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        The characters I chose that relate to each other are Scout’s Uncle Jack and Aunt Alexandra. Although they don’t share many similarities, One similarity they each share with each other is that they want to change Scout. In chapter 9 there is a quote that states, “She didn’t like the way I dressed in overalls and that I couldn’t possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches. Aunt Alexandra’s vision of me involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born” (81). This quote alone shows that Aunt Alexandra wants Scout to act more like a lady and it’s stated somewhere later in the chapter that she doesn’t agree with Atticus’s way of raising Scout. Uncle Jack doesn’t want to change Scout exactly the same way that Aunt Alexandra does but there is correlation between the two. Hey says, “I’ll be here a week, and I don’t want to hear any words like that while I’m here. Scout, you’ll get in trouble if you go a...

(This is the photo I used as the setting of Maycomb.) One of the quickest observations I made was the large sign in the middle of the photo. Religion is a very big part of the lives of the people who live in Maycomb as shown in the quote “In the long hours of church—was it then I learned?” Or “She would set me a writing task by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top of a tablet, then copying out a chapter of the Bible beneath.” Both of the quotes show how much church and the Bible mean to Maycomb and the sign referring to God is something I believe that Maycomb would have. One of the other biggest observations were the fences. In the book it mentions Maycomb has many farmers and I think that there would be several fences to contain their crops and/or animals. One quote says “As Maycomb was a farm country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and dentists and lawyers.” Which means that most of Maycomb is farmers and it wouldn’t be unlikely that they had danc...

    My quarter two has been a little rickety, there was a LOT of drama between friends that I got caught in the middle of and tried to deal with accordingly. Despite the drama there were many things that made me happy and proud of myself. I’m sure hearing my drama would be so much more entertaining than talking about my accomplishments in ELA but in life we don’t always get what we want.    I guess I’ll start with something that I improved upon so my mom doesn’t say “You need to focus on the positive things in your life instead of the negative things.” Don’t get me wrong, I love my mom but she can just be a little overbearing. Okay, let’s get started. I think one thing that I improved on was my reading skills. I went up around 12 points in my Reading MAP test and I was really proud of myself. I often think of the reason why I was placed in my Excellerated ELA class if there are smarter people than me that aren’t in ELA. Why was I chosen over them if they’re smarte...

      In ELA we recently did our Holocaust unit. After finishing a memoir written by a Holocaust survivor we watched a movie titled  Life is Beautiful . You might be wondering how life could be beautiful if he movie was about the Holocaust, even watching the first 30 minutes of the movie you would have no idea that it was focused around the Holocaust. Although the basis of the movie is based on the Holocaust it seems to portray time and time again how life is beautiful even in terrible times like the Holocaust.       The first sign you would see is falling in love. Less than 10 minutes into the movie Guido, the main, meets Dora, the “lover”.  Despite them only seeing once he persisted to find her and go out with her on a date. You can tell Dora also wants to see Guido again but, unfortunately at the time she is engaged to a man that Guido has wronged. One of the times Guido sees Dora again is when she is to be married and I believe they were at...

There were a lot of ways Elie changed throughout Night. The most obvious change was his religion. From the beginning of the book it is very evident that Elie is very religious, on the fifth page it says “Together we would read, over and over again, the same page of zohar. Not to learn it by heart but to discover but to discover within the very essence of divinity. And in the course of those evenings I became convince the Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity, into that time when question and answer would become ONE.” Those few sentences alone show how fixed he is on learning his religion and practicing it. Later in the book it is shown on page 67 that he is starting to lose his faith, it says “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because HE caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created A...

    I believe that my first quarter in seventh grade went fairly well over all, but I’m not here to talk about all my classes but one in general. Can you guess? Ha... what other class than ELA would I be discussing? I’ll start boring you by jumping right in because I want to get this over with! The first question I’ll be covering is “What we’re some struggles you had first quarter in ELA?” Well... since you asked, for the most part I think I did a pretty good job, but if I had to talk about what struggles I had I’d definitely put... understanding. There were a lot of times where I was faced with a question and I didn’t know the answer and I was really confused, I’d sit at my seat thinking of what the question meant or how to answer it and eventually class would end and I’d have to do it for homework. Sometimes the questions would be spur of the moment and I’d have to rely on my table mates for the answer, of course I am fine with admitting that I don’t know something but when ...