"To Kill a Mocking Bird" Chapter 2 Questions

 










a)  If Miss Caroline is NOT an important character in the story, how does the author effectively use Miss Caroline’s character in chapters 2 and 3 to introduce important background information about other characters and the setting  of Maycomb in the 1930s?  Describe using examples from the text.
As Miss Caroline is not native from there, she introduced to the Maycomb kids and asked questions that are necessary for the comprehension of the social background of the county.

B)  Imagine you were Miss Caroline after her first day teaching.  Write a brief letter to your family in Winston County describing your day.

  May 21st

Dear family,
 Here in Maycomb things aren´t going so well. In my first day, I started by reading a story to the children but they didn´t understand Anything!, I can´t believe that. Then a girl, Jean Louise Finch, came up saying that she learn how to write and read by her own and can´t admit her father taught her, unacceptable for her age by the way. In the class there was a kid, a Cunningham, he didn´t bringed lunch nor shoes, who would thought that a simple Last name would made him unable to accept a quarter for the lunch!?, then that Finch clarified me that a Cunningham never takes what he is unable to return. Finally ,almost ending the class, a kid trated me as a slut and insulted me with so offensive words that almost made me cry, I´ll never forget him, an Ewell.
I hope you are having better days rather than me.
XOXO Caroline.
PS: I HATE THIS TOWN!

Scientific language presentation

My scientific language presentation can be seen here!.

Animal Farm activity 2:

Questions:
1)What is your reaction to the animals´ revolution? Explain.
2) Do you sympathize with the animals´ complaints and goals? Why? Why not?
3) Describe how the rebellion takes place? How does the animals behaviuor  during the rebellion suggest human characteristics?
4) How do the pigs gain the rights to the cows´ milk? Why do the other animals allow this? What does this event suggest about power hierarchy on the farm?
5) What was your reaction to Snowball´s expulsion from Animal farm? Explain.
6) Identify three ways that Napoleon tires to solidify his leadership position on the farm. How does the process of decision making on the farm change under Napoleon´s leadership?
7)Why do the executions take place? What message do these events send to animals about their role in a future society?
8) Do you think it´s fair that those who are more educated or more skilled - like the pigs in animal farm- have more influence in the decision making? Who makes the decisions in your family, community and nation?
9) By the end of the film it can be suggested that the pigs and human political leaders are interchangeable. How might power change those who have it?
10)In your opinion are the pigs in Animal Farm more intelligent than all the other animals? What qualities enabled them to lead the others? Provide examples that support your answer.
Answers:
1. My reaction was quite confuse, because it´s almost impossible for this to happen in real life, anyway, I realized that this movie was an example of the fight that people against animal slaughter are carrying since many years ago.
2. Yes, I do, because nobody wants to be forced to live for the benefit of other people.
3.It all started when the animals get rid of their owner, mister Jones, and became "after the attempt of the humans to recover their farm. The animals started to gather human characteristics when the bad pigs exile Snowball( the good one) and adquire the power. The close contact that the bad pigs had with mankind(in general) made the pigs realize that they were loosing all the priviledges that carry to be a human, so they star drinking alcohol, sleeping in beds, between other aspects.
4.The pigs gain the rights to the cow's milk by telling the animals that it was for the benefit of everyone and allowed this because they thought that as Old Mayor was a pig who led the farm, the other pigs would be as capable as him in leadership terms. This event suggest that the power of the hierarchy of the farm was concentrated in the pigs.
5.It was a bad one. Firt, because Snowball was a good leader but because of Napoleon´s fake resons he was expulsed. Second, I felt angry because of Napoleon´s evilness and nobody in the farm was able to notice about that.
6. Napoleon tried to solidify his leadership by: a) Modifying the rules made by Old mayor and written by Snowball. b) Eliminating everyone who was playing against his rules, by saying they were traitors and must die(to justify Snowball´s death). c) Using guards (dogs) to control everything that was happening in the farm.
7. The executions were aplied to keep the farm free of animals who have the enough thinking potential to realize that Napoleon´s leadership was awful, sending this kills a message about a horrible future: their role would be to be manipulated in every aspect by Napoleon.
8. I think it´s fair and it´s unacceptable that a person with no education and skills is leading, it means that he is not prepared to make decisions doesn´t matter the situation. In my family, the decision makers are my parents.In my community(school) is my Headmaster helped by the directory, which is similar to my nation making decision process because the president makes a decision and it must be approved by the parliament.
9.Having power doesn´t make anyone change, it only shows who you really are. In the case of the movie, power made snowball show the good leader he was, and Napoleon the tyrant.
10. The pigs of Animal farm are, indeed, much more intelligent than any other animal. First of all, a fact that provided the pigs the leadership of the farm was that Old mayor was the elder of the farm and everyone showed respect to him, so when he died the pigs inherit his respect and his "leading abilities" so all the animals started to see them as the new leaders. An example of the pigs intelligence is when they taught the other animals how to read and write so they could make a list of the rules of the farm.

Old Major's Speech

ANIMAL FARM

20 phrases were the idea of language and power is present:

1.  "Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that i had last night."
2. "I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it in my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have acquired."
3. "No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old."
4. "The life of animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."
5.   "Man is the only real enemy we have."
6. "...Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies."
7. " But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end"
8. " That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!"
9. "It is all lies"
10. "All animals are comrades"
11. " All men are enemies"
12. "...we must not come to resemble him."
13. "... no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind"
14. "... we are all brothers."
15. "All animals are equal." 
16. "No animal in England is free"
17. "Our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."
18. "You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year? ... Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies"
19. "Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever."
20. "Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own."

Old Mayor shows the power that he have through his way of speaking to animals, like in sentence 9, 10, 11, 15, 16; because as a person who is reading his speech is able to think "Who gave him the right to decide by his own will what is good or bad for the animals of the farm?", also we can notice that animals are very submissive to anyone who give them an order or tries to take control of the situation and we can assure this with the fact that after the dead of Old Mayor no animal in the farm, in exception of the pigs, tried to take his place, and this proves that they using their intelligence over the rest of the animals provided power for them.

Words that describe me

Sports: I choose this word because I like and practice many sports, such as surf, rugby, and football. An example is that from Monday to Thursday I practice Football and Rugby, and in the afternoon of those days or in the weekend i go to the beach to surf(my favourite).

Lazy: This word comes directly from the school because I dont always do my homeworks and when I`m at home I don`t do so much when its not going to the beach. Another example is when im writing this because im bored.







Happiness: this word describes me beacause I allway try to be happy even thou a bad situation is going on, I`m tying to look to the good/right side.










Free spirit: This word describe me better that the others because I always try to stay relaxed , no stress. An example is when there is no much time left for the test I never get desperate even thou I know I won`t study all the stuff.

Reading Activity

Pygmalion, George Bernard Saw, 1914

1.I agree with the statements of the Note Taker because as we can see through years, the people who lack of language are allways in the gutter.
2. The Note Taker´s proposition might not be possible, because it ignores the flower girl´s idea of identity.