TKAM Final Journal #9 (Perspective of Atticus) CH 28-31

It's at night and it's very dark on the way to school to go to the play. Cecil Jacobs jumps out of nowhere and scares Jem and Scout. Scout and Cecil wonder around the crowded school visiting a seventh-grade classroom and buying a lot of homemade candy. The play it's about to start and all the kids go to the backstage. Scout falls asleep and she miss her entrance of the play. Scout runs to the stage when the play is over making Judge Taylor and many others to start laughing. The woman in charge of the play was accusing Scout of ruining it. Scout is so embarrass that she and Jem waited at the backstage until every single person who was watching the play left because she was very embarrass.

Scout reached home and Aunt Alexandra goes and calls Dr. Reynolds to come and see how Jem is. Mind while I call Heck Tate telling him that both of my children's had being attack by a guy in the dark while they were coming back home. Aunt Alexandra removes Scout's costume and tells her that Jem is ok and that his only unconscious and that his not dead. Dr. Reynolds arrives and goes into Jem's room. When he came in Scout room he informed Scout that Jem has a broken arm and a bump on his and that he will be all right. Scout goes to Jem's room to see who he is. The man who carried Jem and help Scout Jem was inside the house. He was inside the room and Scout doesn't recognize him. Heck Tate came inside the house and tells me that Bob Ewell is lying down under a tree dead with kitchen knife stuck under his rib.

Scout takes Boo upstairs to say goodnight to Jem and then walks him to his house. He goes inside his house and she never sees him again in her live. For just a moment she imagines the world from his perspective now. She returns home and finds me sitting in Jem's room. I read one of Jem's books to her until she fallen asleep in her bed.

TKAM Journal #8 (Perspective of Scout) CH 25-27

I was playing with a bug, Jem told me not to. I could tell he was growing up. I was about to kill it when Jem stopped me. For some reason I think It had to do with the Tom Robinson case. He made me take it outside. I asked Jem why I couldn’t kill him an he said that it had never done anything to anybody. This is like what Atticus told me about shooting mockingbirds. It was a sad afternoon because Atticus had to break the news to Helen Robinson that Tom Robinson was dead. He was not found guilty yet but he tried to escape from the jail and was shot 17 times. You would think that after a couple the people would stop. I thought that this was like killing a mocking bird because Tom Robinson obviously didn’t do anything wrong. All he did was work for the towns people for free. Even Link Deas would agree. He charged Mayella nothing to work and than shetuned her back on him and he died because of it. No one understood Tom. There were articles written that said that the death of Tom Robinson was like killing a songbird or a mocking bird. Dill left and I missed him very much. He was my fiancé and we were soon to be married.

When School started we started going pass the Boo Radley place. We weren’t afraid anymore though we would just walk by as if it were ms. Rachels or Mis. Maudie Atiksons house. Around a few weeks in we did current events. I was currently unaware of ww2. A boy in my class told the class that there was a man named Hitler in Germany who was a very mean man and was capturing jews and putting them in camps. Our teacher said that Hitler was a bad man and Germany persecuted people and the U.S. didn’t. I was very confused about this. I went and asked Jem about Ms. Gates being a hypocrite. I had heard ms.Gates right when she came out of the courtroom say that it served Tom right. He got really rough with me. I hated when he was mean.

TKAM Journal #5 (Perspective of Jem) CH 13-15

Aunt Alexandra say's that she is going to stay more time with me and Scout to give Scout a feminine influence. Aunt Alexandra is very proud and happy about our family and she spends for time talking about the characteristics of the other families in Maycomb. Aunt Alexandra gives Atticus her opinion that he should make us learn about the subject of out ancestry. He thinks about her opinion and he says yes but the only thing he gats is to Scout cry.

The case of Tom Robinson and the role of Atticus as his defense lawyer make us the objects of whispers and glances whenever we go to the town. Scout asks Atticus what rape is and the subject of us going to Calpurnia's church comes up. Aunt Alexandra then tells Scout that she cannot go back to the church next Sunday because Calpurnia is a bad influence for the kids. Aunt Alexandra tries to convince Atticus to get rid of Calpurnia because they don't need her any more but, Atticus refuses because he thinks that they still need her. Scout gets very angry and attacks me. Atticus brakes up the fight and send us to bed. Scout hears something under her bad and she calls me in her room to see what's under her bed and we discover that Dill is hiding under Scout's bed.

Dill tells his story why he came back and why. He said he run away from his house because his mom and his new dad never pay him any attention at all. He took a train from Meridian to Maycomb Junction fourteen miles away and covered the remaining distance by walking and going at the back of a cotton wagon. When his finish telling us the story I go and tell Atticus that Dill had run away and that he was at Scout room. Atticus tells Scout to go bring more food than just a pan of cold corn bread for Dill because he was very hungry this day. After Dill eats and then we all go to bed to go to sleep. Dill goes to my bed to go to sleep but after 10 minutes he got off my bed and then climbs to Scout's bed to talk about a lot of things.

IMMIGRATION PROJECT REFLECTION

Immigration Project Reflection
The experience that I had with my book was that I got to learn more about immigration and what people had to go through so they could come to the United States. Also how they were treated in their country and the reason why did a lot of people wanted to come to the United States. Well I didn’t had the chance to choice my book because I didn’t had a lot of time. The book that I got was because Ms. Abbassi choice it for me because I ask her if she could of choice it for me and she did. I was happy with the book that I read because I learn a lot of different stuff about immigration. For example why did they all came here and when. The reason that they all came to the United States was because they all thought that they would have a better life and a better future for the children’s. Also there were many other reasons why they all came to the United States. Some came because of a better life, others because of the Gold Rush, and a lot of them because they were getting kill in their country. Something significance that I learn from my group was that they responded really well at my posting. Something that I would of done with my group would of being that we could of meet one day before every post that we had to do because then it would be easily talking to each other first and then posting than just posting in our blogs. I felt really good by reading others and commenting in theirs. Also getting feedback from by group members really help me a lot on the next one that I was going to do. I really like the way that we all read the same book and we were all commenting about the book. I think this was really good because it help me a lot for the next post. I didn’t had any problems with the blogging because all my group members were posting the day that it was due and I never had any problems with the posting either. How I said before I really like the way that we were all reading the same book and commenting each other about the book. I learn how to respond better at different things because as I was doing it every week I was getting better and better at it. Also I learn how to post about something because I was getting feedback from my group members and I was learning how to improve the next posting.

Well I choice the decision of doing a scene that struck me the most because Ms. Abbassi told me that it would be better if I do the scene that struck me the most than the book cover because it would look better. I was going to do a book cover because I thought it would be easily than doing the other things. After I show Ms. Abbassi my sketches she told me that it would be better if I do a scene that struck me the most so I listen to her and I did the scene that struck me the most. I think that there was a connection between my art piece and the book because in the book it said that she dreams that she was a woman warrior and that she was killing a lot of people. I choice the decision to make this scene because I thought it would be better than a lot of different scenes. I feel really good how my painting came out because it shows what really happened in the book. The only thing that I didn’t like about my painting was that the eyes from all my persons that were in my painting didn’t came out how I thought they would because they look like if a little kid did them. I think if I would of change the eyes from all my persons my painting would of come really good because everything else it was really great and I like how I did my painting. What I learn about reflecting my Lit Circle book to an art piece was how specific you can be if you read the book really carefully and you can make a really good job at the art piece because you are just painting what come out of your imagination.

When I was interviewing my participant it good because it was easy for me. Also because I sent him about 20 – 15 questions pert interview. He answer me all of them and some of them he didn’t because he couldn’t remember. My interviews were kind of smooth because sometimes I couldn’t communicate with him because he never answer his phone or he never read my e-mails but, other than that it went really good. I felt really good interviewing him in three different methods because I like how the process went. But the only difficulty that I had was that I never had the change to interview him in person because sometimes he never answer the phone or I had to leave out of town for an emergency. I would like o have that opportunity because I could learn more about him and his family. Also I could learn more about immigration more than I know right now. I only interview him my e-mail and by the phone. In the first interview my participant told me that he got the change to go to three different states when he was small Iran, Australia, and California. He was born in Iran. They went to Australia because they took an airplane to California. They got the airplane from Australia to California because the airplane was too expensive from Iran to California. In the second interview he told me that he immigrated with the rest of his family members. The most impacting thing that I learn about immigration was that they had a hard time trying to immigrate to the United States and that they had really hard lives back in the time because there was slavery. I haven’t had the opportunity to give my gift to my participant because I haven’t had the chance to interview him in person that’s why I haven’t give him my gift. When I interview him I’m going to ask him what he wants. The gift that I have plan to give him is a self-portrait of himself to thank him.

The Woman Warrior #6

Quote #1: “The immigrants could be saying that they were born on the Gold Mountain and have advantages. Sometimes they scorn us for having had it so easy, and sometimes they’re delighted.” I can’t tell how said this but it was on page 238 on paragraph 4.
Significance: I think that this quote is significance because everyone that lives in the Gold Mountain or the United State thinks that they have a lot of advantages even more than the person that are from the Gold Mountain. I also think that they think that there more than the people that are from the United States because their treated the same way as us.
Connection: I have a connection because when I was a younger kid. When I was in elementary school there was a kid that he was an immigrant and he thought that he was more than me because he was treated the same way as me and as my classmates. Set’s I was born in the United States I think that he thought that he was a better person then me.
Question #1: Have you had a person that he thought that he was just like you but he was an immigrant?


Quote #2: “Every woman in the tomato row is sending money home,” my mother says, “to Chinese villages and Mexican villages and Filipinos villages and, now, Vietnamese villages where they speak Chinese too. The woman come to work whether sick or well. I can’t die they say I’m supporting fifty or I’m supporting a hundred. I can’t really tell how said this because it’s confusing for me. On page 239 on paragraph 3.
Significance: I think that this quote is significance because everyone sent money to their families members when their family’s members are very far. They have to do this because sometimes their family’s members don’t have money to pay where they leave and where they are. They sometime do this because they can’t afford something so some of their family’s members need to help them.
Connection: I have a connection to this quote because sometimes my family sent money to our family’s members. Sometime they have to pay some bills and they don’t have money we have to send them some money. I sometimes have to give them some money instead of them giving me money I’m giving them money because they have a lot of bills to pay and they need help to pay them.
Question #2: Have you ever had to help your family by giving them money so that they could pay something?

The Woman Warrior LC #5

Quote #1: "The children’s hung blankets over the cracks in the doorjambs; they stuffed clothes along the bottoms of the doors. “Chinese people are very weird,” they told one another." I can’t really tell who said it. At the middle of the page on page 183
Significance: I think that this quote is very significance because I know that in China they have to do this because there house are very old and very cheap. So they have to do this because they want to have their house very clean. They want to have it really nice so that when people come to visit their house they said that it looks very nice and that they like it.
Connection: I have a connection to this quote and my connection is that when my grandma and my grandpa went to that trip they told me that they had to do kind of the same so that when people come to visit their house they would say that they like it and that I look so nice. They didn’t had a house over there they have to rent so apartments but they have to do the same thing because they had friends over there.
Question #1: Have you ever got to do this to your house? And if you haven’t how would you feel if you had to do it?


Quote #2: “When my second grade class did a play, the whole class went to the auditorium except the Chinese girls. The teacher, Lovely and the Hawiian, should have understood about us, but instead left us behind in the classroom. Our voices were too soft or nonexistent, and our parents never signed anything unnecessary. We opened the door a crack and peeked out, but close it again quickly. One of us (not me) won every spelling bee, though.” Said the author on page 194 on the 2nd paragraph.
Significance: I think that this quote if significance because I a lot of girls in Asia where treated like this. I also think that this quote is significance because there are some girls now in live treated like this and they judge them by their raise and not by the way they are. I think that this thing should disappear because you can’t judge someone by their raise but you have to judge them how they are because that’s the thing that counts.
Connection: I have a connection to this quote because when I came to the U.S they didn’t treated me how I was they treated me by my rise for example they thought I was stupid because I’m Mexican. I really know how it feels when someone treats you by your raise and it feels really bad. I didn’t like it when they treated me by my raise and imaged does girl being treated by their rise for their rest of their life.
Question #2: Have you ever treated different because of your raise? And if you haven’t how would you feel if you were treated different because of your raise?

The Woman Warrior LC #4

Quote #1: “Yes, I can imagine them doing that. But don’t worry. Your son can take care of himself. All your children can take care of themselves.” I can’t tell if who said this because it doesn’t say and it doesn’t look like if the author said it. On page 133 on paragraph 2.
Significance: I think that this quote is significance because in any culture or religion they think that there young children could not take care of them self even if there like 17. They think that they can’t take care of them self because they think that there still young.
Connection: I have a connection to this quote because my mom thinks that I and my little sister can’t take care of each other because we are the younger ones in the family. I think that is time to let the younger ones to take care of them self.
Question #1: Have you never being treated different on your family because you’re the youngest one?

Quote #2: In front of one of the benevolent associations, a literate man was chanting the Gold Mountain News, which was taped to the window. The listening crowd looked at the pictures and said, “Aiaa.” “So this is the United States,” Moon Orchid said. “It certainly looks different from China. I’m glad to see the Americans talk like us.” Said by Moon Orchid on page 157 on paragraph 2.
Significance: I think that this quote is significance because they thought that us the Americans weren’t going to talk there language because where from far away from their land and we speak the same language. They also thought that China was going to look just like China.
Connection: I have a connection to this quote because when my family’s members came to the United States they thought that Mexico was going to look just like Mexico but it doesn’t look anything like Mexico. They also saw that most of the people in the United States talk English and Spanish so it was easy to communicate with the people that speak Spanish easily than the people that speak English.
Question #2: Have you ever thought that the states where someone of your family that was an immigrated to the United States was going to be just like their old country?

The Woman Warrior LC #3

Quote #1: “The danger is not over. The ghost is listening to us right now and tonight it will walk again but stronger. We may not be able to control it if you do not help me finish it off before sundown. This sitting Ghost has many wide black mouths. It is dangerous. It is real. Most ghosts make such brief and gauzy appearances that eyewitnesses doubt their own sightings.” Said the Author, on page 86 & 87 on the bottom of page 86 and on the top of page 87.
Significance: I think that this quote is significance because in any culture in the world any kid is scared in some point of their childhood. Also when you’re really scared of something you start to hearing stuff and imagining things that aren’t really happening but you still see them. I also think that when young you’re really scared of something that scared you the most.
Connection:I have a connection to this quote because when I was 7 – 11 years old I was scare of the dark. I was also scared when my cousins said they saw something and they all run to my room so I had to run too but I was the slowest one so I was really scared when they did that. My biggest thing that I was scare was that in my room my aunt sleeps there one day and the next day she died :(. So my cousins said that they saw her one day so I never sleep in my room ever again. That was my old house in Tijuana.
Question #1: What was the biggest thing that you were scare when you where a young kid? And where was it? How old were you?
Quote #2: “My other has cooked for us raccoons, skunks, hawks, city pigeons, wild ducks, wild geese, black skinned bantams, snakes, garden, snails, turtles, that crawled about the pantry floor and sometimes escaped under refrigerator or stove, catfish, that swam in the bathtub.” Said the Author, on page 106 in the second paragraph
Significance: I think that this quote is significance because in all of the cultures they all eat different form each other. Like for example the Chinese culture they like to eat a lot of animals and they don’t care where they been and where there from. On others cultures they like to eat vegetables and they do care where there food has been and where there food is from.
Connection: I have a connection because when my grandma went to China for the trip. She said that the only food that my grandpa and her eat were the snails, bird, and rats. She said that the worth’s thing that she eat over there was a raccoon because she said that it tasted nasty and its smell so nasty. My family members and I care where our food has been and where it’s from because we can get disease way faster by eating it from the floor or from somewhere else.
Question #2: Would you ever eat one of the foods that they normally eat for the first time if it’s your first time going? And if you go again would you eat the same thing or you would take food from the place that your from?

The Woman Warrior LC #2

Quote #1: “Wherever you go, whatever happens to you, people will know our sacrifice,” my mother said. “And you’ll never forget either. She meant that even if I got killed, the people could use my body as a weapon, but we do not like to talk out loud about dying.” Said the mom, on page 41 in the middle of the page.
Significance: I think that this quote is significance because in some cultures they had to sacrifice their life and there’s family’s life because they didn’t wanted them. Also they killed a lot of people in some cultures because they didn’t need them anymore.
Connection: I have a connection to this quote because when my grandma was young like 23 years she when to Asian for a trip with my grandpa. They used to travel a lot when they were young. She told me a non-fiction story that when they went to Asian they saw how they treat it them and she even saw when two parents where sacrifice so that they wouldn’t do anything to their kids. By reading this quote I now know and feel how my grandma and grandpa felt when they saw does two parents being sacrifice for there children’s.
Question #1: How do you think you would feel if you parents were sacrifice so that they would leave you guys alone, and live for your rest of your life by yourself and your siblings?
Quote #2: “When the baby was two months old, we gave him a name and shaved his head. For the full-month ceremony my husband and found two eggs, which we dyed red by boiling them with a flag. I peeled one and rolled it all over the baby’s head, his eyes, his lips, off his bump of a nose, his cheeks, his dear bald head and fontanel.” Said the author, on page 48 in the middle of the page
Significance: I think that this quote is significance because when their baby is two months old they give them a name for most of the cultures and they also shaved they head. The Asian culture is that they shaved their head, dyed two eggs with the colors red and put them in the baby’s head, eyes, lips, nose, and cheeks. I think that every race or ever person have their own culture.
Connection: This quote connects to me because in my culture we give the baby there name after their born and they give them their name after the two months of birth. We also shaved their head because we want that the new baby have their regular hair because when there born we think that they have fake hair so we cut it so that when it grows it’s not fake no more.
Question #2: Would you do all the stuff that their culture does to their baby’s like dyed two eggs with the colors red and put them in the baby’s head, eyes, lips, nose, and cheeks?

The Woman Warrior LC #1

Quote #1 “Your father and his brothers and your grandfather and his brothers and your aunt's new husband sailed for America, the Golden Mountain.” Said the mom, on page 3 in the middle of paragraph 2
Significance: I think that this quote is significance because all the people and the whole family are going to America. They referred America as the Golden Mountain. I think that there saying that America is everything they could have in life and the America is the best think in life.
Connection: This quote relates to me because all my family members were immigrated here to the U.S. they all came here to have a better life and a better future. They also think that American is the best state to be in because life is easier here.
Question #1: What do you think it would happened is a whole family try to immigrate to another country and they sold everything to come to the country they wanted. And after a few months they were sent back to their country were they come from and they don’t have anything?
Quote #2 “I remember looking at your aunt one day when she and I were dressing I had not noticed before that she had such a protruding melon of a stomach. But I did not think she’s pregnant until she began to look like other pregnant women her shirt pulling and the white tops of her black pants showing. She could not be pregnant you see because her husband had been gone for years. No one said anything. We did not discuss it. In early summer she was ready to have the child long after time when it could have been possible.” Said by the Author, on Page 3 last paragraph
Significance: This quote is significance because all the ladies would make anything so that no one knows that there pregnant. They will eat anything to look there self more fat and people won’t notice. Some ladies would have a baby with another person that is not there husband because they want to forget him.
Connection: I have a cousin that is 18 and she was pregnant and we didn’t knew after she was about to give birth because we thought that she was getting fatter because she was eating a lot of food. She had a boyfriend and her boyfriend went to Mexico because something was wrong with his family. After a year my cousin gave birth and it wasn’t with his boyfriend it was with another guy that she meet a couple of day after her boyfriend left.
Question #2: What would you think if your cousin had a baby with another guy that is not her boyfriend or husband?

Part 1: From Haven to Home

The purpose of going to the exhibit and why it’s there is because they want us to know what happened in the American History and when it starts it. We were supposed to learn about important events and important date from American History. We also had to learn about Jewish people and what they did in life and in American History. What I found interesting in the exhibit was that everyone in America was Anti-Semitic from Jewish people because they didn’t like them. In 1860 during the Civil War there was a man named Isaac Leeser. Isaac Lesser was a traditionalist Hazzan-Minister editor of America first general Jewish newspaper and he help the Jewish people a lot. I also thought that Isaac Lesser was interesting because he help the Jewish people because he was Jewish too. The American Jewry and the Struggle for Freedom and Security was interesting to me because ever since the Dutch West India Company decreed that the Jews of New Amsterdam provide for themselves. And American Jewry has maintained a traditional of providing charitable support for vulnerable members of the Jewish community. I also thought that The Anti-Semitism and World War was interesting because the setting immigration limits in 1924, congress effectively closed the Golden Door to Eastern European Jewish Immigration. The nation’s tendency toward anti-Foreign, anti- Jewish, and anti- Catholic intolerance in the 1920s was reinforced by the world wide Great Depression of the 1930s. I also thought that The Varieties of American Jewish Belief because the Judaism has taken on great variation in America. Its different denotations or branches range from fervent orthodoxy, which stresses scrupulous observance of tradition to Humanistic Judaism which denies the existence of God and believes that human being control their own destiny.