Yep yep! It's friday again :)! I'm having a much better day than I was on Tuesday. I'm excited for the weekend! I'm starting to understand To Kill A Mockingbird a bit more. It's getting easier and I'm catching on! It's actually an OK book! I started a new book. Well, I was reading I have lived a thousand years. But I realized that I already read that book, so I'm reading The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters. It's a really good book. I'm on page like.. 60? Yeah. It's written pretty weird, but I really like it. I suggest it to anyone else.
ANYWAY! Hope you all have a great weekend :).
Friday, March 16, 2007
MAP Testing
Map Testing
This year we as freshman don't have to take the MAP! Sophomores and Juniors do, but Seniors and Freshman don't. Instead of taking the MAP, we will be spending 9 and 1/2 hours over two weeks in Chief Time. My Chief Time is with Ms. Lines, and she is organizing a trip to Campbell 16 to see a movie on one of the days when we have 2.5 hours in Chief Time. But not just our chieft time, the entire freshman class will get to! This hasn't been set in stone yet, but hopefully it will work out.
p.s. MAP week is the week after Spring Break.
Scout Saves The Day
In last nights reading Scout basically saves her dad and Tom Robinson's lives.
The night before the trial for Tom Robinson Atticus goes downtown and tells everyone not to stay up for him because he won't be back until they are all asleep. Jem decides that he wants to go downtown also to see what Atticus is up to. Scout hears him and convinces him that she is going with him. They go get Dill and head to town.
When they get there that see that Atticus is setting outside of the jailhouse reading the newspaper. They began to leave and then see a group of cars stop in front of the jailhouse and a bunch of men get out. They move to a stop where they can see better.
Scout breaks free of Jem's clutch from when he stopped her from running to Atticus earlier. She runs through the mob to Atticus and feels a bit foolish for jumping in the middle of a crowd of men she doesn't know.
Atticus tells Jem to go home and take Dill and Scout with him, but he refuses. While this is all going on Scout tries to recall who the men are. She then recognizes one of them to be Mr. Walter Cunningham. As proper manner taught her, she began to talk to Mr. Cunningham. She was told to always talk about stuff that interest the person she is talking to because it is not polite to talk of stuff that interest you and not the person you are talking to. So, she tell Mr. Cunningham that she goes to school with his son and that he once came home with them to eat dinner. She tells him to tell Walter, Mr. Cunningham's son, that she says hi.
Scout was not getting any response, so she hit another subject. She began to talk about his entailment's and how they are bad and all, but that her dad said not to worry and that they could work things out.
No one talked and Scout began to think what she had done wrong, until Mr. Cunningham grab her shoulders and said that he would tell Walter that she said hi. Then the mob of Cunningham's left and went home.
Even though Scout was just a child, she saved the day, and was very brave jumping into the mob. I really do not think that Scout intended to get the guys to leave, I think she was just doing what she was brought up being told to do when she saw someone she knew. I think it is amazing how a kid can perform a heroic act without even knowing it.
The night before the trial for Tom Robinson Atticus goes downtown and tells everyone not to stay up for him because he won't be back until they are all asleep. Jem decides that he wants to go downtown also to see what Atticus is up to. Scout hears him and convinces him that she is going with him. They go get Dill and head to town.
When they get there that see that Atticus is setting outside of the jailhouse reading the newspaper. They began to leave and then see a group of cars stop in front of the jailhouse and a bunch of men get out. They move to a stop where they can see better.
Scout breaks free of Jem's clutch from when he stopped her from running to Atticus earlier. She runs through the mob to Atticus and feels a bit foolish for jumping in the middle of a crowd of men she doesn't know.
Atticus tells Jem to go home and take Dill and Scout with him, but he refuses. While this is all going on Scout tries to recall who the men are. She then recognizes one of them to be Mr. Walter Cunningham. As proper manner taught her, she began to talk to Mr. Cunningham. She was told to always talk about stuff that interest the person she is talking to because it is not polite to talk of stuff that interest you and not the person you are talking to. So, she tell Mr. Cunningham that she goes to school with his son and that he once came home with them to eat dinner. She tells him to tell Walter, Mr. Cunningham's son, that she says hi.
Scout was not getting any response, so she hit another subject. She began to talk about his entailment's and how they are bad and all, but that her dad said not to worry and that they could work things out.
No one talked and Scout began to think what she had done wrong, until Mr. Cunningham grab her shoulders and said that he would tell Walter that she said hi. Then the mob of Cunningham's left and went home.
Even though Scout was just a child, she saved the day, and was very brave jumping into the mob. I really do not think that Scout intended to get the guys to leave, I think she was just doing what she was brought up being told to do when she saw someone she knew. I think it is amazing how a kid can perform a heroic act without even knowing it.
SAINT PATRICKS DAY!!!!!!
I don't know about you but I'm pretty excited about Saint Patrick's Day.
My family is very into the Irish traditions and what not, so tomorrow all of my family is going to my grandma's house and we going to cook tons of Irish based food! =)
Saint Patrick's day used to be a lot better when i lived in California because, i have more family their and hardly any here. :[
This is one of my favorite holidays!
I hope all of you do something fun for tomorrow.
If you have anything planned you should tell me about it. =)
p.s. DON'T FORGET TO WEAR YOUR GREEN!!!!!!!!!
be safe! =]
i didn't think mockingbird would be funny
When i first started reading Mockingbird i didnt see it coming but there were actully some parts of the book that i was LOL-ing. =]
I was like wow.
haha.
Did you guys find any parts of the book funny???
I was like wow.
haha.
Did you guys find any parts of the book funny???
Puerto Rico
I'm surprised no one has blogged about our stories. I'm making my story about Puerto Rico. I was going to make a story like something that happened there but i decided to just talk about it and my experiences there. I'm kinda behind on it because i missed the day that you guys wrote in class about it, and i left it at my house today but pretty much it says how i hated moving there at first, and thought it was the worst thing ever and for a little while it was. I couldn't stand it and was seriously thinking about moving back to Springfield and living with some other relatives. That was at the end of 6th grade.
Then in 7th grade it got a little better and i began to understand the language and knew my way around and the people. Then 8th grade year came and that was my best year of my life!! i loved it and ended up being extremely sad to leave. I guess the moral of this story is give everything a chance and try to make the best our situations. Because if you dont try to make friends and don't try to learn the language and the culture you not only have a bad time, people don't respect you as much. You might sound like a total idiot talking in spanish but they respect you for trying.
I still keep in touch will all of my friends there. I'm actually going to see them on Spring break and some of my best best friends live there. It was a great experience and so glad i didnt move back to springfield early!!! :):)
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