Johnny Tremain Paper By: Jules Woodward When Johnny Tremain was written in 1943, thousands of U.S. servicemen and women had already died in World War II, and unfortunately thousands more would die by the time the war ended in 1945. If the book was published in the middle of World War II, when the United States and Great Britain were allies, why would Esther Forbes release a book about the American Revolution when America and Great Britain were at a disagreement and eventually were at war? I think there are multiple reasons why she could have done this, but the prominent one to me is that one of the messages I saw in this book, was a thought of “Instead of hating Great Britain, remember that we wouldn’t be who we are today without them, even if we did have to break away from them.”
Have you ever thought of yourself as a person who has the guts to do anything, but in reality when it comes time to actually do something you back out of it? In the book Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand Louis “Louie” Zamperini had partaken in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Not long after Louie had competed in the games he had continued on his path to success to join the U.S. Air Forces in 1940, right around when World War II had begun. When Louie and his fellow crew members were flying over the Pacific Ocean in their B-24D Army Air Forces bomber one day in May of 1943, they had crashed into the ocean due to two engine failures. After crashing into the Pacific there were only three survivors; Louie, pilot Lieutenant Russell Allen
1. The process I went through as I created my ABC book was I thought a lot about things I liked that started with each letter in the alphabet. I wrote the letters A to Z on a piece of paper and then thought about something that started with each letter that had something to do with my life and who I am. I also made sure that it was all something appropriate for a young child to read so that I can share it with them to help them get to know me better. I illustrated my book by taking pictures of the things I talked about for each letter in my ABC book.
Have you ever been in the spotlight or felt like you were being followed? Well that’s what Angela and Q feel like in my book I.Q. In I.Q Angela and Q are stepbrother and sister. Angela’s dad Roger is a musician along with Q’s mom Blaze. While traveling the country on tour with their newly wed step parents they run into some friendly faces and some troubling ones along the way.
Day of the locust is a book that was written by Nathanael west, throughout this book you meet some interesting characters such as Homer Simpson the hotel bookkeeper, Faye Greener a seventeen-year-old aspiring actress or Tod Hackett the young newcomer in the film industry in Hollywood. Throughout the story, we get the chance to meet Tod Hatchet, as we know he was a young and aspiring costume designer who was been living in California for 3 months to take a set designing job with National Films in Hollywood after going to the Yale university of Fine Art. We all know about Hollywood or at least have seen what Hollywood is all about fame and fortune, celebrities, etc. But in the case of Tod and his Painting burning Los Angeles we see the other
In the book Hate List by Jennifer Brown, Valerie Leftman is left behind to pick up the pieces after tragedy strikes her own school when her boyfriend Nick opens fire on their school before killing himself. The students at Garvin High struggle to come to terms with the pain and fear that now exists throughout the layers of everything they do. Watching Valerie and her peers has led to an exploration of the acceptance that is needed for the community to fully heal. Throughout the book, it becomes clear that in order for healing to occur all different types of victims must be recognized. There are three main types of victims in Hate List.
Louie Zamperini went through more pain and suffering than most people will ever endure in their entire life. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louis Zamperini was an Olympic runner. He was drafted during World War II . During the war, his plane crashed in the middle of the ocean and he was stranded with little resources to survive. This book follows his incredible story battling starvation and abuse in Prisoner of War camps (POW).
Poor Wemberley worries about everything! And as her first day in kindergarten is quickly approaching, Wemberley is even more worried about starting school for the first time. Wemberley worries about “What if no one else has spots? What if no one else wears stripes? What if no one else brings a doll?
“The wall divides the rich quarter, where the dead get buried in the earth, from the poor quarter, where the dead get stacked up in boxes.” (Pg. 180) To be rich you have to have a lot of money and possession, when you are poor you have little money, possession. The rich have a nice happy ending getting buried in the ground on the other hand the poor have to be stacked up in boxes in the air. Andy Mulligan shows the corruption when the police treat the rich better than the poor. Andy Mulligan also shows divide at the cemetery when the rich and poor bodies are separated, divide is also shown at the police station when the police question Raphael about his education.
In history, there have been many instances where the small choices that were made by everyday people have had a huge effect on their physical and mental surroundings. In the book Everybody Leaves, Wendy Guerra shows us how The smallest changes have the greatest physical, emotional, and social impact on people. In Everyone Leaves, the main character, Nieve, has had major changes in her surroundings due to small incidents. In the book it says,”The verdict came down two hours later. For the next three years, I have to live with my father and his theater group up in the Escambray mountain range, far from the sea and the lagoon.
The trip to Fat Daddy’s Veronica and I got together saturday we decided to go to fat daddy’s. So I called daddy to help us load up the four wheeler , then we left veronica said,”yay.” once we left to go Veronica said, “yay.” once we got there we unloaded. We played for hours and hours.
Everyone should look up to someone. In Wonder by R.J. Palacio, a boy with a deformed face starts going to school at grade five. The boy is August. The Principal picked three students (Jack, Charlotte, and Julian) to be is tour guide because it was his first time going to a real school.
This is the History of the song Santa Claus is Coming to Town My song is Santa Claus is Coming to Town. It was made by John Fredrick Coots and it was also written by haven Gillespie. It was made on the date November 1932. It was first played on the radio by Eddie Cantors in 1934.
Jennifer E. Smith JENNIFER E. SMITH is the author of Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between, The Geography of You and Me, This Is What Happy Looks Like, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Storm Makers, You Are Here, and The Comeback Season. The Storm Makers is her first middle grade novel. She grew up outside of Chicago and graduated from College University. She earned a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and her work has been translated into thirty languages.
We were Liars by E. Lockhart is about a girl named Cadence Sinclair Eastman. Cadence comes from a rich family that thrives on old money. They are the Sinclairs. They are all blonde, tall, and are always dressed to impress. They are held at a high standard.