TKAM Picture Analysis

                                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                 Lauderdale County, Alabama Tennessee Valley Authority

                                                       Julien H. Case looking over some of his cattle

Observation: 

    What I see in this picture is a older man in a very large field full of cattle. He is smoking a pipe which is not that common to do today. It also seems to be a nice summer day either in the early morning or in the later afternoon due to the shadows of the trees. 

Reflect:

This man in the field looks like he is part of the lower class due to his close he wears. He is probably owner of the land because usually the owner of the land is the one who works it. The cows are probably for food for the owner, selling the meat to get money, or for milk and its dairy products. Because of the clouds and the shadows I can tell that it is a nice bright day. He might also be stressed or board because when I know that people usually smoke because they are stressed or board. 

Questions: 

Why is the man watching over his cattle? Whey is he smoking? Is the land his? What kind of living conditions, Is he raising the cow for there milk or meat? What time of day is it? How many cows are there, How much land does he own, Where does he live?

Could It be Maycomb county:

After I looked over the photo I found out that it could the farm land that Maycomb has. Its could be the same because most likely since Maycomb is a large agricultural based town is must have large properties with animals.  Also because lots of people work in the farms the wont have as nice clothes just like the man in the picture. On last similarity is that people usually dont smoke pipes anymore and were used a lot more during the great depression and TKAM is also based during the great depression.

Late blog 10-20 Roll Of thunder hear my cry

Prompt: Summarize about what happened in the book
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   The character in this book is Cassie. Cassie lives on a 400 acer farm with a mom dad grandmother named Big Mama three brothers named Little John, Stacey, and Christopher- John. Every year Cassie's dad has to go down to Louisiana and lay down track. He does this because selling the cotton that they grow on there farm was not enough to pay the mortgage on there farm. Her us a important quote that Cassie's dad said to her to make her feel better about him leaving for almost the whole year "'Look
out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the family survives". This was important to Cassie because then she finally realized that he did truly love her and he only leaves because he loves her.

   A couple of weeks after Cassie's dad leaves for Louisiana school starts. Since they are a colored family and have to go to a black school they don't get buses and have to walk a couple of miles every morning to get to school which must be brutal for the kids. So on the very first day of school the Logan kids were dreading having to walk miles to get to school except for Little John, Little John could't wait to learn. After walking for a while the Logan's hear a car engine and Stacy yells run hide get of the road! But there was now place for them to hide and a couple of seconds later the Logan kids are drenched in water from a the passing bus that came from the white kids school a couple miles away from the Colored kids school. As the bus driver saw the Logans walking an the road it sped up and slashed them with the water a near by puddle.

    After weeks of walking to school and getting harassed by the white kids school bus Stacy finally had enough. He got Little John Cassie and Christopher- John to help him dig a big ditch in the middle of the road and filled the whole with water so that the bus driver thinks that it is just a small puddle but it is really a huge whole that is about two feet deep and about four feet wide.  Later that day when they were walking home they hide in the forest where they dug the hole for the bus to get stuck in and waited they waited until the bus came along and fell in the ditch where the bus was severely damaged and the white kids would not be able to use it for about a week.

 

Blog Nightjohn November 10

Pages read: 41-100
Prompt: Analyze how dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make sure to include textual evidence, Analyze the impact word choice has on the meaning or tone of a text.

There was one specific incident that showed information about mammy. It was after Nightjohn taught Sarny her first word "Bag" and the Master saw her writing it in the dirt. Since writing and spelling where illegal the Master was furies but instead of grabbing Sarny and whipping her he grabbed mammy and tied her up in a well and left her hanging until later that day when he would whip her in front of everybody. After the Master left her hanging in the well Sarny came running over add said "I'll go get Nightjohn he will help" but mammy said  "no there is nothing he would be able to do, anyway the master would have to whip me sooner then later for something". This is showing that she has seen so much of the whipping that it is like a way of life for her. 

Before Nightjohn taught Sarny her first word mammy caught nightjohn teaching her how to spell and started yelling at him because she did't want Sarny to get caught spelling. But Nightjohn disagreed he told her that you need spelling to get along in life when you are in the North. Then mammy got suspicious and said "how do you know what life is like the North" and Nightjohn said "because I ran away from my last plantation and got away until I was captured in the north and taken back down here". This dialogue reviled that Nighjohn has been free and 





 

Passion Project Update

Six weeks have passed since my last post for the Sports Camp we have accomplished a lot. I have finished the poster that we will put around berwyn to get people to know about are camp. Jesus has also finished the email that we will send to Bounce Sports and the Berwyn Rec. My group has also narrowed it down to spring break when we would want to do the camp. Jesus has also finished the phone call script incase Bounce or the Rec had some questions for us. And finally we are thinking of fundraising money incase are sponsors (Bounce or The Rec) wont be able to provide the materials needed.




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NIGHTJOHN Blog November 3rd

Prompt: Summarize what has happened
Pages Read 0-41

         This story is about a slave named Sarny she is also associated with Nightjohn. Sarny as any other normal slave she is no educated and she is still considered a small child due to her lack of intelligence. Sarny is not to fond of her master she dislikes him because he is a cruel person and pushes his slaves to the edge of death. During her free time which is almost never given she lay's down is the corn field trying to remember his past life but she was never able to remember her mother because she was taken away from her when she was a baby.

          Then Sarny started talking about her first encounter with money. She found a penny in front of the masters house and she showed is to her mammy (Not birth mammy). And when she her mammy saw the penny she told Sarny to hide is where no one could find it except for herself. "Slaves like us don't get paid so when you find money save up so maybe one day you could buy your freedom." So Sarny did so and she still has the penny years later.  So every day she digs the penny back up after everyone is asleep and she rubes the penny until it shines once again.

         Since Sarny is not strong or old enough to work the fields she helps take care of all the babies in a small shack not that far away from the masters house. Since she does not have such a labor intensive job she gets a lot more free time to herself where she likes to think about past memories. And the main memory that she was thinking about was when she first met Nightjohn. It was a normal day for Sarny until she saw a man naked with a chain around his neck being taking into the corn field. Sarny did not learn that his name was Nightjohn until later that night.  Unlike Sarny Nightjohn is considered a smart he knows how to read and knows basic education. Nightjohn even made a trade with Sarny one pinch of tobacco for three letters he would teach her A,B,C.


P.S I meant to spell mammy like that because that is how she spelled it the book.