SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT 2013 9TH GRADE Mrs. Nelson: nelson@greenvilleisd.com; Cell- 903-269-0603 English I Pre-AP Summer Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Available at Hastings‚ Barnes and Noble‚ or on Amazon.com [pic] [pic] Assignment: While you read To Kill a Mockingbird‚ note and annotate passages that you think are significant. Mark that book! 1. The goal is to note your thoughts about selected quotes as you read. 2. While you are reading‚ you
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Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is not a happy book. The Author‚ Junot Diaz‚ does a great job fooling the reader into believing the story is about the De Leon family‚ specifically Oscar who is an over weight nerd trying to find the love of his life‚ but due to a family “fuku” or curse Oscar is having a lot of trouble doing so. Instead‚ the story actually portrays the dark history of the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Upon reading the stories
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Critique the culture of poverty thesis Oscar Lewis introduced his idea of “a culture of poverty” in 1958. He developed the theory as a result of his work with the poor in Mexico and Puerto Rico. Culture of poverty is defined as a set of beliefs and values thought to exist among the poor which prevents them from escaping poverty (Browne 2010). For the purpose of this assignment the culture of poverty thesis will be discussed and the impact of poverty on the individuals mental health. The culture
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for his “divisive nature‚” the NYPD arrested and charged a man Monday evening with the shooting that killed an Imam and his associated in Queens the past weekend. The suspect in custody for the slaying of the Imam and associated was identify as Oscar Morel‚ a 35 years old Hispanic man from Brooklyn. Morel was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of criminal possession of a weapon. Over hundreds of Muslims and city officials gathered in a Brooklyn parking lot Monday afternoon
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1797 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfoxden House‚ which was only a few miles from Coleridge’s home. The creative partnership between these two young poets would eventuate in the first publishing of Lyrical Ballads. <br> <br>The publication of Lyrical Ballads represented a turning point for English poetry. It was released anonymously on October 4th‚ 1798 and the learned old guard of literary England was mostly unaware that a form of "literary revolution" had taken place. Previous
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While serving as G-2 for General Patton‚ Brigadier General Oscar Koch developed and employed early Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) practices‚ laying the groundwork for the modern intelligence cycle. Koch’s disciplined approach fused traditional and non-traditional intelligence sources and established the forward-leaning‚ product-driven intelligence process used today (Confidence‚ n.d.). Throughout campaigns in North Africa and Europe during World War II‚ Koch honed the intelligence
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In the poem Ballad of the Landlord by Langston Hughes there is a hole on the roof of the house. The landlord has already been informed about it. The steps have been broken down. But when the landlord comes up‚ he does not fall down. The landlord says that the tenant has to pay him ten dollars. But before the landlord repairs the house‚ he will have got more than that. Will the landlord get expulsion orders from the court to expel the tenant and throw his furniture in the street? But he talks about
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describing what it means to be an American however many citizens are challenging the pledge because it contains two words that some‚ like Gwen Wilde‚ do not believe in. Gwen Wilde‚ the author of Why the Pledge of Allegiance Should Be Revised‚ is one of the few Americans protesting the Pledge because it contains the words “under God”. In her essay‚ Wilde states‚ that reciting the pledge should be something done from the heart‚ with full awareness and belief in the words (2008)‚ but this cannot be
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can turn into a war zone. Initially written in response to the 1963 Alabama church bombing‚ the poet tells a story about a mother and her young daughter having a dispute about whether a freedom march is a place for a child. In the short poem “The Ballad of Birmingham” author Dudley Randall incorporates poetic devices such as Irony to describe the unexpected church bombing that took place in Birmingham‚ Alabama. On September 15th during a morning service at 16th street Baptist‚ the lives of four little
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Wilde starts off their piece by directly stating their position on the matter. It becomes apparent that they side with no exceptions to be made for a criminal‚ simply due to their age. She believes in no excuses‚ as doing so is an insult to the family and is utterly unfair. By excusing a child’s criminal behavior‚ the justice system is deviating for what it stands for. Wilde uses the story of Jordan Brown to further fuel her argument. She
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