I can't believe this year has come to an end. Junior High, and this online class are basically over, and it's bittersweet. I've liked reading some of your blogs, and I hope a few of you saw mine. This class was pretty easy for the most part, but on top of regular English it was sometimes a lot. Reading Great Expectations was by far the worst, but I'm glad I got a taste of Dickens.My favorite assignment was the essay comparing Bradbury's styles from the Fahrenheit 451 and a book of choice. I chose Dandelion Wine and really liked it. Knowing how to write good persuasive, research, and especially compare/contrast essays will help a lot in High School. My friend is in Honors World Civ. and they write essays at least once a week that have to have supported evidence, and correct grammar, spelling, etc. I'm glad I took Honors English and I learned so much. I hope next years' Honors English will be as good! (Wait, Of course it will; it's at Davis!:)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Help is a great book for young adults and mature teenagers. It is education, funny and insightful. It is 444 pages, but a definite page turner. I rated it 5-stars because it is such a great book. It is basically about how unfairly African-Americans were treated in the 1950s and 60s. It changes perspective about every chapter, but it's fairly easy to follow along. It is from the point of view of 3 women from Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960's. Aibileen, Minny and Miss Skeeter are the narrators. I thought it was unique that it had more than one narrator and it allowed you to understand the story much better. Aibileen (my favorite character) is a black women who is "the Help" to Miss Leefolt. She is kind, wise and smart. Throughout the story she develops a strong bond between Miss Leefolt's little girl, Mae Mobley. Miss Leefolt is very strict and rather oblivious to Mae Mobley. She doesn't really know how to raise her, so Aibil...
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