Online Learning week 5 - Picture Discription

The street has a weird odour, the smell of death. A bald man, barely alive, wearing torn cloths, was itforcfully being dragged by two tall man. They are quite tall, and judging from them just using one hand to drag the bald an, they must be quite muscular. They are very well dressed, unlike the man being dragged. The walls beside them look like they have been burned or bomb, or maybe hit violently. The street looked as though a fight has happened there.

Active reading: Post 4

Q) Why does Scout get into fights with Cecil Jacobs and her cousin Francis? What do their comments suggest about Maycomb as a community? What does Scout's response reveal about her?

A) Scout get fights with them because of his father defending a black men, but his father is a white men. Francis always called Atticus a niger-lover which was really insulting. It suggest that Maycomb is a community that discriminates black. Scout's responses shows that she agrees with her father to protect the innocent.

Q)What connection might there be between what is required of Atticus to shoot the mad dog and what is required of him to defend Tom Robinson?

A)Atticus might need to sacrifice some of his dignity to shoot the mad dog and defend Tom Robinson as by defending Tom, other people will see him as a Negro-lover.

Active reading: Post 3

Q) What do Scout and Jem find in the knothole of the Radley tree? What other signs suggest that Boo may not be the monster the children imagine him to be?

A) Scout and Jem found a lot of different types of stuff that are usually something a children possess. Boo puts the stuff there. Since the things in the knothole are all what a typical children would have,this shows that Boo may not be the monster the children imagine him to be.Secondly, there are no monsters in this world and nobody ever saw Boo so they wouldn't know whether Boo is a monster or not.

Active Reading: Post 2

Q) In relation to Boo Radley and his house, how do Scout, Jem and Dill try to test their courage ? What feeling do they have about Boo?
A) They tried to test their courage by touching the door of Boo Radley's house, which was rumored to be extremely dangerous. They believed that Boo was dangerous and very evil person that is beast-like as the rumors says. This also shows that Boo had a very bad reputation in Maycomb and the three children are naive enough to believe this rumors.

Term Test Reflection

This term, I didn't manage to receive good marks for my test. I think I didn't listen much in class or read much books. Having a weak foundation, I can't do much. Because of that, I didn't manage to score a high score for this term's LA test. In fact, I failed it. By the next term, I will study much harder and listen in class so that i can achieve a better score. I hope that my hard work next term will pay off and achieve desirable marks.

Active Reading: Post 1

What memories of your own childhood come to mind as you read about Scout's experiences?
Looking at scout's experiences, which were playful , childish and daring, it reminds me of my own. She was daring enough to touch Boo's door, playful and childish to act and laugh at Boo and believed that Boo was a monster. As for my own childhood, I had my childhood at Malaysia. My younger cousin and I would take newspaper from a stack and go out along the road where my grandparents house were and we would wrap the newspaper around the young papaya tree, which wasn't event half a meter tall, and we would find way to smuggle match stick out and burn the trees, and we usually end up getting scolded by our grandfather. We were around  5 years old that time and the only thing we could play with was, match sticks, plants, the stray dogs and all. We usually end up burning a lot things because that's the only thing we knew what to do. No matter how many time we get scolded or punished we would always attempt again.

Racism

In real life, now, racism still exist. For example, most adults, or teaching website tells us not to tell others about where you live. And they usually use a foreign black worker as example. They would say you should not give strangers your personal information, like when you go home, what time you are alone at home. And for some reason, the stranger is either black workers or young gangsters. This obviously shows that the blacks has a symbolism of people who commit crimes, or people who do bad things, people without moral value, because they are from a country where families have no decent background. I think this is definitely not true, they like us are humans, jut that they are foreigner workers, what makes us think they are most prone to commit crimes?