Forced Out of My Home. (Event #1) Things have been going downhill for a while now. I haven’t been able to go to school. People like me now have a curfew to be in their own home in their own town. My dad’s books have been burned at community bonfires. We have all been waiting […]

Click here to read the article, “Not-So-Little Woman” This article is about Louisa May Alcott writing  Little Women. Young Alcott worked odd jobs to help overcome her family’s financial hardships and taught writing to a runaway enslaved person that her family harbored. Alcott’s first book hit the shelves when she was 22, and from there, she published stories […]

My book is called Internment by Samira Ahmed. It about the forced detention of Muslims in America.  The story begins with a recently elected president introducing Muslim Registry and Exclusion Laws while creating a “model camp” called Mobius.  The anti-Muslim climate shifts quickly from burning books written by Muslims to a curfew for Muslims to […]

Authors Style Analysis In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s writing style is wordy because of her use of pace, paragraph structure, and use of dialogue. For example, Harper Lee states, “It was twenty miles east of finches landing, awkwardly inland for such an old town….” (130) (all of paragraph 5). Here, Harper Lee spends […]

Click here to read the article, “Boondoggling out of the depression.” This article is about how part of the New Deal included the creation of a new government organization called the Works Progress Administration, which aimed to get people back to work by employing them on public work projects, like constructing public buildings and roads. […]

Click here to read the Achiece3000 article “Yoga’s Surprising History.” This article is about where yoga comes from.  Most people practice yoga because it’s beneficial for their muscles (it can be surprisingly strenuous) and because it’s a good way to alleviate stress and calm the mind. In fact, the ultimate goal of practicing yoga is […]

Point of View The abbreviation for Point of View is POV Point of View is the perspective that a narrative is told Point of View is an adjective Authors reveal characters through the Point of View First Person Point of View First Person POV is when a narrator is telling the story In First Person […]

I am reading a book called “Internment” by Samira Ahmed. So far I think I’m enjoying it. It’s about a girl named Layla and her life as a Muslim. The government has ruled Muslims as dangerous. They must go to internment camps where they are kept “under control”. The book is mainly about Layla fighting […]

Click here to view my ABC book about “The Knife of Never Letting Go” by Patrick Ness. For each letter of the alphabet, there is a word that relates to the book with a description.

Below are four statements about six of the vocab words from unit three. For each word, there are three truths and one lie. Pick out which one you think is the lie and comment your answers. Drama- “Drama” is a noun A drama is a play for theater, radio, or television. You should speak quietly […]