New Year New Me (2nd quarter reflection)

Blog For week 1-22-16
Prompt:


          I think that one of the  biggest improvements I made throughout quarter 2 would have to be doing good on vocabulary tests. I think that I've made a bug improvement in this section because so far I've received only threes and fours meaning that if it were to be a letter grade it would probably be a B. I think that I also improved in this section because I've been using good studying strategies which possibly will be able to aid me in the future.

          Something that I have accomplished that I am very proud of is having the courage to take a placement test at Nazareth. I am very proud of this because before I was very nervous because I had never taken a test so hard however all of the practice test have he helped prepare me in ways I didn't think it could. I think I did good on the test which I am very proud of because of all the practicing.

            I think that the most challenging part of 2nd quarter has been keeping up with the To Kill A Mockingbird readings. I think this because at times it was really hard to keep on reading so many pages everyday. I did keep up with the readings however it was tiring at times but I kept up so I'm proud of that. In conclusion I think that to prevent getting tired I will start reading more pages everyday.

1-19-16
Book: To Kill A MockingBird 
Pages read: Beginning to End

         I think one of the biggest differences between the written and movie version of To Kill A Mockingbird is how Aunt Alexandra isn't in the movie. In the book Aunt Alexandra plays a huge role as basically Scout and Jem's mother. The children at first don't like her however soon begin to like her and see her ways. In the movie Miss Maudie takes Aunt Alexandra's place and takes that role as a mother possibly because the movie producers didn't find her role that important however she is important. In the book Aunt Alexandra teaches Scout to be a bit more feminism and teaches Scout to be more ladylike. In the movie Scout doesn't have aunt Alexandra there so she never learns this lesson meaning that Scout could have never been taught how to be lady like which could have changed her life.

          I think that the purpose of them having multiple versions of To Kill A Mockingbird is to get the strong story out more. In the movie "To Kill A Mockingbird" the children don't really interact with black people as much as they do in the book. When the children go with their father to go tell Hellen about how Atticus will be taking up the case Bob Ewell comes out of nowhere and stares at the children in the car and they zoom on his face etc. This is the first time the children interact with Boo Radley and black people which is huge! The children interact with Black people in the book when they go to the church with Calpurnia which is pretty important because they get to see a different side of racism coming from a black person.