You pick which M&M to answer for; when you answer, you can eat the M&M. You must say your name before you answer a question. (The time for this is dependent on group size.)…
Bernal Diaz de Castillo wrote about a quest that he was fortunate enough to participate with his soldier leader, Hernan Cortes. Hernan Cortes and his soldiers went on many different expeditions in order to expand their knowledge on the unknown world. Bernal Diaz de Castillo did not hold any type of leadership within his community; however, he was intelligent enough to know a new world apart from an old one. The New Spain that Castillo and his conquest mates experienced eventually led to the publication of his memoirs and witnessing experience.…
A Voyage Long and Strange written by Tony Horwitz is a novel in which he shares he thoughts and discoveries as he retraces the steps of some of the first people to ever set foot in North America. He retraces the steps of Christopher Columbus, Eirik the Red, John Smith, and many explorers in between.…
Summary by Traci Tarquinio of an excerpt from “Mining Complex Text: Using and Creating Graphic Organizers to Grasp Content and Share New Understanding”…
Alan Alexander Milne and Alexander McCall Smith are two of the world’s most beloved authors, and share much more than the name Alexander. These two authors wrote several children stories, and were quite famous. Although, their writing styles may differ, they share the ability for you to unhinge your mind and let it be free.…
People are often compared to as animals. Maxine Kumin wrote “Woodchucks” and John Clare wrote “The Badger”. Both are using animals to describe humans and the way they act toward each other. Clare wrote in his about sympathy, fear, and victories or not. Kumin speaks of fear, hatred, obsession, and killing of these pests. Written over 100 years part humans and their actions have changed very little.…
The topic of Source One is how explorers and colonists of the New World took part in horrific, illegal events to colonize the foreign lands, but yet they were not the ones who suffered from these events. This phenomenon is portrayed in the source through the image of a wanted poster for Christopher Columbus, where Columbus is wanted for several offences including: genocide, racism, initiating the destruction of a culture and rape. The poster also goes on to state that the reward for Columbus is “500 years of tourism”. The reward symbolizes how despite the atrocities that the explorers and colonizers took part in, they would be remembered throughout history for their accomplishments and not the horrendous events that brought them to those successes. The illustrator’s perspective on the source is the idea that colonizers of the New World were…
The evil that afflicts Argentina is its size: the vast surrounding desert everywhere. To the south and north the wild-lurk the Indians prepared to attack at any time. This insecurity of life in the Argentine character prints some stoic resignation to violent death, explaining the indifference with which the giving and receiving of death.…
Even though he comes from a poor family, his father loved reading and his rooms were always piled with books. The author’s love of book was influenced by his father.…
I believe the Jose Arcadio Buendia changes the most because at first he is a person who has a vision of the future for the people, but then he starts going on the time theory and believes his spirit will always stay in Macondo due to the overlapping of time.…
4. Villefort changes his mind when Dantes says who the letter is going to, he changes his mind because the letter is going to his father.…
The American Dream became a widespread term to describe the American way of life. It…
Rick Riordan is an American novelist who has written a plethora of children’s and adult books. One of his most famous book series is “Percy Jackson and the Olympians”. Most of his children’s books tend to be fantasy, while the adult books are mystery. I chose to write about Rick Riordan because I have personally read the “Percy Jackson Series”, and it is amazing.…
As Francisco left abruptly I looked to my parents who looked concerned and disappointed. Finally my mother broke the silence and said " well Im going to start dinner, it will be done in a couple of minutes" and left the room. My dad after a short silence left into the garage. He goes to the garage when he is troubled or needs to think. I knew it was about Francisco, I saw that look they gave him.…
Bledsoe to see that what has happened to Dr. Norton is not his fault, the hero believes that by taking ‘responsibility’ for the mishap he will be able to get on with his career. But what he means by taking responsibility is smoothing things over, and he cannot take the result.”…