Nightjohn was a book about a slave girl living in a hut on a plantation. At first, sonya was describing her life living on the plantation and how rough she had it with the beatings and the mal nutrition. Then a new guy named Nightjohn came to living on the plantation, and sonya described how terrible skin he had from whippings and dogs. Throughout the book, sonya would trade nightjohn some tabacco in exchange for a letter of the alphabet. Each letter she got, made her more excited when it came to learning how to read and write. As the story went on, people living in sonyas hut would be beaten and even killed and she would describe the pain they went through, and when her mom found out that nightjohn had been teaching her letters, she got really mad because black people in her time were not supposed to know that. so she asked what he was doing here and he explained how he was free in the north for a while and finally came back to the south so he could go to different plantations and teach them how to read and write.
Malcom X was about a awkward black boy that grew up in michigan. In the first part of the book, malcom had been giving up on himself saying that he was jealous of his brother in boxing and he was too awkward to box. So he decided to act out for attention, and as that plan went south, his parents sent him to a reform school in Alma michigan where he felt that he could really fit in. even though he was one of two black people there, he was top of the class in most to all of classes and was even elected as the class president. Then finally when his teacher asked him what he wanted to be, he said that he wanted to be a lawyer. This didnt sit well with the teacher and his teacher explained that he should set realistic goals for himself that dont have being black as a restriction. I think that if his teacher had supported his decision in becoming a lawyer, he would hae been successful and became a good lawyer.
One way the the Great Debaters was like the book Nightjohn was that both the main characters had seen a negroe being lynched. In the movie, they were driving through texas on their way to a debate when they drove past a negroe that had been tied up and burned at the stake. In the book it had happened more often and sonya saw a young women get whipped while chained to a wall. one way that the two are different is that in the movie, they lived free in the northern part of the US. On the otherhand, sonya lived on a plantation somewhere in the southern part of the US where she wasnt free. One thing similar about the movie and Malcom X is that both samantha and Malcom wanted to be lawyers, but this was also the one contrast. This is because samantha brooks actually became a lawyer and malcom didnt.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
soo far so good
like the title, my 2nd nine weeks is just gliding by right now. Math is easy, science is cake, and even speech is really easy right now. Lets just say ive been counting down the days until christmas break and i gotta say, ITS UNDER 20 DAYS!!!! so yeah im just gonna work hard to end this year (2010) off positivly. This weekends been kind of weird for me though like on friday, i went down to OSU campus with the family for a chili cookoff haha. I gotta say, the people there really dont have trouble when it comes to making good chili. So with a bellah full of chili, i went to bed around midnight and got up around 10 the next morning and said goodbye to my grandparents that left and just chilled for awhile. at around 3:30, i went to my church for youthgroup until 11 which consisted of games, fort rapids for 2 hours, gameworks for 2 hours, and cicis so i had a good night. As for today, i went back to church and we finished off the fall fling (thats what it was called) and i went home and took a 3 hour nap. So overall ive had a pretty fair but weird weekend. I actually just got done creating a christmas list my parents kept bugging me about, which consisted of the basics; games, clothes, and cash <---- ALL I NEED. so yeah... To wrap it all up, Im looking foward to christmas break, ate alot of chili, and is breezing through school. Well goodnight blog, ill see u next week after only 2 DAYS OF SCHOOL!!!! aww yeaahhh, cabs are here.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
What the heck?
Stress out time...... Anybody else with me when i say that Mrs. Oquinn giving us 4 days to complete a research speech is a terrible thing to do to someones school life? i mean, mr. potter gave us around a month to complete a research paper and now i have to do one due tomorrow. Hopefully the sub was mistaken last friday and that our works cited, final outline, and entire speech is not due tomorrow because we had only been working on this for 4 days! yeah this definatly strikes my mental capacity pretty hard because this speech is the first 2nd 9 weeks grade :(. just wish me luck :(. now onto english. the 12 angry men play isnt bad probably because i get to speak as the amazing 10th juror, but i already know the boy is not guilty. This is because mr. potter obviosly gave out the answer when we were just starting the book and he said "i still think hes guilty and ive read it like 20 times" that just screams NON GUILTY, but its still fun to read based on the in depth argument im having with my class mates. Now onto music, so my guitar lessons are done :( so ive just been playing acoustic while learning Into the Night by Santana and Chad Kroeger. its a pretty good song and gets stuck in your head pretty easily. Black ops comes out on tuesday! sounds nerdy? IDK! cuz it cost me 67 bucks so im not gonna stop playing it next weekend when i go to my dads house! based on MW2, this one must be better because the last cod game got old real fast, basically the online portion of mw2 was all about "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer" but they said they fixed that problem, so we will see about that. now im debating on starting ym speech, its just extremely overwhelming that i literally might just not do it right now. who knows, mabye ill get a good start on my speech due TOMORROW....... somebody help me
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