Julia Gariepy Period 2 12/11/12 Literacy Letter #2 Speak by: Laurie Halse Anderson The summer before her freshman year of high school‚ Melinda Sordino‚ meets Andy Evans at a party. Outside in the woods‚ Andy rapes her. Melinda calls 911‚ but does not know what to say. The police come and break up the party. Melinda does not tell anyone what happened to her‚ and no one asks. She starts high school at Merryweather High School as an outcast‚ shunned by her friends for calling the police. She
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Refugee by Alan Gratz is one of the most powerful stories that I have read in a huge amount of time. This book is from three different points of view‚ Isabel‚ Joseph and Mahmoud. I will say that it did get a little agonizing switching from point to point. I got really engaged into Isabel’s story of crossing the sea‚ and then we switch to Mahmoud crossing the desert. I was always trying to find time to read this book‚ I actually didn’t want it to end! I felt so many emotions during this book‚and I’m
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never conquers.” This means that in literature there is often a case where evil wins a battle but it never wins a war. This consensus seems reasonable because most books or movies the characters overcome the evil. This is especially true in the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Evil may appear to be dominating‚ but in the end‚ good prevails. The major evil that Melinda‚ overcomes is that she has been raped. This is the main conflict of the story. This is a man vs. man conflict. Melinda‚ the
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Luis Flores Simon the Cyrenian Speaks This poem talks about a black man who at first refuses to do the work that he’s suppose to do because he thinks their making him do this because he is black and how he speaks out to say what he thinks. "He never spoke a word to me‚ And yet He called my name; He never gave a sign to me‚ And yet I knew and came. 1. At first I said‚ "I will not bear His cross upon my back; He only seeks to place it there Because my skin is black." But He was
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1920‚ Hughes went to live with his father in Mexico where he taught English to the children of wealthy Mexicans. In spite of fact that his materialistic father had little regard for his son’s artistic aptitude/propensity. When his poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” appeared in The Crisis in 1921‚ the young writer became more
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the social systems that constantly surround us. The systems that we associate with are much bigger than ourselves. In fact‚ they define who we are not only as individuals‚ but also as part of a society. Allan Johnson‚ author of The Forest and the Trees‚ does an incredible job of investigating on the importance of looking at society through an outside lens; taking a step back and analyzing the social systems we are all involved in. He shows that in doing so‚ we are able to learn more about the world
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Literacy Circles: Speak Travel Tracker Location: Fayettes (Town Bakery) Page(s) described: 96-97 One morning‚ early into the third marking period‚ Melinda sleeps in and misses the bus. Since her mother has to go to work‚ she walks to school. The streets are quiet; Melinda slept past the usual morning rush hour. Snow from the previous night covers the ground “like powdered sugar on a gingerbread town”. On the way‚ Melinda decides to stop at Fayettes‚ the town bakery‚ and buys a “wicked
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Both Lee and Marshall spent a great amount of time with the Ju/’hoansi‚ learning their unique culture and way of life. In Marshall’s ethnographic film‚ “The Hunters”‚ and chapter four of Lee’s ethnography‚ The Dobe Ju/’hoansi‚ each anthropologist discusses‚ in two different forms‚ the Ju/’hoansi’s subsistence techniques. Lee and Marshall agree in some areas‚ but not all. Lee and Marshall agree on a few different things‚ such as the types of relationships the Ju/’hoansi have between themselves
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In the book The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver‚ there is a young girl named Taylor who did not want to be like the typical girls from Kentucky. She wanted to go and get out of the small town. She got in her old beat up car and traveled throughout the United States‚ until she landed in Arizona. When she was there she not only had to deal with herself‚ but she now had a little girl who she named Turtle. This was not her daughter; instead someone she barely knew handed her off to Taylor. Turtle was
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