FINAL PROJECT YOUTUBE LINK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tppg-mZN3sk&feature=youtu.be

What my portfolio says about me:

What my portfolio says about me:

My portfolio reflexes my learning this year.  Eighth grade has been a tough year. However I am very grateful for having such great teachers.

My knowledge and hunger for learning has grown this year. I think we are all at an age where we really have no motivation to get up in the morning. However I am glad to say we’ve made it. I am nervous yet exited for next year and the four years of high school to come.

In my portfolio you can get to know, me, my passions, my favorite subjects and my work. This year we did so many assignments using the latest technology. We made countless videos. We were also introduced to new tech tools (see examples in my portfolio). I hope you guys enjoy.

- SLS 

non fiction novel project may 2012 Little Bee

1.0-1.5 DEFINE:

1. Teather: a rope or chain that’s prevents an animal to move.

2. Placid: calm and peaceful

3.  Gouge: a chisel like tool with a cylindrical blade.

4.  Solemn: grave

5. Ogling: to look at in a flirty way.

6.  Asylum: a place where ill or people with needs go.

7.  Queue: braided hair worn hanging behind

8.  Impeccable: flawless, perfect

9.  Sorcerers: evil, supernatural powers

10. Cobbled: to mend, put back together

11. Smiting: to hit hard

12. Linoleum: hard, washable, floor covering

13. Foe: enemy or opponent

14. Acolytes: somebody following the celebration

15. Henchmen: Flunky, criminal

16. Recrimination: accusation in response to one from someone else

17. Insatiable:  appetite or desire, impossible to satisfy

18. Threshold:  Piece of wood or stone that you put under the door

19. Bystanders: A person who is present but not involved (passerby)

20. Insomniac: No sleep

21. Cipralex:  a drug used for depression

22. Fester: Unhealthy, decay

23. Bureaucracy: system of organization and administration

24. Concave: going inward

25. Solicitor: lawyer who addresses matters of law with clients

2.0

Pg. 91: In the mirror my green eyes were peaceful (placid).

Pg. 91: So I drilled (gouged) my thumb into the skin beneath my lashes.

Pg. 9:  This small plastic bag is what I was holding in my hand when the detention officer told me to go and stand in the tangled line (queue) for the telephone.

Pg. 9: One has to go through a very great number  of charity boxes, you will understand, to put together an outfit that is truly an (ensemble).

Pg. 21: My son and I lived with consequences- a houseful of celebrations (acolytes), criminals (henchmen) and stooges, flirting with (ogling) us from behind the sofa, cackling darkly in the thin gap beside the bookcase, and generally bursting out at us willy-nilly.

Pg. 24: He gave the vicar a dead (solemn) thumbs up.

Pg. 13: You are like evilly powerful (sorcerers) and you gave made your language as safe as money.

Pg. 18: The headline on the new page said: Ill (Asylum) Seekers Eating Our Swans.

Pg. 19: I heard his chair scrape on the hard (linoleum) floor.

Pg. 24: The amputation was flawless (impeccable).

Pg. 168: Shock, then accusations (recrimination), and then two years of Andrews deepening depression.

Pg. 170: Lawrence grinned, but then hesitated on the stop (threshold). 

Pg. 171: I think one of those innocent extra (bystanders) you see in the back round of the comics.

Pg. 172:  Andrew was wondering around the house on his can’t-go-to-sleep (insomniac) nights.

Pg. 172:  the only thing keeping my husband going was six Amaretto biscuits and one tablet of anti-depressant (Cipralex) a day.

Pg. 172:  I’ve spent two years denying what happened on that beach. Ignoring it, letting in infect (fester).

Pg. 173: You’ll get dragged down by the government (bureaucracy), and they’ll send her home away.

Pg. 175: The ramp (concave) of Lawrence’s back.

Pg. 176: I’ll need to find her a lawyer (solicitor), and start an appeal procedure.

Pg. 81: I had been chained (teathered) to the detention center for two years.

Pg. 23: I went to Nigeria in hope to mend (cobble) my marriage.

Pg. 21: If it wasn’t Mr. Freeze with his dastardly ice rays, the it was the Penguin-Batman’s enemy (foe).

Pg. 169: His lips wobbled and his face went red and he howled, abandoning himself utterly to grief in that way only infants and super heroes have-that way that knows misery is bottomless and unsatisfying (insatiable).

 2.5

Negative/ harmful:

·      Solemn

·      Teather

·      Asylum

·      Sorcerers

·      Smiting

·      Foe

·      Henchmen

·      Recrimination

·      Cipralex

·      Fester

·      Concave

Positive:

·      Placid

·      Ogling

·      Impeccable

·      Cobble

·       

Having to do with the law:

·      Henchmen

·      Recrimination

·      Bureaucracy

·      Solicitor

Tools

·      Teather

·      Placid

·      Gouge

·      Linoleum

·      Threshold

Medical:

·      Cipralex

·      Fester

·      Insomniac

Vanity/ Beauty:

·      Ogling

·      Queue

·      Impeccable

Amazon Book review: Ruff copy

Little Bee

This quarter we were assigned to read a non-fiction book. To honestly say I wasn’t too happy. I tend to stay away from non-fiction. But to my surprise I ended up really enjoying it. This book is anything from placid. It’s about an African girl named Little Bee. She is driven out of her festering country, by the sorcerers who control it.  She makes a journey to the impeccable country of England. Where she meets up with some old friends.

Surprisingly enough I did like this book. On a scale from one to ten I would honestly give it a seven.  Very good life lessons are shown in this book. You can see how life can concave from one second to another, it shows you how not to be a bystander in life, to cobble a relationship, or too even make peace with your foe. But the most important lesson of all is how to acolyte life to it’s fullest, because you never know how much time you have left with the people you love.

This book will leave you insomniac. You’ll be so teathered to it; that you won’t want to put it down. I recommend this book for sixteen-year-old kids and up. It’s a little overwhelming but its still an impeccable book. The story line is queued together, so you really have to have patience to understand it.

3.0

PARTNER: JULIANA LABORDE

1.0- check, all good

1.5- add more to your definitions. Don’t make them be just one word

2.0- fix punctuation, capitalization and spelling errors

2.5- perfect

3.0- try using transitional words to polish it up, I really liked your review you gave details but, you didn't give it away, also you had a really good use of the words and the paragraphs flowed nicely. You have some grammar mistakes but, over all your review is great.

Little Bee: IMPROVED

This quarter we were assigned to read a non-fiction book. To honestly say I wasn’t too happy. I tend to stay away from non-fiction. However I really ended up really enjoying it. This book is anything from placid. It’s about an African girl named Little Bee. She is driven out of her festering country, by the sorcerers who control it.  She makes a journey to the impeccable country of England. Where she meets up with some old friends.

Surprisingly enough I did like this book. On a scale from one to ten I would honestly give it a seven. Yet, very good life lessons are shown in this book. You can see how life can concave from one second to another, it shows you how not to be a bystander in life, to cobble a relationship, or too even make peace with your foe.

However the most important lesson of all is how to acolyte life to it’s fullest, because on the other hand you never know how much time you have left with the people you love.

This book will leave you insomniac. You’ll be so teathered to it; that you won’t want to put it down. I recommend this book for sixteen-year-old kids and up. It’s a little overwhelming even though its an impeccable book. The story line is queued together, although if you be patented you’ll end up loving it. 

Peers questions: SCHOOL REDESIGN

Peers questions:

How is this different from a pre ap

How will the kids benefit

Will the kids feel bad or compared?

Will it make them like PE less?

If kids with a low physical status are in a regular class wont they advance more?

Awnsers:

This isn’t an AP course. These are many levels of physical education. Everybody has a different physical state. Kids should not be put in one Physical Education class.

Both kids with a low or high physical status could inprove. For example kids with a low physical status could feel comfortable. And kids with a high physical state would have a bigger field to do what they like and what they are good at with ot being held back.

Yes. Kids could feel compared but at the same time they are improving there exercising skills.

It will actually make them like PE more. They are getting to do things they actually can do and feel comfortable with.

No. Taking a kid and putting them into an environment they can not handle will make them feel 1. Uncomfortable. 2. Low self esteem. 3. They are not going to advance and 4. Will be held back; therefore a lower grade. 

SCRIPT

SCRIPT: school redesign

·      Have you ever thought about what is wrong with our school system?

·      Have you ever thought that we are all different?

·      Well we are.

·      So why are we all treated the same?

·      We believe that classes should be divided by your brain capacity.

·      Kids can learn, achieve and advance more using this theory.

·       INTERVIEWS:

·      Mr. Hickey

·      Dr. Imholt

·      Mr. laughfgy

·      Ms. shawn

·      1, 6^th grader

·      1, 7^th grader

·      1, 8^th grader

Step 1. Read them our theory

Step 2. Do they agree with our theory

Step 3. Why? 

portfolio

http://dolce-vida.weebly.com/

ATHENS vs. SPARTA "FAVOIRTE PIECE OF WORK"

Sophie Steckerl

December 12, 2011

Period 1

November Discussion Board

(Topic #2)

     Education and good citizenship was essential in Ancient Athens. It left us with a clear image of what it means to be and educated person, and our ultimate goals of education. Until the age of six/seven, most children were raised at home by their mothers or by a trained housekeeper, (slaves, who specialized in teaching kids, where better known as gogos). Gogos’ would teach children manners, moral beliefs and what to expect when they leave their mothers nest. Greek myths and legends where incorporated into the child’s learning. Girls had a scarce need for education; on the other hand every Athenian father had the right to raise their boy as they pleased. He could either teach his son himself or he could pay someone to do so.

     When a young Spartan reached the age of seven, they were taken over by the state. The state rightfully owned him until the day he die. At the age of sixteen they were put into a secret police agency. The Spartans where more of a military-based society; compared to the Greek way of life.

     Conformity and discipline was strictly enforced in Sparta. In Athens, great philosophers influenced the society like Pericles, Plato etc. Both systems have their pros and cons. The children of Athens depend on the decisions of their parents. The children of Sparta depend on the state, which means they don’t have free will.

     The Colombian education system consists of nursery school, elementary school, high school, technical instruction and a university education. A typical Colombian student studies around 14 years and attempts to go to college. A typical school year runs from February to November. In Colombia 1.8 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 do not attend school. 

book reviews

hints:
favorite character
quotes
favorite parts
theme or something you've learned
how did the book make you feel
recommend the book PLUS audience

person or company who originally owned the picture
link to picture
copy the copy right

school manufact.: needs

- children would be at ease with there level of learning
-  kids who try in school still get low grades bc they are not being grouped by there ability
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WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE GAIN- MOTIVATION!
teachers: work with kids that have the same mental capacity
students: they would feel "at home" would be at their EXACT level
parents: see their children being challenged
principal: see improvement in their students

1. its easier on teacher
2. kids can achieve more
3. there should be a test to group kids
4. show principals the statistics why kids should be grouped
5. and how we would do it

favorite piece of writing

Sophie Steckerl

December 12, 2011

Period 1

November Discussion Board

(Topic #2)

     Education and good citizenship evolved in ancient Athens. It left us with a clear image of what it means to be and educated person and our ultimate goals of education. Until the age of six or seven, most children were raised at home by their mothers or by a trained housekeeper (slaves, or better known as gogos). They would teach them manners (educate), moral beliefs and what to expect when they leave their mothers nest. Greek myths and legends where incorporated into the child’s learning. Girls had a scarce need for education; on the other hand every Athenian father had the right to raise their boy as they pleased. He could either teach his son himself or he could pay slaves to do so.

     When a young Spartan reached the age of seven, they were taken over by the state. The sate rightfully owned him until the day he died. At the age of 16 they were put into a secret police agency. The Spartans where more of a military-based society compared to the Greek way of life.

     Conformity and discipline was strictly enforced in Sparta. In Athens its great philosophers influenced the society: Pericles, Plato etc. Both systems have their pros and cons, given the children of Athens depend on the decision of their parents. The children of Sparta depend on the state, which means they don’t have free will.

     The Colombian education system consists of nursery school, elementary school, high school, technical instruction and a university education. A typical Colombian student studies around 11 years and attempts to go to college. 

LINK TO POPPLET

http://popplet.com/app/#/293499

big issue: include to our research

Changes

Obstacles

How is it different from ap

How do you decide on there abilities?

Competition 

MY PASSION:

MY PASSION:

My world revolves around a couple of things: fashion, photography, food and love. Ever since I was little I’ve always had a passion for clothes. There is something about walking out of the house knowing you look good in what you’re wearing. Over the years you start to discover your own style, how you want to present yourself, but also how you want people to see you. I would say my style is different. I like to say I’m “high fashion”.  I try to incorporate unique pieces into my daily wardrobe.

Photography comes naturally to me. I taught myself how to use a camera. I think photography at this moment in time in just a hobby; but when I get older I will appreciate the pictures I took. A picture freezes a moment and it takes you back to that moment. Food is probably my biggest passion. I could eat all day. Tasting new foods is an experience for me; but eating my favorite foods is a like a high. When I’m older I would love to run a restaurant/bar. I would party all night and eat all day. My last passion in: love. Love for you family, friends, partner, life, even the love for yourself. I don’t know how to explain how much I love, love. But to keep it simple, I guess love is the closest thing we have to magic. 

digital presentation

Seven elements digital presentation

Point of view: from where somebody looks at the situation

Dramatic question: BIG ISSUE,

Make me care: make viewer’s care, feelings, memories

VOICE: personality YOU

The soundtrack: change it up, emotion NOT JUST TALKING, variety

Economy: brief, fast moving, 3 minutes, straight to the point

Pacing: rhythm, tempo, and rate KEEP IT SIMPLE, even it out 

my favorite thing in each subject

 Elective:

My favorite elective has always been art. This year we learned about famous artist. Once we watched a documentary on their life and did more research about them; we had to paint them. Ever since I was a little girl I’ve been fascinated be Fri Decalos work. Living in El Paso Texas, which is in between Texas and New Mexico, you could see her work everywhere. I learned about her love for art, the accident that impacted her life, her struggling relationship with her husband and much more. I believe portrait that I painted in the picture below came out beautifully, but then again, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Sociales:

In sociales you touch very important topics. Not only about Colombian history but what is happening to Colombia today. Something that touches my heart very deeply are the soldiers who risk their lives fighting for their country. Now-a-day, Colombia has an ongoing war with the terrorist groups (also known as the FARC). These groups specialize in kidnap, terrorist attacks, drug dealing and much more. The only way we maintain our security is because of these soldiers.  So Mr. Amaya came up with an idea of sending them canned food. I learned the living conditions of the army, what they go through every day, and how to give back.

English:

Books:

It’s Not Summer Without You

Tan Lines

Beach Blondes

Spring Break

The Break Up Bible

The Uglies

The Help

Little Bee

At the begging of the year we were assigned a project about the book we read over the summer. That’s summer I read three books, but my favorite was Beach Blondes. We were assigned to make a video. I told Ms. Shawn about my passion of photography. So instead of video clips I put pictures I had taken. I got to show, not only my teacher, but also my classmates my love of photography. I learned how to thourally work with iphoto and imovie.

BIG ISSUE: SCHOOL MANUFACTURING

how I've changed this year

I believe I've changed this year not only as a person but also as a student. I've learned that everything I do today, makes a change in the future! As you grow older you begin to understand the word: responsibility. When you have the privilege to study at such an alight school, you have to get out the best of it. 

I've learned to really make an effort on my work! As cheesy as it sounds I've learned to really give a hundred percent and try my best. Another mile stone is how I've learned to work in groups. I've always been a very controlling person, I always like things done my way. Working in groups teaches you how to inbrase other ideas. Who know, maybe other ideas are better than yours. Working in group also gives you less work, which is always a plus. 

Over the year we have been introduced to many new technology tools. Instead of the usual like microsoft word, power point and exel; we have used tools such as: extranormal, jelly cam, little bird tales and much much more!

CREATING_SHAKES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syuD5EkuG9E&context=C4156b5eADvjVQa1PpcFPWDs6xFE5F2EmzvmicXm9cKIIrRWCxVZ0=

Applying- Shakespeare

Applying- Shakespeare

Shakespeare's style i very unique. He used to write in stanzas like they do on poems. He wrote a lot of styles and different plays that are very famous on the common days. He didn't stick to only one type of writing. He used a colloquial style of writing that wouldn't be understood by teenagers or kids from the common era. He is one of the worlds most famous writer

Analyzing- Shakespeare

Analyzing- Shakespeare

The difference between Dr. Suess' style and Shakespeare's style is that they write different type of stories. Shakespeare used to write different types like histories, comedies and tragedies but Dr. Suess mostly wrote comedies because most of his stories had a happy ending. He mostly only had happy endings unlike Shakespeare. He had stories were people died at the end and some had a little of history

Evaluating- Shakespeare

Evaluating- Shakespeare

Beatriz: You did a great job. You made the two stles very clear to me and wrote neat paragraphs.

Creating- Shakespeare A midsummer night rubric

Creating- Shakespeare

A midsummer night rubric

K- watch the preview
U- make the worksheet
A- make a poster of the plot
A- compare and contrast to modern day play or movie with the same theme
E- find different opinions about the play on the web and discuss which is the one that you agree with the most
C- make a similar play

Understanding- Midsummer Night

Understanding- Midsummer Night 

worksheet ms shawn gave us

Analyzing- Midsummer Night

Analyzing- Midsummer Night

Midsummer Night is very similar to a lot of movie that are out in the mode

KNOWING_ SHAKES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHM7DhqTpE

EVALUATING

Analyzing

Reviews from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream

·      David Bevington argues that the play represents the dark side of love. He writes that the fairies make light of love by mistaking the lovers and by applying a love potion to Titania's eyes, forcing her to fall in love with an ass

·      Maurice Hunt, Chair of the English Department at Baylor University, writes of the blurring of the identities of fantasy and reality in the play that make possible "that pleasing, narcotic dreaminess associated with the fairies of the play".

·      Victor Kiernan, a Marxist scholar and historian, writes that it is for the greater sake of love that this loss of identity takes place and that individual characters are made to suffer accordingly: "It was the more extravagant cult of love that struck sensible people as irrational, and likely to have dubious effects on its acolytes"

·      David Marshall, an aesthetics scholar and English Professor at the University of California – Santa Barbara, takes this theme to an even further conclusion, pointing out that the loss of identity is especially played out in the description of the mechanicals their assumption of other identities. In describing the occupations of the acting troupe, he writes, "Two construct or put together, two mend and repair, one weaves and one sews. All join together what is apart or mend what has been rent, broken, or sundered". In Marshall's opinion, this loss of individual identity not only blurs specificities, it creates new identities found in community, which Marshall points out may lead to some understanding of Shakespeare's opinions on love and marriage.

·      There is a dispute over the scenario of the play as it is cited at first by Theseus that "four happy days bring in another moon", the wood episode then takes place at a night of no moon, but Lysander asserts that there will be so much light in the very night they will escape that dew on the grass will be shining like liquid pearls. Also, in the next scene Quince states that they will rehearse in moonlight, which creates a real confusion. It is possible that the Moon set during the night allowing Lysander to escape in the moonlight and for the actors to rehearse, then for the wood episode to occur without moonlight. Theseus's statement can mean four days until the next month.

OUR OPINION:

     When we began to watch the movie Mid-Summer Night Dream, I’m sad to say we weren’t that thrilled. While we watched it, the Shakespearean language of the era started to make sense. Although we did not understand a large majority of what we heard it made sense to us. We understood when people were fighting or when Shakespeare was trying to be funny. As we watched the movie you couldn’t not ask your self, “Why wont someone just translate it to the slang we use today?”. You come to the conclusion in your mind that taking that away would ruin the history and poeticnis of the play. I think we its astonishing how Shakespeare plays were written hundreds of years ago but to this day we still read them and practice them and even preform them. There are parts of history that can’t be taken away. As much as the world we know today changes every second there are some things that will always be part of our culture. 

Midsummer Night APPLYING

shakespeare brief and naughty

Who is Shakespeare?

Greatest writer who ever lived

Perverse jokes

Born 1564 parents John and Mary

Lived in English town (Strafford) dropped out at 13

1582 married Anne Hathaway – he was 18 and she was 30/35

Had a daughter and two twins (Susana, Hamlet, and Judith)

1591 he was 27 and moved to London.

Started writing at age 27

37 plays and 154 sonnets

Elizabethian era!

Queen would shut down playhouse because of flu, illness, etc.

Was one of the translators for the book of psalms (King James Bible) 1611

Liked public execution

Didn’t have toilets-disease

Favored by Queen Elizabeth and King James

Animal fighting was normal part of theatre

Shakespeare- playa, cheater

Wealthy, admired, rich, and famous

All actors where men

Three categories: tragedies, history, and comedy

History- boring, monarchy, ENGLISH- Britain

Comedies-happy endings,

Tragedies- everybody dies

Rumor: bad actor, and took care of horses

Many took place away from Britain

Marlo- HIS PLAYS

Queen Elizabeth- ALSO PLAY WRITER

shakespeare Understanding

shakespeare Understanding

Notes on Video:

1. born april 23, 1564 in his family home Stratford- Upon- Avon, England
2. spent his childhood there
3. huge family with 4 sisters and 3 brothers
4. most of his siblings die due to the blach plague. only one survived
5. he attended grammar school at th age of 7
6. he was pulled out from school at the age of 14
7. at the age of 18, shakespeares girlfriend, Anne Hathaway was pregnant
8. forced to marry Anne and had 3 children
9. Sussana was born on May 26, 1583
10. 2 years later they had twins, Hamnet and Judith
11. Hamnet died at 11 due to the black death
12. he wrote 4 types of plays: tragedies, comedies, histories and late romance

Shakespeare Knowing

Shakespeare Knowing

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHM7DhqTpE

plans

Plans

1st day- watch video, take notes and write a short paragraph about shakespeare's style
2nd day- compare and contrast shakespeare with another famous writer, comment on 3 peers compare and contrast
3rd day- make a poster of the plot
4th day- compare and contrast to modern day play or movie with the same theme
5th day- find different opinions about the play on the web and discuss which is the one that you agree with the most
Not in school- create a vudeio about you imitating shakespeare, make a

Shakespeare Rubric

Shakespeare RUbric

K- watch youtube videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZB8UID9OQw
U- take notes on video
A- write a short paragraph about Shakespeare's style
A- compare and contrast shakespeare with another famous writer
E-  comment on 3 peers compare and contrast
C- create a video about you imitating shakespeare

A midsummer night rubric

A midsummer night rubric

K- watch the preview
U- make the worksheet
A- make a poster of the plot
A- compare and contrast to modern day play or movie with the same theme
E- find different opinions about the play on the web and discuss which is the one that you agree with the most
C- make a similar play

bibliography bungee jackets

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description- bungee jackets

     Our goal is in case of an emergency there would be jackets that allow you to jump out of a building and land without getting hurt. Once an alarm (fire, terrorist attack, etc.) is set off people would grab their bungee jackets and follow the procedures. People from the age of four would know how to follow this kind of drill. Kids would be trained since kinder garden to know how to use the bungee jackets successfully. The jackets aren’t quite jackets at all, but more of a backpack. Once you jump from the window, you pull the straps. The straps activate a rubber cushion to inflate under you. The cushion is shaped like a chair. It fits under you to have a safe landing. The rubber is a carbon based nanotube rubber made by Japanese scientist. It can be twisted, punched, rolled, bent, stretched and kicked; yet it can return to its original state. Which means our bungee jackets can be used many times. This rubber does not shatter on contact and will not melt away. This is key in case of a fire or any extreme temperatures. We all know that in times of emergencies we can all freeze up. Because of this there is a plan B to inflating your bungee jacket. The jacket can feel the speed of how fast you are falling, activating it to inflate. 

3 paragraphs- group learning

- knowledge building
The process of learning with my peers has helped me a lot. We are researching bungee jackets from the book the uglies written by scott westerfeld. Even though I am a loaner; I don't think our final product would be as good if I did it alone. 

Working in a group has helped me because I don't think our theories would be as good. We have rock solid theories now. I honestly believe that we can make our bungee jackets! We have investigated so much on each SUB-topic. Which has lead to an amazing outcome. This project does not have the hard work and dedication of one person but of 5. 

Every bodies brain works in different ways. Meaning I everybody thinks in different ways, which at the end of the day means better results. The 5 brains of our group were put into one final product, and as they say 2 brains are better than one!

4.0 THE HELP

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2.5 and 3.0 novel THE HELP

2.5

     I believe that the theme of The Help is Man vs. Society. The help is a story that takes place during the time of the Civil Rights era, in the 1960’s, in Jackson Mississippi. Skeeter (main character) is very different from her friends. Unlike many women of that era, Skeeter is single, has a degree and wants to begin a career and be independent. Over time, you can tell that Skeeter becomes uncomfortable with the way her friends treat “The Help”. Aibileen and Minny are two maids that work for her friends. She starts to realize that people treat black employers very differently than white employers. Skeeter tries to make people see things from another perspective. She wants here society (privileged whites) to see the other side of the ball (less-privileged African-Americans). She wants the truth to come out about what really happens behind close doors. All of this was supper controversial in the United States at this time in history. Especially in Jackson Mississippi. People in the south use to and still believe that people with darker skin color or less than. At this point in time nobody wanted to talk about the abuse done to the help. People where totally against African-Americans having a voice or a say in society.   This is why I believe the theme of this book is Man vs. Society.

Examples:

- Did they only have black maids in the southern part of the United States or also in different places apart from Mississippi?

- Why wouldn’t Minny talk to Skeeter about the book if Minny wanted the truth so badly?

- Was the scratch done by Francine with her ring accidental, or did she want to do it?

3.0

Sophie’s theme: Man vs. Society

Cristina’s theme: Humans have the same needs: love and care

We have come to the conclusion that the better theme is Man vs. Society. We believe this is because the theme of: all human need love and care, is a sub-theme; it goes into the theme of Man vs. Society. In other words all humans need is love and care, which means everybody deserves to be treated equal. At that point in history, society didn’t believe that. People thought that because of your skin color you where different. This is why the over all theme is Man vs. society.   

2.0 novel THE HELP ex. of theme

1. Did they only have black maids in the southern part of the United States or also in different places apart from Mississippi?

2. How can someone (Elizabeth Leefolt) hate her daughter and resent the person how takes care of her and watches her?

3. I would also resent my work like Aibileen if I had that kind of work plus it is still hard for her because of his son.

Chapter 1

1. Why wouldn’t Minny talk to Skeeter about the book if Minny wanted the truth so badly?

2. Why would jhonny think celia can cook if she can’t even make friends hahaha

Chapter 10

1. Was the scratch done by Francine with her ring accidental or did she want to do it?

2. It’s great that all the maids are hearing about the book!

3. Why would the conversation keep coming around patricia? Awkward much for stuart? Stuart is getting angry

4. OMG I cannot believe they broke up

Chapter 20

1. Obviously the book is not about Jackson why would the host of the tv show say that?

2. Hopefully Hilly will like the last chapter written by Minny.

3. Its so cute that they all cried together… made me want to cry!

Chapter 30

1. It’s great that may mobley is teaching her little brother an hopefully other kids about the civil rights movement

2. Miss taylor is going to get in a lot of trouble!!!

3. Leroy is crazy! How could he do that to minny and her kids!

4. I love mae mobley she is the smartest and beautifullest kid in the planet!

5. I would love to have aibileen as a nanny she is probably the best woman ive ever read about in a book.

6. Chapter 34

universal themes 1.5 novel pro.

Universal Themes:

1.   Man vs. Self- Twilight. Edward Cullen has to control himself to not drink blood.

2.   Man struggles to understand divinity: Mean Girls. Katie enters public school after living her whole life in Africa. She doesn’t understand how to be social or how to really be her self.

3.   Man vs Society: Uglies. The Uglies shows us how one society wants something (to be pretty, to be perfect) and how another group of people believe other things are more important.

4.   Crime doesn’t pay: Boys N’ the Hood. After all of the illegal activity; Ricky goes to jail and Doughboy ends up dead.

5.   Friendship depends on sacrifice: Hunger Games. People are willing to lose their lives to save/ protect, the ones they love.

6.   Importance of family. Mama Mia. No matter what, you will always have your family. For example, when Sophie didn’t want to get married, or when its ok that she has three dads.

7.   Love conquers all. The Last Song. It shows that though bad times (cancer, fighting, divorce, alcohol etc.) love is the closest thing we have to magic.

8.   Death is part of life. The Lion King.

9.   Sacrifice brings reward. Man in the Mirror- Michael Jackson. Seeing what is wrong in the world and with him self. Then changes his ways to give back, and to try to make this world a better place.

10.                 Humans have the same needs: love and care. The Notebook. Noah loves Ally so much he still takes care of her even when she doesn’t know who he his.

11.                 Man vs. Nature. Cast-A-Way. This movie shows you what its like to be stranded on an island for 5 years. How to over come the mental aspect and the physical aspect.

12.                 Over coming adversity: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. This book shows the dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions of a person going through the holocaust.