be no excuse for not doing it. I felt the blogging was good but I would have liked to maybe met with my group like once halfway though the book so I could talk to them more about things because on the comments you just read there quotes and then never reviewed on it but in the first litture circles group it seemed like we could talk about stuff better. I noticed we interpreted the book in many different ways as I could tell from reading there blog post. I learned that every one looks at something in totally different ways and it might not always be exactly how it was mint to be impetrated but it interesting to see and compare or discuss your options. Also add predictions so we could comment on the predation our group member had made.
Art and literature
Well my decision presses started out really ruff I couldn’t decide to do a new book cover or a scene that stood out to me in the book. After I thought about it fro a while I looked at the cover and thought it really needed to be re done so I did that. I new I needed to include some parts of the original cover so I took the main focus point from it and put it on mine. I think there was a connection but a small one between my painting and the book I read. For example I tried to show his journey from Africa to the United States by having a world with an arrow and line showing wear at he came from and were he went to. I think my final product came out worse then I thought but way better then I thought at the same time. Worse because painting something and drawing are totally different when painting letters it’s really hard and to paint detail or a straight line is hard. It was also hard to make a certain color I wanted that I had in my sketches. But better because I took time on painting detail and with some help from my teachers I changed the way some things came out on my painting then my final sketch like my guy I took of the original book . The changes that were made I think came out for the better of the painting. What would have really made my painting really good would be to the background colors to all be solid colors so not like you could see thought them to the canvas but like if I were to lay the paint on really thick. I learned that you shouldn't make your art piece about whets in the book because most of the people going to look at it and will know what will happen even though they didn't read the book yet. You should have made an image about what the whole book was about and not what is in it. And not have a super amount of detail because when its time to paint it, it will come out totally different then what you had imagined.
Interview process with participant
My interviewing process went really smooth I thought. I just email her my questions she answered them pretty thorough with detail so I had plenty of information. But on some my question were yes and no answers which I think was hard to avoid for certain questions but some I think should have been open ended. I felt interviewing them 3 different times was good because it gave you more of a chance to get to know and understand the full journey your participant did and took. I learned from my first and again reputed in my last interview that she came all the way from Germany alone. After her husband who came because he was in the army. From interview 2 I learned that well this is what she said “I think you build your opinion out of images you seen, on TV shows and newspapers, and the most you see is extremes, so I must say I expected more extremes, I was pleasantly surprised how normal everything was. Children going to school, parents going to work, coming home in the evening and eating dinner, but there is one thing that is different everybody had more money and were able to spend it, people eat out a lot more and going on little shopping trips just for fun” and it was interesting to me because I know they see it on TV but I never really thought of it being super great till I heard it come from some one else’s mouth that from another country. I also learned from that interview we aren’t much different from other countries but at the same time we are so different. And from the 3 interview I learned that we have a lot of food and sports in common. Like soccer is there main sport and we have soccer and some food we have alike is Hamburger = Fleischkuechle Hot dog= Seidenwuerstchen Sauerkraut = Sauerkraut Pickles=saure Gurken Potatoes= Kartoffeln. I think that actually meeting with and talking with a real immigrant to the us made it only just a little more easily to understand how immigrants are and feel. It didn’t really help me understand much a difference from what already know. But it was cool to ask them questions on what they think of immigration and what they fell on how immigration has changed. It also I guess help me appreciate the differences between America and some other countries.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
what is the what final
Quote #1: How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist.
I like this quote because I showed that these charters in this story do not like to give things up that they believe in. it problem extremely hard for them to give something up that they believe so much. In the past they had to give stuff up but now they don’t want to so much any more. I can relate to this sort of because I had a time when I had to give something up that was so close to me but in time I got over it. But at the moment all you want to do is hold on to it.
Question 1: pretend something you liked and cared about just didn’t exist how would that make you feel?
Quote #2:
Page 535 [last page]
How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist.
I think it no right to me when I thought of this quote it like all valentiono want to do id have people her him an here what it is exactly he is trying to say abut how it is there. It’s like him saying I’m telling you the truth about it weather or not you want to hear it.
Question #2
Do you like the way this story ended, and did you like the overall book?
I like this quote because I showed that these charters in this story do not like to give things up that they believe in. it problem extremely hard for them to give something up that they believe so much. In the past they had to give stuff up but now they don’t want to so much any more. I can relate to this sort of because I had a time when I had to give something up that was so close to me but in time I got over it. But at the moment all you want to do is hold on to it.
Question 1: pretend something you liked and cared about just didn’t exist how would that make you feel?
Quote #2:
Page 535 [last page]
How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist.
I think it no right to me when I thought of this quote it like all valentiono want to do id have people her him an here what it is exactly he is trying to say abut how it is there. It’s like him saying I’m telling you the truth about it weather or not you want to hear it.
Question #2
Do you like the way this story ended, and did you like the overall book?
Sunday, March 1, 2009
what is the what post #4
Quote #1
Page 2771
Said by
Was breathing in the smoke? It became so hard to breath in our hut. I would take in little air and would have to cough, but I did it anyway. I kept breathing, and soon I felt weak. I was so tired! I was going to sleep, but I knew it wasn’t sleep. –Said by Moses Page: 271
Deals with number 3 the one that states what was the life/role of the characters in their home country? It talks about there life before they were in America and how bad of a place it was. And how the place was burring down. I think his judgment was good in that he took in little air because I think some people if in that situation would have panic and lose air faster.
Question1 if your home was on fire and you were in his situation how you would react?
Quote #2
They too ate the bird’s whole, their heads and feet and bones.
It also has to do with question 3. It’s sad on how hungry they were there on that the fact that they ate bones and heads just so they could get as much food of it. Lost boys do almost any thing when there hungry. When I talk to some of them that I knew the said they had ate many heads and things that we couldn’t imagine eating. When they got on the plane they had not idea what some foods were and I think its sad on how we get all kinds of luxuries and threes people out there with out them.
Question how would you feel if you were a lost boy? What would be going though you head?
Page 2771
Said by
Was breathing in the smoke? It became so hard to breath in our hut. I would take in little air and would have to cough, but I did it anyway. I kept breathing, and soon I felt weak. I was so tired! I was going to sleep, but I knew it wasn’t sleep. –Said by Moses Page: 271
Deals with number 3 the one that states what was the life/role of the characters in their home country? It talks about there life before they were in America and how bad of a place it was. And how the place was burring down. I think his judgment was good in that he took in little air because I think some people if in that situation would have panic and lose air faster.
Question1 if your home was on fire and you were in his situation how you would react?
Quote #2
They too ate the bird’s whole, their heads and feet and bones.
It also has to do with question 3. It’s sad on how hungry they were there on that the fact that they ate bones and heads just so they could get as much food of it. Lost boys do almost any thing when there hungry. When I talk to some of them that I knew the said they had ate many heads and things that we couldn’t imagine eating. When they got on the plane they had not idea what some foods were and I think its sad on how we get all kinds of luxuries and threes people out there with out them.
Question how would you feel if you were a lost boy? What would be going though you head?
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
what is what post 3
Quote #1
Page 187
Said by Valentino
“In front of me, I saw nothing but boys, some of them bathing in the water. Behind me, there was nothing but darkness and a path.”
When I read his quote I thought here was nothing really but I read it again and made it my quote. The river was a good thing because it was somewhere that they could bathe. And if you think about It when they were doing this there wasn’t much to look forward to but seeing that they could maybe have more things to look o. also because he saw someone he had not seen in such along time.
Question #1 if you had thought one of your friends was dead and then you see them how would you react? Or what would be going though your head at that time?
Quote #2
Page
Said by I don’t member
"Out there everyone is trying to kill each other, and those who don't try to kill each other, god is trying to kill “
I thought that this was a good quote because it shows how dangerous it was out there. Like e everyone is killing or trying to get stuff from people send if your not one of them then they say god try’s to kill you by what I think like limited food and water. Its sad on what is actually happing in other places was here we take it for granted on how good we have it.
Question #2 if you were in hat poison would you try to find your own food or would you be greedy and selfish and try to take someone else’s food?
Page 187
Said by Valentino
“In front of me, I saw nothing but boys, some of them bathing in the water. Behind me, there was nothing but darkness and a path.”
When I read his quote I thought here was nothing really but I read it again and made it my quote. The river was a good thing because it was somewhere that they could bathe. And if you think about It when they were doing this there wasn’t much to look forward to but seeing that they could maybe have more things to look o. also because he saw someone he had not seen in such along time.
Question #1 if you had thought one of your friends was dead and then you see them how would you react? Or what would be going though your head at that time?
Quote #2
Page
Said by I don’t member
"Out there everyone is trying to kill each other, and those who don't try to kill each other, god is trying to kill “
I thought that this was a good quote because it shows how dangerous it was out there. Like e everyone is killing or trying to get stuff from people send if your not one of them then they say god try’s to kill you by what I think like limited food and water. Its sad on what is actually happing in other places was here we take it for granted on how good we have it.
Question #2 if you were in hat poison would you try to find your own food or would you be greedy and selfish and try to take someone else’s food?
Friday, February 20, 2009
what is what post 2
Quote #1
Page 91
Said by narrator
Moses ran and found himself along a fence, without outlet. The horseman bore down and i turned away.
I think its sad how he lost one of his best friends right in front of him. I know its bad but at least he went to a better place. If mosses had not had ran I wonder if he would have been caught and not lived. I think he wouldn’t have because he would have died.
Question #1: if mosses were not to have ran do you think he would have made? And would he have lived?
Quote #2
Page 106
Said by faceless
I told him that I only wanted to get back to Marital Bai.
For what? To be killed? Where do you think I got this? Where do you think I lost my face, stupid boy?"
I think this quote was good because it shows if he had stayed there he wouldn’t have survived. He would have died I think. So he almost had like no choice in away because he could stay and high die or go to America and live his life. If I were in his situation I would go to America to. The guy ran from a battle because it said in book I don’t know if it was smartest but he did it.
Question #2: if you were in his shoes what would you have done.
Page 91
Said by narrator
Moses ran and found himself along a fence, without outlet. The horseman bore down and i turned away.
I think its sad how he lost one of his best friends right in front of him. I know its bad but at least he went to a better place. If mosses had not had ran I wonder if he would have been caught and not lived. I think he wouldn’t have because he would have died.
Question #1: if mosses were not to have ran do you think he would have made? And would he have lived?
Quote #2
Page 106
Said by faceless
I told him that I only wanted to get back to Marital Bai.
For what? To be killed? Where do you think I got this? Where do you think I lost my face, stupid boy?"
I think this quote was good because it shows if he had stayed there he wouldn’t have survived. He would have died I think. So he almost had like no choice in away because he could stay and high die or go to America and live his life. If I were in his situation I would go to America to. The guy ran from a battle because it said in book I don’t know if it was smartest but he did it.
Question #2: if you were in his shoes what would you have done.
Monday, February 16, 2009
what is the what 1`
Quote #1
Page 4
Said by Dave actually more of a thought
"Its strange thing, I realized, but what I think at this moment is that I want to be back in Kakuma. In Kakuma there was no rain, the winds blew nine months of the year, and eighty thousand war refugees from Sudan and elsewhere lived on one meal a day. But this moment, when the women is in y bedroom and the man guarding me with his gun, I want to be in Kakuma refugee camp, where I lived in a hut of plastic and sandbags and owned one pair of pants. I am not sure if there was evil of this kind in Kakuma refugee camp, and I want to return."
It relates to question 4(what challenges have your character faced upon their arrival. A women comes banging on his door saying she needed to call the police because her car had trouble so he letter in but thinking it weird to call police for it. Then a guy comes in to his house with a gun and holding him there. he left Kakuma because of it was bad and wasn’t they best but they had stuff happen that wasnt as bad as that he been robbed but little things becasue valubles there were matress and here he had t.vs and stuff. then he comes here to get a gun pointed at him. if i was in his shoes i would want to be back home in Kakuma refugee camp to.
Question- if you had some one coming into your house and lock them self in your room then some one else comes in with a gun how would you feel?
Quote 2
Page 29
Said by Dave
"Written words are rare in small villages like mine, and it is my right and obligation to send my stories into the world, even if silently, even utterly powerless"
This quote relates to question 6 (how do the characters maintain their cultural ties and their homeland while living in America?) when he was in the small village things went on so now that has out of there he feels he needs to tell the world what was like now that he’s gone. His silent telling is though writing i think. I connected to this when becasue i fell that you should talk about what you journey or changing if you came from some were not so good then you come here.
Question- what dies this quote mean to you?
Page 4
Said by Dave actually more of a thought
"Its strange thing, I realized, but what I think at this moment is that I want to be back in Kakuma. In Kakuma there was no rain, the winds blew nine months of the year, and eighty thousand war refugees from Sudan and elsewhere lived on one meal a day. But this moment, when the women is in y bedroom and the man guarding me with his gun, I want to be in Kakuma refugee camp, where I lived in a hut of plastic and sandbags and owned one pair of pants. I am not sure if there was evil of this kind in Kakuma refugee camp, and I want to return."
It relates to question 4(what challenges have your character faced upon their arrival. A women comes banging on his door saying she needed to call the police because her car had trouble so he letter in but thinking it weird to call police for it. Then a guy comes in to his house with a gun and holding him there. he left Kakuma because of it was bad and wasn’t they best but they had stuff happen that wasnt as bad as that he been robbed but little things becasue valubles there were matress and here he had t.vs and stuff. then he comes here to get a gun pointed at him. if i was in his shoes i would want to be back home in Kakuma refugee camp to.
Question- if you had some one coming into your house and lock them self in your room then some one else comes in with a gun how would you feel?
Quote 2
Page 29
Said by Dave
"Written words are rare in small villages like mine, and it is my right and obligation to send my stories into the world, even if silently, even utterly powerless"
This quote relates to question 6 (how do the characters maintain their cultural ties and their homeland while living in America?) when he was in the small village things went on so now that has out of there he feels he needs to tell the world what was like now that he’s gone. His silent telling is though writing i think. I connected to this when becasue i fell that you should talk about what you journey or changing if you came from some were not so good then you come here.
Question- what dies this quote mean to you?
Friday, February 13, 2009
New Museums
Part 1 from heaven to home:
I think the purpose of this field trip was to show and let us know the history of the Jews and there time that they had here in America. While we were in the exit I learned a lot of things that I have never been told or even knew about before that day. In 1654 the first Jewish people came to America. The first Barbie made was by a Jewish lady named Ruth Handler. . I also learned that in the years 1654-1766 the Jews fought for equality because other feared that if they accepted the Jews they’d have to except everyone else. 23 Jewish adults and kids came first and arrived in Dutch colony New Amsterdam. Many Jews in north were against slavery and many in south agreed with there fellow white citizens. Civil war in 1861 about 7,000 Jews fought for the union and about 3,000 fight for confederacy.
Part 2 children of immigrants
Part A- the photograph that struck me well that I did was a photo of the Walt Disney magnet school in Chicago in 1999. I liked this photo because the school was full of diversity of many races. I could relate because our school high tech middle is like that. Also because many schools outside US have many people who look same and believe in the same and immigrants form other places is what makes us unique.
Part B- the quote I chose what "The greatest thing I hoped for in my life is to become a successful person and to have a family and friends to support me, not to be looked at by the color of my skin but also who I am inside." -Samira Durakovic, Yugoslavia. I chose this quote because she saying she wants her family and friends to support he and for people to see who she is on the inside and not just the color of her skin or how she looks or he religion. Many non-white people or minorities’ probable feel this way to and I chose it because many people could connect and I liked how she worded it in her quote.
I think the purpose of this field trip was to show and let us know the history of the Jews and there time that they had here in America. While we were in the exit I learned a lot of things that I have never been told or even knew about before that day. In 1654 the first Jewish people came to America. The first Barbie made was by a Jewish lady named Ruth Handler. . I also learned that in the years 1654-1766 the Jews fought for equality because other feared that if they accepted the Jews they’d have to except everyone else. 23 Jewish adults and kids came first and arrived in Dutch colony New Amsterdam. Many Jews in north were against slavery and many in south agreed with there fellow white citizens. Civil war in 1861 about 7,000 Jews fought for the union and about 3,000 fight for confederacy.
Part 2 children of immigrants
Part A- the photograph that struck me well that I did was a photo of the Walt Disney magnet school in Chicago in 1999. I liked this photo because the school was full of diversity of many races. I could relate because our school high tech middle is like that. Also because many schools outside US have many people who look same and believe in the same and immigrants form other places is what makes us unique.
Part B- the quote I chose what "The greatest thing I hoped for in my life is to become a successful person and to have a family and friends to support me, not to be looked at by the color of my skin but also who I am inside." -Samira Durakovic, Yugoslavia. I chose this quote because she saying she wants her family and friends to support he and for people to see who she is on the inside and not just the color of her skin or how she looks or he religion. Many non-white people or minorities’ probable feel this way to and I chose it because many people could connect and I liked how she worded it in her quote.
Friday, February 6, 2009
immigration
What is an immigrant?
What I think of an immigrant is a person who moves from another country to some other country were they are not form. The immigrant sometimes for good or some for bad depending on why they go or were they go. There are many reasons people immigrate like many people have a different religion then the one there country focuses on. Also they may because some countries have more money so there cleaner and many don’t have such good educations so they immigrant to a country that does. Wars cause people I think to immigrate a lot because it could be happing write outside were they live. Some times people immigrate but not on there choice like slaves they were bright against there will to work for people because of there color.
What does our country have to offer that other countries may not offer?
Our country can provide good edition to children. They made it the law that a person gas to go to school from the age of 4 years old to I think 17. we have many jobs here and that means if you lived some were else that doesn’t have much money there or jobs you could immigrate here and work or apply for a green card or work visa and work here and you could send money back home to your family. We have our 1st amendment of freedom of speech and freedom of religion so you can believe in your religion here and not be judged on it or be forced to believe in a sestina thing.
How has the US been affected with immigration?
There is so many people her with different ethnicity and religious backgrounds here. We have many different things here that I think wouldn’t be here if people had not have immigrated like all the different restaurants we have you can pretty much get food from almost any were. There is no segregation allowed in the US it is illegal and against the law. They say it isn’t allowed but it still happens. Many families and people come and try to get here so the can live a free life.
How has your life changed due to immigration?
Since every body family had immigrated her I think none of us would exist. If it weren’t for my ancestors immigrating here my parents would not have met and I would not be existing.
What I think of an immigrant is a person who moves from another country to some other country were they are not form. The immigrant sometimes for good or some for bad depending on why they go or were they go. There are many reasons people immigrate like many people have a different religion then the one there country focuses on. Also they may because some countries have more money so there cleaner and many don’t have such good educations so they immigrant to a country that does. Wars cause people I think to immigrate a lot because it could be happing write outside were they live. Some times people immigrate but not on there choice like slaves they were bright against there will to work for people because of there color.
What does our country have to offer that other countries may not offer?
Our country can provide good edition to children. They made it the law that a person gas to go to school from the age of 4 years old to I think 17. we have many jobs here and that means if you lived some were else that doesn’t have much money there or jobs you could immigrate here and work or apply for a green card or work visa and work here and you could send money back home to your family. We have our 1st amendment of freedom of speech and freedom of religion so you can believe in your religion here and not be judged on it or be forced to believe in a sestina thing.
How has the US been affected with immigration?
There is so many people her with different ethnicity and religious backgrounds here. We have many different things here that I think wouldn’t be here if people had not have immigrated like all the different restaurants we have you can pretty much get food from almost any were. There is no segregation allowed in the US it is illegal and against the law. They say it isn’t allowed but it still happens. Many families and people come and try to get here so the can live a free life.
How has your life changed due to immigration?
Since every body family had immigrated her I think none of us would exist. If it weren’t for my ancestors immigrating here my parents would not have met and I would not be existing.
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