Title: A Long Way Gone Author: Ishmael Beah Page range: 16 Entry #1: “We must strive to be like the moon” In this quote Ishmael Beah, the narrator, is speaking from Khalilou’s house (Ishmael’s friend) in Mattru Jong. Ishmael and his brother Junior were just returning before the rebels attacked their town, Mogbwemo.
Into the Wild Summer Reading Assignment Passage: “April 27th, 1992 Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory.
Done Peyton was done with her homework and decided to go on her laptop and play a game. Don't Maddie said “ don’t tell mom that I got an A+ on my test because I want to tell her. ” Dozen Mason went to the store and bought a dozen of eggs, bacon, bread, sausage, pancake mix, hash browns, oatmeal, and fresh strawberries for breakfast.
strides to quiet the ground under his feet. Fortunately, the leaves were damp from days of rain, lessening the crinkling and crunching of his footsteps. No sooner than Joth got to within fifty-feet of the watchtower, Leutgard, Tolki and the Roman legionary riders appeared to be leaving their meeting place together. As Joth slowed, Arminius caught up and nearly tackling him. “What in the name of the North Gods are you doing?”
Lea Vilna-Santos Mrs. English, 7th September 1st, 2015 The Giver, by: Lois Lowry Entry Log 9: Chapters 17-18: Question 5: I chapters 17-18, The Giver goes back to the memory of the failure-Rosemary, and Jonas finally finds out what happened to her. Rosemary was like Jonas because she was curious and eager to receive more memories. The Giver gave her only good memories in the beginning, which I think was a bad idea because, then, all there is left are bad memories. He loved her and didn’t want to hurt her, but they both knew it was her job to receive all the memories- even the negative ones.
Septimus Warren Smith, a thirty year old shell-shocked World War 1 veteran is lost in his own mind and has detached himself from reality. He believes that he is somehow connected to the tree’s and doesn't want them to be cut down. The motorcar that backfired outside Mulberry’s shop window took Septimus back in time to when he was in the war. He began blaming himself for the traffic the car caused “ It is I who am blocking the way” (Woolf 15), and envisions it bursting into flames. Towards the beginning of the novel, a plane flew by and spelled out the word “Toffee.”
Connector-The Chrysalids The first connection I can make is a text to world connection. The point I would like to relate is how norms and deviations are separated in the book and that can also occur in real life. It is not to the extreme of banning them from the country like how deviations are in Waknuk, but there are several forms of discrimination in the real world. David describes the discrimination of deviations in Waknuk throughout the whole book.
Theme 1.1: Envy. In Knowles’s coming of age book, “A Separate Peace”, there are lots of mishaps that happen and the beginning of these mishaps is when one of his main characters, Gene, starts thinking malicious things about Phineas, his friend. It started out as a small inkling of envy, suddenly later on in the book, it turned into something that resembled a fractious disaster. As the chapters progress, Gene shows the readers his way of thinking towards Phineas, by describing his “unexpected excitement” (27) when Phineas was about to receive a scolding from Mr. Patch-Wither, the substitute headmaster of Devon during the summer session. Surprisingly, when Phineas (aka Finny) further explained why he wore the school tie as a belt,
Three men stood, huddling together on the blazing hot afternoon. They whispered amongst themselves, the discussion bouncing back and forth, debating over a certain topic— revolution. Boxes and crates of resources and weaponry from the French and Indian War surrounded them, covering them from the view of passing citizens of Boston. The cover also served another purpose. A spy by the name of Quintus Kelsey was hidden behind them, listening in on the men’s conversation.
Daniella Karras English I, F Block The Alchemist: Journal #1 Out of 67 intriguing novels that were given as choices, The Alchemist was an easy pick. As I read the back cover of my last few book choices, I came across The Alchemist, and a quote that said: “To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.” Although this quote didn’t do the book justice, it gave me a glimpse of the journey that awaited between my hands.
Ariana Dalmau Mrs. Stevenson Pre AP English II July 13, 2015 1984 Part One, Chapter One Summary An occurrence at work that morning pushes Winston to start writing an illegal diary. “He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this. Were there always these vistas of rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with balks of timber, their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron, their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions?” (Orwell 3)
John Steinbeck believes in the book “of mice and men” that, we as humans cannot comprehend when we don’t feel a sense of lost somewhere in the world, because having this loss gives us an emotional feeling that releases anger and rage on yourself and others. In the introduction “Of Mice and Men” this theme is used a lot when they come running out of Weed. A lots of understanding broke on Lennie's face. “ They run us out of weed,” he exploded triumphantly.
Journal #7 On page 182, Lily thinks to herself, “If August is the red heart on Mary’s chest, Rosaleen is the fist.” Lily believes August has the heart of Mary because she puts everyone before herself. For example, August tells Lily, “If it (the Caribbean Pink House) can lift Mary’s heart like that, I guess she ought to live inside it” (147). August wanted to choose a different color, but what mattered to her more was her little sister, May. August believes that with all the pain and grief May suffers from she deserves to have things that make her happy.
1. With so many bad things going on and the news no being positive, Jews didn’t want to believe any of this in hopes that something good would happen. I know when I heard the news that my grandma had passed away I refused to believe it, in hopes that it wasn’t true. 2. "... our eyes opened, but too late” refers to how people were starting to realize everything Moishe the Beadle was saying was true.
Mice of Men Anticipation Guide Journal The statement “A true friend will tell you the truth even if you don’t want hear it” proves to be true in most circumstances. When a friend is in a situation that is important, a true friend will tell the truth. It may not be the easiest thing to do, because telling the truth could possibly lead to initial feelings of unhappiness or even resentment. But, a true friend’s goal is for their friend to succeed in the long run, not to just be happy in the moment.
