Poem for characters in To Kill a Mockingbird

After reading the literature book assigned to us, we did a poem to familiarize with the characters in the story. We did Miss Maudie, Scout's lovely neighbour which had affected her quite a lot in the story.

Miss Maudie

Miss Maudie hated her house,

Time spent indoors

was time wasted.

She was a widow,

A chameloen lady who worked,

in her flower beds.

She loved everything that grew

On God's earth,

even the weeds.

She made the best cakes in the neighbourhood,

She would call across the street :

"Jem Finch! Scott Finch! Charles Baker Harris! Come here!"

Our promptness was always rewarded.

When her house caught fire,

She stared at the smoking

Black hole in the yard,

She deed not seem to want to talk.

But the shadow of her old grin crossed her face.

"You ain't grieving, Miss Maudie?" I asked.

"Grieving, child? I hated that old cow barn"

"Thought of setting fire to it a hundred times to myself."

Jem said he didn't know what was the matter with her,

that was just Miss Maudie.

Done by Akira and me of course

Seaside Description

It is a windy sunset, with lots of coconut tree growing sideways with the tree. The sky is like a painting, from the dark blue to purplish-red, and no sun can be seen. Many coconut trees are to be seen along the shore, tall, short, straight, sideways and many various sizes. It was a calm seashore and there is a hut built near the sea, with a long wooden bridge connecting it to the shore. A few more of these hut are also found further away down the seashore.

Home Learning

By raywen | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

The first comic background is a typical place with a busy road, to make it look like reality. The old woman hopeless expression shows that she couldn't cross the road by herself. This creates a suspense to attract readers.
It continous in the second strip when a little passerby kid saw the situation. This extends the story by making the readers wonder the cabability of the kid in helping the old woman.
In the third comic, both of them crossed the road. with difficulty. This is the climax at no one knows what happened to them and this is one of hte interests.
In the last comic, they had finally crossed the road safely and the old woman thanked the little boy. This is the ending and the whole meaning of the comic is to promote helpfulness in helping the needy.

Summary and Rounding up of "Prejudice"

So after brainstorming and every means of understanding this "chim" word is done, i did a summary and concept map with my group:

1，Prejudice defines people being biased and judging others whom they do not know unfairly.

2，Prejudice is caused by the discrimination of people with different status and race. Prejudice causes misunderstanding among people, forming misconceptions of certain people, like the Europeans towards the ‘black people’, which lead to poor treatment of these people by the people who prejudiced against them. Prejudice leads to discrimination.

3，Prejudice may lead to racial tensions and even cause some undesirable events to happen such as civil wars, riots like the one in Singapore in the 1950s.

4，Prejudgment still occurs in current society, but it is not as serious during the 19th and early 20th century in Europe, possibly because there a clear distinction between people with higher status and commoners or with laws implemented like that in the USA against all the discrimination.

5，Examples of historical happenings and dictation of prejudice include speeches given by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr., and also books like ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’. These examples have described the prejudgment in the society during their times.



Done by Houyu, Boshen, Jerry and me!

Prejudice

Time flies and here we go with another assignment to post on this blog. The Question: What is prejudice? Oh no. My vocabulary is the my WORST thing in english. Prejudice? heard VAGUELY in 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. Lucky for my helpful friends, i somewhat think i know what is it.

What do you KNOW about prejudice:
unfair judgement?
pre - before , judice - justice, prejudice - justice beforehand?
racism?
bias?

What do you WANT to know about prejudice:
everything?
what forms of prejudice are there
able to understand what is the true meaning and how to idntify it
understand how to use it effectively as the theme for essays

After various of brainstorming and teaching, i finally understood what is prejudice
What have I LEARN about prejudice:
an unfair treatment to others, no matter different or not
racism - a form of prejudice
fight, war are consequences for being prejudice

New Year - 2011!

Wow.... time flies and one year of secondary life is gone. Yeah. GONE D: anyways Sec 2 must be better than before, having almost failed English (Phew!) otherwise OK. Now now, almost everything is new, teachers and homework and learning system and everything else which I'm lazy to point out :P We have a new english teacher, Miss Huang. She's quite strict,but not too much which i like because we won't slack and wouldn't hate those teachers that are TOO strict. Hope my english won't fail this time, and i hope everything will be better than 2010!(btw 2012 is next year)